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

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

ky is a fucking idiot, but bubbler how do you justify having boise state above utah and in the top 10?

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

Here's my top 5:

1. Oklahoma
2. Florida
3. Texas
4. USC
5. Alabama

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

My poll, with movement from last week. Just can't justify flipping Texas and Oklahoma. If these polls are an exercise in would-Team-A-beat-Team-B-if-they-played, then I don't see how anyone can possibly explain listing the Sooners as No. 1. Their resumes are very, very similar and that exercise DID happen -- and Texas won, on a neutral field. Since it comes down to those two, because Florida's loss was much worse, the 'Horns win for me:

1. Texas +1
2. Oklahoma +1
3. Florida +1
4. Alabama -3
5. USC -
6. Penn State -
7. Texas Tech -
8. Utah -
9. Ohio State -
10. Oklahoma State -
11. Boise State -
12. TCU -
13. Cincinnati +1
14. Oregon +2
15. Michigan State +2
16. Georgia Tech +2
17. BYU +2
18. Northwestern +2
19. Oregon State +2
20. Georgia +2
21. Ball State -8
22. Pittsburgh +2
23. Mississippi +2
24. Virginia Tech NR
25. Missouri -10

Fell out: Boston College (23).

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

I voted:
Florida
Texas
Oklahoma

I think Oklahoma is the best team in the nation, but I can't put them ahead of Texas. I just can't. It ain't fair to the 'Horns.
Florida is good, but I think they will get hammered - Nebraska style - against Oklahoma.


PS Georgia sucks.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

1. OU 2
2. Florida 4
3. USC 3

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

What's the over/under on #1 votes for Texas?

I have one and I quickly see Buck agrees.

I would say seven in the over/under.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

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Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

1. Florida
2. Oklahoma
3. Texas
4. Alabama
5. Penn State

Had to go with Oklahoma ahead of Texas, since well, we all know why. Florida is playing like the No. 1 team.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

Done. The Crimson Tide are who I thought they were. Saw no reason to bump them down any further due to a loss that proved to me that I was right to have them that low in the first place.

Pos. Team Last 2 wks ago
1 Florida 1 1
2 Texas 2 4
3 Oklahoma 3 2
4 Southern Cal 4 5
5 Texas Tech 5 3
6 Penn State 6 6
7 Utah 7 7
8 Oklahoma State 8 8
9 Alabama 9 9
10 Boise State 10 10
11 Ohio State 11 12
12 BYU 12 13
13 TCU 13 15
14 Michigan State 14 18
15 Georgia Tech 16 21
16 Cincinnati 18 20
17 Oregon 19 23
18 Georgia 20 14
19 Northwestern 21 24
20 Pittsburgh 24 NR
21 Boston College 17 19
22 Ole Miss 23 NR
23 Va. Tech NR NR
24 Florida State 25 22
25 Missouri 22 11

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

Just curious, why do you like a three-loss Oklahoma State more than a one-loss Alabama that led in the fourth quarter against your top-ranked Gators? Do you think the Pokes would have played a tougher game?

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 14 (12/1) Page 106

1. Oklahoma
2. Florida
3. Southern Cal
4. Texas
5. Penn State
6. Utah
7. Alabama
8. Texas Tech
9. Boise State
10. Ohio State
11. TCU
12. Oklahoma State
13. Cincinnati
14. BYU
15. Ball State
16. Oregon
17. Georgia Tech
18. Michigan State
19. Georgia
20. Pittsburgh
21. Virginia Tech
22. Missouri
23. Mississippi
24. Boston College
25. East Carolina

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- Week 15 (12/8) Page 110

Winds of BCS don't blow hard, just blow period

Dec. 9, 2008

By SLAPPY 4428
Venomous Polster

If a tie is like kissing your sister, a five-way tie is like frenching your grandmother – Western Michigan University basketball coach Les Wothke.

How appropriate is this? A tie at the top of the sportsjournalists.com college football poll heading into the bowel season is just fitting for this season. No one wants to take a stand on the field so we’ll compromise off it.

The last poll has the two media darlings of Tim Tebow and Florida and Sam Bradford and Oklahoma squarely on top with everyone else on the outside looking in – just like those corporate greedheads of the BCS.

Jumping Jeebus on a stick! These are the two best teams? These are the teams we have to wade through thirtymajillion other games to watch? Ms. Slappy got up during the SEC championship game and took a washcloth and started wiping a corner of the TV screen.

Someone asked her what she was doing and she said “getting ready to clean up in case these two boobs on TV spilled them some Tebow.”

Whatever boobs are with Tebow – Danielson and Lundquist – or Ms. Funbags, we’re in for a long month of dealing with America’s Most Perfect Person.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. – George Brett

And Teblow and the crocs get to face a team that was the best in its championship game, but not the best in its division – only by the grace of a deep-level tie-breaker did the Boomers get to beat up on Mizzou. “Beat up” is the optimum phrase here thanks to Bob Stoops making sure that the Sooners not only ran up the score but every viewer in America was subjected to a audio version of waterboarding by the Okie Marching Band.

I’m not saying that Stoops did this intentionally, but… ah hell. Yes I am and it’s bull. Let’s be sure people know we are the best by picking on a defense that couldn’t stop an old woman from crossing the street.

Texas and Texas Tech have legitimate gripes about not being in the BCS title game. But because Bobby stooped to a new low, the Okies are headed to Miami for the good bowl.

Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David. – Shug Jordan

So remember boys and girls, when you complain over the next month that one team didn’t deserve its spot or another should have been ranked higher – it’s your fault. It’s your fault for not putting this team higher or that team lower; it’s your fault that you help perpetuate the myth of big schools being more deserving or another being flashier than the rest; it’s your fault because you watch the damn games on TV and drive the ratings so these programming morons feel compelled to give you matchups between ”two of the hottest teams in America” in Rutgers and N.C. State; it’s your fault because you stand by and let the BCS grow bigger, stronger and less accountable for excluding a Boise State team that’s 35-3 in the last three seasons from the big table, but including a Virginia Tech team that until two weeks ago got as many AP poll votes as Michigan.

Demand change. Don’t settle. Is a playoff the answer? Maybe, maybe not. But allowing stupidity for the sake of greed isn’t. Demand that the BCS be flexible.

The Big East Conference is no more deserving of an automatic bid than the Potsdam Conference. And the Potsdam Conference played a tougher non-conference schedule.

So don’t let up. Complain, spout, spew, argue and don’t let up. Make sure that the best teams play at the end, not the ones who politic better than a Southern senator. Get off your behinds and do something – right.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.—George Orwell


SportsJournalists.com COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL
12/1/2008
RK. TEAM (1st) PTS Last
1. Oklahoma (15) 1078 2
1. Florida (13) 1078 4
3. Texas (15) 1059 3
4. USC (2) 977 5
5. Alabama 940 1
6. Penn State 880 6
7. Utah 865 7
8. Texas Tech 809 8
9. Boise State 784 9
10. Ohio State 726 10
11. TCU 651 12
12. Cincinnati 604 13
13. Oklahoma State 576 14
14. Georgia Tech 491 15
15. Oregon 449 16
16. BYU 422 17
17. Georgia 344 20
18. Michigan State 319 21
19. Pitt 245 23
20. Mississippi 239 22
21. Virginia Tech 200 NR
22. Ball State 194 11
23. Northwestern 192 24
24. Missouri 147 18
25. Oregon State 122 25
Also receiving votes: Iowa 69, Boston College 37, Western Michiagn 20, Florida State 19, Rutgers 17, Rice 13, West Virginia 10, Buffalo 7, North Carolina 6, Air Force 5, Tulsa 4, East Carolina 3, California 2, Navy 2, Nebraska 1.

The SportsJournalists.com college football poll 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