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Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- PAGING BYH, SXYSPRTSWRTR ASAP!!!!

True, I know what you're saying, but think of it this way. Drop Wisconsin 10 spots for the loss and they are at 15th. Move Illinois up 10 spots and they would be at 21. 10 spots either way is a pretty big jump, but Wisconsin was 27 spots ahead of Illinois so it has a big head start

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- PAGING BYH, SXYSPRTSWRTR ASAP!!!!

Slap's got more patience than me. ... No reason to have to track folks down.

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- PAGING BYH, SXYSPRTSWRTR ASAP!!!!

By SLAPPY 4428
SportsJournalists.com POLLMASTER


To: Slappy 4428
From: Wise Lucasman, Fearless Leader
RE: SportsJournalists.com football poll.

Dear Slappy,

It has come to my attention that you are running a poll for American football of some sort. While I represent another sport in my line of work, I'm told that doing this is a good thing in our effort to make SportsJournalists.com a destination on the web and not one of those places that merely pays lip-service to sports like Yahoo or shills for sports it carries like ESPN.com.

Along those lines, I've come up with a list of a few suggested changes to make SportsJournalists.com more credible among people who care about football instead of futbol.

1. I see where South Florida is ranked fifth in this week's poll. As you may know, I went to South Florida. Are you sure fifth isn't too low?

2. I see where Florida is ranked No. 13. To clear up any confusion, please change the name to Gainesville Community College or North Florida College of Limited Knowledge. That team has more losses that USF does, don't you know.

3. California is ranked second. When did it become a varsity sport at Cal? Did the school cancel rugby for a demonstrative lack of talent?

4. Shouldn't South Florida go in its spot? It doesn't have rugby, but I did get a rug burn there once.

5. I see Stanford won some kind of Big Game against USC. Please make sure to spell out all references to the University of Southern California so people don't confuse USC with USF.

6. Ditto for South Carolina. I'm sure you can understand the confusion -- those acronyms are for losers. After all, you can't spell 'Y-o-u S-u-c-k' without USC.

7. What about third? Shouldn't USF at least be third?

8. Attached is a color style chart that might look good with the poll. Am sure our readers would love to see it written in Green and Gold.

9. I know what you're thinking. It's just a coincidence.

10. Please avoid all references to the Kansas mascot as the "Blue Bird of Cocksuckery." After watching the game on Saturday night, "cocksuckery" is hereby the exclusive domain of Tommy Bowden.

11. OK, Maybe it could apply to Gary Pinkel once Missouri loses. And that turf in Boise. Oh, Mike Greenberg. Forgot about him.

12. Fourth. USFourth has a ring to it.

13. Am told that UCLA lost to Notre Dame. Please inform me of any members who voted for UCLA in the past two weeks of the poll, so I can recommend them to w&n@lw@y.com No one there knows anything about sports, either; birds of a feather and all that, you see.

14. If South Florida wins another game, be sure to talk about possibilities of the going to a bowl. Not bowling, but to a bowl game with cheerleaders, bands and other frivolity. Am told popular destinations would include, but not be limited to, Shreveport, Detroit, Birmingham and El Paso.

15. Maybe you could have a guest columnist; perhaps the goof ball who adores Brittney Spears. His 15 minutes of fame are up just like Kansas State's.

16. Do we have a coach of the year? Am told Jim Leavitt is quite good at taking average kids and making them better. Who does Nick Saban think he is anyway? He complains about academic standards, while accepting a "student-athlete" whose high school had to change a grade to make him eligible. I'll take my 3-point-Oh from USF and kick his little 3-foot-Oh ass.

17. Err, butt. I meant to say butt. I'm sick to death of the asses on this site.

18. Please explain why Michigan keeps winning and dropping in the poll at the same time. We need to keep the Wolverines in the public eye as much as possible because they are a lightning rod for attention. Perhaps a loss to Purdue would move Michigan back into top 25. Arrange that.

19. Also, you do understand this is a football poll, correct? While I’m not the biggest football knowledge guy around, there's no way Indiana, Illinois and Cincinnati would ever be in a football poll.

20. Upon further review, first. South Florida should go first. After all, this place is predicated on bull.

SportsJournalists.com COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL
10/08/2007
RK. TEAM (1st) PTS Last
1. LSU (34) 850 2
2. California 809 3
3. Ohio State 769 4
4. Boston College 713 7
5. South Florida 711 6
6. Oklahoma 615 10
7. South Carolina 562 12
8. West Virgina 554 11
9. Southern California 536 1
10. Oregon 513 4
11. Missouri 500 18
12. Virginia Tech 446 17
13. Florida 412 8
14. Hawaii 394 16
15. Cincinnati 386 15
16. Arizona State 384 19
17. Kentucky 306 9
18. Illinois 301 NR
19. Wisconsin 294 5
20. Kansas 207 NR
21. Texas 125 16
22. Florida State 115 NR
23. Georgia 103 NR
24. Auburn 94 NR
25. Tennessee 58 NR

Also receiving votes: Colorado 53; Purdue 39; Boise State 33; Indiana 21; Michigan 21; Maryland 19; Rutgers 19; Texas A&M 17; Nebraska 12; Connecticut 11; Arkansas 10; Central Florida 8; Wyoming 8; Texas Tech 6; Clemson 5; Virginia 5; Kansas State 3; Georgia Tech 3.

SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll committee: Slappy4428 (chairman), Oz, The Good Doctor, Elliotte Friedman, Hockeybeat, Starman, Eagleboy, Hank Scorpio, Sportschick, Huggy, Mystery Meat, Barsuk, WS, GB-Hack, Della9250, Mayfly, Songbird, dparker85, Gutter, Buckweaver, sxysprtswrtr, Orville Redenbacher, spnited, Idaho, Joel Hammond, Precious Roy, HackWilson191, BYH, sxysprtswrtr, AgatePage, Piotr Rasputin, Rufino, Trooper Bari, OJ1414, Jesus_Muscatel. (MIA: Amraeder; Withdrawn: Micropolitan Guy, Beanpole)

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

All of you who voted for Central Florida after the Knights took a 52-38 loss to Eastern Carolina should check the scoreboard more closely....

 

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My top five — 1. LSU, 2. Cal, 3. Ohio State, 5. South Florida, 5. Boston College
Biggest jumps — South Carolina (6), Oregon (7), West Virginia ( 8 ), Mizzou (11), Arizona State (12) and Cincy (15) up five
Biggest drop — Southern Cal from 2 to 20
Added to the top 25 — Illinois (17), Kansas (19), Florida State (21), Auburn (24), Colorado (25)
Dropped from the top 25 — Rutgers, Nebraska, Michigan State, Clemson, Kansas State

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

BRILLIANT, SLAP!

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

aw shucks... just something I've been thinking about and hoping to clear up before four great Americans take me out for dinner tonight...

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

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Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

Great work, birthday boy.

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

Two things:

1) Slappy, it was Michigan State who begged off playing Hawaii to the tune of $250K, not Michigan. That's why Charleston Southern was able to milk two trips to Honolulu out of Hawaii's AD. (Happy birthday, BTW!)

Two) Hawaii plays at San Jose State on Friday, so they'll probably leave Honolulu on Wednesday. It's about a five-hour flight to anywhere on the West Coast, not including the three hours in time change. For a regular Saturday game, Thursday will do unless the game is farther east than Nevada or Boise.

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

From the Honolulu Advertiser...

Frazier says Michigan, Appalachian State chose not to play UH

By Ferd Lewis
Advertiser Staff Writer

Given a chance to say, "I told you so," University of Hawai'i athletic director Herman Frazier took it yesterday, saying, "at the end of the day, Michigan would have been better off playing us (than Appalachian State)" in football last weekend.

Frazier said both the Wolverines and Mountaineers turned down offers to play UH this season, helping set in motion one of the biggest upsets in college football history Saturday, Appalachian State's 34-32 upset of then-No. 5 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The loss dropped Michigan from the polls and helped open up space for UH to rise three spots to 20th in the Associated Press poll and 22nd in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

Frazier said he believed a loss to UH, "would have been accepted by their (Michigan's) fans losing to a 23rd-ranked team easier than it would have been to a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) Appalachian State in the long run."

Appalachian State received $400,000 for its appearance but Frazier said Michigan had offered UH $600,000 when athletic director Bill Martin, whom he had known from Olympic days, brought up up the game.

"He (Martin) contacted me first off about the game," Frazier said. Frazier said he initially had some questions about opening on the road in Ann Arbor "to be honest with you but after I talked to (head football coach) June Jones and Johnny (McNamara, associate athletic director) we said, 'let's go do it.' "

Frazier said, "My reasoning for wanting to go back there to play them and also my reason for talking to Indiana (which also didn't work out) was because I had spoken to members of the media on the East Coast and it would be good for our exposure because I knew it would help us in the long run if we were able to prevail." But Frazier said Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr ultimately shot down the game.

Frazier said he made a counter offer to Michigan, suggesting a swap of opponents with Southern California. Frazier's plan would have sent Idaho to Ann Arbor and UH to Los Angeles to play. However, Idaho, which had initially wanted out of the USC game after its former head coach, Nick Holt, ended up back with the Trojans, balked. Frazier also said, "Pete Carroll (the USC coach) and the boys weren't too excited about that, either, but it never came close because Idaho said 'no.' "

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- NEW! WEEK 6 - 10/08 -- PAGE 26

Funny funny, slappy.

I guess I'm a lone wolf having Rock Chalk Jayhawk U. so high in the poll this year. I'll be that ... what was his name? Bubba something or other in '93, who had Alabama No. 1 all year, and everyone wondered why, then Stallings' boys beat the shit out of ... who did they play in the Sugar Bowl and win?

Tis the year of the Suck the Cockery of the Mighty Bluebird.