This season was the first in which we were fortunate enough to vote in the BlogPoll and we had a blast. But alas -- all good things must come to an end (for 7 months at least).
Here's the top 10 on our final ballot:
| 1 |  |
We're believers now. If you win the SEC, you deserve a shot in the title game. Even if you're 6-6. |
| 2 |  |
Blowing up Hawaii sets the stage for a title run of their own next season. |
| 3 |  |
The Illini spent too much time at Disney and the Trojans ate them for lunch. USC fans will be cursing the Stanford game for eternity. |
| 4 |  |
Jilted by Rodriguez, the Mountaineers showed a lot of sack picking apart the Sooners. |
| 5 |  |
Based on what we saw in NoLa, this is about as high as we can justify putting the Buckeyes. Homer powers.. thwarted.. |
| 6 |  |
A stolen coat set the tone for the game and all of a sudden "Big Game" Bobby has a loss in his 4th straight BCS bowl game. |
| 7 |  |
Evidently Houston Nutt took the defensive playbook with him when he left town. Tony Temple upstaging Darren McFadden? |
| 8 |  |
Mangino's boys finished 12-1 this year with a big Orange Bowl win over VaTech. Still, what was up with the interference on the Gatorade dump? |
| 9 |  |
Turnovers did the Hokies in against the Jayhawks. Oh, and speaking of losing four consecutive BCS games... |
| 10 |  |
The Eagles may be a little high here, but props to having the nation's longest bowl winning streak (8). |
Complete 11W Ballot | All Ballots
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Comments
Move BC out & Va Tech down to 10 & Texas in at number 9
Mangina would of had a heart attack if they dumped ice cold water on him. Not good to have the head coach fall dead on national tv.
"The lower tier of the SEC is faster, more athletic, tougher, and better coached than any team in the Big 10. If you put OSU in the SEC they would not finish better than 500 in any year."
Gatorpilot, I know that it was not you that stated this, however it is fans that make those comments that push the stereotype that SEC fans are cocky, delusional, and uneducated. Your comments about us losing to a better team were correct. I completely agree with you......a team can only go as far as their quarterback can take them.....and Flynn was the only one able to withstand pressure and complete passes. My advice to you is to dis-own fans that make these types of statements because they lower the IQ population of your fan base. (I don’t mean to take this out on you; I’m just not sure I can dumb myself down enough for sec rules-big 10 drools to understand me)
Wil, I agree with you 100%.
Thank you Wil, I knew someone would understand and I wouldn't have to try to type messages under a different name......but then actually forget to change the name so everyone saw that it was me agreeing with myself and look like a total jack@$$.
(Yes I am making fun of your total stupidity sec rules-big ten drools)
Once again WIL, you are on point!
The mouth breathing slobberknocking SEC pukes are quite delusional and rather ignorant. Some entirely idiotic. The propaganda war has escalated.
LSU was better this game, but the Buckeyes showed they have the capability to be competitive with them and even win.
This year the Buckeyes stepped on their own dicks, so we helped out LSU.
If only "Fake Wil" would come out of hiding now.
WIL, no can do. Talking to yourself... er, myself, is a fine way to utilize the Socratic Method.
I, Me, Myself, and WIL; will continue to converse in ways that would make a Freudian Psychoanalyst foam at the mouth.
I bid you, me; adieu!
Having a nice converstaion?
Generally speaking, it is ok to talk to yourself......as long as nobody answers.
Sadly guys.....not ALL of those were the real Wil.....uhhhh at least I don't think they were all me/him/us.
Haha, all joking aside, most of that was me but it seems like others decided to get in on the fun.
Anyway, Gatorpilot, although the SEC did prove to be the better conference.....do you still think that Beanie Wells is just an "OK running back".....because that concluded a better runningback performance than D-Mac had (again, as a sophomore).....we'll see how his Junior year goes starting with USC.
My personal opinion is he is a great back and had we not stopped giving him the ball altogether after the 1st quarter.....maybe we still lose, but we would have at least had a much better chance than letting Todd get creamed because Alex Boone still can't pass block top notch DE's. (is that 2 National Championship's in a row the guy he was primarily supposed to block ended up as the defensive player of the game?)
Wil, I guess it was a bad week to stop sniffing glue, huh?
Who said I stopped?
You are correct WIL, it was me! I cannot let you take all the credit for those posts. I did two of them.
Make that three...
Wil should get a life.
Nice 1 "Wil", I like how you took my own joke and tried to turn it against me...sadly you don't have enough "wit" to come up with something of your own.....probably an uneducated SEC grad.
WIL, how dare you!
I am not a mouth-breathing, slobberknocking, knuckle dragging, trailer-dwelling, slacked jawed, SEC puke who spent my youth on the set of Hee-Haw. However, I am mildly retarded. Call it inbreeding if you want, huffing glue, social malaise, or growing up near a nuclear power plant... but I am no cousin-humping, ignorant-as-a-bag-of-hammers, Bible-thumping, apoplectic, chaw-spitin, whiskey-sluggin, Gun-Totin, Miscreant, slope-headed yokel who chants for a conference instead of a particular team.
Nor do I believe that SEC athletes have an extra muscle in their legs, an extra bone in their feet, or that a 4.3 40 run in the south is any faster than a 4.3 40 run in the north. Or, that football should replace a fine education.
However, I do believe that turning the joke around was sheer hilarity and quite witty! Then again, I am the sofa-king.
And you my friend, are sofa-king funny. You're sofa-king awesome!
“The lower tier of the SEC is faster, more athletic, tougher, and better coached than any team in the Big 10. If you put OSU in the SEC they would not finish better than 500 in any year.â€
Yeah, I don't agree with this. Would *this year's* OSU team be .500 in the SEC? I dunno, maybe. There are a lot of pretty decent teams who finished with that kind of record. Look at Arkansas... they beat LSU. Kentucky lost five games and they beat LSU, too.
Sometimes I think it's not that Ohio State is a "bad" team, but they have a terrible diet. Eat a lot of cupcakes, and it makes your team soft. As evidenced when our b-ball Gators came to Columbus a few weeks ago and pretty much had their asses handed to them by your Bucks, who despite having the worse record were obviously the better team.
I do think that right now, and for the past couple of years, the SEC has been the nation's toughest conference. I think if you come out of the SEC as a conference champion, you deserve strong consideration from the voters when the time comes to award title game berths, even if you're a 1-loss team (or in this year's rather unusual example, 2 losses.)
The 'SEC Speed' argument was overdone and in many cases does not apply. I think what we should be saying is that the SEC has the best combination of power *and* speed, particularly on defense... RIGHT NOW, but not perpetually. For example, to me, it certainly appeared as though LSU's receivers were just as fast as Ohio State's, but more athletic overall. On defense there was no comparison.
I think you also have to look at the coaching. The SEC is just... sick. We just added Bobby Petrino to a cast of five, count 'em, *five* active, national championship-winning coaches.
Spurrier -- '96 (Gators)
Fulmer -- '98 (Vols)
Saban -- '03 (LSU)
Meyer -- '06 (Gators)
Miles -- '07 (LSU)
In addition, you have Tommy Tuberville's '04 squad who went undefeated but were locked out of the title game, and Mark Richt's Bulldogs, a team that is always oh-so-close to breaking it wide open and are statistically the best team in the SEC in the past 5 years. They'll be a Top 5 team next year, no doubt.
And finally, how about 10 teams being bowl-eligible, with 9 getting bowl bids.
There's no other conference in the nation like that. That's positively sick.
There just aren't any gimme games on the conference slate. Any SEC team can rise up and beat any other SEC team. You forget to bring your game one week, and you're done.
Didn't mean to turn it into a brag session. I'm just saying, compare it to any other conference, and it's not even close. In my opinion, that level of competition, week in and week out, is why our teams tend to do well in the postseason.
What can I say, WIL?
I am a homer for the SEC. I would rather chant SEC at games, or wherever I go, or post, than for a particluar team. It is kinda like people chanting AFC instead of Go Browns. Or, AFC instead of the Patriots. Or, AL instead of the Indians. Or, Eastern instead of the Cavs. You get it right? It makes so much sense. I can't believe more intelligent people do not understand it. Because you never lose when you support the conference with the most talented teams. You never suffer the pain of loss, because you can make illogical rationalizations to keep your head up and continue our mindless chants.
Some would say it is gutless, stupid, and chickenshit, I say... GO SEC!!!
Cute, "Gatorpilot". The 3:45AM version of Gatorpilot is not the real me.
I guess this is why so many blogs go to that damn "registration required" thing.
-The REAL Gatorpilot
Why am I posting on another teams blog, WIL? Because I am that kinda guy!
-The Real Gatorpilot
No, wait...
That was not me either. I post on other teams blogs to be an itch in your craw. To make up for my inferiority complex, lack of intelligence, and humor. It is kinda like crack addicts drinking their own whiz. Do they have to do it? No! But they sure like the taste of it.
-The Real Gatorpilot
I like the taste of it too!
-The Real Gatorpilot
Ha! You got me chuckling, "Real" me. Sorry, Wil, I assume you know who's really who based on the login.
-The REAL Gatorpilot
I do.
However, there are like 800 of me out there right now so good luck......I feel like a bunch of half retarded clones of me were made. Well in any case go ahead and remove the comments with profanity (as I always try to cover that up with symbols) and any 3:45 postings of me (that is WAAAYYY to late for me and anyone else with a REAL job to be up).
-The REAL Wil
It is never too late WIL. If you are in a different time zone!