2008 sj.com college football poll -- (1/9) Final Poll, Page 118

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MISSING

Amraeder
dparker85
GB Hack
Hammerpants
Huggy
Hustle
Joel Hammond
JPS
Mustangj17
Oz
Precious Roy
Rufino
Trooper bari
Songbird
Zebra Coy
Zeke12


NEED TO LEARN TO COUNT TO... oh.. TWO
Sportschick
KYSportswriter

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- MISSING POSTERS AND DAMAGED BALLOTS

Sorry, slappy, when I saw the "VOTES ARE NOW OPEN" on the thread, I thought you meant to post it on the thread so I didn't send it to you. I posted mine earlier on this page before I went to sleep last night.

 

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Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- MISSING POSTERS AND DAMAGED BALLOTS

Norm Coleman said he's going to demand a recount of all the damaged ballots.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- MISSING POSTERS AND DAMAGED BALLOTS

Figures you wouldn't put Mizzou in. ;D

 

Wait. Stop me if this sounds familiar
Jan. 9, 2009

By SLAPPY 4428
Poll Nursemaid

In 2004, dismayed by undefeated Auburn’s failure to get a sniff at a BCS title game berth and a subsequent undefeated season, the Eufaula Tribune decided to do something different.

The paper declared the Tigers as National Champions.

Granted, there was some homerism with the greater Auburn-Opelika area mere 77 miles away. And there was a bit of shameless self-promotion – the kind you usually have to hot blogs on the net to find – but deserved. Hey, they thought of the idea first.

In 2008, the same opportunity existed with Utah. Shut out of the BCS Championship Game not for their failures, but a system that rewards six self-proclaimed major conferences with financially rewarding bowl spots while leaving most other schools grasping at crumbs in Detroit, Shreveport and Albuquerque.

In 2004, Auburn did everything it had to do; beat three ranked opponents during the season and another one in the Sugar Bowl.

In 2008, Utah did everything it had to do; beat three ranked opponents during the season including the Sugar Bowl. It also went on the road to beat a team from a major conference – something Auburn didn’t do – and stopped a team from another major conference – a team that beat one of the pretenders to the No. 1 ranking.
Utah did everything right, everything it was supposed to do. And like Auburn, has to settle for second best. It’s not the Utes fault that the system automatically inflates six conferences to God-like status, deserved or not.

The Big Ten was bad, the Big East worse and the Mountain West went 6-1 against the Pac-10. But the little guys suffer because the clubhouse is closed.
I am not a proponent of a playoff, but I am a proponent of fairness. Utah got screwed not because of something it did, but a perception of others – whether it’s the all-offense no-defense Big 12 or the self-promotion of the SEC.

Sure, you can argue that Florida only lost to Mississippi by a point. But it did.

And you can say that Texas beat Oklahoma and deserved to be in the championship game. But it didn’t beat Texas Tech.

And USC can argue how wonderful it is with a perennial stable of NFL prospects. But it couldn’t beat Oregon State, and Oregon State couldn’t beat Utah.

Sorry boys and girls, only one team did what it set out to do at the beginning of the season. Not a tearful pledge after a loss, but all season. That team deserves to be No. 1. Everyone else -- much like those voters who huffed and puffed all bowl season how others were foolish for ranking some teams then failed to turn in a ballot or took teams twice -- is full of hot air.

And you've all got seven more months to blow.



SportsJournalists.com FINAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL
1/9/2009
RK. TEAM (1st) PTS Last
1. Florida (15) 850 1
2. Utah (7) 814 7
3. USC (5) 808 4
4. Texas (7) 805 3
5. Oklahoma 744 1
6. TCU 668 11
7. Alabama 640 5
8. Penn State 622 6
9. Boise State 555 9
10. Oregon 544 15
11. Ohio State 537 10
12. Texas Tech 482 8
13. Mississippi 456 20
14. Georgia 441 17
15. Virginia Tech 362 21
16. Oklahoma State 296 13
17. Cincinnati 255 12
18. Oregon State 243 25
19. Missouri 236 24
20. Iowa 206 NR
21. Michigan State 106 18
22. Georgia Tech 105 14
23. West Virginia 92 NR
24. Florida State 91 NR
25. California 80 NR
Also receiving votes: BYU 77, Northwestern 46, LSU 45, Tulsa 41, Pitt 38, Rice 24, Rutgers 23, Nebraska 16, Arizona 14, Ball State 5, Boston College 5, Kansas 3.

The SportsJournalists.com college football poll final committee: Slappy4428 (chairman), 2muchcoffeeman, 93devil, Agate Page, Angola, Appgrad05, Azom, Barsuk, Bubbler, Buckweaver, Budcrew08, BYH, Cadet, Della9250, Diabeetus, Dickens Cider, Dixiehack, Dparker85, Elliotte Friedman, GB-Hack, Hammer Pants, Hank Scorpio, Huggy, Hustle, Inkywretch, Joe Schmoe, Joel Hammond, jps, KYsportswriter, Madhavok, Mustangj17, OJ1414, Orville Redenbacher, Oz, Piotr Rasputin, Precious Roy, Rufino, Rumpleforeskin, Spnited, Sportschick, Stagger Lee, Starman, Sxysptswrtr,, Trooper Bari, Songbird, Zeke12.

Missing voters in italics

 

At least USC finished ahead of Texas.

 

And again, I thank all of you who voted this season -- especially those who took the time to vote, you know, the whole season.

next year, there's only one reserved spot -- mine. Too many people were left out because of the size of the voter pool; too many people half-assed it once in. There were a lot of people who put effort into it every week and if those people want in, hell yeah they can.

 

I couldn't, in good faith, rank a team that lost to Kansas on a neutral field.

 

I'm probably not interested next year. If all goes according to plan, I'll be in grad school and blissfully not paying a whit of attention to college football, except when Ohio plays.

 

There were 11 voters who missed this final?

I know I fucked up my last ballot a little, but I would love to do this again.

Slapp, you have done a hell of a job with this. Those people in italics really dropped the ball.

 

Four teams were well represented with #1 votes. They can all say they were the best team in college football this season with which I totally agree.