Week 3 Blogpoll Ballot
by BSD on Sep 16, 2008 10:38 AM EDT
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Due to Ike rolling through and knocking out my power I hardly got to watch any football this weekend. But I did manage to see part of Wisconsin and Fresno State. Then I caught SportsCenter on Sunday morning. That was about it. Here is my ballot for this week.
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southern Cal | -- |
| 2 | Florida | -- |
| 3 | Oklahoma |  1 |
| 4 | Missouri | 5 |
| 5 | Georgia |  2 |
| 6 | Texas | -- |
| 7 | LSU | 2 |
| 8 | Penn State | 2 |
| 9 | Wisconsin | 5 |
| 10 | Alabama | 2 |
| 11 | Texas Tech | 2 |
| 12 | Auburn | 4 |
| 13 | Oregon | 3 |
| 14 | Brigham Young | 5 |
| 15 | Utah | 8 |
| 16 | Wake Forest | 6 |
| 17 | South Florida | 2 |
| 18 | Kansas | 7 |
| 19 | Ohio State | 12 |
| 20 | East Carolina | 2 |
| 21 | Illinois | 5 |
| 22 | Iowa | 4 |
| 23 | West Virginia | 2 |
| 24 | Clemson | 4 |
| 25 | Fresno State | 1 |
Movin' On Up
Missouri - I'm not sure why I jumped the Tigers up five spots. Their 69-17 win over Nevada didn't impress me that much. Part of it was dropping Ohio State. They are a team I'm not sure what to do with.
Wisconsin - I wasn't that impressed with the Badgers' win over Fresno State. A top ten team should have won that game by two touchdowns. But I'm hoping Wisconsin can stay in the top ten until we play them, because it may be our only chance at knocking off a top ten team this year.
BYU - Holy smokes did they put the beatdown on UCLA. I'm not a big fan of ranking mid-major teams, but wins like that are hard to ignore.
Utah - I probably should have ranked them higher last week. This is another team I'm not sure what to do with. Any ideas?
Wake Forest - Don't ask me why. I guess I'm just resisting ranking teams like South Florida and East Carolina ahead of them. But the ACC is a joke right now.
Movin' On Down
Georgia - They have looked flat in two of their first three games. Can you say overrated?
Auburn - 3-2 over Mississippi State? Seriously? This team is waaaay overrated. Voters should really ask themselves if half of the SEC deserves to be ranked in the top 15 in the preseason polls just because they are the SEC.
Ohio State - Thanks again, Buckeyes. Nobody expected you to win out in Southern California, but we were sure hoping you wouldn't get blown out.
Kansas - I thought they were ranked too high. Losing to South Florida confirmed it.
Penn State Perspective
I feel like I'm giving Penn State a pass in ranking them so high. True, they haven't beaten anyone, but they have come out focused three weeks in a row against weak competition which is hard to do. They obviously haven't been dogging it in practice and thinking just showing up is enough to win.
While they haven't beaten anyone of note, I have seen enough to have a few of my preseason questions answered. Daryll Clark is for real, and Pat Devlin is capable of leading this team if called on to do so. The defense has tightened up over the past three weeks. Did anyone else notice the Oregon State Beavers tagged Hawaii for 45 points this weekend? The defensive line kept right on chugging without Evans and Koroma, and the secondary is doing better than I expected. From what I've seen Penn State is one of the top ten teams in the country at this point.
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Overrating...
Yes – to Georgia, Auburn and Oregon…but it is still too early in the season to say that others are better; again based on non-conference opponents.
" We need MORE cowbell !"
by BlueWhiteLife on Sep 16, 2008 11:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wisconsin
Can somebody please tell me why the Badgers are ranked so high? They haven’t impressed me at all! The night game at Camp Randall is very winnable!
by LIONHEAD2477 on Sep 16, 2008 11:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yes
PSU can win, but that is the most hostile place to play in the country.
And we don’t exactly do great on the road.
by SweepTheLeg on Sep 16, 2008 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
+ Wisconsin hasn't lost at home since
Bielma took over. Not exactly Miami’s Orange Bowl streak, but impressive nonetheless. Must be something going on there.
pinkertonpark.com - you owe yerself a laugh.
by rahpsu92 on Sep 16, 2008 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nice to see
the media not just letting teams stay at the top of the polls after they struggle. Good to see Georgia slip dow and Ohio State fall more then 3 spots after embarassing the Big 10 again.
PSU Softball
by QBsneak12 on Sep 16, 2008 11:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Most hostile?
