Balloteering

by Run Up The Score on Sep 22, 2008 11:56 AM EDT in Football

As a former Blogpoll (yes, that's last week's edition) participant, I can vouch for the fact that it's a difficult chore and rather easy to make a mistake when putting a Top 25 together. However, somebody who still places Penn State four spots below East Carolina after ECU lost to an awful N.C. State team should probably have his Associated Press privileges revoked. This is part of your job description, Pollsters. At least pretend to take it seriously!

A list of where each voter ranked Penn State can be found here. If the fate of Penn State's weekly rankings fell solely upon the ESPN GameDay crew, we'd be in good shape. Fowler has us at #8, Herbie at #9. Even the much-maligned punching bag of college football, Stewart Mandel, has us at #9. Good thing his weekly ballots don't appear to be affected by the volume of incoming hate mail.

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by rahpsu92 on Sep 22, 2008 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

I would put penn state around 10-12

But that doesn’t really say much so far. Starting this week we finally get to see if this team is “for real”. Of course we wont really know until October 25th.

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled"- Hunter S. Thompson

by phishead_psu on Sep 22, 2008 2:00 PM EDT reply actions

For those of you who can't wait that long. . .

Penn State plays a game away from Beaver Stadium on October 11th too. Against a top 10 team. In a hostile environment. At night. That mmmaaaayyy give you some sort of idea as to what kind of team this is.

by The IC Lion on Sep 22, 2008 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions

I've heard of that team

Aren’t they called Wisconsin or something like that? I heard they’re ranked, and tend to be sorta good sometimes, and I’ve heard rumors that their current head coach has yet to lose a home game with the team. Just a thought.

For all the Big Ten critics who complain the the Big Ten doesn’t have a conference championship, well, here ya go. It just happens to be October 11th instead of in December.

by blogue20 on Sep 22, 2008 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions

dear lord

I hope that second part was satire. Such a brazen attitude risks incurring the wrath of the college football upset gods. Thankfully we miss Northwestern and Minnesota this year.

by gumbercules on Sep 22, 2008 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions