FINALLY! SJ.com College Football Poll -- FINAL POST-BOWL POLL -- PAGE 48

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg 4**

OK, someone name the first paper that will run this poll on their agate page.

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg 4**

The Hungry Horse News?

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg 4**

For the record, mine's been in for a while now. So I'm not the delinquent. Who knew midday Tuesday didn't mean midday Alaska Daylight Time?

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg 4**

Speaking of that... the last three stragglers have finally found their way home so the poll and story should be done by midnight.

As an FYI, from now on, polls with be due by 3 p.m. Eastern every Monday. Hard deadline. If your going to be late, fine. Tell me, give me a time and stick to that time.
Jesus Muscatel called a SportsJournalists.com member from the road, gave him his top 25 and he PMd that to me.

As Sgt. Hulka said, "Your mamas are not here to take care of you now."

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg 4**

I woke up early to get mine in before noon EDT, course I was so tired I ranked West Virginia and Georgia twice.

 

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It's damned East Coast bias I tells ya

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg 4**

Those Eastern schools. They're all so interchangeably

 

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Come on come on come on...

I'm salivating over here...

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg

Juan Valdez has to get me a better transportation next time ....

"EL BURRO!"

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll --Week 1

By SLAPPY 4428
SportsJournalists.com Pollmeister

Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're just a fool in love
Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger
Sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together
Sometimes you're gonna lose it all
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

OK, maybe a better choice would have been "Freefalling." For that's just what Michigan did after its buns-up-kneeling loss to Appalachian State.
True, there's no excuse for Michigan losing to a Division IAA/BCS/BS team. At home. After trailing most of the game. Healthy. You get the drift.
But while Chaminade of the Smokies relishes the fact that were they eligible, they'd probably be 22nd or so in most polls, Lloyd Carr now truly understands what he put John Cooper through. However, Michigan is not the only team that went through the rollercoaster.

One day you got the glory and then you got none
One day you're a diamond and then you're a stone
Everything can change in the blink of an eye
So let the good times roll before we say goodbye because

Take Hawaii, for example. In the first week, only one voter ranked it higher than 16th. This week, there are four.

And there's Clemson, which had one voter rank it in the first week and after a Monday-night kicking of Florida State shot the Tigers ahead of Michigan. (Note to ESPN, editors and everyone else who feels that the all-purpose use of the word "bowl" can apply to every game because you need a cute catch phrase: You earn a spot in a bowl, as in post-season. Tradition can also dictate the game's title such as "Egg Bowl" or "Iron Bowl." Use of the word "Bowl" to make things tidy and cutesy goes through my iron bowels like runny eggs.)

You gotta know happy - you gotta know glad
Because you're gonna know lonely
And you're gonna know sad
When you're rippin' and you're ridin'
And you're coming on strong
You start slippin' and slidin'
And it all goes wrong because

Another case in point is Georgia Tech, which shot into the 24 spot on the strength of its road game over the Fighting Irish, henceforth known as the Irish because the fight clearly has gone out of them.

And yes, you can look ahead -- everyone else is -- to that game in Ann Arbor on Sept. 15 for the possibility of 0-2 Michigan hosting 0-2 Notre Dame; the possibility of which has all the broad appeal of a high-colonic.

Well it's a strange old game you learn it slow
One step forward and it's back you go
You're standing on the throttle
You're standing on the brake
In the groove 'til you make a mistake

Really, who am I kidding? It all comes back to Michigan. The voter who ranked them No. 1 in the preseason didn't rank them this week. In fact, neither did 23 others -- including someone else who had Michigan third. On the other hand, they are one spot ahead of this week's opponent -- Oregon. God help 'em if they move to one spot ahead of next week's opponent.

Maybe the SEC does it right (Jumpin' Jeebus, even Wisconsin beefed up its schedule). Maybe the lesson is if you have to schedule teams from a patsy conference, make sure it's a patsy team from a patsy conference.
Or if you're going to schedule a tough team, make sure its on the road for a built-in excuse. Or if you're going to go on the road, make sure its south of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Trinity River.

Otherwise, in a wonderful bit of irony, some other team will be scraping the Carr off the windshield.

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Week 1

SportsJournalists.com football poll Week 1
9/5/07
RK Team PTS Last
1. Southern Cal (27) 884 1
2. LSU (5) 852 2
3. West Virginia (1) 821 3
4. Florida (3) 788 6
5. Wisconsin 689 8
6. Texas 673 4
7. Oklahoma 661 10
8. Louisville 644 7
9. California 628 12
10. Ohio State 534 11
11. Virginia Tech 503 9
12. Georgia 482 13
13. UCLA 416 18
14. Rutgers 406 14
15. Penn State 389 17
16. Auburn 338 16
17. Nebraska 288 20
18. Boise State 258 19
19. Arkansas 256 21
20. Hawaii 194 23
21. TCU 187 24
22. Tennessee 160 15
23. Texas A&M 104 25
24. Clemson 100 NR
25. Georgia Tech 96 NR
Also receiving votes: Boston College 93; Michigan 66; Oregon 60; Florida State 26; Miami (Fla.) 16; Texas Tech 13; South Carolina 13; Ohio U. 11; Missouri 10; Alabama 8; Oklahoma State 6; Southern Mississippi and Oregon State 5; Iowa 4; Colorado and Wake Forest 3; Kentucky and South Florida 2; Kent State and Indiana 1.

SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll committee: Slappy4428 (chairman), Oz, The Good Doctor, Elliotte Friedman, Hockeybeat, amraeder, Starman, Eagleboy, Hank Scorpio, Sportschick, Mystery Meat, Barsuk, WS, GB-Hack, Della9250, Mayfly, Songbird, Huggy, dparker85, Gutter, Buckweaver, sxysprtswrtr, Orville Redenbacher, spnited, Idaho, Joel Hammond, Precious Roy, HackWilson191, BYH, AgatePage, Piotr Rasputin, Rufino, Trooper Bari, Beanpole, OJ1818, Jesus_Muscatel. (MIA: Micropolitan Guy)

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Preseason edition **NEW: Voters note top Pg 4**

Michigan got more points in this poll than the AP?

Yowzahs.