Blogpoll Ballot: Week 1
In discussing how we should reshape our blogpoll ballot after this week’s games it was brought up that if last season was the year of the upset, this season might be the year of the injury.
After a preseason filled with such stories, yesterday was more of the same with Ohio State, Georgia (Moreno/Owens) and Missouri (Maclin) dealing with new injury concerns.
While the Buckeyes and Bulldogs put up solid wins, Oklahoma and USC came out healthy after laying smackdowns allowing both to move up in this week’s poll.
Note that we’ve moved up Tennessee and Fresno State even though they haven’t played – but only because teams previously ahead of them were defeated. We’ll revise the poll, if necessary, after they play later today. The final version isn’t due until Wednesday so let us know if/where we dropped the ball.
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Sooners spank Chattanooga 57-2 after leading 50-0 at half. Sooner D: allowed just 36 yards and 1 first down. |  1 |
| 2 |  |
Whoa…Trojans wrap up Virginia 52-7. Sanchez is healthy (388 yds, 3 TD) and RB tandem of McKnight and Gable goes for 15/133. USC racks up 555-187 edge in total yards. | 2 |
| 3 |  |
The D was stout, Pryor and his fellow freshmen were impressive but all we want to know is if/when Beanie will return. Until that’s clear – we have to drop them a couple spots. |  2 |
| 4 |  |
Moreno gets 3 TDs on 8 touches in 45-21 win over Antonio Henton’s (10/18, 102 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT) Georgia Southern squad. UGA defense gives up 290 total yards. | 1 |
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Ironically, Tebow of Nazareth failed to record a rushing TD for first time since 2006 in UF’s 56-10 blowout of the Rainbows. Florida penalties: 13/90. Gators meet ‘Canes next Saturday night (ESECPN). | – |
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Tiger’s new spread offense gets only 85 yards passing but rumbles for 321 on the ground in 34-0 shutout of Louisiana Monroe. | 1 |
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Maclin paced Mizzou with 206 all-purpose yards and 2 TDs while the Tiger defense surrendered 532 total yards in 52-42 win. Juice Williams burned them for a career high 451 yards and 5 TDs. | 1 |
| 8 |  |
Miles moves to 15-0 against non-conference foes. In those games, LSU holds a cumulative 540-123 edge in points. Next up, Troy. | 1 |
| 9 |  |
Red Raiders QB Graham Harrell passed for 536 yards and 2 TDs as Mike Leach’s offense put up 639 yards in 49-24 win over Eastern Washington. | 1 |
| 10 |  |
The Dickrod’s Gone Era started with a bang as Pat White threw for a career high 5 TDs in a 48-21 win over Villanova. White became WVU’s all time total offense leader, passing Marc Bulger with 7,984 yards. | 1 |
| 11 |  |
Colt McCoy put up over 200 passing and 100 rushing with 4 TDs in a 52-10 pasting of Florida Atlantic. Mack Brown’s kids registered 11 penalties, good for 110 yards. | 1 |
| 12 |  |
PJ Hill finished with 204 yards rushing as Wisconsin rolled up 404 on the ground in a 38-17 win over Akron. This one was close at the half as Akron trailed just 17-10. | 1 |
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Todd Reesing threw for 256 yards and 3 TDs while the Jayhawk D allowed only 9 first downs in a 40-10 drubbing of Florida International. Kansas set a single game attendance record with 52,112. Sounds like a Buckeye spring game crowd… | 1 |
| 14 |  |
After losing projected QB Nate Costa to season ending surgery, Oregon backup Justin Roper suffered a concusssion paving the way for third teamer Jeremiah Mosoli. The juco transfer went 9/17 with 2 TD’s as the Ducks blitzed Washington 44-10. | 2 |
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The Sun Devils jumped out to a 27-0 halftime lead with Rudy Carpenter throwing 13 straight completions en route to a 388 yard performance. | 3 |
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Joe Pa tied Bowden on the all time wins list (373) as the Lions put a 66-10 whuppin’ on Coastal Carolina. PSU rushed for 334 yards. Evan Royster had 3 TD’s and Derrick Williams had 2 TD’s including an 89 yard kickoff return. | 3 |
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Fullmer’s boys play at UCLA tonight at 8pm. | 3 |
| 18 |  |
Bear Saban’s defense held Clemson’s vaunted “Thunder and Lighting” running backs to a combined 20 yards, giving up just 11 first downs, in a 34-10 route of favored Clemson. | 8 |
| 19 |  |
Wake’s Riley Skinner threw for 220 yards and 3 scores in a 41-13 win over Baylor. The win was Skinner’s 19th as starting QB, good for a school record. | 2 |
| 20 |  |
BYU QB Max Hall blew up for 486 yards (34/41) and 2 TD’s. The 41-17 win extends BYU’s national best winning streak to 11 games. | 2 |
| 21 |  |
The Bulls led 28-0 after one quarter as South Florida piled on the FCS’ Tennessee-Martin in a 56-7 blowout. The Bulls’ D held UT-Martin to 6 first downs. | 2 |
| 22 |  |
Fresno plays at Rutgers at 4pm today on ESECPN. | 2 |
| 23 |  |
Former Buckeye Bo Pelini had a successful debut as Nebraska recorded a 47-24 victory over Western Michigan. Husker QB Joe Ganz tossed for 345 yards and 4 TD’s though the D allowed three separate 80 yard scoring drives. | 2 |
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Zooker’s boys fell 52-42 on the road at Missouri but he’s got to be pleased with Juice’s 451 passing yards and 5 TD’s. | 9 |
| 25 |  |
Cal rounds out our Top 25 after defeating Sparty 38-31 in Berkeley. The Bear D held Ringer to 27/81 though he found the endzone twice and Brian Hoyer completed just 20 of 48 attempts. | 1 |
DROPPED OUT: Clemson (#8), Virginia Tech (#17).
How can you drop OSU and move up USC? Both of the team they played were horrible and USC got scored on. Chris I dont agree with your poll.
We all agreed that Beanie’s injury cast a little doubt. Until we know more, we dropped the Bucks a little. I’m no USC apologist but I think it’s fair to say UVA is a better team than Youngstown State, plus USC was on the road.
The blogpoll is great in that you can change teams week to week based on how they are playing and/or events that occur in the game. We try to use it as a power poll and if Beanie isn’t on this team, we give USC a slight edge against us.
I have to agree with the decision to drop them a spot for now as well, their ranking just like Georgia’s is dependent on who is healthy, etc. In my heart the bucks are #1, but if they were to play Oklahoma this week instead of Ohio U, you’d have to think the Sooners would have the edge. I don’t know about the rest of everyone, but I was impressed with Mizzou’s defense, they seemed to be in the right spot every time for Illinois play. Juice never seemed to be comfortable
In my re-watching bonanza of Sunday/Monday, I am reminded of how terrible channel 6’s “Buckeye Football Fever” is. They spent about 10 of the first 15 minutes talking about each other’s clothes, including DStanley’s clown suit. I’m not sure what pictures Clay Hall has of his boss committing some sort of felony but clearly they are damaging. Please, stop airing this show live, tape it and save all of us the mindless yapping as they nervously toss it from the sideline to the studio and back again with no apparent rhyme or reason. At least on tape, a producer could alert Hall to the fact that he just lead off the opening game kick-off show with a diatribe about Harley’s “elf shoes” and proceed to do another take. Don’t get me wrong, I prefer live pre-game coverage but I would also rather watch a pregame show about…the game? I realize the irony of beating the “talk more about football” drum by talking a bunch of shit about their show and not football but I was left no choice.
This show also included the DStanley gem “(Pryor) with hard work and doing the right thing, COULD be the man in 2 or 3 years.” Now that, my friends, is true fucking insight.
OK, I feel better.
Where are you getting Les Miles 15-0 non-conference record? If you are including his record at OK-State, he’d have at least one loss to OSU in the Alamo bowl several years back.
Matt — I was just referring to his non-conf record at LSU.
I agree with dropping the Buckeyes below USC. Even if Beanie hadn’t been injured, after seeing the way USC dominated Virginia, I am starting to have my doubts. Don’t get me wrong I’ll be pulling for the bucks, its just that USC doesn’t seem to have any real weakness
Any time a team can hang 50+ on a BCS team, you know they might be a tad decent.