2011 BlogPoll Week 14 Ballot - The ACC is Awful
by Jon Woods on Nov 29, 2011 12:45 PM MST
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The Ralphie Report Ballot - Week 14
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 3 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys |  1 |
| 4 | Oregon Ducks | 6 |
| 5 | USC Trojans | 1 |
| 6 | Arkansas Razorbacks |  -3 |
| 7 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 8 | Stanford Cardinal | -3 |
| 9 | Michigan St. Spartans | -1 |
| 10 | Wisconsin Badgers | -1 |
| 11 | Houston Cougars | -- |
| 12 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 13 | Kansas St. Wildcats | -- |
| 14 | Georgia Bulldogs | 1 |
| 15 | Baylor Bears | 1 |
| 16 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -2 |
| 17 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 3 |
| 18 | Michigan Wolverines | -1 |
| 19 | TCU Horned Frogs | 2 |
| 20 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 3 |
| 21 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -3 |
| 22 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | 3 |
| 23 | Clemson Tigers | -4 |
| 24 | Texas Longhorns | -- |
| 25 | California Golden Bears | -- |
| Dropouts: Tulsa Golden Hurricane, Notre Dame Fighting Irish | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
Next Five:
26) West Virginia
27) Missouri
28) Tulsa
29) Notre Dame
30) Lousiville
See my Pac-12 Rankings as well as some notes about my ballot after the jump...
Pac-12 Rankings:
1) Oregon
2) USC
3) Stanford
4) California
5) Washington
6) Utah
7) Arizona
8) Arizona State
9) UCLA
10) Colorado
11) Oregon State
12) Washington State
Check out my complete, conference by conference rankings here.
Notes On The Rankings:
- Virginia Tech keeps winning and I keep moving them down. The ACC is only better than the Mountain West because of their depth. Unless the ACC champion plays the Big East in their BCS bowl, I don't see them coming close to winning.
- The top three in the Pac-12 are a bit tough, with each beating another, but I think that Stanford is the clear third place at the moment. They're resume may stack up a bit better than USC's, but I have no doubt in my mind that the Trojans would win that game if they played again. Oregon I feel is playing at a slightly higher level than USC at the moment, but the margin is pretty slim.
- Once again the middle to bottom of the Pac-12 is a mess, but I gave the Buffs a lot of credit for winning that game on the road. Taking away the debacle in Westwood, it's clear that this team is much better than they showed this season when they are healthy.
Who would you move up or down?
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Tech’s the loss they should be ashamed of, not that one.
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Not sure why you moved Oregon ahead of USC
USC absolutely throttled Ucla and beat Oregon in Eugene.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
Yea, I went back and forth on that
Oregon had no issues with UCLA either. The Oregon game came down to the last play. I still can’t get over the loss to ASU and the insane score against Minnesota.
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Of course Oregon didn't have issues with Ucla: they didn't play. Literally- no issues.
And Ucla beat OSU 27-19 in Corvallis, while Oregon won 49-21 at home.
I would also take issue with Stanford dropping behind Oklahoma.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
Oklahoma lost two games
One to a quality one-man team (with a defense ranked in the 110s) and another to a 5-7 team that gave up 66 points twice in three weeks to losses where they were the home team.
Stanford lost to a team that won the North division and is most likely going to the Rose Bowl.
One way of looking at it.
The other, is Oklahoma beat K-State and FSU on the road and Texas and Missouri as well. Stanford beat USC in double OT and a Notre Dame team missing two of their best players.
How do you figure Stanford is most likely going to the Rose Bowl? That would be Oregon. Stanford will most likely play OU in the Fiesta if the Sooners win this weekend. In which case this debate will be settled on the field.
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even more than the actual rankings is the movement
In one instance, you moved one team ahead of another with the same record, despite losing head to head (at home) and despite winning less emphatically in their rivalry game
In the other, you dropped one team behind another with a worse record, even though the team with the better record lost one game to a top five team, and the other lost two to a top fifteen team and a top nothing team.
Look, I've already told Utah to suck it. There's no going back now.
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