Week 11 BlogPoll Ballot

by Jon Woods on Nov 12, 2008 8:16 AM MST in College Football BlogPoll

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Texas Tech	--
2	Alabama	--
3	Texas	1
4	Oklahoma	1
5	Florida	1
6	Penn State	3
7	Utah	2
8	Southern Cal	--
9	Oklahoma State	2
10	Ohio State	2
11	Missouri	3
12	Michigan State	4
13	Boise State	2
14	Georgia	3
15	North Carolina	7
16	Florida State	5
17	Ball State	2
18	LSU	5
19	TCU	9
20	Pittsburgh	5
21	South Carolina	5
22	Oregon State	4
23	Boston College	3
24	Arizona	2
25	Cincinnati	1

Dropped Out: Georgia Tech (#17), California (#18), Kansas (#20), Northwestern (#23), West Virginia (#24).

- Penn State's loss allows Texas, Oklahoma and Florida to all move up a spot. I don't know about you guys but I had a feeling throughout that entire game that Iowa was going to end up pulling it off. I was watching the game at a Michigan bar and there were a lot of very upset Big 10 fans.

- I'm sorry, I know their defense is phenomenal but I couldn't justify putting the Trojans above the Nittany Lions when they have a common opponent that resulted the way it did. It amazes me that the USC offense can be so continuously pedestrian. Arizona and Cal's defenses aren't that good.

- I'm still not sure how good Oklahoma State actually is. Outside of the win at Missouri (which also got blasted by UT) we are putting a lot of faith into a close loss at Texas.

- Please lose Boise State, please lose. Nobody likes you.

- I still think TCU is a much better team than Utah and should have won that game by 20 points. That being said they didn't get it done and wins and losses are all that matter.

- It's nice to finally see some leaders rise out of the ACC and Big East. Now the problem for Florida State, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati is seeing if they can actually stay there and avoid the upset losses that previous teams have succombed to.

Let me know your thoughts. Here is the link to this week's Blogpoll rankings.

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I have already previously said I am anti-BCS buster schools and I think the whole thing of them being ranked so high is a little ridiculous, so I agree on Boise, lose, and Utah, also lose. No one wants you in a BCS bowl. Feel good story or not it rarely results in a good bowl game.

And I think this is the only poll I’ve seen with UF behind Texas and OU, which I believe is absolutely correct. Although Florida is tearing it up now (even beating my #2 love, the Dawgs, savagely), they still have by far the worst loss of all of the 1 loss teams at the top. They lost at home to Ole Miss. I know the MSM is not even mentioning that anymore and shooting UF up the polls but we shouldn’t forget that. Texas lost to the #2 team in the country on the road, OU lost to Texas at a neutral site. Although USC’s loss was to a bad team also, at least it was on the road. UF lost at home to Ole Miss and it is irritating that they are not being remotely penalized for it in the major polls.

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by BVaz on Nov 12, 2008 8:56 AM MST reply actions

I hear what you're sayin about USC, but still I would rank them higher

I know they have a common opponent, but if USC played PSU tomorrow I bet they would smoke em. Just ranking it on who I think is the “best team right now” (not who they lost to, etc.) I would rank Florida, USC, OU, Texas as my #3-#6

by nebraskasux on Nov 12, 2008 10:59 AM MST reply actions