Blogpoll Ballot: Week 2
by LVS on Sep 8, 2010 1:52 PM CDT
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Without further ado:
The Only Colors Ballot - Week 2
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boise St. Broncos |  4 |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide |  -1 |
| 3 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -- |
| 4 | Oregon Ducks | 10 |
| 5 | TCU Horned Frogs | 7 |
| 6 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 1 |
| 7 | Texas Longhorns | -5 |
| 8 | Iowa Hawkeyes | 1 |
| 9 | Miami Hurricanes | 2 |
| 10 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -4 |
| 11 | Oklahoma Sooners | -3 |
| 12 | Florida Gators | -8 |
| 13 | Florida St. Seminoles | 7 |
| 14 | Wisconsin Badgers | -4 |
| 15 | Georgia Bulldogs | 6 |
| 16 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | -- |
| 17 | Arizona Wildcats | 6 |
| 18 | Auburn Tigers | -5 |
| 19 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 20 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | 2 |
| 21 | Utah Utes | -- |
| 22 | USC Trojans | -7 |
| 23 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 24 | BYU Cougars | -- |
| 25 | Michigan Wolverines | -- |
| Dropouts: Pittsburgh Panthers, LSU Tigers, North Carolina Tar Heels, Oregon St. Beavers | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
This week's full poll and awards, here.
As always, my ballot is a seat-of-the-pants mixture between resume and power rankings. Hence, Boise gets the top spot because they had the best win this week; if Alabama beats Penn State this weekend, I'd expect Boise's current ranking to be a one-week-only thing. TCU makes a similarly big leap by beating Oregon State, a top-25 team.
Elsewhere:
- Oregon makes a huge jump because, uh, that's what happens when you win 72-0. Having seen bits and pieces of that game, I think I underrated them at the start of the year. We'll know more after they play Tennessee this week.
- VT doesn't lose much ground, and they shouldn't lose much when losing by only three points to the now-#1 team.
- In retrospect, Texas probably didn't deserve to fall 5 spots, but they looked pretty shaky at times on Saturday. Florida and USC, conversely, looked awful on Saturday and deserve their respective falls.
- Very impressed by FSU, Georgia, and Arizona; they were the other big jumps.
- Michigan slides in at #25. UConn played terribly but it'd be foolish to think that Michigan didn't have a whole lot to do with that.
So, who impressed/disappointed you in the first weekend? Did I screw anything up? (More than I usually do?)
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Nice
He’s missing his angel wings and halo though.
by trivialstuff16 on Sep 8, 2010 3:13 PM CDT up reply actions
What the ?
Check out The Purple Wimple’s ballot. Ohio State, Florida unranked. Fresno St. #4. ECU #12.
Resume ranking would account for the first two
Pounding cupcakes isn’t all that impressive.
Fresno and ECU up that high, though … absolutely indefensible.
No kidding.
ECU gave up 49 points to freaking Tulsa.
PP-TPW.
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by LVS on Sep 8, 2010 7:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe I'm biased
but I don’t think Michigan is a top 25 team. Denard Robinson was definitely impressive as was their O-line, but I feel like they played the perfect game where everything went right. Their defense is still lousy. Uconn receiver were open all day but they either dropped passes (one on the two yard line) or were missed by their QB. UM fumbled 3 times but they recovered 2 and the other one went out of bounds. The one time Uconn fumbled at the goaline UM recovered it.
A good win on the road at Notre Dame will give them a lot more credibility, but I think they lose that game.
I agree with you
They looked good against what is supposed to be a pretty good UConn team, but we’re talking about a club that won only one Big 10 game last year. They’re certainly looking like they’ll eclipse that mark this year, but I have a hard time seeing them as a top 25 team until they actually beat someone that’s top 25 caliber.
by TheCrestedHelm on Sep 9, 2010 9:05 AM CDT up reply actions
boise state?
maybe I don’t understand the ranking system, but do you really think that Boise State is the #1 team in the country?
After their performance on Monday, yes.
They were ranked very high already, and by winning a de facto road game against a top 10 team, they’ve proven their mettle much more than any other team so far. They’re an easy #1 for me.
PP-TPW.
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by LVS on Sep 8, 2010 8:25 PM CDT up reply actions
ok
I didn’t watch their game. I’m prolly just letting my expectations for their weak(er) schedule to give me prejudice against them.
And their schedule means
that there’s virtually no way the end up #1 in my ballot later in the season.
PP-TPW.
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