Blogpoll Draft Ballot: Week Seven

by LVS on Oct 13, 2009 3:31 PM CDT in Michigan State Spartans Football

Rank	Team	Delta

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

Dropped Out: Auburn (#15), Missouri (#17), Mississippi (#19), Georgia (#24).
Games watched: Nebraska vs. Missouri, Michigan State vs. Illinois, Ohio State vs. Wisconsin (part), LSU vs. Florida (part), Iowa vs. Michigan (part).

Explanations:

To me, Alabama is clearly the best team in the country at this point. Offense isn't terrible (still wistful each time I watch Mark Ingram run for them), and their defense is absolutely unreal. Florida's big win at LSU is impressive, but the Tide went to Oxford and made Ole Miss look awful. (And, man, do I feel stupid for continuing to rank Mississippi for the past few weeks.)
USC moves up even though they had the bye week; I think they were too low in my ranking last week. Their season is pretty much par for the course; they had the inexplicable conference loss, they're going to smoke Notre Dame this weekend, and then they're going to coast to the Pac-10 title.
LSU's drop might be a bit harsh, as their absent offense probably had at least as much to do with Florida as it did with LSU. Was definitely a bit shocking to see Les Miles call such a conservative game.
I'm utterly shocked that Oregon is ranked so high at this point, but they deserve it.
Houston beat Oklahoma State, yes, yes, but Oklahoma State didn't also get throttled by UTEP.
Wisconsin barely hangs on.

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A couple of things

1) It is going to be a long holiday bowl season for Big 10 football fans. If Iowa is the 2nd best team in the conference there is some serious suck running loose in the good old Big 10. You could think that the Ark State game was an aberration, but they really stunk up the joint against UM. I keep thinking that MSU could end up 7-1 in conference with both Iowa and PSU at home. If USC kills Notre Dame Saturday I think it will convince me that the Big 10 is way down.

2) In watching Bama and Ole Miss it occurred to me how ordinary Jevon Snead looks without Michael Oher protecting his blind side.

by Uncle Omar on Oct 13, 2009 9:11 PM CDT reply actions

No Faith in USC

I still have no faith in USC. Playing a true freshmen at QB is normally going to cost you a few games. I am still expecting them to drop a couple more games in the Pac 10 and a team who isn’t USC will end up with a victory.

Although I do expect USC to beat up ND this weekend. I hope they do, I hate Notre Lame.

by DrDetroit on Oct 14, 2009 6:12 AM CDT reply actions