Gobbler Country's Preliminary Week 7 BlogPoll Ballot
by furrer4heisman on Oct 11, 2010 1:30 PM EDT
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PrintSooooooo Alabama lost and now things get crazy. Final ballot is due Wednesday morning. Leave your arguments in the comments.
Games Watched: Nebraska at Kansas State, Baylor vs. Texas Tech (50%), Texas A&M vs. Arkansas (33%), Wyoming at TCU (25%), Arkansas State at North Texas (33%), Tulsa at SMU (66%), Central Michigan at Virginia Tech, Florida State at Miami.
Gobbler Country Ballot - Week 7
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boise St. Broncos |  1 |
| 2 | Oregon Ducks | 1 |
| 3 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | 1 |
| 4 | TCU Horned Frogs | 1 |
| 5 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 1 |
| 6 | Oklahoma Sooners | 1 |
| 7 | Auburn Tigers | 2 |
| 8 | Michigan St. Spartans | 2 |
| 9 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 11 |
| 10 | Alabama Crimson Tide |  -9 |
| 11 | LSU Tigers | 10 |
| 12 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 13 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 14 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 15 | Iowa Hawkeyes | 1 |
| 16 | Nevada Wolf Pack | 1 |
| 17 | Utah Utes | 1 |
| 18 | Florida St. Seminoles | 4 |
| 19 | Florida Gators | -4 |
| 20 | Arizona Wildcats | -12 |
| 21 | N.C. State Wolfpack | 4 |
| 22 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 1 |
| 23 | Air Force Falcons | 1 |
| 24 | Miami Hurricanes | -13 |
| 25 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -- |
| Dropouts: Michigan Wolverines | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
I'm sure I'll get a lot of complaints about the laddering at the top, but from the looks of it, none of the Top 5 really did anything this week to make me think differently about them from last week. Let's break down the Top 5.
Boise State (5-0): Home wins - Oregon State (3-2), Toledo (3-3). Road/Neutral wins - Virginia Tech (4-2), Wyoming (2-4), New Mexico State (1-4). Best two wins - Oregon State, Virginia Tech.
Oregon (6-0): Home wins - New Mexico (0-6), Portland State (FCS), Stanford (5-1). Road/Neutral wins - Tennessee (2-4), Arizona State (3-3), Washington State (1-5). Best two wins - Stanford, Arizona State.
Ohio State (6-0): Home wins - Marshall (1-4), Miami (3-2), Ohio (3-3), Eastern Michigan (0-6), Indiana (3-2). Road/Neutral wins - Illinois (3-2). Best two wins - Miami, Illinois.
TCU (6-0): Home wins - Tennessee Tech (FCS), Baylor (4-2), Wyoming (2-4). Road/Neutral wins - Oregon State (3-2), SMU (4-2), Colorado State (1-5). Best two wins - Baylor, Oregon State.
Nebraska (5-0): Home wins - Western Kentucky (0-5), Idaho (3-2), South Dakota State (FCS). Road/Neutral wins - Washington (2-3), Kansas State (4-1). Best two wins - Kansas State, Washington.
Boise State has done everything it's been asked to do so far. It beat two pretty good AQ schools, including one which was basically a road game. Every other game has been a blowout. Oregon has one very good win, one mediocre win and wins against a bunch of patsies. Ohio State has one very good win, a bunch of wins against patsies and struggled in its only road game so far. TCU and Nebraska have just taken care of business so far.
Looking at the resumes of the new Top 5, I think their order should remain the same. Of course, next week Nebraska plays Texas and Ohio State plays Wisconsin, meaning there's plenty of room for change to occur. Just not this week, in my opinion.
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keep winning va. tech and oregon state. it helps out boises state alot.
plus utah should be higher. they beat iowa state(3-2 when it happened) on the road 68-27. half of those iowa state scores were with our third string team in. the 68 points is the most ever by any team at jack trice stadium. better than all those great texas, okie, and nebraska teams but as you can see i am biased. we really want your team to win the rest of your games and get a invite the the orange ball. good luck.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. Glory favors the bold. Chance favors the prepared mind. Luck, well i have that too. University of Utah goes to the Pac-12 conference in 2011. I expect them to compete immediately for the conference CG. Brock Lesnar will defeat Cain Velasquez. The most hated and misunderstood person on the MMA blogs.. Utah and Boise take care of business in week one. Don't be surprised if they both go undefeated.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Oct 11, 2010 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
get an invite to the orange bowl. sorry, i write these fast. good luck.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. Glory favors the bold. Chance favors the prepared mind. Luck, well i have that too. University of Utah goes to the Pac-12 conference in 2011. I expect them to compete immediately for the conference CG. Brock Lesnar will defeat Cain Velasquez. The most hated and misunderstood person on the MMA blogs.. Utah and Boise take care of business in week one. Don't be surprised if they both go undefeated.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Oct 11, 2010 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I know you're trying to be unbiased, but...
South Carolina beats alabama by 14, jumps 11 spots, and knocks Alabama back 9 spots just behind South Carolina. VT beats NC State by 11 and isn’t even consideration to be ranked higher? I know we have one more loss (and an embarrasing one at that) but I think that this VT team would beat that NC State team more often than not, albeit by a small margin. So in my mind we should be ranked slightly higher or neither of us should be ranked.
Maybe this stems from my personal feeling that a ranking should have nothing to do with your record and everything to do with putting teams in an order such that a high ranked team would be favored against a lower ranked team every time. We were favored before the game and then beat the spread.
im not going to rank us
until at least after the georgia tech game. IF we’re 7-2 and beat gt, then ill consider it.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 11, 2010 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed. I’m not convinced we deserve to be ranked at this point. I do think dropping Alabama down all the way to 10 was harsh, though. Expect them to climb as the teams ahead of them lose. And, expecting that, I would have put them in a higher spot for now (like 6th) and then dropped them if those other teams impress a little more.
Fine with me,
but then how does NC State get ranked? For what it’s worth, Sagarin’s Predictor has us #20 and them #23.
I think we either need to win easily for a couple more games, or just win through GT and maybe Miami since GT hasn’t been as impressive as originally anticipated.
They've looked very good
in all but one half of the season. That’s more than a lot of teams can say. I look at resumes and how you play on the road a lot, but teams also have to pass the eye test with me. Right now, NC State definitely passes the eye test.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 12, 2010 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions
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