top 25 vote...

USC should be No. 5

 

W.Va. is the greatest thing since God cooled the Earth's core temp.

 

Mountaineers sold me today by beating an SEC school by 4 touchdowns on the road. I don't care if it was sorry ol' Mississippi State ... it was still an SEC opponent on the road. Impressive.

Auburn at No. 14 is exactly where it should be when the poll's released tomorrow. They're not very good, but don't be shocked when they knock off the Gators next week.

I'm now convinced the West Virginia-Louisville winner is going to play the Ohio State-Michigan winner for the national championship. USC is going to lose before the Notre Dame game; Florida will lose next Saturday; Tennessee has a loss; ditto Texas and Cal.

Or maybe Mizzou will run the table in the Big 12 and get the love it deserves. I've been impressed with the Tigers the couple of times I've seen 'em on TV.

 

Iowa blows. Washington blows; I don't care if they almost beat USC.

 

What the Mountaineers did could hardly be considered a beating. They scored two touchdowns in the final three minutes to make the score look better than what it actually was. Eleven penalties for 132 yards didn't help. Not impressive.

As for Mizzou, it finally did beat a Division I-A school with a winning record, and on the road no less. That said, Mizzou has been one lousy road team under Pinkel, and the Tigers do have to visit Lincoln. Not easy to win there.

 

Who the heck has West Virginia beaten?

 

Whitlock........I hope you have that vote written down in pencil.

 

One question regarding the "who've they beaten?" angle. How many good teams are there in the country, seriously? The Big Ten has two powerhouses, then a dropoff. The Big East has a couple of good ones. The ACC ... eh. The SEC has some strong clubs. A couple of good ones in the Pac-10, maybe. OK, that's, what, maybe 20 "good" teams (and I'm being generous)? Not everyone plays a top-caliber team every week ... you have to beat who is on your schedule, and sometimes that schedule sucks (and sometimes it looks a lot better five years ago when it was made). Maybe Rutgers or whomever hasn't "beaten anybody" - but they've still won. Sooner or later they will have to face a "good" team. All this crap is so subjective anyway. Fuck the polls. The preseason poll screws it all up anyway. OK, I'm done now. Thanks. Oh, and why not vote for Wisconsin? They haven't beaten anybody good.

 

I'm sorry, but running up 21 points on Mississppi State in the fourth quarter to win by four touchdowns is far from impressive. Way to pick up the style points at the end boys....

WV should be below Florida, Michigan, USC and Louisville at this point.

 

Right, cause Louisillve looked really impressive in the first half against Middle Tennessee, spotting them a 10-3 lead and all.

According to the Sagarin ratings (yes, yes, I know I know...), the Big East passed the ACC.