Blogpoll: Final Poll Draft
Glitches carrying over from the final regular season ballot have the delta’s out of whack once again but I’m sure you’ll live.
Florida and USC are without a doubt the two best teams in our minds but it gets a little cloudy after that.
Since the final poll is obviously more important than the previous versions, please submit your feedback before Sunday so we can submit the final ballot Monday morning.
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| 1 |  |
Tebow and Harvin lead Florida to the Blogpoll Title. | NR |
| 2 |  |
We thought before the bowls USC deserved to be in the title game and their first half demolition of Penn State only reinforced our opinion. | NR |
| 3 |  |
I’m just the messenger on this one since it goes against our season long criteria of ranking based on who we think would win straight up on a neutral field especially in the top 10 but I think this is more about making a statement regarding the need for a playoff. | NR |
| 4 |  |
Colt McCoy’s 411 yards passing and late game magic were just enough for Texas to prevent an upset by a game Ohio State team. | NR |
| 5 |  |
The Sooners hung in there but couldn’t upend the Gators. | NR |
| 6 |  |
Because we Buckeye fans have been there, done that, we knew a Rose Bowl whipping was in order but that doesn’t overly diminish what a great season Joe Pa’s crew had in an inferior conference | NR |
| 7 |  |
‘Bama was ranked higher than they deserved all season by us and we knew it well before Saban’s bunch choked on the last two games of the season. | NR |
| 8 |  |
The Red Raiders were clearly a team not happy with their bowl destination and Ole Miss made them pay for it 47-34. | NR |
| 9 |  |
The Buckeyes were in it to win it but they scored with too much time left then got caught gambling with no safeties extending the BCS Bowl slide to three. | NR |
| 10 |  |
The Horned Frogs finished at 11-2 while ending Boise State’s bid for an undefeated season in a 17-16 victory. | NR |
| 11 |  |
Georgia awoke from a first half slumber to beat Sparty 24-12 in the Capital One. Dawgs finish 10-3, Sparty 9-4. | NR |
| 12 |  |
The Ducks scored 35 second half points to run away from Oklahoma State to finish 10-3. | NR |
| 13 |  |
Boise fell short of perfection (12-1) thanks to a 17-16 loss to TCU in the most awesome San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. I would kill for a commerative t-shirt from this one. Anybody knows where to find such a gem? | NR |
| 14 |  |
Big Brother turned it over four times in a 20-7 Orange Bowl loss to Virginia Tech to finish 11-3. | NR |
| 15 |  |
The Hokies improved to 10-4 with a 20-7 win over Cincy. | NR |
| 16 |  |
The Cowboys couldn’t slow down the Ducks in a 42-31 Holiday Bowl defeat. Dez Bryant caught 13 for 168 in the loss. | NR |
| 17 |  |
Ole Miss moved to 9-4 beating Texas Tech 47-34 in the Cotton Bowl. | NR |
| 18 |  |
Mizzou needed OT to dispatch Northwestern 30-23 in the Alamo. | NR |
| 19 |  |
BYU lost to Arizona in the Las Vegas Bowl to finish 10-3. | NR |
| 20 |  |
Michigan State hung tough before wilting in the second half. Seems like the story of the program over the last however many years. | NR |
| 21 |  |
The purple team almost pulled the upset of Mizzou before falling in OT 30-23. | NR |
| 22 |  |
Tulsa blitzed Ball State 45-13 in the GMAC to finish at 11-3. | NR |
| 23 |  |
The lone Big Ten bowl game winner. Props! | NR |
| 24 |  |
The Wildcats won only 8 games but lost to USC by 7 and Oregon State by 2. | NR |
| 25 |  |
HaHa! Why not? That was one sweet 7-6 season capped by the first bowl win in 15 years. So weak. | NR |
DROPPED OUT:
maybe va tech in front of cincinnati? putting a team below a team they beat the previous game is highly out of hound…
It is a shade out of hound. I think it came down to UC having one less loss but we aren’t married to any of the rankings outside of the top 6 or 7. It just seems like there are so many more mediocre teams than usual but maybe it’s best to just call it parity?
no way T. Tech should still be in the top ten.
V. Tech > Cincy
Iowa > NW
Ole Miss > Ok. State
think Tulsa should be 25 at best.
ah…it’s been a sad couple of days…it’s about time we bring that out of hound full circle…when are we making the shirts?
and we aren’t cereal with the irish and arizona are we? sheesh
Morman Speed,
We struggled with Tech so I definitely hear you. The problem was we couldn’t move OSU up any higher or we’d get killed for being homers and we couldn’t justify TCU jumping that high so with 2 losses, we slotted Tech 8th.
The Va.Tech over Cincy thought has already been addressed. I’m fine with flip flopping them – I think both teams are nothing to get excited about so whether one is 14 and the other 15 is pretty inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
Iowa over NW is a bit curious. Both teams finished 9-4 and NW beat Iowa head to head on the road. Though Iowa won their bowl game, it was over a bad 7-5 South Carolina team. To me, that’s no more impressive than NW losing in OT to Mizzou.
Ole Miss over OK State…Can’t disagree with you on that one. We’ll fix.
Tulsa…I was admittedly grasping at straws on teams 21-24. I think Blogpoll should be modified to only rank top 20, maybe even top 15 because there just aren’t that many good teams year in year out.
Thanks for the feedback!
was thinking that iowa came together toward the end of season and was probably playing better football than anyone in the big ten(given they were able to beat the co-champ we lost to a week earlier; albeit on a day that not even hitler/napoleon would have ventured out to conquer some territory). i understand re head-to-head.
Fair point. Iowa did have it going toward the end, no question.
BB919— definitely not serious about the Irish…Just wanted to laugh at their sucky-ness…As for Arizona, I stand behind that one. As I wrote, 8 wins with 2 close losses, one a 7 point defeat against USC is pretty impressive to me. Plus, it’s a total freaking crapshoot toward the end of the poll…
What two teams would you put in that I didn’t? There are some many 9-4 teams to look at that I didn’t have the energy to run through the various resumes..Florida State maybe since they waxed Wisky? Who else? I’m all for changing the bottom feeders as you guys see fit.
I can’t beleive LSU isn’t up there. They could probably beat ND, and maybe some of those other teams as well.
As stated earlier, ND is really a joke. As for LSU, they went 3-5 in their conference and lost 3 of their last 5 games overall so we didn’t even give them a thought, rightly or wrongly.
I demand obscenely early, immediately post-bcs championship, pre-season 11W 2009 college fball rankings.
Stewart Mandell doesn’t have us in his top 15 for next year:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/01/09/early-top10/index.html?eref=T1
I say top 15 because were are not on his “next 5 to watch” list either
Schlabach puts us at #6, and I think USA Today had us at #8. To me, this is going to be probably the biggest question-mark class Ohio State has fielded during Tressel’s tenure. Given the clash between a great deal of talent–much more athletic 4 and 5 star recruits finally coming into their own—versus inexperience, we could end up anywhere from unranked at the end of the year, to winning the title. At least the expectations will be dialed down. I think that makes for a more enjoyable season.
Florida, Texas, Bama, USC and OSU is how I believe it will shape up in the preseason.
The media will hype us up at the beginning of the year because of our early matchup with USC, thus our preseason ranking will slightly be higher than it should to make the matchup that much more intriguing (Not that I agree with that).
Poll looks good to me. I’m kinda blase about it since tOSU lost the last game. So what are the odds Coach Bollman will be released from his contract by January 31st?
I say little to none. He’s been recruiting with Tress like crazy lately. He was just at Tahj Boyd’s HS a couple days ago so…
I sometimes think that Tressel would rather get canned then hang a coordinator out to dry. He’s just not wired that way, he’s too loyal, for better or for worse. If the coaches keep calling an interesting mix of plays, like in the Fiesta Bowl, I say for the better. If they regress to the 2007/2008 season play calling, I say for the much, much worse.
Agreed.
I’m just hoping we hire a separate o-line coach.
Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. It looks like the only way Bollman leaves is if he’s offered a HC job somewhere. Here’s to hoping Turner Gill gets a different HC job this off season.
Any more news on LiC and an injury? I heard Shawn Springs on the DC Fox Sports affliate (don’t ask) but it was a pretty good segment, about an hour or so.
The injuries are fine…..he just sucked.
-Wil…..on some random person’s PC at a paty…because I am a loser
Wrong. You are automatically the coolest person at the party now.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/college/osu/2009/01/10/ddn011009sppoll09.html
Pretty irrelevant at this point but here is an early pre-season poll for ‘09 I found.
Thank you for the self esteem boost flipbuckeye……my post bowl game Buckeye depression was kicking in.