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2008 CBS Sports Blog Poll Top 25 College Football Rankings - Week Nine Initial Ballot

Initial ballot for this week.

The Top Five remains unchanged:

#1 - Texas. Can Colt McCoy get any better? Or is this coming week the time at which he has a bad game?

#2 - Penn State- I thought that Ohio State would beat them. I watched most of the game. The Nitts' defense is better than I expected and their backup quarterback played well. National title game? Deal with it? Or maybe I should vote them down for nothing more than a lack of class.

#3 - Oklahoma. I know that KSU's defense is lost, but scoring over 50 in the first half is impressive regardless of who you're playing. Two backs rushed for over 100 apiece, even though Oklahoma didn't play their best ball.

#4 - Alabama - perhaps they should be higher. Probably should be, but I reserve the right to my individual bias. Can I do that? Vols fans had bags on their heads. Can't say I blame them.

#5 - Florida. What a butt-kicking they put on Kentucky. Sea of Blue called it a "horror show".

I watched quite a bit of football Saturday. Nebraska - Baylor, LSU - Georgia, Alabama - TN, Missouri - Colorado, Penn State - Ohio State, USC - Arizona, and the replay of Oklahoma - Kansas State. Didn't watch all the complete games, obviously - there wasn't much need to watch more than a few minutes of the Mizzou-CU game.

Questions - Utah, Boise State, TCU. Should Okie State stay above them?

Ball State does nothing for me. Is that unfair? Or do you care?

At #25, Maryland or South Florida?

 

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RankTeamDelta
1 Texas --
2 Penn State --
3 Oklahoma --
4 Alabama 1
5 Florida 1
6 Texas Tech 1
7 Southern Cal 1
8 Utah 1
9 Georgia 3
10 Boise State 3
11 TCU 3
12 Oklahoma State 8
13 Missouri 4
14 Florida State 4
15 LSU 5
16 Minnesota 7
17 Tulsa 2
18 Ohio State 7
19 Ball State 7
20 Brigham Young --
21 Michigan State 5
22 Oregon 4
23 North Carolina 3
24 Kansas 8
25 Maryland 1

 

Dropped Out: Georgia Tech (#15), South Florida (#21), Boston College (#22), Northwestern (#24), Pittsburgh (#25).

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Granted I didn't see much of the Texas/Okie State game...

…but as far as I can tell, Okie State kept it pretty darn close. Dropping them eight spots seems a little much. Do you really think that Tech, Boise, and TCU are better than Okie State? Boise was neck and neck with San Jose State on Friday night.

Kansas was badly exposed Saturday, drop them completely. I also think you are dropping Ohio State too much. On the other hand, I think you’ve got LSU too high; that was a bad loss at home. At least drop them below Ohio State.

by Husker Mike on Oct 27, 2008 6:49 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

good points

Tech – yeah, I still believe that Tech is better than Okie State, but we’ll find out more this coming weekend. I’m betting that Tech takes Texas, right now, off the top of my head.

Good point on LSU, I’m not sold on them anyway.

And Okie State – above TCU, Boise.

Go Big Red Nebraska!
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by corn blight on Oct 27, 2008 11:56 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm going to shout it from every mountaintop

Oklahoma State is the real deal. They went into Austin, in front of 98,000 fans, against the clear No. 1 team in the country, and went blow-for-blow with Texas and lost by four. In my opinion, Okie State is the third best team in the conference right now, and depending on what we see out of Texas Tech this weekend against Texas, might be the second-best team in the conference. They are good.

After watching the Saturday night game between Penn State and Ohio State, I’m convinced Okie State is better than either of those teams.

We'll carry the banner high!
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by TB on Oct 27, 2008 9:53 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

In agreement

OSU is the second best team in this conference. Out of all of UT’s last three opponents, I’ll argue OSU gave them the best game. If OSU plays like they have all year long, they will end up 11-1 (yes, even over OU) and go to a BCS game.

Texas v. Tech may well depend on which TTU group comes out of the locker room. The one that showed up against us, or the one that destroyed Kansas?

We shall see.

by HuskersTexansRocketsStros on Oct 28, 2008 10:09 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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