Comments on: BLOGPOLL BALLOT, WEEK 12/2006 http://markhasty.com/archives/2006/11/20/blogpoll-ballot-week-122006/ E AHO LA'ULA Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:19:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mark http://markhasty.com/archives/2006/11/20/blogpoll-ballot-week-122006/#comment-42884 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:50:40 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2006/11/20/blogpoll-ballot-week-122006/#comment-42884 <p>Let's look at two three-loss teams--Clemson and Nebraska--in my ballot. Clemson's there because of the Georgia Tech win, which I take as better than UT's Cal win. At a certain point, a loss is a loss, even if it is to a highly-ranked team. I don't see a quality win on UT's resume; I see one on Clemson's. I could maybe justify putting UT in Nebraska's place, but I can't see any compelling reason to do so. My revised ballot from earlier today has two other three-loss teams--Cal and Maryland--on it. Now, bear in mind that I do <i>not</i> subscribe to the "if team A beats team B, then team A must <i>always</i> be ranked ahead of team B if their records are equal" philosophy. You know and I know that Cal's defense played like triple-distilled landfill runoff in that game, and it was the first game of the season. Cal is 2-2 against ranked teams this year. UT is 2-3. For me, that's enough to say that UT doesn't necessarily go ahead of Cal, even though their records are the same and UT has the head-to-head win. So that leaves us with Maryland, my #25 team. That's the only one I could consider replacing with UT. Do you think I should? </p> Let’s look at two three-loss teams–Clemson and Nebraska–in my ballot. Clemson’s there because of the Georgia Tech win, which I take as better than UT’s Cal win. At a certain point, a loss is a loss, even if it is to a highly-ranked team. I don’t see a quality win on UT’s resume; I see one on Clemson’s. I could maybe justify putting UT in Nebraska’s place, but I can’t see any compelling reason to do so.

My revised ballot from earlier today has two other three-loss teams–Cal and Maryland–on it. Now, bear in mind that I do not subscribe to the “if team A beats team B, then team A must always be ranked ahead of team B if their records are equal” philosophy. You know and I know that Cal’s defense played like triple-distilled landfill runoff in that game, and it was the first game of the season. Cal is 2-2 against ranked teams this year. UT is 2-3. For me, that’s enough to say that UT doesn’t necessarily go ahead of Cal, even though their records are the same and UT has the head-to-head win.

So that leaves us with Maryland, my #25 team. That’s the only one I could consider replacing with UT. Do you think I should?

]]> by: DTT http://markhasty.com/archives/2006/11/20/blogpoll-ballot-week-122006/#comment-42882 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:22:06 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2006/11/20/blogpoll-ballot-week-122006/#comment-42882 Not having Tennessee in there is unconscionable. Not having Tennessee in there is unconscionable.

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