SB Nation BlogPoll Top 25: Week 4

Welcome back, Scip! Was getting worried…

Yes! Finally back up!

Glad to be back. If 36 hours offline engenders this kind of reaction, I’m not looking forward to taking a vacation.

I felt lost Monday without my post mortem.

I might have ranked Texas at 18 before I saw the Utah-BYU score. . . . I have sold all my share in the Cougars.

And so end the Belmont hacker conspiracy theories.

wheh. been a stressful day. Lots of rumors being thrown around :)

Thanks for the fix can finally get some sleep (overseas poster who appreciates the afternoon entries).

“We’re in the process of migrating over to a new platform, and post-migration, this should happen less often and your load times should be substantially improved.”

Are y’all moving to the standard SBNation platform? Pretty exciting, if so!

No ISU love? You think they couldn’t take UH?

I agree on all counts, and would add that I believe that Florida State might be rated a little high. They looked undisciplined against OU and that usuallyl leads to a loss that shouldn’t happen.

“this should happen less often and your load times should be substantially improved.”

I love it when you talk dirty to me.

No ISU love? You think they couldn’t take UH?

I was right there with Steele Jantz and the boys — until he gacked it against U Conn. They may have won, but he was horrible (3 ints in his first 4 throws) and they will be a 6-win team with that kind of play from their QB.

And so end the Belmont hacker conspiracy theories.

Hacking? Ha. More like Vasherized trying to change out a hard drive using a pair of industrial-grade pube tweezers. Honestly, before today, I didn’t even know they sold such things. You learn something new every day!

I’m not putting too much stock into the BYU loss. I think that game was a bit of a fluke. No way Utah is 44 points better than BYU on any given basis. That game just got out of hand with turnovers, and BYU rolled over and played dead. Besides if we had executed against BYU the entire half like we did against UCLA ,we definately would’ve won by more than a point. JMO.

I agree with your Clemson analysis, but what are you seeing in Arkansas that you like more than the other blog poll voters? Troy is a good team but that wasn’t a very impressive win this weekend (38-28 Arkansas).

I realize this is largely irrelevant as we will know their “true” rank after the next two games (@Bama, A&M).

Also, since this is a UT blog and we’re allowed to say ridiculous homer statements, is it fair to say that UT is one of the more underrated teams in the country? I think the top 7 on your ballot are all rock solid right now and deserve their rank, but 8-19 could be in any order and I’d be OK with it.

Eh, it was his first start away from home. I don’t think they are world beaters, and they probably won’t win more than 7 games, but I’d still pick them over UH. I think they (or the coach) deserves a little credit for taking the ….whitest?.. team to 3-0. Dude is competing with Marshall and Georgia Southern for his recruits.

The FSU-Clemson show down should be epic.

Sailor, pay the vig already.

When it comes to keep it real I keep it really wrong
At the risk of sounding crass I would like to mention
That I am well aware of your wack intentions
To usurp my prose you so and so
It’s my primary bone of contention

Most intelligent explanation who is/is not ranked, and where, I’ve ever run across. What a concept — requiring that teams beat SOMEBODY and maybe do it on foreign soil before getting deified.

I can’t seriously argue with anyone you’ve ranked, and you point out the obvious poor showings (UH, Clemson, W. Virginia, Iowa State) and why those teams are not getting the love others are offering.

I’m thinking Michigan might be too low, Illinois too high, and Georgia at 25 wouldn’t be out of line since you have the Bulldogs’ conquerors at 4 and 13. Could the best in the Big East finish better than anybody in the Big 12-2 (other than Kansas) if the leagues were merged?

I know I don’t post mch, but I do rely upon you all to get my daily fix as you consistently have some of if not the best analysis on the games, recruiting, and all other things Longhorn. So, I really missed you all the last couple of days. It was frustrating, but I’m really glad to have you back.

As far as the rankings above, only little quibbles that are so small that they don’t make sense to even discuss.

Thank you all for all for our daily fix.

Yay! Content!

I noticed the Forums are gone from the site now. Thank God! Hopefully they can be bot-proofed and come back online soon.

Is Texas flying under the radar? Anyone think we’re better than our #18 ranking? Guess we’ll know for sure in 2.5 weeks. Assuming we don’t muff the Iowa State game. If we can stop Dr Rhoads, we have a chance…

Vacations are for losers, by the way. It’s like 7 days of bye weeks. Don’t do it!

cirque -

I watched a bit of the BYU game. I’ve never seen a team implode like that. Seven turnovers, most of them unforced. It was shocking.
 
TxinDC -
 
We are moving to SB Nation’s platform. Finally. It should make for a much faster site and relieve us of having to deal with engineering issues constantly.
 
ut06 -
 
Iowa State could barely take N. Iowa. Hats off to Rhoads and the Cyclones, but they could just as easily be 0-3.
 
Kram -

I have zero confidence in any team not named LSU, Alabama, and to a lesser extent, OU.
 
I like Arkansas and I tend to overrate them compared to the rest of the bloggers. That’s usually rewarded, as it was last year. Petrino is just a hell of a football coach and you can count on him to out coach the guy on the other sideline with regularity. Arkansas also has a ridiculous corps of WRs and they put a lot of pressure on defenses. I expect them to prove their mettle against LSU and Alabama.
 
edsp -
 
If Georgia were coached by anyone but Richt, I would rank them, but this is a Bulldog team as likely to swoon as to rally.
 
Exiled/Alan -
 
Thanks for the kind words.
 
Texas is exactly what we thought we were. Don’t go fooling yourself into thinking we’re great, even after a win in Ames.

“Iowa State could barely take N. Iowa. Hats off to Rhoads and the Cyclones, but they could just as easily be 0-3.” ~ Scipio

Could be…..but they’re not. Really quality teams learn how to win the close ones. You’re referring to their close win over FCS #2 Northern Iowa, correct? Remember Appl.State and Michigan in 2007? Appl.State went 13-2 and won their Nat’l Championship. I’d take Iowa State’s (4-4) opponents over our three (3-5) any day of the week. Paul Rhoads knows how to motivate a team as evidenced by 2009 Nebraska, ‘10 Texas, 14-point win over last year’s TT team and 1-point loss to ’10 Nebraska.

Maybe too late or maybe duplicative to other barkers, but I am still interested in looking at the UCLA beat down through the Scipio View Master, particularly the defensive performance.

Incidentially, Scipio, good job at Zama. General H. had it coming.

BevosBoss -
 
ISU is a really quality team? OK. We’ll see. I should pencil them in for 9-3 then?
 
Northern Iowa isn’t Appalachian State.
 
All The Pretty -
 
Part I of UCLA beatdown is up. Part II tonight.