Blogpoll Ballot Week 11
Late, but I did get this in before deployment. Quickly:
MGoBlog Ballot - Week 11
Rank | Team | Delta |
---|---|---|
1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
2 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 1 |
3 | Stanford Cardinal | 1 |
4 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -2 |
5 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
6 | Oklahoma Sooners | 1 |
7 | Oregon Ducks | -1 |
8 | Clemson Tigers | -- |
9 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
10 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 4 |
11 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | 1 |
12 | USC Trojans | 6 |
13 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
14 | Georgia Bulldogs | 5 |
15 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | 2 |
16 | Wisconsin Badgers | 5 |
17 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -6 |
18 | Texas Longhorns | 4 |
19 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -9 |
20 | Michigan Wolverines | -5 |
21 | Houston Cougars | 2 |
22 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | 2 |
23 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 2 |
24 | Cincinnati Bearcats | -- |
25 | Arizona St. Sun Devils | -5 |
Dropouts: Kansas St. Wildcats |
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Top eight. Are solid at this point. I'm going to have to start thinking about when to slide OU/UO above Boise, except I won't because those teams will either beat their undefeated conference rivals and obviously slide above or… like… not do so.
Will be interesting to watch the rest of Georgia's season play out. They've picked themselves off the turf after their 0-2 start and now control their own destiny to the conference title game. Win out against Auburn, GT, and UK and all Georgia will have to do to send up a Boise MNC hue and cry is keep it close into the fourth. That would be better than they could manage against Boise in the opener.
Next up. The nine through eleven spots are the land of one-loss teams I have zero faith in. I don't know, man. Penn State keeps winning. Their loss is pretty explicable. Their wins are not. VT and Arkansas are similarly myserious, though Arkansas is
After that. USC leaps up almost by default. They leap MSU, who struggled against Minnesota and saw its Michigan win take a hit, and benefit from an admittedly irrational hatred of this South Carolina team plus a totally rational hatred of Michigan's offense. Oh, and Nebraska found out what it's like to be a Big Ten team located in the midst of a bunch of corn playing Northwestern: not fun.
Michigan. Still with only the two losses and the Notre Dame win, but they're just hanging on at this point.
November 7th, 2011 at 4:04 PM ^
OK State has a defense that makes me think GERG is coaching them. I can't buy them #2.
November 7th, 2011 at 4:13 PM ^
I think you need to turn your server clocks back Brian. I caught this post as it was being posted, and the timestamp is being read as an hour too late.
November 7th, 2011 at 4:38 PM ^
I know Bama is no longer undefeated, but I honestly don't get how you can put them behind Stanford and Oklahoma State. Bama hasn't allowed a single team, to score more than 14 points. The fewest points that they scored, aside from against LSU, was @PSU, which is probably the best defense in the B1G.
Oklahoma State puts up a lot of points, but they also give up a lot of points. Stanford hasn't played anyone yet. The best team they played, they took to triple overtime and won on a fumble recovery.
November 7th, 2011 at 4:42 PM ^
they shouldn't get a rematch. If Michigan can't play in NC rematch with OSU, Bama certainly can't do the same. It's only fair.
November 7th, 2011 at 5:08 PM ^
He's not picking the two teams to play in the NCG; he's picking the two best teams in the country.
November 7th, 2011 at 5:15 PM ^
I mean, on the one hand 'Bama lost by 3 in OT and should have won if they hadn't borrowed the Michigan 2010 kicking game. Stanford squeaked by USC etc.
On the other hand, OKS hasn't lost. Stanford hasn't lost. It's that fine line between record and theoretical matchups. My gut feel says OKState is close enough that the record gives them an edge for #2, but Alabama should be #3 and 'furd drops: but we're talking fine lines here.
November 7th, 2011 at 5:30 PM ^
November 7th, 2011 at 11:37 PM ^
You do even have to go that route with this argument. Bama lost to the number 1 team in the nation by a field goal in OT. They are clearly number 2.
November 7th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
Look at the matchups against the top 3 opponents using Brian's ranking
Bama: #1 LSU (6-9), #9 Arkansas (38-14), @ #11 PSU (27-11)
OSU: @ #18 Texas (38-26), Pick 2 unranked teams
Stanford: @ #12 USC (56-48), Pick 2 unranked teams
I mean, Bama's 3rd best team they played is better than the best teams that either OSU and Stanford played. All 3 games are on the road and Bama's was by the largest margin. The LSU game basically validated that those two teams are equals in my eyes.
Bama has played the meat of their schedule and the other two still have games to play, so it's not like they can't prove themselves by winning out. However, until I see Stanford handle Oregon and probably win their championship game or Oklahoma State beat Oklahoma, I don't even really see how you can put either of those teams ahead of Bama.
November 7th, 2011 at 6:26 PM ^
Yeah, but even if Stanford beats Oregon, they'll play either Arizona State or UCLA(!) in the championship game, neither of which will boost their resume much, and the Big 12 doesn't have a champ game anymore, so that's that with them. Each team has one game to look good, that's it.
November 7th, 2011 at 4:54 PM ^
at the end assumes less relevant since we were pretty effective and in fact scored. I still don't think 2 is a gimme, nor do I think the hoopla at the end should obscure the crapola that occupied us for the other 60 minutes. Here's hoping we go all SpreaDenard the last three games and it's all an evil plot. (In his autobiography Borges will admit he thought he had Iowa bagged, and was keeping SpreaDenard under wraps in order to administer the coup de grace to OSU's season.)
November 7th, 2011 at 5:35 PM ^
November 7th, 2011 at 6:25 PM ^
That's going to hurt them down the stretch. UGA is going to win SEC East.
November 7th, 2011 at 7:01 PM ^
USC leaping MSU because MSU struggled with Minnesota cannot happen. USC also struggled with Minnesota this year.
November 8th, 2011 at 10:14 AM ^
The reason to put USC over MSU is Notre Dame.
November 14th, 2011 at 8:34 PM ^
Exactly.
November 7th, 2011 at 10:48 PM ^
though arkansas is
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