Ballots - Week Five
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Oct 5, 2009 12:38 PM EDT
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | |
| 2 | Texas |  1 |
| 3 | Florida |  1 |
| 4 | Boise State | 1 |
| 5 | Virginia Tech | 1 |
| 6 | LSU | 3 |
| 7 | Cincinnati | |
| 8 | TCU | 2 |
| 9 | Iowa | 1 |
| 10 | Miami (Florida) | 5 |
| 11 | Southern Cal | 3 |
| 12 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 13 | Oregon | 1 |
| 14 | Auburn | 8 |
| 15 | Oklahoma State | 3 |
| 16 | Kansas | 1 |
| 17 | South Florida | 4 |
| 18 | South Carolina | 2 |
| 19 | Penn State | 6 |
| 20 | Nebraska | 3 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | |
| 22 | Mississippi | |
| 23 | Brigham Young | |
| 24 | Georgia Tech | |
| 25 | Missouri | |
| Last week's ballot | ||
- ALABAMA - By virtue of leaving Lexington concussion-free, the Tide remain tops in the league.
- FLORIDA - What did Corch Meyers do over the bye weekend? Sent "victory blankets" to thus-far flu-free Baton Rouge.
- LSU - I hope this "LSU is overrated" meme can really get under their tiger-skins enough to motivate them to believe - and publicly announce their belief - that a win over Florida is possible/imminent. Man, that would just be funny.
- AUBURN - If you think the Rebs have a clear shot to a 10-win season, have you checked out Auburn's schedule lately?
- SOUTH CAROLINA - A bit of a slow start offensively against South Carolina State, but nothing to ruin a home date against Kentucky.
- OLE MISS - Welcome to the fun half again, Rebels. Now let's see how that 1-to-1 TD-to-INT ratio works out against Alabama.
- UGA - This may be a down year for the Dawgs, but the finishes they've set up ... good gravy! Ratings should shoot through the roof. Sorry you lost, but fourth quarters like that are what made the World Wide Leader cough up $15 bil.
- ARKY - The Hogs were outgained by Texas A & M, but still engineered a rout. That means Bobby Petrino has, in this season alone, been out-manned offensively by Joe Cox and Mike Sherman.
- TENNESSEE - When a two-loss team is looking down the pipe and Georgia is one of its best shots at a win, it's about time to start playing for 2010. This is what you get for losing at home to Gene Chizik.
- STATE - Never really found themselves "in the game" against Georgia Tech, but put up a good fight for the conference.
- KENTUCKY - The Wildcats were - impossibly - the first defense to make Greg McElroy look (at least for a quarter) like the first-year Bama quarterback we all thought he could be. Way to expose a weakness, there, Rich Brooks.
- VANDERBILT - Was, in contrast to Kentucky, unable to really capitalize on opponent weaknesses that they already knew about. Everybody and their momma knew Ole Miss was vulnerable in some areas, and the Commies failed to exploit them.
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Ghost...
quick question, why raise Boise for playing a closer-than-expected one against a Cal-Davis team that is at least as good the dreadful Duke team that Va. Tech beat? Nothing that happened this week should have swapped their positions around, IMO
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by Stuck in the Plains on Oct 5, 2009 4:27 PM EDT reply actions
Good point.
I have VA Tech higher than Boise in my ballot. Thing is, this ballot is an aggregate of the Cupper’s ballots and can get kinda strange as a result. VATech was as high as two and as low as nine whereas Boise was no higher than four but no lower than six.
It can change, as the deadline is Wednesday at 10AM and we take all critiques, even those from Bama fans, seriously… ish.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Oct 5, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Um...
You’re not actually claiming Auburn’s schedule is easier than Ole Miss’s, are you? Surely not. But hey, any time you guys want to swap our road slate for yours, just let us know.
Re: Auburn's schedule
Yes. I get that we’re playing to FCS teams. Thanks for the reminder, I’d almost forgotten. But I doubt Ball State was exceptionally more talented than SELA. Win is win.
Still, Auburn’s conference schedule is tougher than the Rebels’. But I’m not sure how much. Our two toughest road games are @ SCAR on Thur. and @ Auburn. The Plainsmen go to LSU and UGA, but these are obviously flawed teams. The comment about your schedule was not a dig at Auburn, so much as it was a recognition that the Tigers’ improvement – compared to what’s left on the schedule – means Auburn might not experience the deflation some are quietly expecting.
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Fair enough
I still don’t see how Auburn’s remaining schedule remotely qualifies as some sort of breeze to 10 wins, but if you’re telling me no offense was meant, there’s none taken.
As for our road slates … well, even if @Carolina and @Auburn are equivalent to @LSU (they have a bye the week before, btw) and @Georgia, our other two roadies are Arkansas and Tennessee while yours are Vandy and State. That’s no contest.
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