Week 2: Preliminary Draft BlogPoll
Here is FTRS' draft blogpoll. It is up to you, the reader, to help us come up with our final blogpoll. Tell us what you agree and disagree with and try to sway our opinions. First our initial and individual ballots:
| Rank | Winfield | Bird |
| 1 | Boise State | Alabama |
| 2 | Alabama | Boise State |
| 3 | Iowa | Ohio State |
| 4 | Ohio State | Iowa |
| 5 | Texas | Virginia Tech |
| 6 | Florida | Texas |
| 7 | TCU | Oregon |
| 8 | Oregon | TCU |
| 9 | Georgia Tech | Florida |
| 10 | LSU | Miami |
| 11 | Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech |
| 12 | Penn State | Penn State |
| 13 | Miami | Oklahoma |
| 14 | Oklahoma | Nebraska |
| 15 | Nebraska | Wisconsin |
| 16 | Georgia | LSU |
| 17 | FSU | FSU |
| 18 | LSU | West Virginia |
| 19 | Wisconsin | Utah |
| 20 | USC | Arkansas |
| 21 | Arkansas | Georgia |
| 22 | Houston | Stanford |
| 23 | Auburn | OKSU |
| 24 | UNC | South Carolina |
| 25 | Utah | UNC |
Bird: We had 7 ties amongst Winfield and my composite ballot so discussion is gonna be huge for this Draft. I randomly just ranked the teams that were tied rather than logicizing who deserved to be ahead of the others. My quick thoughts: the SEC struggled this weekend, the ACC Coastal is probably the deepest division in college football (especially if UNC returns a majority of the suspensions), the Big East has almost no football legs to stand on, Auburn shouldn't be ranked, teams with close wins over good teams or close losses to good teams weren't hurt (UNC/VT), teams with close wins over bad teams were hurt (OU).
Winfield: The preseason poll is all based on input from us and the readers so take the changes from last week with a little grain of salt. Things will surely iron out more after Week 2 of the season. Yep, I have Boise State as number 1 in my ballot because they have the best win of the young season, and so therefore the best resume. Their next biggest game against a BCS-conference opponent is Oregon State, we'll see what happens then or wait until Alabama takes down a worthy opponent as well (not just in name). Alabama gets the #2 spot while Iowa gets my #3. Why not? They're solid and return just about everybody back from last year. Biggest "surprise" in my rankings is the Trojans from USC, I guess we'll rank them, but when you only beat Hawaii by 13 points, I'm going to lower you. Finally about us, yes I believe Georgia Tech is a top-10 team and I will continue to leave us there until we prove otherwise (we lose).
Check out our first draft after the jump...
From the Rumble Seat Ballot - Week 2
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 2 | Boise St. Broncos | 7 |
| 3 | Iowa Hawkeyes | 2 |
| 4 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -- |
| 5 | Texas Longhorns | -2 |
| 6 | LSU Tigers | 4 |
| 7 | Florida Gators | -5 |
| 8 | TCU Horned Frogs | 7 |
| 9 | Oregon Ducks | 10 |
| 10 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -2 |
| 11 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | -4 |
| 12 | Miami Hurricanes | 1 |
| 13 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -2 |
| 14 | Oklahoma Sooners | -8 |
| 15 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -1 |
| 16 | Florida St. Seminoles | 2 |
| 17 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 18 | Georgia Bulldogs | -2 |
| 19 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 1 |
| 20 | Utah Utes | -- |
| 21 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -- |
| 22 | Houston Cougars | -- |
| 23 | North Carolina Tar Heels | -2 |
| 24 | Auburn Tigers | -2 |
| 25 | USC Trojans | -13 |
| Dropouts: Oregon St. Beavers, Pittsburgh Panthers, Stanford Cardinal | ||
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Can’t comment from work but michigan just dropped the Big East preseason pick convincingly…so wolverines > WVU
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 7, 2010 11:21 AM EDT reply actions
GT / Iowa too high, agree about Michigan
Last year Iowa had 5 games decided by 3 or less. They won 4 of them, against the likes of Northern Iowa and Arkansas State. The year before they had 5 games decided by 5 or less and lost 4 of them. With Iowa it’s always a crapshoot, don’t respect them too much just because they beat us.
And as much as I love my jackets, #9 is probably a liiiiiiittttle high based on how we did against our cupcake.
Michigan @wn4d UConn who was a favorite for the Big East. And yeah, get Auburn out of there.
Is Florida a bit too high? I mean, that may have just been a one-game anomaly but they looked REALLY sloppy this past week. Certainly not a top-10 team imo.
Has the whole world gone CRAZY? Am I the only one who gives a sh*t about the rules?!
agreed.
yall will see an adjustment
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 7, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
So far
so good. Next week should settle many things.
by Atlanta's original team on Sep 7, 2010 2:05 PM EDT reply actions
LSU
LSU didn’t look like a top ten team to me. They almost certainly would have lost to a full strength UNC.
To HELL with georgia!
by White and Goldrick on Sep 7, 2010 3:16 PM EDT reply actions
No kidding. LSU should be in the 20s at best. A UNC team without its defensive secondary, scrub special teams, and missing star offensive players very nearly beat them.
ok so I made an error and double voted for LSU
So LSU got 3 sets of points which set them up for that high. It’s been fixed.
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 8, 2010 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions

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