Blogpoll Draft Ballot: Week One
by LVS on Sep 8, 2009 1:33 PM CDT
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Florida | |
| 2 | Texas | |
| 3 | Alabama |  1 |
| 4 | Southern Cal |  1 |
| 5 | Oklahoma State | 3 |
| 6 | Mississippi | |
| 7 | Penn State | 3 |
| 8 | California | 3 |
| 9 | Brigham Young | 14 |
| 10 | Ohio State | 3 |
| 11 | LSU | 2 |
| 12 | Virginia Tech | |
| 13 | Georgia Tech | 3 |
| 14 | Boise State | 4 |
| 15 | Miami (Florida) | |
| 16 | Oklahoma | 11 |
| 17 | Notre Dame | |
| 18 | Cincinnati | |
| 19 | TCU | 2 |
| 20 | Georgia | 5 |
| 21 | Missouri | |
| 22 | Nebraska | 1 |
| 23 | North Carolina | 3 |
| 24 | Utah | 2 |
| 25 | Michigan State | |
| Last week's ballot | ||
Dropped Out: Florida State (#13), Oregon (#14), Iowa (#19)
Nowhere near enough to go full-resume ranking at this point, so preseason expectations still get significant weight. I think everything is fairly clear here:
- BYU gets the big jump by notching the weekend's most impressive win, and Oklahoma takes a roughly commensurate tumble.
- Virginia Tech stays where it is because they stuck for three and a half quarters with an Alabama team which looks to be excellent.
- Boise gains a bit but not a ton, as Oregon looks to be nowhere near as good as advertised.
- Miami enters at #15 for winning on the road against a fairly good FSU team. The coaching on both sides of the ball was atrocious, but if Jacory Harris plays as well as he did last night, Miami can stay with any non-top 5 team.
- I probably should drop Ole Miss farther, and might do it before tomorrow morning.
- ADDED: Just to be clear, I'm not voting MSU at #25 as some sort of Steve Spurrier token-vote thing; I honestly think that's where we belong at this point.
Your comments welcomed. Final ballot is due tomorrow morning.
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Why the love for PSU?
I do not understand why everyone thinks so highly of Penn State.
I can understand why they are ranked, but moving them up 3 for having problems running against Akron? Throwing the ball 40 times because their offense was so inept otherwise?
And why have them that high at all? Their defense was exposed as frauds last year against USC and the entire secondary graduated along with their two best DEs going Pro. The o-line has 5 new starters and no WRs of consequence from last year. Shouldn’t they have to win a few games before getting in the top 10?
Who would you move ahead of them?
Cheer for The Only Colors: Green and White!
by KJ@theonlycolors on Sep 8, 2009 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Northern Iowa!
Kidding.
If it were my poll, I’d drop them down to 15.
Or maybe 14 and have Ohio State at 15.
I just don’t see anyone from the Big Ten in the top 10.
There is a bit...
…of ‘Well, they’re the best team in the Big 10 so their in the top 10’ in some of the PSU love, but they certainly played USC tougher last year than Ohio State did.
I think your grade of 14 is too low. I see no reason PSU isn’t better than LSU, just because of Darryl Clark. I also don’t see ironclad cases that Cal, BSU, Georgia Tech, Miami and Va. Tech are all better than the Nittanys. You can’t argue with that LB corps and I like Clark a lot. The new recievers seem competent and their RBs are good.
Uhm,....yeah
I don’t think PSU is a top 10 team, but I can’t actually argue with putting anyone below them into the top 10 instead.
So I didn’t exactly look at it from that stand point.
Yeah, they have good LBs and Royster is the best back in the Big Ten, but I don’t share the same opinion of Clark or their receivers. I think with the new Penn State o-line Clark will be pressured and make alot mroe mistakes. It was easy for him last year when he had all day to throw. I don’t think the same thing will happen this year. Hopefully Trevor Anderson lives in the PSU backfield.
I also think USC handled PSU more easily than they did OSU. Royster getting hurt really hampered Penn State and I think in the second half USC was just celebrating and not playing at all. Unlike in the OSU game where they were trying to make a statement.
Did you watch our games last year?
Clark didn’t have “all day to throw” in every game. If you would have seen him making Roethlisberger-esque moves to get away from defensive linemen during the Illinois game, you would know this. He didn’t have a lot of time against USC’s “greatest defense ever”, and yet he still looked very good against the Trojans.
I also think USC handled PSU more easily than they did OSU.
Ohio State was never in that game after the first quarter and their offense was stagnant without Beanie Wells (doubt he would have made much of a difference though). Even without Royster, USC’s “greatest defense ever” never shut down PSU’s offense like they did OSU.
Royster getting hurt really hampered Penn State and I think in the second half USC was just celebrating and not playing at all.
Say whatever you will, Ohio State quit in the second half of their game. Penn State didn’t. If Quarless hadn’t fallen down leading to a pick in the fourth, the final score might have even been 38-31.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 11, 2009 11:11 AM CDT up reply actions
Hi, DrDetroit
Why’d you stop commenting at BSD? Because you were proven wrong most of the time?
Throwing the ball 40 times because their offense was so inept otherwise?
Yes. If the Akron game proves anything, it’s that Clark can go air it out if need be.
Their defense was exposed as frauds last year against USC and the entire secondary graduated along with their two best DEs going Pro.
No mention of Jared Odrick or an excellent linebacking corps.
The o-line has 5 new starters
Wrong. Stefen Wisniewski and Dennis Landolt started last year. And the rest of the line has gotten a lot of playing time as well.
Shouldn’t they have to win a few games before getting in the top 10?
You could say the same thing about several different schools. Just another reason why we should wait until October before polling starts.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 11, 2009 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Don’t buy the Notre Dame hype. They’ll lose to USC and MSU, and that’s 10-2 and a BCS bowl for dining on delicious frosted cupcakes. Don’t help them in their quest, at least not until they can do more than pass against some of the worst pass defenses in the nation. No way are they top 20 material. I wouldn’t even have them ranked at this point.
"Don’t help them in their quest."
It’s the blogpoll. I’m not exactly a BCS voter.
Anyway, I don’t think that this is exactly a Return to Glory™ year, but I don’t know how you couldn’t be impressed by Notre Dame’s play (especially on defense) against a better-than-decent Nevada team.
"Do not cheat your team or your teammates. Know your plays. Block. Protect. Add to what we are trying to do."
The Only Colors
by LVS on Sep 9, 2009 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions
More that the other options at that spot weren't any better.
LSU almost lost to Washington, which was far worse than Navy (or really any team) last year. Maybe Boise, but Oregon looked like absolute crap and it wasn’t because of how Boise played.
In any event, that type of performance isn’t all that unusual for early-season OSU. In the second week of the season last year, they were losing to Ohio University last year for three quarters before finally pulling ahead. I think they’ll be more than fine.
"Do not cheat your team or your teammates. Know your plays. Block. Protect. Add to what we are trying to do."
The Only Colors
by LVS on Sep 9, 2009 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
FWIW... not buying Ole Miss
at all. Most overrated team in the country this side of the Golden Dome.
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