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2008 College Football Blogpoll - Week 1 Rev 1

RankTeamDelta
1 Georgia --
2 Ohio State --
3 Missouri --
4 Southern Cal --
5 Florida --
6 Oklahoma --
7 LSU 1
8 Texas Tech 1
9 West Virginia 1
10 Texas 1
11 Wisconsin 1
12 Alabama 14
13 California --
14 South Florida 1
15 Auburn 1
16 Brigham Young 1
17 Kansas 1
18 Wake Forest 1
19 Penn State 1
20 Illinois 1
21 Clemson 14
22 Tennessee --
23 Boston College --
24 Oklahoma State 1
25 Oregon 1

 

Dropped Out: Virginia Tech (#14).

Obviously this version is based on the condition that Tennessee beats UCLA later tonight.

I'm not moving the top teams around, despite Ohio State's potential loss of Chris Wells, and despite how good USC looked taking care of Virginia.

I'm not that bothered by all the points given up by Missouri. Perhaps I should be, and USC should move above them.

Texas Tech gave up 17 points in the 2nd quarter to Eastern Washington, something they shouldn't be doing either, but should they drop on that basis?

Maybe Cal should drop a little bit, but they get rewarded for playing a team from a BCS conference, rather than some play-for-pay school.

Should Clemson drop out completely?

Pitt. Ha! I didn't buy into that Dave Wannstache stuff!

And Virginia Tech looked poor at best, so they drop out. Still, someone is going to in the ACC, right?

I am not ranking Nebraska (again) for two reasons:

Whom would they replace?

I'm trying not to appear a homer.

Based upon what I saw Saturday against Western Michigan, the Husker are probably a better team than Oregon. Take heart, there's still a lot of college football to be played. It doesn't matter where you start, but where you end for the Husker faithful, right? 

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Why not.

Why wouldn’t you drop Tech for giving up 24 points to a 1-AA team? I mean, that’s more substantial than the preseason guess. That’s the problem with polls; people take guesses where to place them in the preseason, and are hesitant to change those opinions until they lose. You have to base it on what they’ve done so far.

And yes, Nebraska shouldn’t be ranked yet.

by Husker Mike on Sep 1, 2008 8:00 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

good

points…

and good thing on calling me on it, i’m just being lazy.

Tech, Mizzou drop. USC moves up.

What you think of Ohio State and Georgia?

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by corn blight on Sep 1, 2008 10:57 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Georgia hasn't played yet..

…so I know nothing. But there’s no point in downgrading them because you think that their schedule is going to trip them up, since you can adjust that if and when they lose.

But I don’t see how you can vote USC behind those two.

by Husker Mike on Sep 2, 2008 6:41 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

As painful as it is for me to say

You should definitely drop Mizzou for giving up 42. USC looked dominant over a BCS team (well, barely). And Oklahoma was purely dominant, and played with much more cohesion. We should only get credit for playing a better team if we soundly defeated them. While I think the Illini will be better than we first thought, they won’t be as good as we made them look. We have time to improve, but it was a disappointing performance.

And I have to say, the fact that Pellini refuses to give back the Blackshirts until they’ve really earned it is awesome.

Okay, just so I can live with myself, giving up 24 points to Western Michigan is not awesome. Mizzou-Nebraska could break an over/under of 100 combined at the rate we’re looking.

by Ridiculous Matt on Sep 1, 2008 8:46 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

we

both have a lot of work to do….

well. the coaches and the players have a lot of work to do.

I’ll just have plenty of bitching on hand :)

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by corn blight on Sep 1, 2008 10:58 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

You won't get an argument from me

… if/when you move OU ahead of Mizzou for the time being.

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by rptgwb on Sep 1, 2008 11:55 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

How does Tennessee's loss impact your ballot?

Out of curiosity, with the Vols looking mighty unimpressive losing to UCLA.

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by huskerlibrarian on Sep 2, 2008 1:39 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

they

leave the poll.

UCLA replaces them…. I can’t stand Rick Neuheisel. Really can’t. Pains me.

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by corn blight on Sep 2, 2008 8:56 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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