BlogPoll Ballot: Week 6
For the 2nd week in a row, this poll was more work putting together than we ever could have imagined. Four of the top 10 in the previous poll took one on the chin and overall 10 of the top 25 teams went down.
It’s no secret that we’re pretty big playoff advocates and 2007 is shaping up to be the perfect storm of fan-rioting madness. We’re only at the halfway point of the season and there are only 3 or 4 undefeated teams remaining that can make a claim to going to the championship game over one of the one-loss squads should they win out. Imagine if LSU, Cal and OSU all manage to lose a game. The outcry would be defeaning if the nation was treated to something along the lines of Boston College against Cincinnati for all the marbles.
At the very least, this season should be a strong argument for the BlogPoll and the other polls to take the lead of the Master Coaches Poll and start the voting for the year in week 3. If polls had done that, would USC still be a #10 or so in most of them?
As always, you can check the ballots of every voter and the final version is due Wednesday morning, so get your thoughts in by Tuesday night if you think we got it wrong.
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We’ve been on the wagon since week 2. Miles not only has talented players, but he out-coached Meyer. | – |
| 2 |  |
The Purdue game was overshadowed by the LSU/Florida tilt, but Buckeye fans are believing this team is better than the 2006 edition. |  2 |
| 3 |  |
A bye is better than a loss, but Bears get jumped because of it. | – |
| 4 |  |
Stoops continued mastery of Mack Brown when a certain guy with the initials "VY" is not involved. | 2 |
| 5 |  |
It’s 2007. Just win baby. | 2 |
| 6 |  |
See above. | 2 |
| 7 |  |
Had the week off and welcome Washington State to town this weekend - the perfect tonic for the heartbreaking loss to Cal. | 5 |
| 8 |  |
The OBC just bought back in at the halfway point. Watchout. | 6 |
| 9 |  |
Is Pat White going to make it to the end of the season? | 2 |
| 10 |  |
Thank you, MSM, for telling us how great these guys were all summer. |  8 |
| 11 |  |
The Tigers spanked Nebraska. Who’d have thought the Oklahoma-Missouri game this weekend would be so huge. | 2 |
| 12 |  |
Absolutely spanked Clemson at their place and maybe that win over UNC last weekend was bigger than we thought. | 4 |
| 13 |  |
The Gators catch a bye this week, but they go to Kentucky and Georgia right after that. Repeating is a bitch. | 3 |
| 14 |  |
The Fanhouse said it best: This Year’s Rutgers Beats Rutgers. Ohio football representing. | 3 |
| 15 |  |
Psst! These guys beat Stanford 41-3. | 3 |
| 16 |  |
Another BCS trouble team. Lurking with no real tests in sight. | 3 |
| 17 |  |
Zooker is the new Tyrone Willingham. What I would not give to see this Illini team wax Florida in a bowl game. | NR |
| 18 |  |
Heading into week 7 and Kansas has joined Missouri as the only two unbeatens in the Big 12. | NR |
| 19 |  |
Came crashing back down to earth against South Carolina. LSU visits this week. | 10 |
| 20 |  |
Dag Gummit.. FSU is quietly 5-1. | NR |
| 21 |  |
They’ve turned it around since the Wyoming debacle in the opener, but must face a surprising UCONN this weekend. | NR |
| 22 |  |
The Big Ten is finding out that the Badgers were a little overrated heading into the season. | 17 |
| 23 |  |
We have no idea if these guys are actually any good, but at the moment they’re 5-1 with a good shot to be 7-1 before playing Kansas. | NR |
| 24 |  |
Another team we have no real read on, but damn if they didn’t look great dismantling Georgia. | NR |
| 25 |  |
The good news is that the defenses will be considerably easier from here on out. | 4 |
DROPPED OUT: Georgia (#15), Rutgers (#20), Miami (Florida) (#22), Kansas State (#23), Texas (#24), Michigan State (#25)
11 Responses
Once again, the hammer comes down on a ranked team losing to an unranked team and punches USC.
I like Cincy even more, there’s no reason they couldn’t be a top 10 team. They haven’t lost to an unranked team at home. And Hawaii should never receive votes. I have a personal grudge against them.
SuckatSports - 10/08/07 @ 8:35 am - #
how does wisco drop 17 but usc only 8, when usc’s lose was far worse than wisco’s?
anon - 10/08/07 @ 8:48 am - #
USC did have 6 turnovers. Maybe that was a factor in their loss? Wisky got beat up without excessive turnovers.
Anonymous - 10/08/07 @ 10:14 am - #
Maybe I am nitpicking here but you are moving the Univ. of Virginia into the rankings after a 2 point victory over Middle Tenn.
Eric - 10/08/07 @ 10:40 am - #
Those teams from about 14-15 on down are all about the same. They can win or lose every weekend. Best example is Texas Autos & Money. They get absolutely blitzed by a bad Miami team, who gets beaten by a pretty bad UNC team.
TLB - 10/08/07 @ 11:18 am - #
This poll is a joke. How can the Irish not be ranked? They beat a Pac-Ten team, baby and racked up 140 yards total offense!!
Dicky V - 10/08/07 @ 11:20 am - #
Regarding Texas A&M, they looked pretty bad against Miami. Literally. They all had their shirts untucked and looked like a bunch of slobs. As General Patton used to say “They don’t look like soldiers, they don’t act like soldiers, how can they be expected to fight like soldiers?” I wouldn’t bet on A&M in a big game unless the opponent is coached by Mr. February (a.k.a. Mack Brown).
GoBucks89 - 10/08/07 @ 3:44 pm - #
only complaint is the large drop for Wisky, I don’t like them, I think they were overrated…….but, they lost to a good team (Illinois), & I think Illinois is only scratching the surface of their young talent. 17 is to big of a drop, I would probably move Illinois up a little higher (say right above Florida just for shits & giggles) and move Wisky up too.
Wil - 10/09/07 @ 9:46 am - #
Wil, I think we took into consideration Wisky’s overall body of work when bumping them down so far. Sure they’ve only been beaten once and by a pretty good team at that, but they’ve had some close calls with some rather bad teams.
Michigan State gave them all they wanted the week before they went and lost to Northwestern. That didn’t help Wisky’s cause.
Jason - 10/09/07 @ 10:37 am - #
Jason, that makes sense, but you should take USC’s overall body of work into consideratin too then:
38-10 win over 1-4 Idaho (Washington State and Northern Illinois managed to put up more points than them against this team)
49-31 win over 4-2 Nebraska (who just got blasted 41-6 by Missouri who you have ranked a spot below them, and who should have lost to Ball State)
27-24 win over 2-3 Washington (who got spanked by us and gave up 44 points in a loss to UCLA)
24-23 loss to 2-3 Stanford (who some polls is ranked 61st…just 7 spots ahead of 68th ranked Appy State)
The only real quality win they have is a 47-14 win over Washington State (which looks very similar to the 42-21 loss Washington State had to Wisky)
Sorry to be so long winded, just don’t want you guys to fall into the media hype of USC. Ask yourself this if the USC & Wisky games were reversed this weekend (keeping their previous week’s schedules the same) and USC was #5 & lost to an Illinois at Illinois and Wisky was #2 and lost to Stanford at home…..who would be ranked higher right now?
Wil - 10/09/07 @ 3:47 pm - #
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