Blog Poll Map for Week 8: Axis & Allies

by BirdGT on Oct 28, 2009 4:00 PM EDT

This week is where you separate the men from the boys, the friends from the foes. It was judgment week in the blog poll. Did you put GT in the Top 10 or not? Are you putting GT in the Top 10 because you think they're good or because you want to upset a highly rated team?

GT ended up at #11 just below LSU this week. As I told Winfield, "The Peach Bowl loss is still hurting us."

Interesting facts about voting this week: 1) 10 blogs ranked GT between 5th and 8th. Of those 10, 7 of them were from the ACC. 2) GT had 20 blogs rank the Jackets from 5th to 9th. Of those 20, 12 were from the ACC or uga blogs. I think the uga bloggers have some hidden motives. 3) One voter ranked uga. He also dropped us a spot for destroying UVA.

All voters voted for GT between 5th and 13th (yellow = top 10 or higher average, blue = great, brown = really good, red = good). Here's the map of the week (please note our stronghold in the Southeast Corner of America):

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Drop GT A Spot

I Didn’t really drop GT a spot, it was more I had two teams jump them in TCU and LSU.

TCU picked up the big BYU win and LSU had the nice Auburn win. Having TCU or LSU ranked above GT can be debated, but it pretty much wasn’t a dropping so much as a jumping.

Also, I’m far from a Georgia fan, I just think the wins over ASU and USC were enough to grant them a spot on the ballot over the likes of Ole Miss and others.

Simon

by simononsports on Oct 28, 2009 5:03 PM EDT reply actions

A good Auburn win?

The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.

by Winfield Featherston on Oct 28, 2009 7:37 PM EDT up reply actions

all good

I just give Hell to voters each week that give any sort of praise to the dogs.

I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?

by BirdGT on Oct 28, 2009 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Apparently

Beating SCAR and ASU trumps losses to LSU, OK State, and UT. Interesting logic…he’s prolly a Stafford fan or sumthin.

Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...

by chrisinindy on Oct 28, 2009 8:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Definitely Not a Stafford Fan

Everything is debatable…

Is a win over Auburn, a team who beat WVU (Whom You guys have ranked #22) by 11, not a better win than crushing Al Groh?

Is voting for Navy and their wins over Wake and the Sun Belt better than a win over South Carolina? A team FTRS has ranked 19th.

Again everything is debateable… when they get crunched by Florida this week I shall jettison them.

Simon

by simononsports on Oct 29, 2009 1:36 PM EDT reply actions

all good points

But I don’t really look at teams beating teams that beat teams. Then, we get into effed up circular logic like Houston>OKSU>uga>UTEP>Houston>OKSU. I think the best thing to do is reward consistency right now. Who is showing up week-week? Who is bouncing back from losses. Auburn hasn’t done that this year (probably residual from Tuberville-gate). uga certainly hasn’t done that. Just lettin’ you know what our ballot is typically formed on.

Also, our rankings are weird because we all rate different things and have a composite poll like the blog poll so you’ll see weird situations of teams who probably should be higher/lower but because of our disagreements and differing philosophies makes the poll effed up, as well.

I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?

by BirdGT on Oct 29, 2009 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Ya to Each His Own

I tend to pretty much vote based on two criteria whom are the good teams you’ve beaten this year and what are your bad losses. It usually leads to me devaluing teams like Navy since I’m convinced that if they played at Okie St. (w/Dez), Arizona St., USC, LSU, and @UT they would come away with a minimum of three losses.

Regardless I did contemplate throwing Clemson in there but in the end overlooked them, in reality I probably should have voted them in over ND.

And for what its worth I’m a Michigan fan born raised and living in Connecticut.

Simon

by simononsports on Oct 29, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

the blog poll map only takes into account your affiliation given to mgoblog. I just assumed most blogs were generally around their home states or at least partially influenced by home state media. Gobblercountry, for example, has complained about it because he’s a VT blogger in Oklahoma.

I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?

by BirdGT on Oct 29, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions