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Some AP Voters Laying Groundwork for Split National Title
Whichever team wins the BCS National Championship Game will win the BCS championship and the crystal football that goes with it. The winner technically is receiving the Coaches' Trophy, which goes along with finishing first in the Coaches' Poll. While individual coach voters have bucked the rule on...
Cincinnati Bearcats Football Back In The Human Polls, Out Of The BCS
Follow Down The Drive on Facebook/twitter and check out the store. The Cincinnati Bearcats are back in the Football polls. After this weekends win on the road against South Florida the Bearcats moved into the 24th spot of the AP Poll and the 23rd spot in the USA Today Coaches Poll. This is the...
Penn State Ranked 22 In Coaches' Poll And Has A Roadmap To The B1G Championship Game
Penn State climbs up the USA Today Coaches' poll: 4. Wisconsin 11. Nebraska 13. Michigan State 17. Michigan 21. Illinois 22. Penn State In stark contrast to last week, the Top 25 was subject to some exposure yesterday. The top nine all survived, but along the way formerly #22 Texas, #20 Baylor,...
PollGaze Week 6: Churn
The number for the week is six, as the SEC made it back up to having more than five teams ranked once again. In this week's BlogPoll, LSU and Alabama captured 93 of the 98 total first place votes between them, with the Tigers getting 60 of them. The next team doesn't clock in until No. 13 where...
PollGaze Week 4: Downsized to Five
The SEC has hit a new low when it comes to number of ranked teams. Up until last weekend, the conference had anywhere from six to eight teams in the polls, but this week, each ranking only has five SEC teams. The culprits were Auburn and Mississippi State, who were in the bottom of the polls and...
PollGaze Week 3: We All Agree on Seven
The two major polls disagreed on the right number of SEC teams in the top 25, but they agree this week that the number is seven. The teams stretch from No. 2 to No. 25 this time around. In the AP Poll, Alabama somehow jumped LSU for No. 2 despite having eight fewer first place votes. I guess the...
PollGaze Week 2: And Then There Were Six (or Seven)
After putting a remarkable (and absurd, really) eight teams in the preseason polls, the SEC's crop has been pared down to six in the AP Poll and seven in the Coaches Poll here in the Week 2. Georgia fell out of both after losing handily to Boise State, and Auburn fell out of the AP rankings after...
Preseason #1 Reality Check
As the table above shows, there has not been a great "championship rate" for teams ranked at the top of the preseason Coaches Poll, as the Oklahoma Sooners are this season. Only one team in the last 9 years ended the season as the BCS National Champion, and that team had their championship...
Thursday Night Dawg Bites: "Practice? We're Talkin' 'Bout Practice!" Edition
The Georgia Bulldogs are back on the practice field, the season opener is 30 days away, and I, for one, am ready for some football. Here is this evening’s rundown, to get you up to speed on events of note in Bulldog Nation: All right, you’re jacked about it, so let’s go ahead and start with the...
Utes 28th in preseason Coaches' Poll
The USA Today Coaches' Poll is out and Utah is ranked 28th, just outside the top-25. Oregon and Stanford are the only two Pac-12 teams ranked, though it should be pointed out that SC is ineligible to receive votes in this poll due to their sanctions. Arizona State is 26th, while Arizona is 32nd...
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