BP Poll - Week Fourteen

[LordJeffBuck]

Please submit your ballots by noon tomorrow.

Only seven ballots so far. I won't post the results unless/until I get ten ballots.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Here are the results of the 2011 week fourteen BP poll:

01. Louisiana State 225 (9)
02. Oklahoma State 212
03. Alabama 207
04. Stanford 195
05. Oregon 190
06. Wisconsin 172
07. Arkansas 167
08. South Carolina 144
09. Kansas State 142
10. Boise State 135
11. Michigan State 123
12. Virginia Tech 110
13. Michigan 105
14. Clemson 103
15. Baylor 98
16. Southern Cal 95
17. Georgia 94
18. Oklahoma 78
19. Texas Christian 69
20. Nebraska 68
21. Penn State 45
22. Southern Miss 39
23. Houston 37
24. West Virginia 24
25. Cincinnati 10


Others receiving votes: Florida State 9; Arkansas State 6; Notre Dame 4; Northern Illinois 3; Georgia Tech 2; Missouri 2; Brigham Young 2

 

[BB73]

Here's my poll this week:

01. LSU
02. Oklahoma St
03. Alabama
04. Stanford
05. Oregon
06. Arkansas
07. Wisconsin
08. Boise St
09. Kansas St
10. S Carolina
11. Clemson
12. Va Tech
13. Georgia
14. Sparty
15. TSUN
16. Nebraska
17. Baylor
18. Oklahoma
19. Houston
20. TCU
21. Penn St
22. Southern Miss
23. West Va
24. Ga Tech
25. Fla St

 

[sepia5]

1. LSU (--)
2. Oklahoma St. (+4)
3. Alabama (-1)
4. Oregon (-1)
5. Stanford (-1)
6. Wisconsin (+1)
7. Arkansas (+1)
8. USC (+6)
9. Boise St. (+2)
10. South Carolina (+5)
11. Kansas St. (+5)
12. Clemson (+1)
13. Michigan St. (-1)
14. scUM (+3)
15. Baylor (+3)
16. Virginia Tech (-11)
17. Georgia (-4)
18. TCU (+1)
19. Nebraska (+1)
20. Oklahoma (-10)
21. West Virginia (--)
22. Southern Miss (+3)
23. Penn St. (-1)
24. Cincinnati (--)
25. Houston (-16)

I voted in this week's poll how I would vote if my vote counted in the BCS formula. I believe in my heart of hearts that Alabama is the second best team in the country. However, I personally feel that the BCS system is insanely stupid, and I would therefore have no qualms about manipulating that system to my own ends; in this case, avoiding a rematch in the National Championshiop game. Plus, Okie State's impressive win against Okie made moving them up to #2 far more justifiable, IMO.

I am shocked to see VaTech ahead of Clemson in the BP Poll. You're better than that, BP!

 

[Jake]

1. Louisiana State
2. Oklahoma State
3. Oregon
4. Wisconsin
5. Alabama
6. Stanford
7. USC
8. Clemson
9. Michigan State
10. Virginia Tech
11. TCU
12. Boise State
13. Georgia
14. Arkansas
15. South Carolina
16. Kansas State
17. Baylor
18. Michigan
19. Oklahoma
20. Nebraska
21. Penn State
22. West Virginia
23. Southern Miss
24. Houston
25. BYU

Conferences have chosen to have championship games, so I decided they should be held accountable to them at the end of the season.

Oregon lost to LSU, but so did Alabama and it didn't hurt them so why should it hurt the Ducks? They also soundly defeated Stanford at Stanford, won the PAC 12, and the BCS says Stanford is the 4th best team in the nation. So, the Ducks are third.

Wisconsin lost two road games in the final 30 seconds, and won the Big Ten championship. Alabama and Stanford lost at home. Wiscy is 4th.

If you think my reasoning is nutty I simply point out the fact that 3 teams who didn't even reach their conference title games were rewarded for it with BCS bids, including a berth in the title game. That's nutty.

The funny thing about those title games is they work against the teams that got there. LSU had to win an extra game to secure their BCS bid because they had the audacity to beat Alabama during the regular season. Suckers. The Tide got their berth while sitting on the couch watching LSU fight for theirs. Sparty beat Michigan, giving them the berth in the title game with the same number of wins. Unfortunately, MSU lost the BTCG and Michigan got the BCS bid. Again, suckers. Thanks for playing, enjoy your lesser bowl.

I didn't make this stupid system. I'm simply playing by the rules the idiots who did laid out for us.

 

[buckeyegrad]

I voted in this week's poll how I would vote if my vote counted in the BCS formula. I believe in my heart of hearts that Alabama is the second best team in the country. However, I personally feel that the BCS system is insanely stupid, and I would therefore have no qualms about manipulating that system to my own ends; in this case, avoiding a rematch in the National Championshiop game. Plus, Okie State's impressive win against Okie made moving them up to #2 far more justifiable, IMO.

I kind of took the opposite approach using the same reasoning. I voted like I would as an AP voter in that my choices did not include the BCS as a factor. As such, I have Alabama #2 because by the eye-ball test I think they are the best 1-loss team. However, if I had taken the BCS into account, I would have placed them at #3 behind Oklahoma State for simple fact that I don't believe non-conference champions should play for the national championship.

1. LSU
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma State
4. Stanford
5. Wisconsin
6. Arkansas
7. USC
8. Oregon
9. South Carolina
10. Boise State
11. Kansas State
12. Michigan State
13. Baylor
14. Georgia
15. Clemson
16. Virginia Tech
17. Michigan
18. Oklahoma
19. TCU
20. Nebraska
21. Penn State
22. West Virginia
23. Southern Mississippi
24. Houston
25. Florida State

 

[Bucklion]

1. LSU
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma State
4. Oregon
5. Stanford
6. Arkansas
7. USC
8. Wisconsin
9. Boise State
10. South Carolina
11. Kansas State
12. Baylor
13. Michigan State
14. Michigan
15. TCU
16. Clemson
17. Nebraska
18. Virginia Tech
19. Southern Miss
20. West Virginia
21. Cincinnati
22. Georgia
23. Oklahoma
24. Florida State
25. Northern Illinois

I had Clemson ahead of VT, but neither ranked high.