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

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1. LSU (damn you, slappy and spnited! )
2. Georgia
3. Southern Cal
4. West Virginia
5. Missouri

 

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i'm really disappointed i'll go to bed tonight not knowing ...


i just might have to stop giving this site the tom petty seal of approval.

 

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1. Louisiana State
2. Kansas
3. Missouri
4. Ohio State
5. Georgia
6. Southern California
7. West Virginia
8. Virginia Tech
9. Oklahoma
10. Texas

 

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I still don't get why this missed out on THread of the Year (or did it? I don't remember)

slappy rules.

1. LSU
2. USC
3. Georgia
4. West Virginia
5. THE Ohio State University
6. Missouri
7. Kansas
8. Virginia Tech
9. Boston College
10. Oklahoma
11. Texas
12. Florida
13. Tennessee
14. Hawaii
15. Arizona State
16. BYU
17. Auburn
18. Illinois
19. Cincinnati
20. Clemson
21. Michigan
22. Wisconsin
23. Penn State
24. Virginia
25. Texas Tech

 

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why do you hate oregon?

 

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1. LSU
2. Kansas
3. Missouri
4. Southern Cal
5. West Virginia
6. Georgia
7. Ohio State
8. Virginia Tech
9. Oklahoma
10. Hawaii
11. Boston College
12. BYU
13. Tennessee
14. Texas
15. Arizona State
16. Cincinnati
17. Auburn
18. Wisconsin
19. Clemson
20. Michigan
21. Florida
22. Illinois
23. Texas Tech
24. Virginia
25. Oregon


From my preseason ballot, Florida, Southern Cal, West Virginia, Michigan, LSU, Texas, Va Tech, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Auburn, Georgia, Hawaii, Tennessee and Boston College ended in my final top 25. I pegged Va. Tech in the exact same spot.

 

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Aw, crap.

I don't hate Oregon . . . I was planning to put them in at around 22 or so, and my eyes glazed over by the time I got to that point in my poll.

Dammit. They should go in right above Penn State and push Virginia out.

See? This is tough stuff.

 

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You can resubmit, Piotr. I did when I accidentally left out Illinois.

 

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shit pio, i blame slappy.

 

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I blame slappy too.

 

Re: SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll -- Final poll 1/8/2008

SportsJournalists.com FINAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL

By SLAPPY 4428
Poll Taker

I sit here this morning, to coin a phrase (and I know it will catch on), full of fail.

I'm wearing my Ohio State shirt from the night before, watching the neighbor's dog pee on my shed. I'm drinking out of an Oklahoma glass (if the karma was truly right, it would be New Coke), looking at Ms. Slappy's Alabama sweatshirt on the chair and, in the ultimate pull-down-your-pants-and-taunt-you moment, planning a trip to Walmart.

And yet, even though I know my local Walton sweatshop is full of more bozo's and miscreants than any place Bubbler could draw up with his twisted mind playing air guitar to Twisted Sister, I smile.

I smile because, unlike others, we got it right -- just as we said we would from the beginning.

The first poll of the season? LSU was second and USC first. The last poll of the regular season? LSU first, not Ohio State (What's that AP? Didn't hear you. Hey ESPN, little louder? You took who first?).

OK, we didn't get everything right. We finished with Georgia second and along the way we had (In no particular order) Wisconsin, South Florida, Boston College, and Kentucky in the Top 6.

But we got it more right than wrong. And after No. 1, who honestly gives a bucket of pump juice about where anyone else is ranked?

It's been fun (Hell, even my dog is ready to get a screen name and start posting to take on Stan Solo); it's not Crossed Giblets of Death, but what is?

I'm grateful to all of you for allowing me to do it. I've cursed you for tardiness and an inability to remember that each team can only be taken once.

I've been amazed at regionalism and voters' dislikes -- but only had to reject a ballot for being totally out of whack once. But it also gave the voters a different perspective. In all, 71 teams made their way to our poll – not including Appalachian State, which voters tried to slide in right to the bitter end.

As Oz said, "And again, thank you so much for doing this. Not only did it make me a better college football fan, which was hard to believe, but it made me think twice about blasting those who do submit ballots weekly ..."

And as Tom Petty said "How can you not like Cherry Pop-tarts?"

We've laughed at bad teams, picked on over-paid coaches, piled on stupid people and called out the slivey pom-pon wavin' fan bois -- whether it's the Big 11, the SEC, the .. nope, that's pretty much it. Big East and ACC don't deserve fanbois and the Pac-10 and Big 12 can pretty much back their bragging -- much in the same way that Missouri can lay claim to its first 1-2 finish over Kansas since 1909 (I actually looked that up, creating a no-shi t moment with a buddy of mine as he wept while reading the Thanksgiving weekend poll).

My favorite part of the season?

At the early cattle call, one board member (and I honestly don't remember who) begged to get in, then never sent in a preseason ballot so I dropped him. Suddenly after the first week of play, I started getting a ballot from someone not on the list. After the second week, I asked him why he was sending in ballots. I dunno, maybe I missed someone.

You told me I could be in, he replied. Well, where was your preseason poll?

"Oh. I don't believe in preseason polls so I didn't send one. But I'm here now."

Time to go to Walmart.

SportsJournalists.com FINAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL
1/8/2008
RK. TEAM (1st) PTS Last
1. LSU (25) 648 1
2. Georgia (1) 596 4
3. Southern Cal 585 5
4. West. Va 570 10
5. Missouri 543 8
6. Kansas 536 9
7. Ohio State 507 2
8. Oklahoma 458 3
9. Virginia Tech 446 6
10. Boston College 363 14
11. Texas 358 16
12. Tennessee 340 17
13. BYU 270 19
14. Florida 263 11
15. Hawaii 252 7
16. Michigan 251 NR
17. Auburn 241 24
18. Arizona State 232 12
19. Cincinnati 201 20
20. Illinois 174 13
21. Wisconsin 116 18
22. Oregon 115 NR
23. Clemson 106 15
24. Texas Tech 92 25
25. Penn State 34 NR
Also receiving votes: Wake Forest 33, Virginia 29, Boise St. 16, Utah 14, Oregon St., 12, Navy 11, Rutgers 9, California 7, Arkansas 6, Fresno St. 6, Tulsa 5, South Florida 1, Kentucky 1, East Carolina 1, Florida Atlantic 1.

SportsJournalists.com College Football Poll committee: Final poll ballot can be found here.

 

Wow. That final poll sheet is the icing on the cake.

Superb job.