Blogpoll Ballot Week 7

by Sam @ WWAHT on Oct 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama
2	Florida
3	Texas
4	Southern Cal	1
5	Boise State	1
6	Cincinnati	2
7	Miami (Florida)	2
8	Iowa	2
9	Penn State	4
10	Georgia Tech	9
11	Oregon	1
12	LSU	1
13	TCU	1
14	Oklahoma State	2
15	Virginia Tech	11
16	Brigham Young	2
17	Utah	6
18	Ohio State	11
19	Houston	5
20	Texas Tech
21	Pittsburgh
22	West Virginia
23	Oklahoma	3
24	Arkansas
25	South Carolina	3
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Nebraska (#15), Kansas (#17), South Florida (#21), Tennessee (#25).

I feel like there's some sort of glaring omission along the way. If you think you spot it, it let me know.
Ohio State and Virginia Tech get twin eleven-place drops. Ohio State probably deserves to be dropped further, but this is still a salvageable season. Virginia Tech, on the other hand, lost to a solid Georgia Tech squad, but gets lapped by teams with either a) one relatively-solid conference loss or b) a relatively solid OOC loss. It's tough, but VT gets knocked down for two solid losses against one of the nation's toughest schedules. They'll be fine.
I think my belief that Alabama, right now, looks better than Florida is somewhat validated by their games against South Carolina and Arkansas, respectively. Alabama's passing game struggled a bit against a tough South Carolina secondary, but Mark Ingram is a rampaging baby rhino and should be the Heisman frontrunner following a 240-yard performance against the SEC's fourth best overall defense. Meanwhile, Florida never got anything consistent going against a team ranked last in the SEC in total defense. UF's rushing game is inconsistent at best, there is no downfield threat, and Tebow looks fuzzy. The defense is clearly championship caliber, as is Bama's, but for now, in a battle of team-carrying superstars - Ingram edges Tebow.
Took a lot of work to keep Cincinnati out of the top-5, but if they keep winning, no amount of haterade will stop them from ascending in to the upper echelon of my blogpoll rankings. Still have fairly tough tests against West Virginia and at Pitt, but given their current momentum, there just isn't any way you can dream of upsets in either game without a bevy of breaks going to either opposing team.
Oklahoma is really not that bad. They've shored up their defense after last year, and operating mostly without their star quarterback, they gave my #3 all sorts of guff in the Cotton Bowl. That being said, if Ohio State had 3 losses at this point in the season, you can bet they'd be unranked by post major publications. Oklahoma is also still ranked in the AP poll.
Penn State held Minnesota to just 138 yards of offense, dominated time of possession, and finally got its run game untracked against a non-Illinois Big Ten defense, and right now, they're just praying for Iowa to drop a game or two, one of them hopefully being in Columbus. The Nittany Lions have a bit of a test themselves this week in Ann Arbor.
I still refuse to rank Notre Dame. That being said, I probably have USC a little high after the stinkfest in South Bend.

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Nice Poll

Good looking poll. You have the Buckeyes a little to high, if you ask me.

The Pac 10 will hold the key to the BCS if the Bama/Fla/Texas trio gets unseated.

So, in other news, whast the O/U on completions for TP in the Iowa game. I got the Under, bro.

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by jamiemac on Oct 19, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

My comments would be:

Boise St is a bit too high. I think Oregon should be higher than USC at this point, better resume IMO.

No reason to have two 3 loss teams (Oklahoma and Arkansas) in there. While Oklahoma has lost 3 tight game, their wins are Tulsa, Baylor and Idaho St. Not impressive at all.

Wisconsin and Navy at 5-2 should be there instead. Or a 4-2 Ore St.

by talonk on Oct 19, 2009 4:02 PM EDT reply actions