FINAL BlogPoll Ballot and SEC Power Poll
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 9, 2009 9:11 AM EDT
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PrintBased on reader feedback and Whiskey Wednesday's input (waaaahhh waaaaahhh Ghost my computer doesn't work so I can't give you a top-25 waaaaaahhh), the Cup's final top-25 ballot for this week is as follows:
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Florida | |
| 2 | Texas | |
| 3 | Alabama |  2 |
| 4 | Southern Cal | |
| 5 | Oklahoma State | 7 |
| 6 | Mississippi | 2 |
| 7 | California | 10 |
| 8 | Brigham Young | 12 |
| 9 | Oklahoma |  6 |
| 10 | Penn State | 4 |
| 11 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 12 | Boise State | 3 |
| 13 | LSU | 4 |
| 14 | Virginia Tech | 7 |
| 15 | Georgia Tech | 4 |
| 16 | Notre Dame | |
| 17 | TCU | 4 |
| 18 | North Carolina | |
| 19 | Nebraska | 1 |
| 20 | Miami (Florida) | 3 |
| 21 | Georgia | 10 |
| 22 | Missouri | |
| 23 | Southern Miss | |
| 24 | Utah | |
| 25 | Kansas | 3 |
| Last week's ballot | ||
Also Receiving Votes: Florida State, Tennessee (Ivory Tower is still a moron), Navy, Michigan, Cincy
Dropped Out: Oregon (#14), Florida State (#21), Illinois (#24), Pittsburgh (#25).
The week's SEC Power Poll looks like...
...this.
1. FLORIDA (23), 293
2. ALABAMA (2), 277
3. OLE MISS, 231.5
4. LSU, 224.5
5. GEORGIA, 167
6. TENNESSEE, 152.5
7. SOUTH CAROLINA, 140.5
8. ARKANSAS, 129.5
9. AUBURN, 118.5
10. KENTUCKY, 102
11. VANDERBILT, 74
12. MISSISSIPPI STATE, 40
Comments from the various SEC bloggers can be found at Team Speed Kills.
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Slight improvement.
The only thing that makes your Cal & BYU rankings look halfway decent is that ridiculous vote for Tenn.
I didn't come here to be nice.
I could perhaps understand your contention with Cal
but what is wrong with the BYU ranking? The BlogPoll is supposedly resume based. Their resume states “we held the number three team in the country to 13 points.” Yes, Gresham and Bradford weren’t there but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. BYU could very well run the table this year.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 9, 2009 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
And while we're not going 100% by resumes,
because, if we were, Florida wouldn’t be in the top-25, we still consider them heavily.
Another metric we tried to use is the “would X team likely beat the team ranked immediately below them?” BYU did beat Oklahoma and could very realistically beat every team ranked below them (and perhaps a few above).
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 9, 2009 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
What's wrong with the BYU ranking.
“BYU could very well run the table this year.”
You made my point for me. They’re already being crowned by some talking heads as not only BCS-crashers, but also deserving of a place in the national championship game. After 1 game. Sure, they go to Florida State – where the same talking heads are prematurely predicting a BYU victory. Then they run the rest of their patsy table. I don’t need to tell you who gets left out of a BCS game [if otherwise deserving] if BYU and Boise State get in, do I? So “what’s wrong with the BYU ranking” is that it gives them that much more cred. Let’s practice some strategic voting, shall we?
I didn't come here to be nice.
People were saying all of this before the season even started, but whatever.
They’re already being crowned by some talking heads as not only BCS-crashers, but also deserving of a place in the national championship game.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 9, 2009 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
And...
BYU was not far from being in Utah’s place last year. Those three MWC teams (BYU, Utah and TCU) deserve to be up there.
How is this fair?
I’m pretty sure Mormons go on their mission after their sophomore year in college. With that, I bet they get to come back after two years and play their last two of eligibility in their mid-twenties. There are people on their team that played back in ’03, ’04, and ’05 and are just now Seniors.
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