Blogpoll Ballot - Week 2 - Black Shoe Diaries

Blogpoll Ballot - Week 2

by BSD on Sep 8, 2008 7:00 PM EDT in Blogpoll Comment 17 comments

First off let me say I had to compromise and go to a home show with the wife on Saturday afternoon, so I missed all the early games. I figured the weekly television line up looked pretty crappy, so this was a good weekend to earn some favor by sacrificing a little football. But I was home in time for the Penn State game and later watched the second half of Miami and Florida. Here is the ballot for this week.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Southern Cal	1
2	Florida	1
3	Georgia	3
4	Oklahoma	1
5	LSU	--
6	Texas	1
7	Ohio State	3
8	Auburn	2
9	Missouri	--
10	Penn State	4
11	Kansas	--
12	Alabama	--
13	Texas Tech	--
14	Wisconsin	1
15	South Florida	1
16	Oregon	1
17	Arizona State	1
18	East Carolina	5
19	Brigham Young	1
20	Clemson	1
21	West Virginia	13
22	Wake Forest	2
23	Utah	2
24	California	2
25	UCLA	--

Dropped Out: N/A

Movin' On Up

Southern Cal - I know. How can I move them up when they didn't even play and Florida won? Well, Florida was clinging to a 9-3 lead late in their game over a Miami team I thought they would completely destroy. So I guess this is more a function of moving Florida down more than anything else. I probably would have put USC #1 next week anyway after they beat Ohio State this weekend.

Georgia - The Bulldogs looked a lot better this week, but still gave up 17 points to Central Michigan.

Penn State - Yeah baby! Excuse me while I wipe this Kool-Aid mustache off my upper lip. Wo0t!!1! The Spread HD is the equivalent of the West Coast Offense back in the 80's. While the defense isn't very deep, I think they have enough talent to be good. Stroughter and Morales combined for 308 yards receiving and 3 TD against Stanford. They only got 96 against Penn State with no touchdowns.

East Carolina - Congrats on your wins over Virginia Tech and West Virginia. It's impressive now, but I have a suspicion before long we'll see how overrated these teams really were.

Movin' On Down

Florida - See above. They really should have blown out Miami more than they did.

Ohio State - Buckeyes - Beanie = Very Average

West Virginia - OMG Shocking! The Mountaineers lost to East Carolina! Isn't this the same team that also laid an egg against Pitt to end last season? So why are we shocked about this loss too? The Big East is so terrible they are just the default team everyone expects to run the table so everyone just throws them in their preseason top ten.

Let me know if there are any glaring mistakes in here.

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The only shocking thing about WVU for me

Is that they crushed Oklahoma last year.

by GreatScawt on Sep 8, 2008 7:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I wonder...

I wonder how much of their loss was because of actually being overrated vs. DickRod leaving the place in shambles and trying to send the WVU commits to scUM. Regardless, he’s still a douche bag.

by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 8, 2008 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My Top 25

1) OU
2) USC
3) UF
4) UGA
5) Mizzou
6) OSU
7) LSU
8) Texas
9) Auburn
10) PSU
11) Oregon
12) ’Bama
13) East Carolina
14) ASU
15) Cal
16) UW
17) Fresno
18) Kansas
19) TTU
20) Utah
21) Illinois
22) Wake
23) USF
24) WVU
25) UCLA

Notes:
-OU smacked a decent Cincy team in the mouth, more than what USC has done
-UF won convincingly…Miami has a pretty good D
-I actually wanted to put OSU lower, but couldn’t figure out who should be higher than them
-Cal has already beaten two BCS conference teams, including MSU
-Wisky doesn’t impress me at all. If they spot Fresno 14 points this week, they will lose
-Kansas, Texas Tech, Wake, USF = unimpressive

Just my two cents.

"We heard all that talk all week about the SEC and their speed, but we knew personally that they weren't nearly as tough as us."

-Tony Hunt

by Cpiritual27 on Sep 8, 2008 8:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Alabama.........

was atrocious vs. Tulane at home. I would probably have them lower. I believe they scored on a punt return and a fumble recovery. At one point, they were outagine 206 to 64 by Tulane.

Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.

by ech2os on Sep 8, 2008 10:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Sounds good

I wasn’t sold on them that high anyway. I’ll knock them down a few spots.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Sep 8, 2008 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

WVU

I’m dumbfounded why anyone still has them ranked.

They were crushed by ECU. Their new high flying passing offense produced 3 points.

Even Va Tech’s boring offense put up 2 TDs.

by DrDetroit on Sep 9, 2008 7:22 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My poll

1 Georgia
2 USC
3 Oklahoma
4 Florida
5 Auburn
6 Penn State
7 Missouri
8 LSU
9 Ohio State
10 Arizona State
11 Kansas
12 Alabama
13 Texas Tech
14 South Florida
15 ECU
16 Oregon
17 Texas
18 Wisconsin
19 Brigham Young
20 Wake Forest
21 Cal
22 Fresno State
23 Utah
24 Vanderbilt
25 Illinois

by psu1313 on Sep 9, 2008 8:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Wake

Mike, just curious, why did you move them ahead of Cal?

by Screen Name 20 on Sep 9, 2008 9:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Pretty fair....

but how did you move USF up based on their lackluster performance against UCF? Also personally I think Wake should be ahead of Clemson but that will get taken care of when they play head to head later in the year. Considering who we have played so far…..PSU at 10 seems very fair ……agree with both you and Herbie on that.

I thought only safeties played 15 yards off the ball?

by pic15 on Sep 9, 2008 10:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Can Somebody........

tell me why it is that even though he is from Ohio and a Buckeye, that Herbie seems to have a crush on Penn State. I am not complaining….I think its great, but I wondered if anyone else gets this impression and if so, why.

He is on the local ESPN radio show down here……..The one where asshole John Kincade (Philly guy by the way) constantly trashes PSU and Paterno. He also trys unsuccessfully to goad (sp) guests like Jim Donnan into throwing Paterno under the bus any chance he gets. Anyhow, point is that Herbie’s respect/admiration for Penn State is farily apparent during his Atlanta appearances on ESPN radio as well.

Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.

by ech2os on Sep 9, 2008 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kirk is an idiot

Why anyone listens to him after the entire Les Miles fiasco last year is beyond me.

He also talks up Kirk Ferentz like he is the greatest coach ever and destined to win National Championships. Ferentz sucks, can’t recruit and has a ton of issues beating Iowa State. That just screams bad coach. Yet, there is Kirk talking him up.

Has he ever said a negative comment about anyone? I can’t recall one, so his praise of anyone is equally useless.

by DrDetroit on Sep 9, 2008 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I Think He's Great........

Were you really thinking an Ohio State grad was going to have the inside scoop on who the next Michigan Coach was ? :)

Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.

by ech2os on Sep 9, 2008 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Call me a cynic

but I think he sells PSU as a way to make OSU seem better. He’s been a huge proponent of the difficult atmosphere of Beaver stadium, and how great the white-out is. Is that just a way to justify why OSU lost there in 2005?

He also picked PSU to win the Big Ten last year, talking about the “senior QB” and all the talent. That was also the one year OSU failed to play a quality non-conference opponent. Maybe hyping PSU helps the perception of OSU’s strentgh of schedule.

I realize this sounds overly suspicious. Maybe I’m just looking for an expalnation for his obvious pro-Penn State attitude. Perhaps he just loves the uniforms.

by pjk on Sep 9, 2008 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs