blogpoll - Draft - Week 1

Couple of quick comments:

How can Ohio State still possible be in the Top 5? They almost got beat by Navy. At home. Navy. Not 1930’s Navy. Not even Roger Dodger Navy. 2009 Navy. They are going to get so butt-raped by the Trojans.

Oklahoma State looked good. Like Top 5 good. One of the 3 or 4 most impressive performances of the week.

I get oSu and Cal moving up, but LSU? Seriously? The looked like a bunch of good athletes with good speed running around with no direction or leadership. In other words they looked like a Les Miles team. The were severely outplayed by a Washington team that has won as many games since ‘07 as Charlie Weiss has seen his penis since ’07 – ZERO. The Tigers might have Top 15 talent, and they might even beat Florida at home, at night, later in the year. But there’s no way that group belongs anywhere near the Top 25 right now, let alone the Top 10.

I think you (and really most of the rest of us) are really underestimating BYU. The Sooners are still a good team. Much better with Bradford obviously, but they’ve got talent at a lot of places. That BYU beat a talented team was the most impressive thing Saturday. That they beat a talented, confident team, while not they themselves failed to play up to their maximum potential is what was most impressive. That team is good and is going to end up pasting some Big East team in the Orange Bowl this year.

Lastly, where the fuck is Boise State? Clearly Oregon is nowhere near as good as the talking heads at ESPN thought they’d be (what a shock!). However, Boise State dominated that football game. Their defense is physical, well disciplined and surprisingly fast. They’re a well coached football team and looking at their schedule, I don’t see how they lose a game this year. Eventually you’re going to have to put them in there, and you’ll look smarter if you jump on them sooner rather than later.

It seems I posted this reply whilst drunk. I don’t remember being drunk, or even drinking for that matter, but based upon the horrific grammar and spelling, not to mention some totally incoherent thoughts, I’d really like to plead being drunk. Yes. Yes that was it.

Some notes:

• - I like where you put Alabama
• - I don’t like where you put OU. I’d drop them to maybe #10, pending the real diagnosis on Bradford. If he really is back by the Texas game, then OU is likely to go 9-3 or so. That would finish them them near #10. If he’s really going to be out for the season, then they might lose 5.
• - Agree that Boise should be in there somewhere, and probably would drop So. Miss out to compensate. Baylor’s probably not really a top 25 team, but it sure is fun having them in there for a week.
• - I’d drop Ohio State to #12, and just shift everyone else up by 1.

No arguments otherwise.

Hook ’em!!!

Hmm…

Dropping OU that far seems a bit drastic.
I definitely do not understand moving LSU up like that.
FSU moves up after losing but Georgia drops 12 spots? I’m confused.
Penn St debuts at 16 for beating up on Akron? Really?

Other than that… meh. It’s still pretty early to tell too much about any team right now. Not surprised by the sudden love for a few teams (BU, missery) but I still think most polls are pointless before the conference season begins.

Watching LSU run circles around Washington athletically — and still have to sweat it out at the end once again points to the genuis that is Les Miles.

Ohio State is 3 spots too high. LSU a tad overcooked as well. In my own “I only watched a few games, don’t know enough about football, and it’s too early for polls anyway” assessment:

1. FLA (no reason to move ‘em)
2. Texas (see #1)
3. Bama (held VT to 150 yards or so, right? Even though Taylor sucks at QB, that’s still pretty damn good)
4. USC (until Barkley is pressured to do more than hand off, this is as high as they go)
5. Cal (customary flame-out coming? probably, but for now …)
6. OK St (showed much improved D bearing GA)
7. LSU (okay, beating the Huskies wasn’t a “huge” win, but Locker & Co looked much better under the Armenian Avenger than they did under the succubus that is Ty Willingham)
8. Ohio St (this may even be a little high, they didn’t look good on D vs Navy – try “tackling”, fellas, it’s a new concept – and Pryor didn’t impress)
9. ND (this pains me, but they looked pretty solid beating a better-than-fair Nevada team)
10. Ole Miss (needed someone in the 10-hole and didn’t think enough of the rest of the list)
11. Miami (showed some flashes of the Miami of old in beating an okay Fla St squad)
12. Virginia Tech (Taylor’s suck may drag them further into the vortext, but for now this’ll do, pig)
13. Georgia Tech (didn’t see ‘em play)
14. North Carolina (see #13)
15. Brigham Young (not sure about these guys, though they held blowU to 14 I’m not sure how much of that was due to them; the paperclips’ O-line brings new dimensions of meaning to the term “offensive” line)
16. Penn State (see #13 — hey, I could be a DI coach filling out his ballot!)
17. Florida State (think they could be a little better than this, but so far they’re 0-1 so here they are)
18. Arkansas (see #13)
19. Nebraska (see #13)
20. Georgia (how many times has “Cox sux” been written in the last couple of days)
21. Missouri (Yo Gabba Gabbert + some D = move into top 15 at some point?)
22. Michigan (I left them here despite the siren call of that little voice telling me that RichRod is a scumbag whose team will bail on him eventually, leading the Meatchicken faithful to burn Rodriguez — and not in effigy)
23. Oklahoma (this may be a little low once Jones gets his feet wet and the O-line gels a bit — or if not “gel”, at least hair pastes a little)
24. Baylor (Griffin Griffin Griffin Griffin)
25. Aggy (no, this is not a joke — too early to tell, I know, but these guys might not be a black hole of ineptitude throughout the entire year)

Miami shoots from the mid-30s to a Top 10 with one win over a #18 opponent? I’d give them a 12-15 at best.
Missouri should be where FSU is, given their performance and FSU’s loss. I’ll echo the poster from above – you gave a losing team an increase? That’s almost as crazy as knocking down a team for winning but playing poorly – although I think that’s what should happen with OSU. Oh but wait, you did do the crazy thing and dropped Mississippi for a solid win, while promoting LSU for a sloppy win.

Similarly, you gave Cal enough of a bump after winning against a Maryland team that doesn’t have much going for it to push them over OSU who just explicitly beat a ranked SEC team.

Dropping OU 19 spots is just cruel. Yeah, they lost a big game, but you’ve essentially punished them with BYU’s former ranking. No other ranked opponent who lost went nearly as far down in your poll.

I think you’re prognosticating a lot more than you are actually ranking teams based on their one game and the teams they played against.

I think you have Miami 4-5 spots too high, and OU 6-7 spots too low. Other than that no issues.

I like Georgia Tech higher than that. And I’m with everyone else, LSU is way overcooked.

Good stuff. Keep it coming. The Boise State omission is the fault of The Most Interesting Man In The World.

21. Missouri (Yo Gabba Gabbert + some D = move into top 15 at some point?)

I am so happy that nickname is catching on.

If this is true, then the OU drop is fine by me: http://www.koco.com/sports/20791683/detail.html

Too Low: BYU, ND, OU, Mizzou, Carolina, Baylor

Too High: tOSU, VaTech, LSU, FSU, PSU, Michigan

Just right: 1-4, OkState, Miami OleMiss, Nebraska, Ark, Georgia

WTF?!: Boise is top 15! No better and no worse, and Michigan and Southern Miss dont belong… just sayin’

Eyes -

Here’s my problem with OU at or in the Top 10. The question for me is would you put BYU in the Top 10? If not – regardless of where they came into the game ranked – you can’t have OU that high. They lost to a (lower-ranked) team, at a neutral site (and to split hairs, probably not so neutral). Losing the starting QB is relevant, but not the driver. BYU has to be ranked above OU. If not, we’re subscribing to the same weak-ass logic that Stoops and OU are always peddling .

My take.

Oklahoma’s too high.

atlanta dropped OU completely out of our Top 25 Blogpoll entry. His criteria is a little unconventional, but interesting. Would enjoy comments on his rankings.

http://www.windmilltilting.com/atlantasooner/taw-cbs-blogopoll-week-1

My comments on his rankings: the word unconventional is a poor word choice.