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December 1, 2008

BlogPoll Week 14, Draft

Filed under: Bloggers,Football,Polls — Chas @ 8:01 am

So, not a bad weekend.

Rank Team Delta
1 Oklahoma
2 Alabama
3 Florida
4 Texas 1
5 Texas Tech 1
6 Southern Cal
7 Utah
8 Penn State
9 Ohio State
10 Boise State
11 Cincinnati 2
12 Ball State
13 Oklahoma State 2
14 TCU 3
15 Oregon 5
16 Georgia Tech 5
17 Brigham Young 2
18 Georgia 4
19 Missouri 4
20 Pittsburgh 5
21 Oregon State 5
22 Michigan State
23 Boston College 3
24 Northwestern
25 West Virginia 7
Dropped Out: Florida State (#23).

Texas and Texas Tech flip-flopped, but that was about it for my top-10. Really the Tech struggle against Baylor was  a classic hangover performance, but it does matter.

I know, the big meme is Oklahoma or Texas and how can anyone put Oklahoma ahead of Texas since Texas won head-to-head on a neutral field. I don’t disagree that it matters, but it isn’t the only factor. At least not in a poll where you are ranking the teams.  Not only do I think that Oklahoma is playing better than Texas and that Oklahoma is a better team. I’ll fall back on a favorite in college basketball: non-con strength of schedule.

Texas’ non-con: FAU, Rice, UTEP and Arkansas

Oklahoma’s non-con: TCU, Cinci, Washington, Chattanooga (1-AA)

Oklahoma at least challenged itself in the non-con. Yes, Washington and Chattanooga were worse than FAU and Arkansas. But that was more than offset with TCU and Cinci as compared to UTEP and Rice. I’ll reward putting a couple decent games with some risk on the schedule versus staying with all teams that are well below weight class and have little chance of something going awry.

The ACC is… something. The team playing and looking best — GT isn’t even playing in the ACC Championship game. Just like Georgia last year in the SEC. Must be a Georgia thing. Instead it is BC-VT again. The ACC officials must be thrilled with the Big East afterthoughts to get Miami meeting yet again. Really going to make Tampa a lively place this week.

Pitt didn’t disappoint by being ranked by me last week. Don’t blow it this week when everyone puts you in their blogpoll.





Forget football for a second. The basketball team deserves a #2 ranking, not #3. UCONN has not been as impressive as our Panthers have been.

Comment by steve 12.01.08 @ 9:51 am

ESPN Poll participants dissed me:

1. North Carolina (31) 7-0 775
2. Connecticut 6-0 738
3. Pittsburgh 7-0 694

Comment by steve 12.01.08 @ 1:50 pm

What do you mean with the blurb about-The ACC officials must be thrilled with the Big East afterthoughts to get Miami meeting yet again.

Am I missing something?

Comment by tony 12.01.08 @ 2:47 pm

[…] Not a lot of movement, except for one team free-falling right out of the top-25. This despite the arrows, which didn’t seem to update from Week 14’s ballot. […]


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