Week 10 Blogpoll Rough Draft

by Winfield Featherston on Nov 2, 2009 9:35 AM EST Comment 15 comments

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama
2	Florida
3	Texas	1
4	Cincinnati	1
5	TCU
6	Boise State
7	Georgia Tech
8	Oregon	2
9	Iowa
10	LSU	2
11	Penn State	2
12	Southern Cal	4
13	Houston	1
14	Miami (Florida)	2
15	Pittsburgh
16	Ohio State	2
17	Oklahoma State
18	Virginia Tech	7
19	Arizona	2
20	Utah
21	Clemson	3
22	California
23	Central Michigan
24	Notre Dame
25	Auburn
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: South Carolina (#19), West Virginia (#22), Navy (#25).

Honestly, not a whole lot of movement this week. But here's things to pick up on from our respective ballots.

Don't forget that this is a DRAFT and we rely on you to tell us how horrible we are.
Virginia Tech focused on us "cheating" for two weeks and then proceeded to implode. Suck Turkeys. What are you gonna do this week?
Notre Dame has creeped back in to the rankings (again).
California jumps back in as the Pac-10 begins to influence the ballot rather well.
Personally, I think Pittsburgh is too high and looking at my individual ballot, that is my fault. They will drop for sure, but how far people?!
Is Auburn back? Are they for real?
Central Michigan didn't move in the rough draft, but they lost. WTF? They'll be gone soon for the final.
The Big 10 SUCKS

Tell us how bad we ranked 'em below!

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CMU

Should be out BIG TIME. They got spanked by BC. Winfield and Dane screwed up there.

Also, Iowa should’ve lost, in my opinion. That blown replay call cost Indiana a lot of momentum and 7 points.

Pitt’s got a tough 4 game stretch of Greg Paulus, Notre Lame, Hillbillies, and Cincinasty. We’ll see what they’re made of after that.

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

by BirdGT on Nov 2, 2009 10:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

After watching most of that Iowa/IU game, I think its just a matter of time before Iowa spins the cylinder and lands on a bullet. You can’t get that lucky that many times in a row and not end up with a hole in your head.

just sayin

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

by chrisinindy on Nov 2, 2009 10:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well

Unless the game is rigged of course. But yeah, they have Northwestern, OhioSt, and Minn. I think they handle NW, but drop their last two.

"This is America, if we can’t self-righteously look down on others and blame them for our faults, the commies win."-----Cormican on Bleeding Green Nation w/r/t fans overreacting to the Eagles signing of Michael Vick

by Jesse28 on Nov 2, 2009 11:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Pitt>Cincy...at least when they play head to head

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

by chrisinindy on Nov 2, 2009 10:20 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Sometimes when you follow your team on many roadtrips, dehydrated, exhausted, and hungover, you miss some things. It’s why we write a DRAFT.

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 Nov 2, 2009 10:26 AM EST via mobile reply actions 0 recs

Will be moving Wisconsin

up probably. Though I don’t like ranking the Big Ten

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 Nov 2, 2009 10:30 AM EST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

excuses

Always excuses. All I hear/see are the tears falling from our commenters that expect valid blog poll submissions from the lone GT blog in the Poll. They’re sad and disappointed tears. Very sad.

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

by BirdGT on Nov 2, 2009 1:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I dunno about us still being ahead of Oregon. I think what they’ve showed, they’re the best 1 loss team. Until our D picks it up we can’t be ahead of them

by ctalati32 on Nov 2, 2009 10:37 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Winfield's Top 10

1. Alabama
2. Florida
3.Cincinnatit
4. Texas
5.Oregon
6. TCU
7. GT
8. Boise
9. LSU
10. Iowa

Yes I have Oregon higher than Boise. It’s a difficult decision that I go back and forth on quite a bit. Everything is a debate…Cincy>Texas? CHAOS!

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 Nov 2, 2009 10:50 AM EST via mobile reply actions 0 recs

My thoughts

I think Florida should be back in the driver’s seat at #1. Before this previous weekend, you could have made an argument that Texas should have been ranked #1 because of the relative lack of play from both UF and Bama. While I don’t think dropping 41 on ugag is much of anything, UF still proved that their offense hadn’t dried up entirely. If I’m ranking these solely on their play each without regard for their previous rankings, I’d go UF, Texas, Bama for the top three.

I’ve watched TCU and Cincy a few times now and I don’t think Cincy is the better of the two. TCU plays defense, which is more than any team Cincy has played can say. So, I’d go TCU, Cincy, Iowa, followed by Boise St. Big-10 or no, Iowa continues to find ways to win, and this last win they opened it up against a team they should have to begin with. I can’t take anything away from this latest Iowa win because it resembles the GT win over Vandy in almost every regard. As for Boise St, they simply are the worst of the undefeateds.

I’d have Oregon next followed by GT. I don’t think we have the defense that would allow us to keep up with Oregon right now, much less stop them full bore. They are playing lights out right now and we have serious concerns on defense. Regardless of the amazing second half adjustments, I’m not sure we could fight back from a large first half deficit against Oregon.

After that, the next change I would have would be keeping Pitt and Ohio St over Miami. I’m not impressed with the Wake win because Miami had not been able to stop Skinner for three quarters and couldn’t score either. As soon as Skinner goes out, Wakes offense sputtered and I have to think that wouldn’t have been the case otherwise.

Finally, Ok St got smoked by Texas and they didn’t move at all in the draft here. That just will not do, so I would drop them to 20. Below would be my final top-20. The remaining five are for replaceable parts. Take CMU out because they got pantsed and replace them with any number of 2-3 loss teams. You could seriously make an argument for and against them all and it would make no difference.

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Alabama
4. TCU
5. Cincy
6. Iowa
7. Boise St.
8. Oregon
9. GT
10. LSU
11. Penn St
12. USC
13. Houston
14. Pitt
15. Ohio St
16. Miami
17. Arizona
18. VT
19. Utah
20. Ok St