9/4/2007
BLOGPOLL BALLOT #3
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia | — |
| 2 | LSU | — |
| 3 | Southern Cal | — |
| 4 | Florida | — |
| 5 | Oklahoma |  4 |
| 6 | California | 4 |
| 7 | Texas |  2 |
| 8 | Wisconsin | — |
| 9 | Louisville | 2 |
| 10 | Virginia Tech | 3 |
| 11 | Georgia | 1 |
| 12 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 13 | Arkansas | 2 |
| 14 | Auburn | — |
| 15 | UCLA | 1 |
| 16 | Penn State | 1 |
| 17 | Hawaii | 3 |
| 18 | Nebraska | 3 |
| 19 | Rutgers | 1 |
| 20 | TCU | 3 |
| 21 | South Florida | 4 |
| 22 | Boise State | 4 |
| 23 | Michigan State | 3 |
| 24 | Clemson | 2 |
| 25 | Georgia Tech | 1 |
Discussion: No movement at the very top, but a little necessary reshuffling in the mid-upper reaches of the poll.
Oklahoma and Cal move up to fill a vacuum. Oklahoma should have dropped 79 points on North Texas; Cal was very good against a Tennessee team that everybody has been calling overrated since the first preseason mags hit the newsstand. Texas and VT drop for struggling more than they should have against clearly lesser opponents. I almost feel like I should have dropped Texas further. The rest of the movement down to #21 is just re-sorting after one week.
Boise State moves in. I can’t believe I’m ranking Sparty but they were pretty danged brilliant against UAB, even if it was UAB. Clemson wasn’t great against FSU but got the job done. GT beat Notre Dame but don’t worry, I promise I won’t rank every team that beats Notre Dame this year.
As far as the drops, well . . . FSU and Tennessee are obvious, while Miami drops even though they won because I felt Clemson and GT deserved the spots at the bottom of the poll. I wasn’t sold on the Canes to begin with.
For some reason a hacker munged my preseason ballot. They put Michigan as the #6 team in the country! Haha, those crazy script kiddies! This week’s ballot evaluated Michigan a little more realistically.
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I almost feel like I should have dropped Texas further.
I’ve got us in a tie for fourth in the Big 12 South at the moment. If Texas Tech hangs less than 60 points on us, they should disband their football program immediately and have everyone in Lubbock commit seppuku.
Comment by Dan — 9/4/2007 @ 2:47 pm
What happened, Dan, and how did it happen so fast?
Comment by Mark — 9/4/2007 @ 8:12 pm
What happened:
1) Our linebackers still suck. The top four tacklers on Saturday were all DBs
2) Our o-line still can’t run block. Early in the 3rd quarter, we get a first and goal at the 3 and don’t score.
3) In a fit of almost pathetic square-peg-round-hole-ism, our dumbass offensive coordinator still insists on pounding Colt into an offensive scheme designed for Vince. You can’t build an offense on zone reads and counter traps with a QB who isn’t a threat to run. All summer, we heard about how we were going to see so much more I-formation and power running game stuff. Then we get to the game and it’s still 85% shotgun, and even when we do go to a power-I, we can’t do a damn thing with it (see point #2).
After we won it all in 2005, I said that we won in spite of our coaching staff, not because of it. Nothing I’ve seen since then has done anything to dissuade me of that opinion.
Comment by Dan — 9/5/2007 @ 1:18 pm