Avast! Blogpoll Number Four!
For entertainment purposes only:
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State | -- |
| 2 | Auburn | -- |
| 3 | Oregon | -- |
| 4 | Southern Cal | -- |
| 5 | Michigan | -- |
| 6 | Florida | -- |
| 7 | Louisville |  1 |
| 8 | Georgia | 1 |
| 9 | Iowa | 1 |
| 10 | Tennessee | 3 |
| 11 | Boise State | 1 |
| 12 | Notre Dame | 2 |
| 13 | Cal | 13 |
| 14 | TCU | 7 |
| 15 | Louisiana State | -- |
| 16 | Texas | -- |
| 17 | Clemson | 2 |
| 18 | West Virginia |  11 |
| 19 | Virginia Tech | 1 |
| 20 | Georgia Tech | 6 |
| 21 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 22 | Arizona State | 11 |
| 23 | Boston College | 6 |
| 24 | Rutgers | 1 |
| 25 | Wake Forest | 1 |
Dropped Out: Navy (#18), Michigan State (#23), Florida State (#24).
Okay, 1 through 6 are the same. I don't really believe in dissecting the exact quality of wins, and all of these teams played and beat mid-range-ish conference teams without anything too exceptional happening. Auburn played some cannon fodder, but they are riding on a good resume of BCS victories, so they're cool.
Cal shooting up 13 places after a win seems a bit excessive, but it was more of a correction for my ranking of them last week. With their blowout loss and a week three game against some unnamed bitch school, I got vengeful and banished Cal from my rankings. After beating Arizona State, and convincingly, they have a wins over two solid BCS schools, which is more than can be said for almost all of the teams ranked below them. So there.
Texas continues to get "hated upon", I guess. I'm sure that Texas is a fine football squad, but they only have one real win against a middling conference team. If they start rolling through conference play, they'll shoot up the polls, but for now their resume is crap.
West Virginia plummets because I finally got sick of looking at their schedule. I was fine to let them slide by, as everyone was feasting on cupcakes, but the season is a third over and I became very wrathful when I saw Marshall, unnamed Bitch, Maryland, and East Carolina on the resume. Let's talk when you've played a football team.
24 and 25 are my vanity picks for surprising underdogs who have stirred up some noise.
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posted by fightinamish @ 11:52 PM
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I understand the general sentiment to steer clear from analyzing blah-ish conference games. But how can you not penalize Georgia for nearly falling to Colorado- who actually lost to a II-A team and has accomplished this season to date? This isn't about margin of victory, this is about how you played, and Georgia was flat-out awful. If they can beat some of the big SEC teams, than they can earnt heir way in, but right now they're a mess.
Please explain how the haters have ND behind Cal and Tennessee.
As far as Tennessee goes, probably because they haven't been OMG BEAT DOWN at all this season.
Wake Forest - Best 1A football record in the State of North Carolina. A barometer of how much the ACC sucks this year.
The Tennessee thing I understand...but having BOTH Cal and Tenn there ahead of ND (Mgo, EDSBS) is insane. ND would a) be favored against both, right now, and b) has a significantly better resume than Cal.
ND, who got blown out by Michigan is 12th...but LSU, who lost because of poor officiating AT the #2 team in America is #15th...and behind TC f'ing U??? is tgat supposed to a joke???
Oh and behind Cal who got their asses kicked in Knoxville???
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