FINALLY! SJ.com College Football Poll -- FINAL POST-BOWL POLL -- PAGE 48

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I've said elsewhere that I can understand still voting for Michigan. I didn't, but I thought about it. If they beat Oregon and certain other teams lose, I'll likely vote for them again.

 

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Amen.

I'm expecting to be much more pleased with my voting after this weekend. The first two have been "well, they have xx starters back and a good/bad/indifferent schedule," combined with "I really think they are pretty f*&^ing good/a hype machine," so I'll put them ... here.

I am completely unsold on Georgia and have Angola!-like love for Boise, but I heart Louisville (2nd) and TCU (11th). Now, Frogs, go prove me right this weekend. Kragthorpe, you'll get your chance soon enough. And Dogs? Spurrier is this weekend. Another win will turn the tide.

And, for the record, i had Michigan No. 8 to start. It was my last team kicked out this week.

 

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I dropped Michigan from 3 to 20. I couldn't justify kicking them all the way out because if one of those two field goals doesn't get blocked, we're not talking about Upset of the Century, and Michigan stays in most everyone's top 10 (I'd probably ding them to 5 or 6). The difference between winning on the last play and losing on the last play against App was worth about 15 spots to me, which may still be too steep but not enough to knock them out.

 

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Michigan went from 3 to 24 in mine, added Georgia Tech and Kent. Hammer Pants, who said on the other thread that anyone who had Michigan ranked still is an idiot, well, is an idiot. They had a bad day. If they get smoked by Oregon this weekend, they'll certainly drop out of mine and stay out for a long time. But a bad day, against a decent team, does not a complete dropout make.

As a side note, I'm intrigued by Georgia tech. I'm not sure if ND is that bad or they're that good, but the Jackets were pretty impressive.

 

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My Top 25:

I dropped Michigan out because they had every advantage and pissed it all away. (Full disclosure: If we were allowed to, I would have voted App State into the Top 25). The Wolverines are going to have to beat someone good to get back into the Top 25, and I'm not talking about Oregon or Notre Dame.

Auburn, Texas, Va. Tech and Tennessee all dropped because I thought they were highly unimpressive in what should have been gimmie wins (Auburn, Texas, Tech) or were proven to be very soft (Phil Fulmer and Co.).

I was really impressed with Georgia Tech. To go into Notre Dame and humiliate the Irish in the manner that they did, I thought that deserved a vote.

 

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HB, I wavered on Va. Tech, but is Kansas State really a gimmie win? They looked pretty good. ... Or Auburn looked really bad. Either way, that was an exciting game (irrelevant to polling, I realize).

Interesting on Tennessee. I thought it was more Cal playing very well than Tennessee playing poorly. But that's why everyone has a vote.

 

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I watched every snap of Cal-Tennessee, and Cal played very well. But were they helped by a Vols team that couldn't tackle?


K-State lost six, six and seven games in the last three seasons. They're clearly rebuilding and may soon become a Big 12 power. But should Auburn have struggled so mightily against them? Especially at home? That was my reasoning for dropping the Tigers.

 

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MMMmmmmmm. Uma.

As stated earlier, Uma was partially to blame for the delay in my vte being submitted -- I love long holiday weekends.

 

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I left both Michigan and Tennessee out of my Top 25, even though both are probably among the 25 best teams in the nation. My thinking was this: It was not difficult to find 25 teams who are (a) 1-0, and (b) worthy of being in the Top 25.

If the Wolverines and Vols win next week, I'll likely put them back in my poll. But for now, 1-0 trumps 0-1.

 

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They probably never should have trailed in the final minutes. That 10-point margin didn't do that game justice.

 

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Agreed, but as I said to co-workers with about 10 minutes left in the game, "It's a night game on the Plains. Auburn will win going away. They ALWAYS win these games going away. They'll block a punt or return a fumble for a touchdown and the crowd will go nuts and that will be that."

Sho' nuf, touchdown, Freeman gets crushed, fumble, touchdown, end of story.

I really think Tuberville's MO is to just stay close and wait for the other team to say, "Holy crap we're going to win," then crush them when they take that little breather. His teams never panic when they get behind, even in the second half.

 

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Problem is, with that offensive line, they're going to lose games like that against better opponents. They didn't do much to impress Saturday night.