WWAHT Blogpoll Ballot Week 11 - revised
by Sam @ WWAHT on Nov 16, 2009 10:00 AM EST
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Alabama | |
| 2 | Texas | |
| 3 | Florida | |
| 4 | TCU | |
| 5 | Boise State |  1 |
| 6 | Cincinnati |  1 |
| 7 | Georgia Tech | 1 |
| 8 | Pittsburgh | 1 |
| 9 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 10 | Stanford | 11 |
| 11 | Oregon | 1 |
| 12 | LSU | 1 |
| 13 | Wisconsin | 9 |
| 14 | Oklahoma State | 5 |
| 15 | Iowa | 2 |
| 16 | Penn State | 1 |
| 17 | Virginia Tech | 3 |
| 18 | Miami (Florida) | 8 |
| 19 | Clemson | 4 |
| 20 | Houston | 9 |
| 21 | North Carolina | |
| 22 | Oregon State | 3 |
| 23 | Arizona | 5 |
| 24 | Southern Cal | 10 |
| 25 | Nebraska | |
| Last week's ballot | ||
- Southern Cal is simply not the Southern Cal we're used to. I have no clear explanation for it from an outside perspective. Regardless, however much pleasure you take from each of their losses should be tempered by the fact that, um, they beat us. When they get trucked at home by the Furd of all teams, it does not reflect well on Ohio State. There are two ways we can go with this: Southern Cal has genuinely regressed from the season, while Ohio State has improved, and thus, there isn't much to fret about. That, or Southern Cal was simply never very good, and our loss to them may actually end up being one of the most disappointing losses of Jim Tressel's tenure. This was the year to beat them, and he didn't. That hurts.
- That being said, it could end up being that USC lost to one awful team (Washington) and a couple of very, very good ones; both Oregon and Stanford look like juggernauts, and with their twin blowouts of the Trojans, have complete shifted the dynamic in the Pac-10. These next few weeks will be very interesting, as one of these two teams - or perhaps some dark horse, if all hell breaks loose - will be the Buckeyes' opponent in the Rose Bowl.
- Cincinnati has never really impressed me in blowing out scrubs like Louisville and Miami, while eeking out games against iffy West Virginia, Fresno State and UConn teams. It seems "Ohio's BCS team" is not particularly strong on defense, and someone is going to make them pay. It won't be Illinois this week, but Pitt looms in early December. Even if the Bearcats navigate their schedule undefeated, whoever awaits them in the BCS will surely shred them.
- Pittsburgh doesn't move up because no one ahead of them deserved to move below them. Each took care of business.
- Remember last year, when the top two conferences in the country were the SEC and the Big 12, no questions asked? How can you look at the Big Ten and the Big 12 this year, and see much of a difference at all? Texas is clearly championship-caliber, but the rest of the league is by-and-large miserable. I don't mean to get into any conference pissing contests, but the BXII has not gotten any crap for league-wide sub-par play while the Big Ten still gets it weekly (and perhaps deservedly so). Is it really all because they have Texas? Let me know if there are any glaring mistakes, or if you have massive disagreements in placement, in the comments.
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Not sure OSU should be above Ga Tech, Pitt, Oregon and LSU. Ga Tech and Pitt only have one loss, Oregon destroyed USC who we lost to.
I think there is an argument for moving LSU up. Their losses are to the current #1 and #2, both close games with a pretty bad officiating error in the Alabama game. Seems like maybe they should be the top two loss team.
by Big Red Dog on Nov 16, 2009 12:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Agreed on Tech and Pitt, not so much LSU
LSU has been a very lucky football team this season. They squeaked games out against miserable Mississippi State and Washington teams, and just barely beat La Tech last Saturday.
Nevertheless, I will put the first two over Ohio State. Good observations.
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by Sam @ WWAHT on Nov 16, 2009 1:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
ahh you fixed what I came here to write about....
Good move on getting Penn State behind Iowa. I still think you need to do that with Wisconsin though. I’d probably just switch Iowa and Wisconsin and then I think it looks pretty good. Penn State and Wisconsin ideally should be tied because I don’t see how you can differiate them. Personally I’d like to see an end of season playoff between Penn State and Wisconsin to determine who gets the better bowl game (that is if the Nittany Lions can keep it together against MSU this week).
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by HookMania on Nov 16, 2009 4:53 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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