Preseason Blogpoll Preliminary Submission
by BirdGT on Aug 18, 2010 12:00 PM EDT
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I can almost guarantee we (the GT collective) will be awarded the Homer Blog of the Week award by mgoblog. I am a man of science, however, and I will not fudge our somewhat skewed poll results to appease the status quo. If you wanna see our official ballot, click the jump...
From the Rumble Seat Ballot - Week 1
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 2 | Florida Gators | -- |
| 3 | Texas Longhorns | -- |
| 4 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -- |
| 5 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -- |
| 6 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 7 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | -- |
| 8 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -- |
| 9 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 10 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 11 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -- |
| 12 | Miami Hurricanes | -- |
| 13 | USC Trojans | -- |
| 14 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -- |
| 15 | TCU Horned Frogs | -- |
| 16 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 17 | Georgia Bulldogs | -- |
| 18 | Florida St. Seminoles | -- |
| 19 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 20 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 21 | North Carolina Tar Heels | -- |
| 22 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 23 | Pittsburgh Panthers | -- |
| 24 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 25 | Oregon St. Beavers | -- |
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
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Keeping in mind...
…that it’s a good measure of how the above average Tech fan (since only above average fans will participate in a blogpoll) feels about our own team, I’d say it’s nice to see us thinking so highly of our place in the CFB pantheon this year. Remember that before the Hate game last season we did climb to the #7 spot in the polls. It’s not impossible for us to finish there this year if we go one or two-loss but win a big bowl.
I wouldn’t call it an objective preseason poll, but it’s a good sign for the growing health of Tech’s fanbase…or at least about a hundred of our die-hards.
Yes. I am a homer. I'll also be right at the end of the season.
Honestly, in order to beat us, you’ll have to stop our offense, something that only a few teams have done in the past two years. And how did they do it? They had superior talent on their defensive line. When I look at this list, I only see a few teams below us that could be considered to have that. Chiefly: LSU, VPI, UGA, and UNC (granted, those are ACC and SEC school, but that’s what I know; sue me). My point is that while our offense is going to step back a little bit (from 35 points a game to about 30, I’d say), our defense should be significantly better at bending without breaking (from 25 points per game to about 20).
Add in the fact that our schedule is significantly tougher this year, with four of our five toughest contests away (and why do we do this again?), I think we can toss those up and still expect to come out with 9 wins out of twelve. While that’s not good enough for 7th place, I’d say it’s pretty good for 12th, which, ‘Hey!’ is right where we landed at the end of last season! However, if we can win those tough away games, there’s no reason whatsoever that we shouldn’t be considered in the top 10 in the country, and I think they’re winnable.
Interesting to me...
is that the ACC teams feature our lowest standard deviations. Tech fans are fairly certain of GT’s odds against certain ACC teams.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
Surprises
I am surprised people were so confident about the UNC game and I think we probably overrated u(sic)ga. I thought the method was really cool but we certainly got some questionable rankings. LSU at 8? Highest BE at 23? Also, we have most of the “name” programs at the top. I fully expect us to get skewered on this poll.
If you look at it though
I’d say the top 12 are really the only teams that have a shot a national title, if they run the table. Plus, I’ve seen some polls with Boise State, TCU, and others at #1.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
I am almost positive I overranked georgie and underranked UNC
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Aug 18, 2010 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions
LSU
that would be a direct result of lingering misery from the chicken bowl
by TangoHotelWhiskeyGolf on Aug 18, 2010 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
I think this was an ingenius way to do a preseason ranking
I don’t think that the preseason rankings that resulted from your method are all that out of line either. If you think about it, the only thing that would keep the end of the year results from being pretty close to this projection would be the usual upsets and surprises. But who can predict those anyway? So I guess what I am saying is that at the end of the year this poll could be no further from the actual results as the rankings of the “experts.”
by Atlanta's original team on Aug 18, 2010 1:41 PM EDT reply actions
GT rankings from other blogs
Dogs – #20
BC – #15
Irish – #25
Utes – #15
USF – #12
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
Purdue giving us some engineer love
ND is delusional as usual
by TangoHotelWhiskeyGolf on Aug 18, 2010 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Crazy stuff
I would be hard pressed to remember a preseason poll in recent years that got it right.
On a side note I do have this nagging feeling that Alabama was anointed last year. Don’t get me wrong they were / are good. Perhaps even the best. But once the pundits decided they were going to be the best team in the nation it seemed to set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. Voters forgot their crushing bowl loss the previous year while ignoring other good teams. Games they were lucky to win (see Tennessee) did not effect their standing. Even referees seemed to start giving them the benefit of the doubt and calls starting falling their way. This seems to happen a lot in college ball. It seems like the stars get aligned and voters, fans and pundits start pulling for a certain team because they like the story line. And we hate it if the story line gets messed up. Had Texas not lost its quarterback and managed to beat Alabama it would been a less compelling story for a lot of writers who had drunk the koolaid of Alabama dominance. Seems to me there was another undefeated team that year.
by Atlanta's original team on Aug 19, 2010 9:04 AM EDT up reply actions
Now you're talkin'!
I love the SEC conspiracy stuff. I grew up in Florida as an FSU fan, and I love it when UF fans get their collective bubble burst. There were a lot of questionable things that happened throughout the season to put Bama and UF in the SEC championship game. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’, right? The SEC and their refs had an ulterior motive.
In all fairness, Bama was a very good team, and last season, they really had the closest thing to an NFL roster in college football (just like the USC teams of the early 2000s).
Well,
even under Chan Gailey I seem to remember always coming in overly optimistic. It’s in our nature. We come in feeling good and then we get our hearts ripped out.
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Aug 18, 2010 4:08 PM EDT reply actions
Yep
It’s been that way for a long time. There always seems to be one or two games that sneak up and crush your soul.
"Everybody talks about SEC speed. The 27 fastest guys at the (NFL) combine, how many of them were from the SEC? Three. But if you say it enough, everybody will believe it."
-CPJ
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.
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