BlogPoll 2011: Week 15 Ballot
by Mike Pettigano on Dec 6, 2011 8:06 AM EST
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PrintNick was having some technical difficulties this morning. So here is his ballot, via me... rip it apart like the internet blog mob we are...
Black Shoe Diaries Ballot - Week 15
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys |  5 |
| 3 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 4 | Oregon Ducks | 1 |
| 5 | Stanford Cardinal |  -3 |
| 6 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 7 | Michigan St. Spartans | -3 |
| 8 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 9 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 1 |
| 10 | Oklahoma Sooners | -1 |
| 11 | Kansas St. Wildcats | -- |
| 12 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
| 13 | Michigan Wolverines | 1 |
| 14 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 2 |
| 15 | USC Trojans | 2 |
| 16 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | 2 |
| 17 | Georgia Bulldogs | -2 |
| 18 | Baylor Bears | 1 |
| 19 | TCU Horned Frogs | 2 |
| 20 | Clemson Tigers | 4 |
| 21 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -8 |
| 22 | Southern Miss. Golden Eagles | 3 |
| 23 | Houston Cougars | -3 |
| 24 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -2 |
| 25 | Florida St. Seminoles | -- |
| Dropouts: Texas Longhorns | ||
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Honest question
Does anybody really want to see a rematch? Fellow BSDers, what is the sentiment in other parts of the country (minus the SEC territory)? Most people I know have no interest in the game.
I, for one, plan to continue my life long contempt for the powers that be and I fully expect to be disappointed with whatever choice is made. ~PSUgirl
Agreed
This is like the MLB Subway Series couple years back; outside of NY, no one cared about it and the ratings were terrible.
You know ESPN is going to pimp the hell out of this too
I, for one, plan to continue my life long contempt for the powers that be and I fully expect to be disappointed with whatever choice is made. ~PSUgirl
I have no interest..
I already know LSU is the better team.
11/9/11 - the day the music died.
The bitter with the better.
by Esteban d' Amur on Dec 6, 2011 8:47 AM EST up reply actions
The game is going to be one for the ages
With both of those coaches given over a month to prepare we’re going to see something special. I ultimately believe that Alabama is the better team and will win the game, but regardless its going to be a much closer match-up and better game than and LSU beat down of OK. State would have been.
Everyone has their chance to play for the MNC. Had OK. State just taken care of business against a vastly inferior Iowa State they’d have their shot. That’s the current world of CFB.
If Alabama beats LSU
6-3, then what has been proven? Do we have a Duck Duck Goose match to the death to pick which team is better?
Unless Alabama wins in a blow out they haven’t proven to me that they deserve the BCS Championship anymore than LSU.
He completed 17 of individuals 26 passes for 192 lanscaping your yard and two touchdowns - Chan Luu
By Definition,
If Alabama beats LSU in the National Championship game, they deserve to be national champions regardless of what happen in the regular season.
You’re giving two great coaches over a month to prepare for this game. If Alabama beats LSU in a neutral site with the month to prepare they deserve to be crowned MNC.
I’m in no way defending the current BCS process and personal believe in an 8 team playoff, but the way the current system is set-up I believe they got this right.
LSU is playing a home game..
that is not a neutral site.
11/9/11 - the day the music died.
The bitter with the better.
by Esteban d' Amur on Dec 6, 2011 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
I disagree...
if Oklahoma State were Oklahoma, they’d be playing for the mNC. Also, they “missed” a field goal against Iowa State that may have been good.
11/9/11 - the day the music died.
The bitter with the better.
by Esteban d' Amur on Dec 6, 2011 9:52 AM EST up reply actions
If I'm being honest...
I rarely have that much interest in the national championship unless we’re in it.
It’s funny, because I couldn’t care less about pro football for most of the year. As a fan of the game I watch some, but I don’t care at all. College is a different story. However, at the end of the college year, I always find myself completely apathetic to about 98% of the games. At the end of the pro year I actually start to pay a little bit of attention and start to “buy-in” more (even if I have no real reason to care about the teams).
This is the number one reason I support a playoff system. It helps ensure a fair and more exciting ending. And as long as those playoffs are still kept to a reasonable number of teams, it doesn’t make the rest of the college season meaningless.
If the Alabama-LSU rematch came at the end of an 8-team playoff, I think it might be a really exciting game because they had both clearly earned their way there. In fact, at that point, it being a rematch might even make it more exciting. As it stands, most people feel like we’ve already seen this game (and people were complaining then that it wasn’t exciting to boot) and would rather see someone else who had also arguably earned the chance to take a shot at the NC.
I have interest,
but only to root for Alabama to win 9-6 in overtime and watch the world implode afterwords.
WE'RE DANCIN!!!
Good Ol Dickie V was on this morning
talking about how rediculous the coaches poll is. “How do coaches have the time to watch these games enough to form an opinion? How can you expect these guys to be unbiased? Most of the time the poll is given to some underling to attend to.”
You know who gave his vote away becasue he thought is was BS – JVP.
He completed 17 of individuals 26 passes for 192 lanscaping your yard and two touchdowns - Chan Luu
Actually
he gave his vote away because he needed to spend more time on the cover-up
I, for one, plan to continue my life long contempt for the powers that be and I fully expect to be disappointed with whatever choice is made. ~PSUgirl
by jman07 on Dec 6, 2011 9:50 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Cover-ups are time-consuming, thankless labor.
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I paraphrased so I shouldn't have used quotes.
He completed 17 of individuals 26 passes for 192 lanscaping your yard and two touchdowns - Chan Luu
I thought he tried to split a vote three ways or something, and the poll just took him out of the voters' pool
by Chris Grovich on Dec 6, 2011 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
I thought he stopped voting
after the Auburn thing in ‘04. He voted for Auburn when the coaches have to vote for the winner of the mNC. At least that’s what I thought was the story.
I, for one, plan to continue my life long contempt for the powers that be and I fully expect to be disappointed with whatever choice is made. ~PSUgirl
As I remember the story goes...
He wrote in 2 (or more) teams, including Auburn, into the slot for the title game.
Who ever runs the poll called him and said “You can’t do this” and he said “I don’t care” and he hasn’t done it since.
by Artiefufkin10 on Dec 6, 2011 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
“A couple of years ago I got kicked off the voting for the coaches poll because I refused to vote for anybody but Auburn,” Paterno said, referring to the 2004 Auburn squad that finished 13-0 and No. 2 in the polls. “Auburn was undefeated and I thought they played a tough schedule.”
Paterno said he got phone calls from the Football Coaches Association and coaches-poll sponsor USA Today trying to enforce a rule that the coaches were mandated to vote in the final poll for Southern Cal because the Trojans had won the designated Orange Bowl title game against Oklahoma. Paterno, who had voted Auburn No. 1 going into the bowl games, stuck with that vote when the Tigers beat Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl.
“I refused (to change his vote), so I don’t vote any more,” Paterno said.
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At the beginning it sounds like he got kicked out and at the end it sounds like he chose not to vote anymore. However it went down, he took a stand on what he thought was right.
He completed 17 of individuals 26 passes for 192 lanscaping your yard and two touchdowns - Chan Luu
What rematch?
/yawns loudly
I'm not rationalizing - I'm being totally irrational
by GoodOleDays on Dec 6, 2011 10:27 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
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