2008 BlogPoll Additions
Filed under:
ATTENTION: if I invited you to participate, you responded to me, and you are not on the following list, please email me ASAP. I have a nagging feeling I'm missing a few blogs, but I scoured my inbox and couldn't find anything. Additions will be final by week one. Email me if you've got a problem.
Big Ten
- Off The Tracks (Purdue)
- Lake The Posts (Northwestern)
- Varsity Blue (Michigan)
- Michigan Sports Center
- The Nittany Line (Penn State)
Two additional cuts:
- Run Up The Score folded itself in with Black Shoe Diaries.
- Maize 'n' Brew got bumped in favor of Michigan blogs with higher traffic levels and more content.
(7 cuts; net -2. Purdue, NW now covered, net +2)
ACC
- Scalp 'Em (Florida State)
- Canespace (Miami)
- GT Sports (Georgia Tech)
- Old Gold And Blog (Wake Forest)
- BC Interruption (BC)
(Two cuts; net +3. Wake, Miami now covered but we lost our NC State coverage. Net +1)
Big East
- Bleed Scarlet (Rutgers)
(No cuts; +1, Rutgers now covered; net +1)
SEC
- Clay Travis/Deadspin (Tennessee)
- Fulmer's Belly (Tennessee)
- Gate 21 (Tennessee)
- The Hotty Toddy Blog (Ole Miss)
- Vanderbilt Sports Line
- The Joe Cribbs Car Wash (Auburn)
- The Auburner
- Third Saturday In Blogtober (Alabama - actually a weird Bama/Tenn blog; poll will accept ballots from the 'Bama half)
- Update: Bama Sports Report was one of the ones I forgot.
There is an additional cut:
- Losers With Socks. LWS is only vaguely a Tennessee blog and they have no actual analysis of the football, only short humor posts. They're bumped because of the influx of quality UT options.
(Four blogs removed for a net +5. Auburn, Vandy now represented, net +2)
Big 12
- Barking Carnival (Texas)
- Double T Nation (Texas Tech)
- Ralphie Report (Colorado)
- Mizzourah (Missouri)
- Rock M Nation (Missouri)
(One cut; net +4. Texas Tech, Missouri now covered, net +2)
Pac 10
- Please Excuse Me For My Voice (Cal)
- Bears Necessity (Cal)
- WSU Football Blog
- SoCal Sports Hub (USC)
(Three cuts; net +1. WSU now covered; net +1)
Other
- Block U (Utah)
- Blue Gray Sky (Notre Dame)
(Three cuts; net -1. Utah covered, but we lost our Fresno State and Navy guys. Net -1.)
Totals: this year features ten more blogs covering eight additional teams. Conferences by participation:
- Big Ten: 20
- SEC:
1718 - Big Twelve: 13
- ACC: 9
- Pac 10: 8
- Others: 8
- Big East: 6
We're working towards better parity amongst voters -- the Big Ten was the only conference to shed members -- but there's still some way to go. I'm willing to bend the admissions rules for a few more ACC, Pac-10, or Big East voters if you're out there.
Hahahaha- I have a soccer blog that I've been meaning to write more in, but I love college football, would relish a blog poll vote and am an Arizona grad living out here. Ummm....can you bend the rules to that scenario?
I'm currently playing email tag with one of them.
my (middling) Rutgers blog - http://bleedscarlet.wordpress.com
If you're willing to shed the minimum 1-year in existence rule as well as the traffic standards, I've been seriously considering starting a Stanford football blog. I looked everywhere and couldn't find one out there. I can assure you I won't half-ass the content just to get on the BlogPoll; I'll actually put in the time and effort.
FWIW, I also considered Fresno State and San Jose State as blog candidates, but there is so little information available out there worth talking about. Plus their games aren't usually televised, not even out here in northern CA.
Yes, I realize the season's only three weeks away, and this is obviously cutting it a little close, but I figured I'd ask. So what do you say? Should I just build up the numbers first and wait till next year? That was my original thought anyway. Or would you consider letting me join the voting panel?
"Bending" is bending, but admitting a new blog sight unseen is beyond that, unfortunately. Also: are you seeing the text editor with bold and italics buttons? How did you manage to not have paragraph breaks in your commment?
MGoBlog | NCAA Fanhouse | HTTV 2008 | email
Also: are you seeing the text editor with bold and italics buttons? How
did you manage to not have paragraph breaks in your commment?
I may be the only other person in this group, but NEVER FUCK WITH A FORMER MICHIGAN ENGINEERING STUDENT WHO'S NOW A WRITER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or an aspiring writer.......We're particular, AND CREATIVE! But mostly just particularly creative.
/Ninja-type drunken public service announcement
Yeah, I can see the text editor, and I did have paragraph breaks in my original post, but for whatever reason, they just didn't show up. Weird.
No worries about the rejection. That probably would have set a dangerous precedent had I actually been accepted. I'll try again next year. Thanks for responding.