I was there 2 years ago and believe me, it’s not that hostile! Beaver Stadium and The Shoe are much more hostile and louder than Camp Randall. I do agree about the road struggles though.
by LIONHEAD2477 on Sep 16, 2008 11:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Camp Randall vs Horseshoe
I’ll take the Shoe as well. I was at the last Penn State victory in Madison (2002) and the last two losses in Columbus (2004 and 2006). Based on those experiences, I’d say the Shoe is the tougher venue of the two. Of course, it’s just an opinion.
by BSM PSU 93 on Sep 16, 2008 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My vote is for Camp Randall
but only because the only time I’ve ever been at the Shoe was in ‘04 and it wasn’t intimidating at all Granted, we sucked that year, we lost a very unispiring 21-10 game, and the game had lost some of its usual luster. But their student section was non-existent, and I was surrounded by old people.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually...
OSU doesn’t have a student section. Their students sit in small clusters all over the stadium. Odd but true.
by BSM PSU 93 on Sep 18, 2008 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Conceptually
I don’t see how you can rank Ohio State behind Penn State and Wisconsin. Unless of course you are willing to bet that PSU or Wisconsin win the league instead of the Buckeyes. Shoot me an email, because I’ll take that bet. FWIW I would put Ohio State around 9 or 10 with PSU and Wisconsin falling in between 11 and 13. I think Penn State is playing better football than Wisconsin is right now though.
You know who I think is missing? Michigan State. That is a tough football team. I’ll take them over Iowa and especially over Clemson, WVU and Fresno with losses.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 12:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Also
You moved Illinois up five spots? For beating the Rajun Cajuns by three?
South Florida and Kansas dropped?
Iowa gets in the poll for beating Iowa State?
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Illinois and Iowa
Illinois is still a good team, but that was just a classic letdown and the LA-Lafayette didn’t really have a shot to win, regardless of what the final score says. But I still think its inevitable they take a sizeable step backwards this year.
Iowa? Sure, I hope they beat Pitt. But I really don’t think they could even score 28 points if they played 60 minutes of overtime rules.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Illionis
I think you are right about Illinois, I am not suggesting they should drop, they could even move up a spot or two, but up five?
LA-Lafayette didn’t really have a shot to win? If you only lose by three, you had a chance to win. Didn’t they almost recover an onside kick late in the fourth quarter?
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Illinois
Probably shouldn’t have done any moving up after that game, I 100% agree with that. Regardless, their future losses will take care of that and itt’l work itself out naturally.
Nah, LA-Laf didn’t exactly have one of those “ah! we almost had ’em!” games on Saturday. it was 17-3 at halftime, and the scoring they did was too little too late. It was 20-10 when they scored with 20 seconds to go, then they would have had to recover an onside kick, and THEN still would have had to get into field goal range AND make the field goal, just to send the game to OT
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you can rank them below if your poll is a reflection of performance
It doesn’t need to be a predictive list (and I prefer it not to be).
If you look at what the three teams have accomplished, Wiscy needs to be ahead of OSU with a 3-0 record and a win over a talented and still ranks FSU. You can justify leaving Penn State below OSU because of their schedule, but even then, at least they blew out their cupcakes like they were suppose to, something OSU hasn’t done.
Honestly, three weeks in it’s all a crap shoot. But if OSU was, say, Kent State, and they beat Youngstown State, had to come from behind against Ohio U in the second half, and lost so badly to USC, they would without question be out of the polls.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
by Kevin HD on Sep 16, 2008 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
performance vs prediction
Isn’t the goal to get them where they belong?
It is still a pretty fair assumption that Ohio State is going to win at least 9 games, and you have an idea of who those teams are going to be. The loss to USC is no suprise, they would have beat Penn State every bit as badly as they beat OSU. I know, I know…but you’re only lying to yourself.
I just see killing Ohio State over the USC game as a knee jerk “get these guys out of the NC game discussion as soon as possible” move. I still think they are one of the ten best teams in the country, and it merrits notice that it is in no way unsual for the #1 team in the country to be a lot better than the #10 in the country.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not disagreeing with your opinion on Ohio State.
When OSU gets Wells back and has the time to fully integrate TP into the offense they are going to be just fine and have to still be vegas favorites to win the Big Ten…but I don’t think you have to use that in your poll.
As to the “point” of week four polls: there is none. They don’t have any impact on anything and only exist to, as they say, sell newspapers; so with that in mind it really doesn’t matter where you put these three teams now because they all play each other.
My comment was just to point out that there are 60-something different voters and they all have very different criteria for what justifies a top 25 spot. If I was voting, for better or worse, I would have OSU behind PSU and Wiscy until they justified a jump with an impressive performance (something they haven’t done yet). That’s not the right way of doing it, just my theoretical approach.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
by Kevin HD on Sep 16, 2008 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Even dropping them out of the top 15 doesn't mean they won't make the NCG
Last year they ended their season at #8, and in the course of 2 weeks moved up to #2 without even playing a game. If they could move up that much in 2 weeks, that gives them plenty of time to jump 15-20 spots over the course of 11 more weeks.
Granted, they got blown out by USC, but if they win out, and do so in impressive fashion, I can see the talking heads changing their tune. They will say, “This is a different OSU team than we saw in the 3rd week of the season, and they are the best team in the country right now.”
Obviously, I HATE OSU as much as the next guy, just trying to make a point. I can only hope we kick the sh!t out of them so we can guarantee that won’t make the NCG.
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Sep 17, 2008 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
to further your point
They actually climbed into the #1 spot.
Orson pretty much reflects your comments, although it’s phrased more as a fear than a prediction:
Oh, you won’t believe it now, but come November, when Ohio State has rolled through the Big Ten, and sits at undefeated, and we’ve all had conference games to get everyone properly tunnel-visioned into their own little regional college football worlds and lose perspective completely, someone will say it: "Hey, Ohio State early loss better now title shot yes?"
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
by Kevin HD on Sep 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did you watch the MSU- Florida Atlantic Game????
MSU looked AWFUL!
I thought only safeties played 15 yards off the ball?
by pic15 on Sep 16, 2008 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yea, playing in ankle deep rain
Javon Ringer is a beast. I’m telling you they are tough.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 17, 2008 9:02 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree,
MSU scares me, especially with Ringer and running the ball. I often think about teams like that and Wisky and OSU that are going to run the ball 50 times right up the middle with Wells and Hill and bash the shit out of our ILB. Kind of like Hart did last year when we couldn’t get the ball back…
I think the ILB play is going to haunt me all through the BigTen schedule…
by WETSU on Sep 17, 2008 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hopefully
by THAT TIME of our schedule, we play them @ full D-line “starter strength” and our young talented LB’s…are NO LONGER “young” in game experience.
" We need MORE cowbell !"
by BlueWhiteLife on Sep 17, 2008 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nobody
I dont know how you would rank PSU that high. We havent beaten anybody yet. Nobody has challenged us at all. We have no idea how Clark will do against real competition. The defensive line is getting thinner by the minute. We are not starting the best linebacker, (Bowman). I also dont think that Mark Rubin is a Starting safety in the big ten. I like the guy and all, but I just dont see it. To bad he is here when he is or he could have been a nice possesion receiver.
All that being said I dont see us losing more than 2 games, but there is a chance to run the table its just to earlyt to tell.
"I've gotto go with PSU. Ill make that pick every year till I die, and eventually it's gonna happen. Hear me now."- LL Cool J
by psuaar on Sep 16, 2008 12:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The point is....
That we’ve played 2 teams we were supposed to destroy, and one team we should have beaten at least by 2 td’s (Oregon St)…..AND WE DESTROYED ALL THREE
The team doing what is expected of them and more is alot more impressive than people are giving credit for.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Syracuse
I don’t think we should fall into the trap of considering Syracuse to be the Little Sisters of the Poor. That is road win against a D1A football team in a major confrence with a tradition of having tough football teams. Penn State has gone 3-9 in recent history, but (and maybe my memory is fading) but I can’t remember us ever taking a beating like that at Beaver Stadium [ed: we didn’t].
Syracuse sucks, but that’s not on us that’s on them. When we secheduled them we had every right to expect, that even if they were bad, they would play with some measure of pride at home. That’s why I was the only one who predicted some measure of a close game.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Syracuse had some good teams
But doesn’t right now. We didn’t have to beat their tradition last Saturday, all we had to beat was their very marginal talent.
The worst beating I ever sat through in the Beav is a tie between 1) Michigan in 1997 – watching Brian Griese’s 40 or so yard run on 3rd down with nobody around him was horrifying, especially when he looked like he was 83 years old while doing it. Being #4 in the country at the time of the beating was bad enough…and 2) watching Miami do as they please with us in 2001. Talk about a mismatch.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't forget......
The same weekend we disgracefully lost to Michigan last year…..Cuse managed an upset win over a ranked Louisville opponent.
I thought only safeties played 15 yards off the ball?
by pic15 on Sep 16, 2008 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Little Sisters of the Poor
I definitely consider them this, and I don’t feel trapped at all.
Convivite Nudem!
by jtothep on Sep 17, 2008 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wish we weren't even ranked right now
Penn State plays better when they’re the underdog, when the whole world assumes we don’t have a shot. Not only that — I don’t want these stupid ESPN analysts yapping away about our team and how we’re ranked — they’ll just use that as a place to interject their ’Joe’s old and the team is a bunch of criminals’ drivel.
For some reason Joe is the perennial underdog and he always seems to use that to drive his team to success — for that reason I hope we continue to be under-rated.
by millzners on Sep 16, 2008 12:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think it's safe to say...
that Penn State will be considered the underdog in both road games with Wisconsin and OSU.
Am I the only one that’s worried about Purdue?? I think there’s a very good chance we could lose that game. Sandwiched right between two huge primetime showdowns with the Illini and Wisky. Not to mention it’s on the road. I’m extremely concerned about that game.
by 4thand15 on Sep 16, 2008 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed
I was waiting for somebody to bring that up. They have the one facet of a team that I’m most worried about – a passing offense with a very good QB. Not to mention, the only time we went into Ross-Ade and walked out with a convincing victory was 1997.
10/14/1995 at Purdue #20 Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN W 26-23
11/15/1997 at #19 Purdue #6 Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN W 42-17
10/23/1999 3:30 p.m. at #16 Purdue #2 Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN ABC W 31-25
10/11/2003 3:30 p.m. at #20 Purdue Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN ABC L 14-28
10/28/2006 12:00 p.m. at Purdue Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN ABC W 12-0
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 1:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Maybe not convincing W's
but W’s none the less. Purdue has never beaten a Penn State team with a winning record.
And those are some of the best teams Purdue has ever had, on playing in their own stadium. I think some people might be suprised the record is as good as it is.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Purdue gives up
like 300 rushing yards per game. IF push controls the ball, we will be fine! OSU and Wisconsin are still the biggest traps on the schedule!
I thought only safeties played 15 yards off the ball?
by pic15 on Sep 16, 2008 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
OSU is hardly a "trap" game
Temple is trap game, Purdue is a trap game. Ohio State and Wisconsin are teh biggest games on our schedule.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 17, 2008 9:03 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Very true things
But the concern is because they play us extremely tough, even when we’re the “better team” on paper. I remember sweating that game out in 1999 just waiting for Drew Brees to connect on one of his 4 passes from the 12 yard line in the final seconds.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 1:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
We were not the clear better team in 1999...
…we just thought we were. In 20/20 hindsight you’ll give Drew Brees an even money shot against LaVar Arrington every time, right?
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We were the #2 ranked team in the country
They were the 16th ranked team. Thats all I was saying.
And yes, we were the better all around team. The Minnesota loss a few weeks later turned a 12-0 team into a 9-3 aberration.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Right
But we were not the second best team in the country that year. That was a flawed team. They only scored on big plays,and the defense was not disciplined enough, among other things. Meanwhile, Purdue was pretty good. Sometimes you can tell right away that the rankings were bullshit, and sometimes it takes a little longer.
My point was that at the time, we thought we had at least a quarterback that was comperable to our competition. In reality, we had Kevin Thompson and they had Drew Brees (or Tom Brady). We thought our coaches were better, but the other coach was Nick Saban.
Minnesota was a fluke that really exposed a football program that had gone soft. Not only were we not a lot better than those teams, we were a program that was fading, and had been for some time, just not noticiably.
"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008
by jesse. on Sep 16, 2008 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I'll pretty much agree with that
I still think that while we asking to be beaten, we were pretty darned good. Kevin Thompson was hardly prolific but rarely had to be, and the defense should have been better than it was if you look at the final results of the ‘99 season. Obviously the program was set up for a bad streak as history proved, but at the same time I’ve seen worse cases of that. 1997 is my favorite example. We were ranked 7-0 and ranked 2nd in the country before getting beaten badly by eventual champ Michigan. I remember going into that game that feeling like we were a huge underdog.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bama vs EC
You have Bama 10 but move East Carolina down? That makes no sense.
Bama beat Tulane by blocking a punt for a TD and returning a punt for a TD. Tulane held Alabama to 172 yards of offense while racking up 318 yards. That was in Alabama.
Then EC goes to Tulane and wins with the O/D being 316/312. How can you knock East Carolina but move up Bama?
by DrDetroit on Sep 16, 2008 2:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Easy Tex
Let me remind you again I didn’t watch any football this weekend. I’ll fix it, but I’m not convinced East Carolina is any good.
All of these polls are garbage before week five in my opinion anyway.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Sep 16, 2008 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My bad yo!
