This isn’t getting any easier after the top 5 or so. Would it have been too much to ask if UConn could have somehow found a way, even with the #3 QB to beat Cinci. Then, just for a week, I could have kept two Big East teams in the top-25. It really doesn’t help Big East credibility to have to acknowledge that Rutgers is #2 in the BE at this point in the season. It would have been better for a program like UConn — working at the Div. 1-A level for only 2 years or so — to be in that spot than Rutgers.
The full results of the blogpoll are here. You can see indvidual ballots, here.
My Ballot.
- Southern Cal – Not unbeatable, but unbeaten
- Texas – Making it look easy
- Virginia Tech – DNP
- Georgia – Yawn
- Miami (Florida) – I almost want to drop them a spot for having Duke and Temple back-to-back
- Alabama – But, for how long? How long until the lack of depth and injuries do them in?
- Notre Dame – Here’s a scary thought for whatever team has to face ND in a bowl game: Charlie Weis will have a month or so to prepare his team.
- Louisiana State – Shaky coach, shaky team, lots of talent
- UCLA – Call it East Coast bias, but this team feels like a paper-tiger
- Auburn – One early season upset loss from being unbeaten
- Texas Tech – See UCLA
- Florida State – My questions were about the offense, what happened to the D against UVA?
- Ohio State – Who knows anything in the Big 11 this year
- Tennessee – DNP
- Boston College – Escaped the Demon Deacons, injuries seem to be mounting
- Penn State – Plenty of pain in Happy Valley. Gut punch of a loss and WR Williams done for the season
- West Virginia – Yes, they are in the Big East, but only loss has come against VT
- Michigan State – You tell me
- Oregon – I don’t know
- Wisconsin – Didn’t Glen Mason watch that Monday Night game between Denver and New England where the Patriots let the ball go out of the back of the endzone for a safety rather than risk the big mistake?
- TCU – I guess
- Florida – Only thing keeping them in the rankings is the sheer talent, and how slim the pickings are at this point
- Fresno State – Yeah. Sure. Why not
- Nebraska – Again, someone has to win the Big 12 North
- Oregon State – I’d feel better about them, but for that blow-out loss to Louisville
In: TCU, Wisconsin, Oregon St., Fresno St., Nebraska.
Out: Baylor, Cal, Colorado, Arizona St., Louisville
Standing by: Damned if I have any idea at this point.
