Week eight BlogPoll ballot

by JazzyUte on Oct 20, 2008 12:38 PM MDT in Football Comment 4 comments

We have until Wednesday to get this sorted out, so let me know if you agree, disagree and what changes you would make.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Texas	--
2	Alabama	--
3	Penn State	--
4	Southern Cal	1
5	Oklahoma State	1
6	Oklahoma	3
7	Utah	1
8	Texas Tech	2
9	Florida	2
10	Ohio State	1
11	Georgia	1
12	LSU	--
13	TCU	13
14	Boise State	1
15	Pittsburgh	10
16	Ball State	5
17	Tulsa	5
18	Missouri	4
19	South Florida	5
20	Georgia Tech	6
21	Florida State	5
22	Northwestern	4
23	Boston College	3
24	Kansas	1
25	Brigham Young	12

Dropped Out: Michigan State (#16), Virginia Tech (#17), Wake Forest (#18), North Carolina (#19), California (#20).

Texas is obviously the number one team in the nation at the moment. They completely dominated Missouri, who a couple of weeks ago looked like a possible national championship contender.

The race for number two is tight, but I went with Alabama, since Penn State has really yet to get a season defining victory, though that could come this week against Ohio State. Outside of the top three, I moved USC to 4th, dropped Oklahoma State to fifth and moved both Oklahoma and Utah up. The reason Texas Tech dropped was because I felt they could have easily defeated the Texas A&M Aggies, yet struggled there. Florida, unfortunately, gets knocked because they didn't play. I hate doing that, but it sometimes has to be done. Rounding out the top-ten is Ohio State, who I moved up a spot.

TCU rose the most in my ballot, shooting up 13 spots to 13th after defeating BYU, while the Cougars dropped 12 spots to 25th. I also have ranked seven non-BCS teams, with six of them all within the top-20. Tulsa is one to look out for, since they have a fairly easy schedule and the nation's best offense.

Michigan State dropped out after getting embarrassed by Ohio State. Virginia Tech lost to Boston College, who cracked my top-25, while Wake Forest tumbled out of the rankings after their 26-0 loss to Maryland, as did both Cal and North Carolina.

So there is my ballot. Am I ranking Utah too high? BYU too low? TCU too low?

Let me know.

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Mostly I think it is ok

I would knock USC down below Florida and Utah just below Ohio State.

I would not put us significantly closer to Oklahoma than TCU until we prove we can have a similar performance against TCU.

by utesfan100 on Oct 20, 2008 1:39 PM MDT reply actions

USC

I know USC is a really good team but they lost to Oregon State…they are easily the best ina weak Pac-10 this year. I don’t like that they are way high in the BCS, then you have them higher. Also, I like Penn State at #2. They murder every team they play, which they schould looking at their schedule but….they look real and I think Alabama is bound to go down to someone. I like Penn State in the game in Ohio this weekend. Just my thoughts.

GO UTES!!

by Jman87 on Oct 20, 2008 8:55 PM MDT reply actions