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You're going to start seeing solidifying throughout these polls now that we're really getting deep into conference play. There weren't too many upsets last week, but enough top-25 teams playing top-25 teams to cause a shift. 

Which helped teams on the outside looking in (like Utah). My poll isn't much different from last week's, which I'm fine with. 

 

RankTeamDelta
1 Florida
2 Texas
3 Alabama
4 Southern Cal 1
5 Virginia Tech 2
6 Cincinnati
7 Boise State 1
8 Ohio State 1
9 LSU 5
10 TCU
11 Miami (Florida)
12 Oregon
13 Kansas
14 Iowa 1
15 Nebraska 2
16 Penn State
17 Georgia Tech 4
18 Houston 6
19 Oklahoma State
20 South Florida
21 Utah 1
22 Brigham Young 1
23 South Carolina 2
24 Auburn 10
25 Notre Dame
Last week's ballot

 

Dropped Out: Mississippi (#18).

I finally don't feel guilty for ranking Utah! Looking around the draft ballots for the BlogPoll, it seems the Utes will be on the cusp of the top-25 this week (if not in it).

The largest change came from Auburn, who I woefully overrated. They were waxed by Arkansas and stayed ranked because, well, I just don't know who should replace them.

In fact, that seems to be the general trend. Once you get to the last 20, I don't really know who is deserving and who is not. South Florida? South Carolina? Utah? I guess they all have a legitimate case and are there because other programs on the cusp either lost last week (Wisconsin, Michigan), have worse losses (West Virginia, Pitt) or more than one-loss (Oklahoma).

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I feel like Cinncinnati is too high.

But maybe that’s my anti-big-east bias. I just am not impressed by their victory list. Rutgers (weak), SE Missouri State (IAA), Oregon State (average), Fresno State (weak), and Miami (OH) (very weak).

And I would rank OU instead of Auburn. Their very close losses should be factored in. Of course, when they lose to Texas this week they’ll fall out again, so maybe it’s not worth it.

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by displacedute on Oct 12, 2009 3:41 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Sorry.

Props for your poll making sense this week. USC above Ohio state, BYU above Oklahoma, Houston above OK State, etc. Good job.

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by displacedute on Oct 12, 2009 4:53 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Where is UTEP?

Just sayin’…

I disagree with displacedute on the head to head trumps all philosophy. This is a point in which reasonable men can agree to disagree.

I have been known to occasionally be unreasonable, and enoy a good disagreement ; )

by utesfan100 on Oct 13, 2009 5:43 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Keep in mind, I don't think head-to-head trumps everything.

Fluke wins happen. But if teams have the same record then I think you have to rank the winner above the loser if they played head to head.

Like UF/Alabama v. UF/Ole Miss. UF and Alabama had the same record after the SEC championship game last year (12-1) so you should rank the head-to-head winner ahead of the loser (UF ahead of Alabama). But Ole Miss had a worse record than UF (8-4, iirc) so you can rank the loser ahead of the winner and write it off as a fluke. If Ole Miss had been 12-1 and UF had been 12-1 then I would consider it a travshammockery to rank the loser ahead of the winner.

UTEP is a fluke win. They’re 2-4. Houston is 5-1. If UTEP was 5-1 and Houston was 5-1 I’d say you need to put UTEP ahead. But UTEP is 2-4, so their body of work doesn’t support the head to head analysis.

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by displacedute on Oct 14, 2009 10:02 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Virginia tech

I was impressed how the Hokies annihilated a pretty good Boston College team. They’ve proved themself a top 5 team in my mind, i’m glad u moved them up 2 spots. Also makes alabama’s win over them impressive, i’d put the tide up to no.2 ahead of a texas team that has struggled at times against below average teams.

by utahmanami on Oct 12, 2009 9:19 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

i'm glad you have houston as high as you do. they have three bcs wins

the did screw up vs utep but three bcs wins is impressive. 2 from big 12 and one from sec. conference usa stinks this year. they should win the rest of their games. i hope they get another crack at an sec team. conference usa champ plays 5th or 6th place sec team at liberty bowl?

by wolfmanshowlforever on Oct 13, 2009 12:30 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

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