BlogPoll Calling | Week Three Ballot
by Todd on Sep 19, 2011 9:01 AM CDT
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Roll Bama Roll Ballot - Week 4
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 2 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 3 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 4 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 5 | Wisconsin Badgers |  3 |
| 6 | Boise St. Broncos | 1 |
| 7 | Texas A&M Aggies |  -1 |
| 8 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 1 |
| 9 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 1 |
| 10 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 1 |
| 11 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 1 |
| 12 | Florida St. Seminoles | -7 |
| 13 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 14 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
| 15 | Florida Gators | 1 |
| 16 | South Florida Bulls | 2 |
| 17 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 4 |
| 18 | Baylor Bears | 1 |
| 19 | Michigan Wolverines | 4 |
| 20 | TCU Horned Frogs | 2 |
| 21 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | -- |
| 22 | Illinois Fighting Illini | -- |
| 23 | Texas Longhorns | -- |
| 24 | Clemson Tigers | -- |
| 25 | Fla. International Golden Panthers | -- |
| Dropouts: Michigan St. Spartans, Ohio St. Buckeyes, Arizona St. Sun Devils, Maryland Terrapins, Auburn Tigers | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
Justifications:
The top four remain static with OU, LSU, Alabama, and Stanford. Of the three, OU obviously has the best win of the four (over Florida State) so they're staying at #1 until they lose (or at least almost lose to a horrible team). LSU and Bama have solid wins over name teams in Oregon and Penn State, but so far are showing issues that need to be corrected if they're going to make it to New Orleans. Stanford has looked very impressive so far, but they don't have a marquee win to hang their hats on just yet.
5-10 is still muddled, but we should get some more clarity this weekend when Oklahoma State and Texas A&M face off. Nebraska and Arkansas still don't have real "quality" wins, but Nebraska's win over Washington is still better than anything Arkansas has scheduled. They'll get another cupcake in Wyoming this weekend, while Arkansas will face their first real test against Alabama this weekend. Finally, Boise is still hanging around after manhandling Toledo, but at this point they're pretty much top ten on rep alone.
11-15 is just as muddled. Still don't know what to make of Virginia Tech, but that's kind of how you have to look at the Hokies every year. Both Oregon and Florida State have a loss, but even in defeat they looked reasonably impressive (especially FSU). South Carolina "escaped" Navy, but considering how difficult it is to face that offense, especially when you don't have to face it regularly, struggling against them isn't a big knock. What's disappointing is that they weren't able to do more on offense against them and SC fans better be on their knees praying to the Football Gods night and day for protection of Marcus Lattimore. Florida? They look exactly like the phenomenally talented team that's going through a coaching staff change that they are, alternately impressive and bumbling between drives. When they finally get it together they are going to be terrifying, but for now I can't justify bumping them any higher without having played a quality opponent (in your face UT!)
16-24 might as well be the island of misfit undefeated (plus TCU). Clemson squeaks in despite a lackluster performance against Wofford, West Virginia is underperforming, South Florida looks good but haven't played anyone (take that ND!), Baylor is hanging its hat on a wild win over TCU, TCU is hanging its hat on being TCU, Michigan cause might as well, ditto for Texas and Illinois.
Mr. Irrelevant this week goes to the Golden Panthers of Florida International, who are surprisingly 3-0 to start the season with wins over Louisville (what?! They're an AQ team!) and a UCF team that has been about as solid of a mid-major outside of the traditional BCS busters as you can find over the past few seasons.
Finally, the dropped teams: Michigan State, you don't lose to that bad of a Notre Dame and still expect to be ranked. Ohio State, you got flat out manhandled by what looks like a typically mediocre Miami. Arizona State, you probably shouldn't have been ranked anyway. Ditto for Maryland. Ditto for Auburn.
I'm sure y'all all have an opinion on where I'm wrong and/or stupid, so fire away.
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Wisconsin looks strong...
in a really weak conference. They could actually have a pretty easy road, if Nebraska doesn’t trip them up.
Ding dong, the pricks are dead.
Glad to see AU finally starting down the road to 5-7.
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i think this is a solid top 25
And i totally agree on UF..Been saying from day one. They are way to talented to be looked past. That team is going to be a handful come last Nov. Watch out FSU..
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What's between way and talented?
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
when did you become a prick???
;)
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Same year that nerd thing happened.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
I don't see how
Top 5, yes. 6-15, not so much.
FSU dropped from the top 10 in every poll despite playing a close game. What’s the justification here? Just wondering how in the hell you play a game that wasn’t decided until the final 7 minutes of the game and just drop them like they lost to an unranked team. Guess we’ll find out this week since they got to travel to Death Valley to play Clemson.
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by gonolesrolltide on Sep 19, 2011 9:58 AM CDT reply actions
I'm with you here.
I think Florida State’s #7 right now.
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -Bertrand Russell
That's how it works early-season.
Losing a big game OOC sort of “penalizes” you early on, but it doesn’t matter if you keep winning since teams above you play each other in conference play, and late losses trump early ones. Of course, if you don’t keep winning then it was more accurate than you wanted to believe.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
the Clempson/FSU game this weekend is gonna be a good'n
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Should be.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
did you watch the game? (im sure you did)
That was closer to being a blow out for OU than a win for FSU….Everyone will talk about how well FSU played in the game (and they did compared to last year) and the defense did play well, but OU made some dumb mistakes that kept FSU in the game.
I have no clue what their goal line offense is but it isn’t good. Run up the middle. FAIL..Try again..FAIL.Try obvious 3rd down play action pass. FAIL. When the D has 10 men in the box and every one is keying on the run, PA should be on 1st down..NOT 3rd…OU is trying to establish a power running game and it isn’t working…
And that Trickett TD should have never happened..Not sure what #30 for OU was thinking but that pass should have been a pick. I understand it wasn’t and FSU hung in there but that game wasn’t as close as people want to believe.
LIke i told my co-workers this morning, FSU’s D is top 10…FSU offense? top 30.
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Really?
Because I’m sure FSU had a TD called back for a hold and lost another when Kenny Shaw got knocked out.
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by gonolesrolltide on Sep 19, 2011 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions
That Shaw hit was legal but nasty...
he also fumbled it. I didn’t agree with the penalty being called cause i didn’t think either of the OU players intentionally went high but thems the rules..
FSU played well there’s no arguing that but a couple plays went FSU’s way keeping it close. If that game was in Norman again, I think its closer to a 2 TD+ win for OU..
Just my opinion. I have to hear FSU fans all day which means i know more about FSU than I ever really wanted to.
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It was nasty,
but the flag didn’t come in ’til the official saw the kids arms lock up on the ground. After seeing the replay, I though they might have squished the kids head and messed him up seriously.
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by Slice of Life on Sep 19, 2011 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions
but does that mean the hit deserved a penatly?
it was just one of those plays that the timing was perfect and the end result was helmet on helmet on helmet. From what I saw, neither OU player led with the helmet. Either way im glad the kid is ok. He was on the sideline later in the game so that was good..
BTW, did anyone else find it odd that it took Jimbo so long to get EJ Manuel out of the game after getting hurt? I think he ran like 2-3 plays after signaling to the side line that we was in a lot of pain.
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Yeah.
I was wondering what the deal with that was but it was also his non-throwing arm so I’m thinking maybe Jimbo thought he could get through it for a few more plays. It was brought up at the press conference today. EJ was at the doc’s at the time of the press conference but on the flip side, Clemson don’t know who they have to prepare for at QB.
I think FSU will beat Clemson. We all know Auburn’s defense was suspect and I think FSU defense will be able to hold them the Clemson offense in check. I just wish our O-line would block for our RBs. Our running game was a strength last year but this year it’s been the weakest point of the offense. I hope it gets fixed soon because we’ll need to run the ball against in order to win in Death Valley.
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by gonolesrolltide on Sep 19, 2011 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions
What really stinks
`is that me and my wife will be at the Ark and Bama game this weekend and FSU plays at the same time. So I’m gonna have the jitters about what the hell is going on.
I just hope y’all beat the piss out of Arkansas.
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by gonolesrolltide on Sep 19, 2011 12:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Suspect?
A wettish-feeling fart is suspect. Auburn’s defense is full-on shit.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
LOL!
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by gonolesrolltide on Sep 19, 2011 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm going to have to disagree
Bammer, Normally I’m in your corner but I think I’m going to have to agree with gonoles on this one. Anytime that you lose your starting QB and put in a Freshman and still hang with one of the best teams in the country, I think that says something. In terms of FSU’s offense, I think that its probably better than it showed Saturday night; those boys from OU looked real good on defense. I’d still put FSU in the top 10. Of course, as has already been noted, the game at Clemson looms large for them this weekend.
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by The Good Doc on Sep 19, 2011 10:38 AM CDT up reply actions
I think they are right where they should be.
- is about right. They are very young and have a lot of talent that needs to gel. I picked them to win the ACC and still believe that.
I looked at that game Saturday much like our game against Texas. The game was never really in doubt and the team rallied behind a young QB and made it a game. FSU’s goal line defense is what kept that game from getting out of hand…I think they forced 3-4 short yardage FG’s…
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Good point
I just hope that the Trickett kid doesn’t end up having the kind of trouble the young Texas QB had the next year. I think that kid has already been replaced.
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by The Good Doc on Sep 19, 2011 4:03 PM CDT up reply actions
OU obviously has the best win of the four (over Florida State) so they’re staying at #1 until they lose (or at least almost lose to a horrible team)
Or until the LSU/Alabama game?
God bless our Dark Lord.
Yeah, the computers won't have them at 1 after that week.
Assuming the winner is still undefeated at that point…
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
Not so sure.
LSU has without a doubt the toughest schedule in football this year IMO. If they are undefeated, they will easily be #1 in all computer polls, and probably opinion polls as well.
But I’m not sure we can top Oklahoma if we win. It’s still early so it’s tough to say for sure, but Oklahoma might have a bit tougher schedule than us. If that is the case, then in the computers they will put Oklahoma above Alabama.
Oklahoma has Florida St, Texas and Oklahoma St for good tough teams. Also, a decent strength(top50ish) Missouri and Baylor. And while they play some “cupcakes”, they don’t begin to compare to Kent St and N.Texas. They have Vandy/Kentucky type cupcakes.
So LSU, yes for sure. Alabama I think will come in 2nd, but it could be close/mixed. Atleast in the computer polls.
What's the deal with Lester?
Has anything been said whether or not he’s gonna be ready to go on Saturday?
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by gonolesrolltide on Sep 19, 2011 12:52 PM CDT reply actions
Long as
he lays off the coeds for the week…
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
Get Texass outta' there, man
They celebrated beating UCLA? Pshhh
Also, FSU got dinged way too hard.
Finally, what did Michigan do to warrant moving up 4 spots? Beat Eastern Michigan?
Inanity @gothlaw
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by Stuck in the Plains on Sep 20, 2011 12:54 PM CDT reply actions
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