College Football Ranking: BlogPoll Top 25 Week 11 Draft Ballot - Separation Begins

by Jon Johnston on Nov 8, 2010 8:03 AM CST in BlogPoll

Lots of losses this weekend, but you should expect that in November. Some teams are beat up, some teams (like Texas) are just plain beat.

The Big 12 South turned into an unidentifiable soup this weekend, didn't it? You should have expected Texas to lose to Kansas State (although not that badly), Oklahoma State's offense remains unstoppable as long as Justin Blackmon isn't caught driving after drinking, and somehow someone let Texas A&M back into the mix. Maybe that's because the Big 12 South sucks?

TCU destroyed Utah, which I don't find all that shocking because I was never sold on Utah in the first place. Still, if you're a Top Ten team you should try to resemble one. Unfortunately, the TCU win sets up another TCU - Boise State BCS bowl, and if that happens again, there should be a riot.

You look at the top four, and then things drop quickly. Why is Wisconsin ranked fifth? Why Stanford at sixth? Simply because there's no one else that deserves to be put there. Oh, and Stanford did beat the snot out of a pretty decent Arizona team.

Other than that, I'm not sure what to make of the rest of it. There are so many inconsistencies. Some call it parity. I call it lazy. Exhibit A - Missouri's loss to Texas Tech. I don't care if it's at Lubbock. If you want to be considered a really good team you win that game.

Corn Nation Ballot - Week 11

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Oregon Ducks	--
2	Auburn Tigers	--
3	Boise St. Broncos	--
4	TCU Horned Frogs	--
5	Wisconsin Badgers	2
6	Stanford Cardinal	2
7	Nebraska Cornhuskers	3
8	Ohio St. Buckeyes	1
9	LSU Tigers	5
10	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	5
11	Michigan St. Spartans	6
12	Nevada Wolf Pack	10
13	Alabama Crimson Tide	-7
14	Arkansas Razorbacks	7
15	Utah Utes	-10
16	Iowa Hawkeyes	4
17	Oklahoma Sooners	-6
18	Arizona Wildcats	-6
19	South Carolina Gamecocks	-6
20	Missouri Tigers	-4
21	Virginia Tech Hokies	-2
22	Mississippi St. Bulldogs	1
23	Kansas St. Wildcats	--
24	Texas A&M Aggies	--
25	Florida Gators	--
Dropouts: Baylor Bears, Syracuse Orange, Florida St. Seminoles

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "

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I'm curious about why you have Ohio State so high

They’ve beaten no one. Their top two wins are Miami and Illinois.

by Cheeseandcorn on Nov 8, 2010 8:30 AM CST reply actions

I'm curious why

you have Wisconsin and Stanford ahead of Nebraska. I’ll borrow an excerpt from one of my postings to explain my position…

Nebraska: average margin of victory over currently ranked teams- 19.6 points (3-0 against 3 teams). Win against #10 team, #17 team, and #24 team, average ranked opponent is 17 that Nebraska has beaten. Beat two ranked opponents on the road (2-0). PF/PA average difference, 18 points.

Stanford: average margin of victory over currently ranked teams- 2 points (1-1 against 2 teams). Win against the #18 team, average ranked opponent is 18 (duh!) that Stanford has beaten but, has lost to a ranked opponent. Beat no ranked opponents on the road. PF/PA average difference, 21.5 points.

Wisconsin: average margin of victory over currently ranked teams- 1.3 points (2-1 against 3 teams). Has a win against the #9 team and the #13 team, average ranked opponent is 11 that Wisconsin has beaten but, has lost to the #11 team. Beat one ranked opponent on the road (1-1). PF/PA average difference, 16 points.

Also, I’d have TCU at #2. They just demolished the #5 team. Auburn nor Boise can boast such an impressive win. Auburn has 5 one score wins anyway, TCU has killed everyone. I’ve been against the Non-AQ teams all year but, no one has even touched TCU.

My T10 would go: Oregon, TCU, Auburn, Boise State, Nebraska, Stanford, Wisconsin, LSU, Michigan State, Oklahoma State.

by HuskerINtheArmy on Nov 8, 2010 9:08 AM CST reply actions

I'd move TCU over Boise, Iowa over Sparty

Otherwise, I don’t see any problems with this – like you said, other than the top four it’s anybody’s guess.

But no, Bill Hancock, you’re totally right: the regular season will be completely ruined if we get a playoff. /MDWM

"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther

by Go Big Rev on Nov 8, 2010 10:00 AM CST reply actions

We deserve to be 5 or 6

No one in the media or ESPN acknowledges our win over OK State at their place. The game was 51-34 and they scored with like 1:20 left. Both teams each only had one turnover. The game was no fluke and both teams were playing well we were simply that much better. We went into a top ten(Ok States BCS ranking now) teams house and punched em in the mouth. Now all the sudden LSU beats Bama who already has a loss and almost loss to Arkansas as well and they move LSU all the way up to 5!? THATS HORSE SHIT. (By the way I’m obviously not referring to your poll Jon).

by justtruckin on Nov 8, 2010 10:11 AM CST reply actions

My unsolicited top 10+1

Auburn
Oregon
TCU
Boise
Wis
NU
LSU
OSU
Stan
Mich St.
tOSU

by JimmytheRed on Nov 8, 2010 11:08 AM CST reply actions

TCU/BSU

I believe this year the Rose Bowl is required to take the top qualifying non BCS school if it loses either of its participants to the title game. Assuming Oregon makes it (who’s gonna beat them from the Pac 10?), that would set up a TCU/tOSU matchup. TCU/BSU seems highly unlikely this year.

by newbie34 on Nov 8, 2010 2:28 PM CST via mobile reply actions

Probably not Ohio State

They’ve got a pretty scarce chance of winning the Big Ten tiebreaker. More likely it’ll be Wisconsin or MSU from the Big Ten.

by Cheeseandcorn on Nov 8, 2010 2:39 PM CST up reply actions

Texas is still sticking it to us

They Beat us AGAIN this year….#$
Then they go on to Lose every #!$# game after that and it hurts our Ranking.
Losing to a LOUSY LOSING TEAM like the Texas’s Uterus’s kills your ranking