Gobbler Country's Preliminary Week 9 BlogPoll Ballot
by furrer4heisman on Oct 24, 2010 5:48 PM EDT
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The biggest mover this week is Mizzou, which proved me wrong by beating the No. 1 team in the BCS standings and moving into the Top 10. I looked down on Mizzou the first seven weeks of the season and really don't have any reason to anymore. The full poll as well as explanations are after the jump. The final ballot is due Wednesday morning, so get in your complaints and grievances by Tuesday night.
Games Watched: UCLA at Oregon, South Florida at Cincinnati, Michigan State at Northwestern, Nebraska at Oklahoma State, Oklahoma at Missouri, Washington at Arizona (50%), Duke at Virginia Tech.
Gobbler Country Ballot - Week 9
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 2 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 3 | Auburn Tigers |  2 |
| 4 | TCU Horned Frogs | -- |
| 5 | Alabama Crimson Tide | 2 |
| 6 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 7 | Wisconsin Badgers | 2 |
| 8 | Stanford Cardinal | 2 |
| 9 | Missouri Tigers | 9 |
| 10 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | 1 |
| 11 | Utah Utes | 4 |
| 12 | Oklahoma Sooners |  -9 |
| 13 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -- |
| 14 | Florida St. Seminoles | -- |
| 15 | LSU Tigers | -7 |
| 16 | Arizona Wildcats | 3 |
| 17 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -5 |
| 18 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -2 |
| 19 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 2 |
| 20 | Miami Hurricanes | 4 |
| 21 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | -4 |
| 22 | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | 1 |
| 23 | Baylor Bears | -- |
| 24 | USC Trojans | -- |
| 25 | Nevada Wolf Pack | -- |
| Dropouts: West Virginia Mountaineers, Texas Longhorns, Kansas St. Wildcats | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
- Again, I said I wasn't going to rank the Hokies until at least after the Georgia Tech game, no matter how good they looked against CMU, Wake and Duke. I'm standing by that. Yes, the Hokies are coming off three consecutive blow out wins, but they were still against CMU, Wake Forest and Duke, fercryinoutloud.
- Boise State and Oregon stay at No. 1 and No. 2, however Auburn moves into No. 3. I'm still high on No. 4 TCU and expect the Frogs to handle the rest of their schedule, but Auburn and Cam Newton just look ridiculous at this point and have wins over four Top 25 teams and another win against a good Clemson squad.
- Alabama jumps Michigan State. This is more of an "eye test" move. I think the Tide just looks better than the Spartans, despite their one loss. Sparty struggled with Northwestern, but has a chance to prove their worthy of a move up this weekend against Iowa.
- Utah is slowly but surely proving it's worthy of a better ranking than I've been giving it. Its next two games against Air Force and TCU give the Utes a chance to make a good jump.
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Eye test
was more a negative for Michigan State than anything else.
Boise is a great team with two very good wins against Virginia Tech and Oregon State. The Broncos are the best team in the country right now and have done everything they’ve been asked to do. They beat the two Top 25 (at the time) opponents they played and no one else has come close to them. If they slip up, I’ll drop them. They haven’t slipped up yet.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 24, 2010 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions
That statement doesn’t just apply to Boise… Change a couple names and the same is true for Oregon, Auburn, TCU, Mich St, Missouri, or Utah (except that Utah has no very good wins… unless you count Iowa St, which looks about as good as Oregon St)
“ is a great team with very good wins against . They are the best team in the country right now and have done everything they’ve been asked to do… If they slip up, I’ll drop them. They haven’t slipped up yet.”
So why is this the reasoning for having Boise at #1? Gotta be more than that… Especially when several of the other undefeated teams can say all that AND have more and better quality wins.
They came across the country to beat us.
they handled Oregon State fairly easily. They lead the country in ypp and ypp against. So far, Auburn has had to go on the road twice: Miss. State and Kentucky. Oregon has road wins against Tennessee, Arizona State and Wazzu.
Can Boise hang on to No. 1 if Oregon and Auburn keep winning? Probably not. But where we are right now, they’re my No. 1.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 25, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
ACC Games
The only problem in your logic about “it’s only Wake Forest and Duke” is since when is it a bad thing to win conference games? Duke played Miami hard and even though they lost, it was still respectable. No ACC game is an automatic win. Plus, you can’t be too picky with saying which games are quality wins when we lost to JMU this season. Granted, it wouldn’t happen again. I wouldn’t not rank us because we beat 2 conference opponents and Central Michigan. I mean if you were to tell me after the JMU game that we would be 4-0 in the ACC heading into the GT game, I would have said you are crazy. We should be in the top 25.
Kind of agree
You’re using two totally different philosophies for us and Boise St. They get ranked #1 because they beat two mediocre teams and crush their pattycake conference schedule while when we crush our pattycake conference schedule than we still don’t get in. Yes we lost to Boise and JMU, but we beat a good NC State team on the road and have killed everyone else. PUT US IN!!!! DO IT!!!
No.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 24, 2010 9:41 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I agree with what you said above
us crushing Wake and Duke doesn’t prove a thing. We are still struggling in LB’s and have a chance to give up huge plays against GT. Putting us in there now will just make GT look better if they beat us and they are not a team that deserves to be there just yet either. I think you have a pretty solid top 25 that I could argue with here or there with placement but would have no solid evidence to base it off. You can say Boise is better than Auburn or the other way around but you have no way of proving it since they haven’t played either other, or the same teams even.
rec'd for not being a pansy
and caving to peer pressure!
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But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
DO IT. Even I did! You don’t want a Hoo to be showing more faith in you guys than you do, do you?
by MaizeAndBlueWahoo on Oct 26, 2010 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Not happening.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 26, 2010 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Sparty
Shouldn’t Sparty be getting bonus points for beating your #7 team by 10 points rather than saying they struggled against Northwestern.
Meanwhile Boise’s best win is against your Hokies whom you are still too skeptical about to rank in the top 25.
Enough people are arguing for MSU
That I’ll move them to No. 5. At the end of the day, this is Week 9. It really isn’t a big deal.
After watching Boise State, Oregon, Auburn and TCU this year, I still think the Broncos are better than any other team up to this point. There’s still almost half a season left.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 25, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Nevada
So beating BYU, UNLV, and San Jose State gets Nevada in but our last three wins are junk?
Anyway, I think you are mistakenly ranking Nevada and they should be replaced with Hawai’i. who just beat them easily.
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