2013 SJ College Football Poll: FINAL POLL POSTED!!!

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1. Alabama (1)
2. Ohio State (2)
3. Stanford (3)
4. Oregon (4)
5. Clemson (5)
6. Texas A&M (6)
7. Louisville [8]
8. Florida State (9)
9. Georgia (10)
10. LSU (14)
11. Michigan (16)
12. South Carolina (7)
13. Oklahoma (15)
14. Miami FL (NR)
15. Notre Dame (11)
16. UCLA (17)
17. Northwestern (18)
18. Oklahoma State (19)
19. Florida (12)
20. Baylor (20)
21. Wisconsin (21)
22. Nebraska (22)
23. Washington (23)
24. Northern Illinois (24)
25. TCU (25)

OUT: Texas (13)

 

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Week 3
1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Clemson
4. Oregon
5. Texas A&M
6. Georgia
7. Oklahoma State
8. LSU
9. Stanford
10. South Carolina
11. Oklahoma
12. Louisville
13. Wisconsin
14. Michigan
15. Florida State
16. Florida
17. Northwestern
18. Miami
19. UCLA
20. Nebraska
21. Mississippi
22. Notre Dame
23. TCU
24. Baylor
25. Washington


Uncovered a serious error in my poll this week. I had Michigan State ranked. Guess I saw the Michigan in text and thought about the Wolverines. So, correction made.

 

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Coco, let me know if you got my poll. I got some sort of error when I tried to send it.

 

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Songbird, you're really knocking South Carolina out entirely for that 11-point loss between the hedges? Also:

 

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WEEK 2
1. Alabama Crimson Tide
2. Georgia Bulldogs
3. Oregon Ducks
4. Ohio State Buckeyes
5. Clemson Tigers
6. Stanford Cardinal
7. South Carolina Gamecocks
8. Oklahoma State Cowboys
9. Florida State Seminoles
10. Oklahoma Sooners
11. Texas A&M Aggies
12. Louisiana State Tigers
13. Louisville Cardinals
14. Wisconsin Badgers
15. Miami (Fla.) Hurricanes
16. Michigan Wolverines
17. Florida Gators
18. Texas Christian Horned Frogs
19. Northwestern Wildcats
20. California-Los Angeles Bruins
21. Baylor Bears
22. Mississippi Rebels
23. Nebraska Cornhuskers
24. Texas Longhorns
25. Notre Dame Fighting Irish

 

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1] Alabama (1)
2] Oregon (2)
3] Stanford (3)
4] Clemson (4)
5] Ohio State (5)
6] Texas A&M (7)
7] LSU (10)
8] Louisville (8)
9] Florida State (9)
10] Georgia (11)
11] Oklahoma (12)
12] South Carolina (6)
13] Michigan (14)
14] Baylor (18)
15] Oklahoma State (15)
16] UCLA (21)
17] Ole Miss (23)
18] Nebraska (19)
19] Wisconsin (20)
20] Miami, FL (NR)
21] Florida (16)
22] Notre Dame (17)
23] Washington (25)
24] Northwestern (NR)
25] TCU (NR)

In: Miami (Fl.), Northwestern, TCU
Out: Texas, Michigan State, USC
Biggest Rise: Ole Miss (17-23, +6)
Biggest Fall: Texas (15-Out, -10 plus)
Hypothetical 26: Tennessee

Baylor at 14 feels dirty.

 

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How USC Boogalooed ... er, Couged ... It

By I SHOULD COCO
Wild Honey Guy

A couple years ago, there was talk about the Big 10 and Pac-12 doing a basketball-style “challenge” for their football teams, with all of their schools pairing up once a year for a decent nonconference tilt.

As quickly as visions of Iowa visiting Pullman, Wash., danced in my head, those plans were shelved after the Big 10 decided to expand yet again, and with 14 teams, play nine conference games each fall.

(I’ll note that the Pac-12 was willing to play Big 10 teams despite already playing nine league games ... insert joke about Midwest cupcake eaters here)

At any rate, we’ll still get a handful of games between the two Rose Bowl leagues this season, with four of them scheduled this weekend. While these matchups won’t settle which league is best, they’ll keep us sated until the Tournament of Roses parade steps off on Jan. 1.

On tap this Saturday, in order of interest:

Wisconsin at Arizona State: A chance to see just how good each team is. The Sun Devils, with Boise-area product Taylor Kelly slinging the ball all over the lot, are a bit more challenging than the Badgers’ first two cupcake opponents. But we’ll see if the Sun Devils can stop the Wisconsin running attack.

UCLA at Nebraska: The Cornhuskers owe the Bruins after UCLA used Nebraska for its coming-out party last season. The Bruins might be the class of the Pac-12 South, and should light up the scoreboard in what’s sure to be a shootout in Lincoln. California native Taylor Martinez gets perhaps his last shot at a hometown team.

Washington vs. Illinois, in Chicago: Didn’t think this would be a very good game, but ... surprise! ... the Dying Illini showed signs of life in a dominant win over a decent Cincinnati team last weekend. (Or, maybe Purdue is that bad). The Huskies try to follow up their own impressive win over Boise State.

Ohio State at California: The Bears host their second Big 10 team, and judging by their defense’s inability to stop Northwestern (or even Portland State, really), the Buckeyes should cruise.

So which league is better this season? It could be argued that the best teams in each league (Michigan, Oregon, Stanford) aren’t part of the limited Big 10-Pac 12 festivities, so we’ll just have to hash it out online until bowl season arrives. Or we could just use Notre Dame as a measuring stick, since half of its schedule is against Big 10 or Pac-12 teams.

What do SportsJournalists.com voters say about the relative strength of each league, and the top teams in them? Check out this week’s poll:

SportsJournalists.com COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL
WEEK TWO POLL — 9/9/13
RK. TEAM (1st) PTS PREVIOUS
1. Alabama (28) 746 1
2. Ohio St. (1) 672 2
3. Clemson (1) 661 4
(tie) Oregon 661 3
5. Stanford 621 5
6. Louisiana St. 537 10
7. Louisville 526 7
8. Georgia 525 11
9. Texas A&M 524 8
10. Florida St. 520 9
11. Michigan 437 17
12. South Carolina 391 6
13. Oklahoma St. 384 13
14. Oklahoma 369 15
15. Miami 295 —
16. UCLA 246 18
17. Northwestern 244 19
18. Wisconsin 197 20
19. Nebraska 191 21
20. Florida 180 12
21. Washington 165 22
22. Notre Dame 164 14
23. Baylor 140 —
24. Texas Christian 114 23
25. Ole Miss 66 25

Also receiving votes: Northern Illinois 25, Fresno St. 22, Penn St. 21, Michigan St. 16, Auburn 14, Arizona St. 12, Virginia Tech 11, Mississippi St. 10, Vanderbilt 8, Texas 6, Brigham Young 5, Utah 5, Virginia 5, Central Florida 3, Duke 2, Eastern Washington 2, Illinois 2, Bowling Green 1, Colorado 1, Tennessee 1, Utah St. 1, Washington St. 1.

The SportsJournalists.com college football poll committee: I Should Coco (tabulator), Oz, Versatile, Della9250, Huggy, dragonzo3, Mile High, KYSportswriter, Inky_Wretch, Dragon Steamboat, dparker85, McNuggets Man, Rumpleforeskin, Donnie, in his element, Songbird, three_bags_full, Layman, albert77, Mizzougrad96, Starman, Tommy Dreamer, Madhavok, TheWritingWaffle, Suicide Squeezer, the_lorax, SportsHack1818, andrewkahn, Douglas, slappy4428, ScottWColeman. Not voting: MysteryMeat II, Alma, Rawbot, Matt Stephens.


NOTE: The picture at the top of this post honors Washington State for, I believe, getting its first vote in the history of the SportsJournalists.com poll (slappy, please weigh in if I'm wrong here). And no, I did not give the Cougs a No. 25 vote ... nor do I know who the blonde girl in the photo is. She's just "wavin' the flag."

 

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I haven't seen Wisconsin so it's tough to tell how dominant its 2-shutout defense is considering the opponents. Even so, Arizona State.

UCLA uses the death of a teammate to be verily focused. Might be the best of the games. UCLA in a squeaker.

Washington v. Illinois? Take the over.

Ohio State by 30.

 

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Am I missing something or was this season's first game of the century not listed?

 

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I've seen Wisconsin. They were dominant in their shutout wins. But the competition was so crappy, it's hard to read anything into it. The early takeaway seems to be: Defense and line improved form where they were at this point last year; QB could be an issue; kicking game DEFINITELY an issue; safety spot is a question mark, still, since neither team was good enough to attack the safeties.; running game has three legit backs; passing game has only one legit WR.

 

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Do you mean Bama-A&M? Already plenty of talk about that on the college FB thread.

 

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Yeah, it's hard to read too much into Wisconsin's start, even though they're a pretty good team. Nothing stops a nice start to the season faster than ill-advised trips to the west coast.