Blog Poll Map Week 10

by BirdGT on Nov 11, 2009 6:00 PM EST

GT moves up to #7 in the blog poll. Little to no thanks should be given to this blog or this blog as they were biggest drinkers of hater-ade after this weekend's game against Wake. The home state betrays the Jackets and turns to the bottom quartile (red) for the first time this season. The Bible Belt's hold on the Jacket's ranking is starting to fracture as well. At the end of the season, I'll make sure to compile all the blogs' movement of the Jackets throughout the season. I'm sure we'll see regional, conference, and time zone biases in effect. Here's the map:

Colors of states are determined by their respective bloggers' votes. Red - Bottom quartile, Brown - Bottom 50%, Navy - Top 50%, Yellow - Top Quartile. The range of votes went as low as 13th and as high as 4th. The best voting conference concerning GT was the ACC, which gave GT just short of 6th place on average. The worst voting conferences were the Mountain West and the SEC, which voted GT half way between 7th and 8th place. Almost everyone voted GT 7th (57 out of 94 voters).

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This is HS, from “that blog,” asking your justification for thinking Georgia Tech deserves anything in the top 10. To date, GT has played exactly one team with less than three losses, and it lost that game by 16. Its biggest wins are probably 6-3 Clemson and 6-3 (who, admittedly, are two of the better 3-loss teams, but are 3-loss teams nonetheless; Clemson lost to Maryland, you know.) GT’s 4 road wins are over teams that are a combined 13-24. That’s beyond awful. Beat somebody and move up: It’s the rule that our poll follows (unlike your poll, obviously; anyone who looks objectively at the schedules can’t put Iowa 9 spots behind GT, when by all objective measures Iowa has the same record against a far better schedule). Really, the fact that you have GT 4 spots ahead of the Miami team that curbstomped them earlier this year shows you might need to check your own methodology, Rand McNally.

I like your team, I like your coach, I find them incredibly fun to watch, but it doesn’t change the fact that you haven’t done anything justifying a top 10 rating.

Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.

by Patrick Vint on Nov 13, 2009 3:38 PM EST reply actions

Haha

I find it interesting that the entire nation seems to disagree with you. Maybe it is you that should check your methodology. Also, in case you’ve forgotten, there is no such thing as creating a completely objective opinion based poll. Your definition of a quality opponent clearly differs from every other major national publication so maybe you should go hook up with Bing, loser.

Also, one loss is greater than two and Iowa is a scrub team.

Corey Zickefoose: I think they should still be able to play football, regardless. Tennessee is my place. You know, it's my football team.

Reporter: Even after they put a gun in your face, you say let them play football?

Corey Zickefoose: Yeah. It's Tennessee. That's the way it is sometimes.

Welcome to the SEC!

by Jesse28 on Nov 13, 2009 7:40 PM EST up reply actions

This is me laughing

The moment I rely upon the fact that the coaches and media agree with me to support my position is the day I quit actually watching football. I base my opinion on “quality opponent” on wins and losses. You base it on the opinions of Jay Mariotti. I like my chances in that debate.

Also, one loss is actually less than two. For future reference, it goes one, two, three, four, etc., Einstein.

And here I thought Georgia Tech people were teh smrt…

Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.

by Patrick Vint on Nov 13, 2009 9:34 PM EST up reply actions

Pfft

Anyone who listens to Mariotti is a lost cause. If you think that Clemson is our best win, then your opinion of a quality opponent is most definitely skewed. Have your forgotten the win over then ranked 4th VPI? Using head-to-head win/loss is only useful if that’s the end of the discussion, which in college football, and especially the ACC, it never is. The only thing that leads to is circular logic as in Miami beat GT which beat VT which beat Miami which beat GT, etc, etc. So if that’s what you want to base your “opinion” on, then that’s fine by me, but it clearly illustrates how inept you are at evaluation a teams true worth.

And GG on your weak attempt at trying to make something literal from a context based statement. But, just in case you are being serious and really are riding the short bus, a one loss team playing better against similar or the same opponents as a two loss team is in all ways greater.

But, because I wouldn’t want your parents to think they spent all that money for you to attend your trailer park school for no reason, why don’t you go here and learn how to properly evaluate a team, where you’ll find that we are actually ranked 6th and Iowa is 11th. Don’t worry though, you might still make the top 25 after you guys lose out for the year, so keep your chin up troll.

Corey Zickefoose: I think they should still be able to play football, regardless. Tennessee is my place. You know, it's my football team.

Reporter: Even after they put a gun in your face, you say let them play football?

Corey Zickefoose: Yeah. It's Tennessee. That's the way it is sometimes.

Welcome to the SEC!

by Jesse28 on Nov 13, 2009 10:56 PM EST up reply actions

Dude...

Every week I put up the blogs that rank us lower than everyone and I try to find their justification. This week, your blog didn’t even post its poll or at least I didn’t see it on there. So I’m glad you justified your relatively low ranking of the Jackets. I’ve pointed you guys out before and I didn’t get a response (here and here). I usually try to distribute the linkage but your blog has been an outlier in the GT voting data multiple times.

And interestingly, the entire Midwest has not liked GT. I think a lot of it is that the Midwest is watching their games while the ACC games are on so the Big 10 doesn’t see a lot of the ACC games while the ACC fans don’t watch the Big 10 games. Hence, a big discrepancy between ACC-Big 10 voters.

This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

by BirdGT on Nov 15, 2009 9:47 AM EST up reply actions