BlogPoll 2011: Week 10 Ballot
by Nick Blonde on Nov 1, 2011 5:38 AM EDT
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College football comes and goes so fast, you guys. I mean, it's all over next week as I'm being told all remaining games will be cancelled after the championship game, when LSU travels to Alabama, this Saturday. Just as the season was starting to get good too, there was more change following this weekend than we've seen since the few couple weeks of the season. I took a little time to rank some teams besides LSU and Alabama, but why bother, right?Take a look at the BlogPoll ballot below the jump. As always, questions, corrections, suggestions and objections are welcome.
Black Shoe Diaries Ballot - Week 10
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 3 | Stanford Cardinal |  1 |
| 4 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 1 |
| 5 | Boise St. Broncos | 1 |
| 6 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 4 |
| 7 | Oregon Ducks | 4 |
| 8 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 4 |
| 9 | Oklahoma Sooners | 4 |
| 10 | Kansas St. Wildcats |  -3 |
| 11 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 3 |
| 12 | Michigan Wolverines | 3 |
| 13 | Clemson Tigers | -10 |
| 14 | Michigan St. Spartans | -6 |
| 15 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | 3 |
| 16 | Wisconsin Badgers | -7 |
| 17 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 2 |
| 18 | Arizona St. Sun Devils | 3 |
| 19 | Georgia Bulldogs | 4 |
| 20 | Houston Cougars | 5 |
| 21 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | -- |
| 22 | Southern Miss. Golden Eagles | -- |
| 23 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -- |
| 24 | Texas Longhorns | -- |
| 25 | Washington Huskies | -- |
| Dropouts: Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Tech Red Raiders, USC Trojans, Baylor Bears, Illinois Fighting Illini | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
There were no great leapers this week, however Texas A&M, Texas Tech, USC, Baylor and Illinois all were axed from the rankings. Unless West Virginia wins out, I'm fairly certain the Big East will go unranked, no Cincinnati isn't hanging around just outside the BlogPoll at the moment. I'm pretty tenuous with where I've got most of the teams in the 6-16 range, so I was waffling in exactly how to handle Clemson, Kansas State, Michigan State and Wisconsin following their losses. If only I had another month of games to use in my decision making. Sigh. There are still other uninteresting games between BlogPoll teams not worth noting this week, so here they are: Oregon State hosting Kansas State, Oregon on the road in Washington, South Carolina heading to Arkansas and Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech.
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Arkansas.
Ugh. But How can we complain when we win just as ugly?
At least the 10-7 was against a team ranked at the time.
Weird season.
But wait a sec – OMGUSC took Stanford to the third wire! How can you drop them???
Weird season.
"That Craig James gets such prominent assignments remains a mystery on the D.B. Cooper scale."
Richard Deitsch on Craig James, who allegedly killed 5 hookers while at SMU.
Honestly
As has been said before, take teams from Nebraska down, rearrange according to mascot, alphabetical, throwing darts at a board, drawing from a hat, anything, and you could make a case for why that is correct. Such a muddled year.
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
My 7th grade Gym teacher told us
Line up alphabetically, by height. Same clusterf**k ensued.
Black shoes, basic blues, no names, all game.
He musta been in the military
I had a Drill Instructor that used to do that. He’d also tell you to line up Alphabetically by Social Security Number (before identity theft was an issue). Never saw such a Charlie Foxtrot.
"Illegitimus non Carborundum!" (Don't let the bastards wear you down)
Defending this ballot with eyeballs and the BCS computer average
Teams the BSD Blogpoll loves (ranks 6 or more above what the BCS computers do): Nebraska (6), Oregon (6), Michigan State (6), Wisconsin (8)
Teams the BSD Blogpoll hates: Virginia Tech (-6), Houston (-7), Auburn (unranked, #18 in BCS computer average), Texas (-9)
FWIW, I don’t disagree with Nick on a couple of those. Iowa State’s win over Iowa is screwing the B1G kinda hard in the BCS compliant machines and giving Texas a significant boost. We’re talking about a 3OT game, at Iowa State, that Iowa was winning for over 30 minutes. It probably hasn’t affected Nebraksa, MSU, or Wisconsin all that much yet (none have played Iowa), but it will. As for Houston, they play more teams ranked below #120 than teams in the top 70, and no top 30 teams all year. Do they deserve to be ranked in the top 15 ever? I don’t think so.
As for Auburn, seriously, what’s the difference between Auburn and Iowa? Both are 3 loss teams. Both have a great running back and wild inconsistency everywhere else. Both had a very embarrassing game in the first two weeks of the season, and if you think a 3 pt win at home over Utah State that you were losing all game long is superior to a 3OT loss to Iowa State on the road, you are very wrong. Sure, Auburn has a win over South Carolina and Iowa has a loss to Minnesota, but Minnesota is two plays away from having a win over USC who has a win over Stanford. South Carolina Garcia’d that game away two weeks after a near loss to Navy.
As for Oregon…I have trouble defending it. Oregon is pretty Penn State in ugly uniforms. The loss is forgivable. But their only 1/2 respectable win is Arizona State, who lost to Illinois.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
I know it finished late on the east coast....
but U$C lost to Stanford.
"my dad says Michigan used to be good"
Yeah
That’s why there were 2 plays in there instead of just one.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
I now c what u did there
What do you think of Oregon – Stanford coming up? As a semi-Stanford fan, i’m nervous as hell
"my dad says Michigan used to be good"
Honestly, no idea whether to be convinced that the winner is good,
the loser is a fraud, or both. Stanford’s best win is a 3OT win over a team that got crushed by Arizona State and nearly lost to Minnesota. Oregon’s best win is over a team who lost to Illinois. Both score points against bad defenses. I see no reason to believe they’re any different than Wisconsin in terms of overall quality.
Stanford’s at home, and both teams have one week to prepare. Oregon’s recent history when teams only have one week to prepare says Oregon wins (in contrast to Oregon when teams have 2+ weeks to prepare, which is meh-to-bad). However, Stanford plays OrSU the week before, so they might actually have more time than appears.
GO IOWA AWESOME, now and forever, unless PSU sees them in the B1G CG
Beat Nebraska.
I'm with ya
Oregon’s only loss is to (maybe) the best team in the country. I don’t think Oregon is top 5 or even top 10 caliber, but we just don’t know, do we?
"my dad says Michigan used to be good"
That's a big drop for Clemson
but I suppose warranted….
"Illegitimus non Carborundum!" (Don't let the bastards wear you down)
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