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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...

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Can’t comment from work but michigan just dropped the Big East preseason pick convincingly…so wolverines > WVU

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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.

by BlueDrew on Sep 7, 2010 12:08 PM EDT reply actions  

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?!

by Skurt MuhGurt on Sep 7, 2010 1:42 PM EDT reply actions  

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.

by Rodzilla on Sep 7, 2010 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

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.

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by Winfield Featherston on Sep 8, 2010 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

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