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BP Poll - Week 8

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Jake;1299770; said:
I had Bama at #2 but I don't think it's "ridiculous" for someone to put them at #1. Texas Tech at #1 would be ridiculous.
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I should not have worded my post that way because everyone has their own opinion but the way Texas has played the past two weeks I just can't see them being beat until maybe the BCS Championship game IMO
 
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1 Texas
2 Alabama
3 Penn St.
4 Oklahoma
5 Georgia
6 Florida
7 LSU
8 Oklahoma St.
9 USC
10 Ohio St.
11 Utah
12 Boise St.
13 Missouri
14 Kansas
15 TCU
16 Vanderbilt
17 Texas Tech
18 BYU
19 Ball St.
20 South Florida
21 Minnesota
22 Michigan St.
23 Pittsburgh
24 Tulsa
25 Georgia Tech
 
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Here we geaux, feel free to bash my pols for yet another week :biggrin:


(previous rank)
  1. Texas (2)
  2. Penn State (3)
  3. Bama (1)
  4. Oklahoma (6)
  5. Texas Tech (5)
  6. Oklahoma St (10)
  7. Florida (4)
  8. USC (7)
  9. Ohio State (8)
  10. Georgia (12)
  11. Boise State (13)
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    (14)
  13. Utah (15)
  14. Pittsburgh (20)
  15. Ball State (22)
  16. South Florida (24)
  17. Kansas (16)
  18. Boston College (NR)
  19. Tulsa (NR)
  20. TCU (NR)
  21. Georgia Tech (NR)
  22. Florida State (NR)
  23. Missouri (11)
  24. BYU (9)
  25. Northwestern
Texas has distanced themselves from the rest of the pack IMO. Penn St also jumps over Bama until the Tide learns how to finish teams off. I feel like I underrated Oklahoma St. in my previous poll, which is the only reason Florida, USC, and Ohio St all dropped despite an off week and blow out wins respectively. Rest of top 13 each move up 2 places to take the spots of Missouri and BYU (both of whom I would have unranked this week if not for the carnage of 16-25 last weekend)
Apparently, I'm way out of whack with how low I have Missouri. Soory, but you don't come back from a loss and get your ass handed to you like that if you're really atop 15 team.

Pittsburgh, Kansas, and Ball St are the biig winners in my poll.
Pitt, while having a less than impressive schedule, look to be improving rapidly. They have a decent D and a solid running game
Kansas only drops one spot after a loss due to everyone behind them also losing.
Ball St takes a week off and climbs 7 spots. They too have an amazing ground game. McQuale is a stud.

The rest of those guys are a crap shoot, and chances are it will all change again next week until SOMEBODY decides to actually earn/keep their ranking.
 
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Nutriaitch;1299781; said:
Here we geaux, feel free to bash my pols for yet another week :biggrin:


(previous rank)
  1. Boise State (13)
  2. lsu.gif
    (14)
  3. Utah (15)
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I think the boys from Baton Rouge would jump ball over the boys from Boise State but I don't have much respect for the Mountain West is everyone knows by now I hope.
 
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01. Texas
02. Alabama
03. Penn St.
04. Oklahoma St.
05. Oklahoma
06. Texas Tech
07. USC
08. Florida
09. Ohio St.
10. Georgia
11. LSU
12. Boise St.
13. Utah
14. Ball St.
15. Tulsa
16. Missouri
17. Kansas
18. Minnesota
19. South Florida
20. Pittsburgh
21. TCU
22. BYU
23. Vanderbilt
24. Northwestern
25. Cincinnati

Texas - obvious #1. I actually had them number two going into the Red River Shootout, and thought that they would beat Oklahoma.

Alabama - undefeated, and they've beaten somebody (Georgia)

Penn State - undefeated, and they haven't

Oklahoma State, Texas Tech - still undefeated. I'm going to give them credit for what they've done, not punish them for what they'll likely do down the road.

Oklahoma - best one-loss team, IMHO

USC, Florida, Ohio State, Georgia, LSU - really not much separation here. All will likely be multiple-loss teams before it's all said and done.