And I was hoping to imply Bama was over rated, not that EC should be in the top 10.
by DrDetroit on Sep 16, 2008 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Saying that
one team did a certain thing when they faced Team A, and then comparing it to what a different team did when they faced Team A is a waste of time and a silly comparison. If you followed out a progression of this for a seasons’ worth of games, the end result would leave you with an argument that a 7-5 team and an 8-4 team (for example) should be playing for the national championship. The “X-degrees” of separation doesn’t exist in college football, let alone sports.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
....
Illinois beat Ohio State last year, Iowa beat Illinois = Iowa>Ohio State. Haha.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow, good point
That is exactly nothing like what I was saying.
Try again.
Iowa beat Illinois. USC beat Illinois. Iowa barely beat Illinois and USC crushed Illinois. Therefore, USC is better than Iowa. Hey, that worked out.
Northwestern beat Syracuse by 20. PSU beat Syracuse by a 100. Therefore, PSU is better than Northwestern. I think that one is correct as well!
Now you try one. Remember, its a comparison oft teams against the same opponent, not different opponents.
by DrDetroit on Sep 16, 2008 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You compared Alabama and East Carolina
based on what they did vs. Tulane. The fact that it was a common opponent is about the only way you can put those two games next to each other and compare them. Other than that, the games are entirely different. Location, matchups, and about a thousand other factors that change from game to game and week to week make a comparison with a common opponent unimportant. And yes I did get a little carried away with myself and I know thats not exactly to the T what you were saying.
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
As much as we wish football was as straightforward as math...
it isn’t. If Team A beats Team B by 10 and Team B beats Team C by 10, we don’t know what will happen when team A and team C meet. Team A might win by 20, they might not.
There are plenty of examples that prove this.
I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.
by spakajewia on Sep 16, 2008 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Once again....
That is not what I said.
Team A beat Team C. Team B beat Team C.
You then compare Team A and B.
Team A was dominated at home but won on special teams, Team B played a competitive game and won on the road.
From this, you can not move Team A up in the polls while moving Team B down. If anything, it would be the opposite. B should go up while A goes down.
That is what I said. That is the comparison. Comparing A and B after they beat C.
by DrDetroit on Sep 17, 2008 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Try doing that with the following:
BYU
Tennessee
UCLA
Washington
by Cairo on Sep 17, 2008 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There is no comparison
BYU beat UCLA and Washington.
Tennessee lost to UCLA.
No two teams had the same opponent they beat.
Since you mention BYU, it would be like moving BYU up after beating Washington by 1, but moving Oregon down because they blew Washington out. That is the comparison.
Its about how the teams MOVED in the polls.
by DrDetroit on Sep 17, 2008 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
'Easy Tex?'
My gawd, Mike, please tell us you haven’t assimilated into a Texan this quickly….
Convivite Nudem!
by jtothep on Sep 17, 2008 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is fun
Stanford beat USC, TCU beat Stanford, Wyoming beat TCU = Wyoming>USC
by blogue20 on Sep 16, 2008 3:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
App State beat Michigan....ahh, nevermind.
by Spats on Sep 16, 2008 4:29 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Wofford>Florida? Clearly.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
by Kevin HD on Sep 16, 2008 4:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I saw this scenario one year
when Pacific was still playing football. Pacific beat a team who beat a team – etc – that beat the 1-loss National Champ team. They summed it up by saying that Pacific (a school that no longer has a football team) is better then the NC. Pretty funny. A “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” thing in college football.
by NJ lion on Sep 16, 2008 7:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
One guys done the complete list
In 2006,
Penn State beat
Tennessee who beat
California who beat
Oregon St who beat
Southern Cal
by Cairo on Sep 17, 2008 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thats probably one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen
Somebody had wayyy too much time on their hands and did this instead of standing in the unemployment line. But that site is awesome.
by blogue20 on Sep 17, 2008 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I watched the Mizzou-Nevada game
while watching the Buffalo-Temple game. Missouri made a fairly decent team look ridiculous. Chase Daniel may be the most situationally-aware quarterback in a modified spread system in the country.
Oh, and Temple and Buffalo looked worse than they did last year. Temple’s D-line looked average in the 1st half, poor in the second half. Otherwise they let an incredibly poor team stick around and beat them. Not much to worry about.
by Cairo on Sep 16, 2008 11:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I only think its going to be a 31-14, etc
Victory because A) we still won’t throw anything at them as far as special formations, plays, etc. B) its a week before Big 10 play starts. Its just a historical guess C) Joe won’t embarrass Al Golden like he wanted to embarrass Syracuse. Thats part of the reason we only beat them 31-0 last year, and Joe probably didn’t want even that to happen. D) their offense is at least OK enough to score a time or two, and not go three-and-out for an entire half like Syracuse enjoyed doing
by blogue20 on Sep 17, 2008 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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