Final Blogpoll has Utah 18th

by JazzyUte on Jan 12, 2010 2:55 AM MST in Football

18s across the board it looks like. The final blogpoll is out and the Utes are ranked right where they were in the coaches' and media poll.

Not bad, I guess.

Some interesting results...

The Utes surged seven spots, the greatest rise of any team in the poll (second best was six by Ole Miss)
Boise State matches Utah's finish last year for the highest non-BCS team (second)
TCU finished sixth
BYU 13th
Cal somehow received votes
I voted Utah 15th and you can see my final ballot here

That 15th place vote gained me the Coulter/Krugman Award, given to the blogger who has the highest bias rating. I take great pleasure in this, even though I wasn't entirely off (15 and 18 is a minimal difference).

For about the first time all year, the CK Award just plain failed. Block U was the last poll's winner and thus drew the whammy for its Poinsettia Bowl matchup against Cal. Utah covered a three point spread by seven. Last time's runner up was West Virginia, though, so there's that.

Block U wins here again, but the foul award has demonstrated no power to punish foes across season. Also there will be a preseason poll that supersedes this one when opening week 2010 rolls around. Congratulations, Utah. We would have gotten away with it without you meddling Samoans.

For the record, the CK Award finished the year 10-5 against the spread and 9-6 straight up. Some of those covers were beyond painful, though. They include Iowa's three-point win against Arkansas State and Nebraska's heart-crushing defeat in the Big 12 championship game. Sometimes the horror this thing doles out is not captured by numbers.

I beat those bastards!

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Factual correction

They said, "Utah covered a three point spread by seven. "

i believe Utah was a 3 point underdog that won by 10. It covered the line by 13.

by Rhino95 on Jan 12, 2010 2:59 PM MST reply actions

you are correct

but the game was never in doubt and cal’s last td was helped by a duoble penalty 30 yards. meaning the game was not that close. jazzy can you put up next year’s utah college football schedule? we have pitt at rice eccles on 9/11/10 and i’m guessing we have utah state as are first game. i just saw the bcs teams we are playing. iowa state and notre dame too. pitt has a tough ooc schedule. they have miami and clemson.

i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 14, 2010 12:32 PM MST up reply actions

congratulations on who you beat too.

i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 14, 2010 12:33 PM MST up reply actions

Actually

We’re not playing USU next year. Our OOC games are:

9-11 Pittsburgh
9-18 @ Iowa State
9-25 San Jose State
11-13 @ Notre Dame

by vizzle07 on Jan 14, 2010 2:43 PM MST up reply actions

who do we play on 9/02/10

do we get a bye the first week? or is it someone in conference?

i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 14, 2010 3:00 PM MST up reply actions

It’ll either be a conference game or a bye. We won’t know until the conference schedule comes out this spring.

by Ute in DC on Jan 16, 2010 12:36 PM MST up reply actions

i mean 9/04/10

i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 14, 2010 3:02 PM MST reply actions