Boise State, Utah, Ball State, Tulsa - they've beaten everyone on their respective schedules, and that means something. Rated below the one-loss BCS powers due to strength of schedule.

Missouri, Kansas - good teams with two tough losses. One more loss and they are officially "exposed" as teams with gimmicky offenses and no defenses.

Minnesota - the third-best team in the Big Ten, from what I've seen ... which makes them far better than any team in the ACC.

South Florida, Pittsburgh - if they played 1,000 times, they'd each win 500 ... but USF wouldn't lose to a MAC program like Pitt does every year.

TCU, BYU - who cares, really, but TCU won the head-to-head match-up.

Vanderbilt - a team that can hang with anybody ... but still probably loses to almost everyone in the top 20.

Northwestern - they haven't really beaten anyone ... but they've lost only one game. The game against Minnesota in two weeks will show whether either team is for real.

Cincinnati - They got blown out by Oklahoma ... but so did TCU, and the Frogs are a top-15 team.

The ACC - They haven't beaten anybody out of conference ... everyone in the conference sucks ... so what do the records matter? If an ACC team can beat someone in a bowl game that means something, then they might get ranked. Until then, to Hell with them all....
 
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  1. Texas
  2. Penn St.
  3. Alabama
  4. Oklahoma
  5. Florida
  6. Oklahoma St.
  7. USC
  8. Texas Tech
  9. Georgia
  10. Ohio St.
  11. LSU
  12. Utah
  13. Boise St.
  14. South Florida
  15. Missouri
  16. North Carolina
  17. Kansas
  18. Northwestern
  19. Ball St.
  20. Georgia Tech
  21. Florida St.
  22. Minnesota
  23. Boston Coll.
  24. TCU
  25. Tulsa
I didn't do my poll last week so no previous week rankings. I divided my poll into tiers then ranked those teams according to how I think they are playing.

1st tier - Texas (Undefeated, best big win)

2nd tier - PSU and Alabama (PSU gets the nod because I'm a Big10 homer)

3rd tier - Oklahoma (Best 1-loss team)

4th tier - Florida, Oklahoma St., USC, Texas Tech, Georgia, Ohio State (tOSU has a chance to jump to the top of this tier with a win over PSU but I'll be hesitant to put them ahead of USC)

5th tier - LSU, Utah, Boise St., South Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Kansas (LSU class of this tier soley because of their defense)

6th tier - Northwestern, Ball St., Georgia Tech, Florida St., Minnesota, Boston College, TCU, Tulsa (3 too many ACC teams but this was the hardest tier to find teams, don't know enough about some of the non BCS schools to rank them high, especially after BYU's collapse)
 
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LitlBuck;1299746; said:
My personal opinion with your poll is that I think you have Florida too high. I would put Oklahoma and USC in front of them at this point in time. Otherwise, I have no big qualms
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Hmm, good point about Florida and Oklahoma. I wouldn't put USC above them though. Floirda's loss to Ole Miss was close, USC got manhandled by an OSU team that I think Ole Miss would beat. (Maybe I'm drinking a bit of SEC cool-aid, but Ole Miss seems to be playing some good teams very tough.) In my poll, it will be very difficult for USC to get back into the top two, just not enough of a schedule strength in their remaining season. Oklahoma definitely has a "better loss" than Florida though. On a smilar note I dropped Ok. St. from the top five since it looks like their win over Mizzu in not as impressive as before. Mizzu has no defense, even by Big 12 standards (where it seems like they must cut the achelles tendons of all defensive backs during summer practice.)

Georga Tech beat BC head to head.

