RBR Week Four BlogPoll Ballot Submitted
by Todd on Sep 23, 2008 8:00 AM CDT
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Print| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida |  1 |
| 2 | Southern Cal |  1 |
| 3 | LSU | 1 |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 5 | Missouri | -- |
| 6 | Texas | 1 |
| 7 | Texas Tech | 1 |
| 8 | Georgia | 2 |
| 9 | Penn State | -- |
| 10 | Alabama | -- |
| 11 | Wisconsin | -- |
| 12 | Utah | 6 |
| 13 | Wake Forest | -- |
| 14 | Brigham Young | 2 |
| 15 | South Florida | 4 |
| 16 | Vanderbilt | 6 |
| 17 | Connecticut | 9 |
| 18 | Boise State | 8 |
| 19 | Kansas | 5 |
| 20 | Oregon | 8 |
| 21 | Oklahoma State | 5 |
| 22 | TCU | 4 |
| 23 | Ohio State | 6 |
| 24 | Clemson | 4 |
| 25 | Auburn | 11 |
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no shockers here
from the blg poll yesterday! I like the poll though, cant argue with it
Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!
Georgia DOWN two for whipping Arizona State?
Did I miss something? We won by 17 (and it wasn’t even THAT close) two thousand miles away from home.
It can...
…somewhat be explained by the fact that our ballot is normally an aggregate ballot of writers…but this week, it was Todd only.
I'm not sure I understand that explanation
I get that, when multiple ballots are aggregated, the divergent parts can cause the whole to be skewed, even though I tend to think this lessens the importance of outliers.
The fact that it was just Todd’s means that Todd dinged Georgia after the Bulldogs went outside the region for the first time in over four decades and won a decisive victory over Arizona State. (If you think the Sun Devils just aren’t that good, I would point out that even good S.E.C. teams have struggled with even mediocre Pac-10 teams on the road in recent years.)
I’m not saying the ‘Dawgs ought to be No. 1—-for the record, I didn’t rank Georgia in the top spot, either—-but what did Texas Tech do that warranted moving the Red Raiders in front of the Red and Black?
Please don’t take this as a shot; I’m genuinely trying to understand. While I disagree with many aspects of your ballot, I comprehend how reasonable fans could disagree upon most of these points. This one, though, I just don’t get.
Go 'Dawgs!
No, it means that...
…I didn’t move Georgia at all on my ballot, but I have them ranked lower than the aggregate of both mine and OTS’s, which is what was submitted last week. Without his points they move down from the submitted ballot from last week. Make sense now?
Got it now, thanks
I still think Texas Tech over Georgia is crazy, both by a resume approach (Texas Tech hasn’t beaten anyone of the caliber of Arizona State) and by a power poll approach (even the most rabid Texas Tech partisan couldn’t claim with a straight face that he thinks the Red Raiders would beat Georgia), but at least now the arrows make sense. (Who knew anyone thought less highly of Georgia than OTS?)
I appreciate your taking the time to clear that up for me. Much obliged.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Sep 23, 2008 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Honestly...
…I’m not particularly comfortable with my top ten as it stands, but so far none of the teams ahead of Georgia have done anything to merit a drop, while UGA’s less than dazzling performance against SC is what has them so low. Same reason I have Florida at #1 ahead of USC. Southern Cal is probably the better team, but Florida hasn’t done anything in my eyes to drop them any, so at #1 they stay.
I understand and appreciate that
All I would say is that, historically, Georgia’s performance against South Carolina seldom has been indicative of how good the Bulldogs are.
The Mark Richt era has been the longest period of sustained success in Red and Black football history, yet six of the eight Georgia-South Carolina games during his tenure have been decided by a touchdown or less.
Likewise, six of the last eight Georgia squads to have captured S.E.C. championships (including the 1980 national championship squad) beat South Carolina by single-digit margins.
Once again, I understand and appreciate the intellectual consistency behind not dropping teams without a reason to do so and holding a closer-than-expected win over the Gamecocks against the ’Dawgs in the absence of additional evidence in the other direction. I merely offer the foregoing as food for thought for future consideration.
Of course, after Saturday night, it won’t matter, anyway; either Georgia will lose and drop accordingly or Georgia will win and demonstrate the Bulldogs’ merit. Either way, we’ll both have more accurate information upon the basis of which to rank our respective teams.
Go 'Dawgs!
Exactly...
….even though I’m not one of those “there shouldn’t be rankings til after week four/five/whatever”, I do think there is no way you can put together a top 25 without having some laughably poor placements (Oklahoma State? What the hell was I thinking?) in it. But, as you said, we’ll know a lot more this weekend and can start ranking accordingly
When the smoke clears in a few weeks,
the Cocktail party is going to be phrenetic. I think LSU is going to do the Gators. If we take care of the Dawgs (just!), then the UF-UGA matchup is an elimination game.
BTW: There is no way that Texas Tech, Texas or Missouri are better than Georgia.
by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 23, 2008 9:58 AM CDT reply actions
BTW
Tennessee and Auburn this weekend is an elimination game, pull for the Vols (if thats possible)
Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!
Cant!
I can only hope they go to 100 OT’s and the final score is 0-0.
Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive.
Actually,
In situations like these (AU vs LSU last week, for example) I usually root for one team to beat the other by 40, instead of the close game like we got on Saturday….if one of them is going to be miserable, I want them to be reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally miserable :-)
I cannot...
…root for UT or AU, period. I realize that a UT loss gets Fulmer one step closer to a firing, which I would not like because I want to watch him lose to Alabama over and over again. I also realize that a boog loss makes it very hard for the barn to win the west, which would be lovely. But I simply cannot root for either of these teams to win. It is not in me. It would be like rooting for my annoying neighbor’s kid to beat up my annoying cousin’s kid. There’s just no joy in it.
The only joy will come in knowing that, come Sunday, one of them will have lost another SEC game.
And then I will smile.
by NiceLittleSaturday on Sep 23, 2008 10:18 AM CDT reply actions
Pulling for the Vols or Aubie is acceptable
If, and only if, they are playing a Yankee school (and, no, the PAC-10 doesn’t count).
by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 23, 2008 10:42 AM CDT reply actions
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