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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by slappy4428, Aug 18, 2008.

  1. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    mount union.
     
  2. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    At least I didn't rank them any higher.
     
  3. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    Unfortunately, if you want to go with an undefeated team at the back of the top 25, your choices right not aren't very appealing. Notre Dame, UConn, Iowa, Colorado, etc are littering the landscape. Florida State was one of my last few up for consideration. The Seminoles have done what top 25 teams are supposed to when facing non D-1 schools -- hammer the piss out of them.
     
  4. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    A quick insight on my ballot -- 1. LSU, 2. Southern Cal, 3. Missouri, 4. Oklahoma, 5. Florida.

    My top 14 stayed in the same spots due to a lack of sizzle from just about everybody that could have made a big leap from where I had them ranked last week.

    Added to the top 25 -- South Florida at 21, BYU at 22, Texas Tech at 23
    Dropped from the top 25 -- Cal, UCLA and Arizona State

    Other Notes: From 15 to 25 was where my action was. Wake Forest went from 17 to 15. Wisconsin went from 20 to 17 (only because people dropped). I dropped Kentucky from 18 to 24 after their one-yard escape -- they are one more junky game from being moving on out. They survive mostly because so many other people had junky games. I dropped Kansas back one spot to 25. Utah moved up from 25 to 20. Vandy went from 23 to 18.

    The key games this week for my vote: W. Virginia at Colorado, Boise State at Oregon, Wake Forest at Florida State, LSU at Auburn, Georgia at Arizona State.
     
  5. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    Just to play devil's advocate, you've got East Carolina No. 11 this week. You probably would rank the Pirates there if they beat Chattanooga, Sam Houston State and Florida International, so it stands to reason you must hold West Virginia and Virginia Tech with some sort of respect. So why not them as opposed to the Seminoles?
     
  6. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    Ugly losses, Oz. And neither did much this week for me to consider ranking them.

    VA Tech barely beat GA Tech, and I can't remember what WVU did yesterday off the top of my head.
     
  7. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    Della, a 6 point win over Middle Tennessee, at home no less, isn't a 'junky' game?

    UK would have fallen further because of that game had I ranked them last week.
     
  8. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    Mountaineers were on a bye.
     
  9. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    They're still on the outside looking in.

    Get a couple wins in a row, and I may consider ranking them in the 20-25 range.
     
  10. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    I thought VaTech beat a good team today. Paul Johnson has got that program on the right track already, and looking at the schedule, I wouldn't be surprised to see Georgia Tech at 5-1 going into Death Valley.

    Anyway, just thought I would play devil's advocate there. Just my two cents.
     
  11. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    My top five for this week ...

    1. Southern California
    2. Georgia
    3. Oklahoma
    4. Mizzou
    5. Florida

    ... I switched from Georgia on the top line to USC, not based on the Bulldogs' lack of style points, but because of USC's dominance against Ohio State. I also jumped the Sooners past Mizzou, based on the Washington game and a tougher schedule to date.

    Debuts -- No. 20 Virginia Tech, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 Texas Christian
    Dropouts -- No. 18 Arizona State, No. 22 UCLA, No. 24 Tennessee (that UCLA loss looks much worse today, doesn't it?)
    Biggest gain -- Brigham Young, from No. 16 to No. 10; Alabama, from No. 17 to No. 11
    Biggest drop -- Ohio State, from No. 2 to No. 17
     
  12. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 2 (9/8), Page 28

    Maybe because its late and I'm misunderstanding but the Kentucky one-point win over Midd Tenn is junky. Just like Wisconsin suriving against Frenso, Or Auburn winning 3-2. Or Georgia against S. Carolina. Or Oregon having to win in double OT. Or Illinois barely beating La-Laf. Or East Carolina against Tulane.

    I know a couple of locks about my ballot right now: LSU is tops till the lose. USC is number 2. I have Mizzou 3 and Oklahoma 4. Those can be interchangable. After that the questions were as followed: Do I move Florida out of fifth because they didn't play? I could have flip-flopped them and Penn State. But with ECU at seven, Auburn 8 and Georgia 9, where do the go because they all had close games they shouldn't have. Alabama rolled but it was against a barely D-1 team, and then I had Texas 11 but I kept them there because they didn't play due to Ike. I wasn't going to punish or reward them for that. 12, 13, 14 were Oregon, Ohio State and Illinois, then Wake and West Virginia -- both who didn't play -- then Wisconsin at 17.

    So with no clear-cut dominators other than LSU (who wasn't going to move) USC (who couldn't go any higher), I was left with a bunch of teams that if just one or two had dominated, could have made a decent jump. If Wisky had won 42-10, I would have probably jumped them five more spots. If Georgia had dominated S. Carolina, I would have at least flipflopped them with Auburn, maybe bumped them in front of ECU. But none of that hapened and I really didn't have anybody behind them to bump up to punish them. So the status quo, for the most part, it is.

    Middle Tennessee isn't that bad of a team. The lost to Troy, which is a pretty good program in itself now, plus they beat Maryland, which just knocked Cal out of the top 25. Is it a game Kentucky shouldn't have come down to the final yard, of course. And if they struggle with Western Kentucky next week, then that provides even more fodder.

    I don't have my list of the last ones I left out with me right now, but I thought dropping Kentucky six spots was appropriate considering that had Middle Tenn. got that extra yard, the Cats would be out completely. But I wasn't willing to put in Iowa or Northwestern or Connecticut or Nebraska or some other 3-0 team. Now next week if everybody's at 4-0 with some of the matchups I mentioned in my post, then I'd have no problem replacing Kentucky with Arizona St. if they beat Georgia or Boise State if they beat Oregon.
     
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