Zander42 said:
1 Texas
2 Alabama
3 Penn St.
4 Florida
5 Oklahoma
6 USC
7 Oklahoma St.
8 Georgia
9 Ohio St.
10 LSU
11 Utah
12 Texas Tech
13 Boise St.
14 TCU
15 South Florida
16 Missouri
17 Kansas
18 Pittsburgh
19 Georgia Tech
20 BYU
21 Ball St.
22 Minnesota
23 Tulsa
24 Florida St.
25 Oregon
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1. Texas
2. Penn State
3. Alabama
4. Oklahoma
5. Oklahoma State
6. USC
7. Florida
8. Georgia
9. Ohio State
10. Texas Tech
11. Missouri
12. LSU
13. TCU
14. Pittsburgh
15. Utah
16. South Florida
17. Boise State
18. Ball State
19. Kansas
20. BYU
21. Vanderbilt
22. Georgia Tech
23. Tulsa
24. Minnesota
25. Cincinnati

1. Texas - incredibly impressive thus far....wow
2. Penn State - the best PSU has looked since 1994, the offense looks incredible
3. Alabama - The unimpressive victories put them below PSU
4. Oklahoma - Still look great on offense
5. Oklahoma State - Not sure if they'll be able to keep it up. The defense should be exposed this week
6. USC - So much talent, if they would just show up every week.....
7. Florida - Impressive whipping of LSU. Also, Ole Miss is proving that they aren't THAT terrible
8. Georgia - Not overly impressive the last few weeks
9. Ohio State - Huh. I kinda wish I had put OSU 12th. I'm still not sold on any facet of this team
10. Texas Tech - undefeated, but struggling with aTm and Nebraska does not help the cause
11. Missouri - I still feel confident that this team could light up anyone below them other than LSU. I probably should have LSU and Mizzou switched.
12. LSU - Overall talent is better than anyone below them
13. TCU - Big win over BYU, but who knows what THAT means. They've been very good on defense - holding Oklahoma to 35 doesn;t look so bad these days.
14. Pittsburgh - I'm sure they'll choke on it here in the next month, but in the mean time....good running game and defense = good ranking
15. Utah - Best win is UM, nearly lost to Oregon St. - still have TCU and BYU to prove they belong
16. South Florida - I can't believe they lost to Pitt....
17. Boise State - the (near-choke) win over Oregon isn't looking as good these days - not much of a schedule left, either - I'm not sold that this team is even this good
18. Ball State - They just continue win. It's hard to say where they belong.
19. Kansas - I was tempted to put them even higher, the offense continues to be solid - I guess we'll find out afainst TT this week
20. BYU - are they the 20th best team? How should I know? Why would you even ask me that?
21. Vanderbilt - It's hard to penalize a team for losing by 10 at UGA.
22. Georgia Tech - good on defense - blech on offense - but 6-1...ok
23. Tulsa - holy crap - averaging 56 points per game is impressive in any conference
24. Minnesota - I don't know that they are this good, but they keep on winning, so....
25. Cincinnati - Jeesh, if they could keep a healthy QB, they might be top-20....
 
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Zander42;1300240; said:
Hmm, good point about Florida and Oklahoma. I wouldn't put USC above them though. Floirda's loss to Ole Miss was close, USC got manhandled by an OSU team that I think Ole Miss would beat. (Maybe I'm drinking a bit of SEC cool-aid, but Ole Miss seems to be playing some good teams very tough.) In my poll, it will be very difficult for USC to get back into the top two, just not enough of a schedule strength in their remaining season. Oklahoma definitely has a "better loss" than Florida though. On a smilar note I dropped Ok. St. from the top five since it looks like their win over Mizzu in not as impressive as before. Mizzu has no defense, even by Big 12 standards (where it seems like they must cut the achelles tendons of all defensive backs during summer practice.)

Georga Tech beat BC head to head.
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didnt ole miss lose to wake forest? thats all i need to know about them
 
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1Texas
2Penn St.
3Alabama
4Oklahoma
5USC
6Florida
7Oklahoma St.
8Ohio St.
9Texas Tech
10Georgia
11Utah
12LSU
13Boise St.
14Missouri
15South Florida
16Minnesota
17TCU
18Pittsburgh
19Ball St.
20Michigan St.
21Kansas
22Northwestern
23Florida St.
24Vanderbilt
25BYU
 
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