Week 2 BlogPoll Ballot
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | |
| 2 | Alabama |  1 |
| 3 | Southern Cal | 1 |
| 4 | Texas |  2 |
| 5 | California | 3 |
| 6 | Penn State | |
| 7 | Brigham Young | 2 |
| 8 | Mississippi | 1 |
| 9 | Boise State | 4 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 11 | Georgia Tech | 1 |
| 12 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 13 | Miami (Florida) | 3 |
| 14 | Virginia Tech | 6 |
| 15 | Nebraska | |
| 16 | Cincinnati | 2 |
| 17 | TCU | |
| 18 | Utah | |
| 19 | LSU | |
| 20 | Houston | |
| 21 | Michigan | 3 |
| 22 | Oklahoma State | 17 |
| 23 | Missouri | 2 |
| 24 | Kansas | |
| 25 | Georgia | 4 |
| Last week’s ballot | ||
The Elite Florida – Once the Gators start throttling SEC bait fellow voters will no longer be able to point out strength of schedule. As for me, nothing has changed my opinion that Florida is the best team in the country. Alabama – The Virginia Tech win is looking better (and hopefully will continue to do so). Southern Cal – Winning at night in Columbus is a daunting task, but neither USC or tOSU impressed me. Texas – The ‘Horns struggled early with Wyoming. But they were on the road and relatively speaking for Texas they deserve credit for scheduling tough out of conference games. slow clap andddd stop
We’ll know more after VT-Nebraska, GT-Miami, Florida State-BYU, Utah-Oregon, Cincinnati-Oregon State and Arkansas-Georgia.
Forcier Michigan fans rejoice, you’re on the way up until you stumble unexpectedly, but then you’ll continue to rise. How about this picture from the BlogPoll homeland.
Bad Investment Uncle Boone Pickens took a swim in the money bank to console himself after the Cowboys loss to Houston.
Feel free to tell me why I’m wrong.
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1Simon on Sep 14, 2009 at 8:18 am:
Frankly even Florida’s SEC schedule is a little soft this season with UT and UGA relatively down from their normal perches and nobody in the SEC East a truly worthy adversary.
Sure they play in the Bayou, but outside of that they avoid Ole Miss and Bama.
But nothing compares to the cupcake fest that is Penn State’s schedule. Stupid old man Joe Pa.
2cgb on Sep 14, 2009 at 8:22 am:
Florida also plays Florida State, however they should man up and permanently schedule Miami.
3arkbadger on Sep 14, 2009 at 9:36 am:
Arkansas-georgia is going to be freaking sweet this weekend. Can’t wait.
4cgb on Sep 14, 2009 at 9:51 am:
@arkbadger I know we talked about it a couple of times and it should be really good. I’m really looking forward to it. Georgia has looked a little suspect, and we know nothing about Arkansas. If the Pigs win they’ll make my top 25 next week. I like their chances since they’re home and have had two weeks to prepare.
5Hagar on Sep 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm:
Miami has been reluctant to schedule Florida, and the way Miami has played since 2003 this isn’t a game of merit. Miami fans like to paint this up as Florida avoiding Miami, but that’s a bunch of South Beach BS. Miami should ball up and schedule Tenneessee every year,…see, not that big a deal since they’ve not maintained their program of late.
Florida won the Title last year after, AGAIN, playing the toughest schedule in the country. Adding Miami only looks good NOW, because they tripped up F$U to open the season. An impressive win, but an upset just the same. Also Florida isn’t avoiding Missy or ‘Bammer, the schedule rotates and those are two from the West they don’t get….until the conference game, if either of them or Florida makes it that far.
To see a real impressive (note sarcasm here) OOC sched?, look no further than big game Mack and the horns…….now that’s bad!
6cgb on Sep 14, 2009 at 1:31 pm:
@Hagar – Well hopefully whoever is holding up a permanent Miami-Florida series will change their thinking. I had always read and heard it was Florida ducking The U. Miami scheduled a home and home with Tennessee in 02-03 and went 1-1. I hate defending Miami, but they always have one marquee out of conference school on their schedule
I disagree that Florida’s schedule last year was the toughest in the country. I think Washington’s with Oklahoma, BYU and no 1aa team was harder. But Florida definitely had a top 10 schedule last year.
I agree Texas has year in and year out the worst out of conference schedule of any big time school.
7Hagar on Sep 14, 2009 at 1:58 pm:
cgb: Their (wash) OOC might have been tougher, but the complete schedule ranked Florida#1.
Miami and their fan base have lived for years with it being the Gators who are ducking them….the reality was back in the 80’s when Florida was on probation they discontinued the games for a couple years. It wasn’t something that was to be permanent though. ‘Cane fans took that as ducking. Spurrier looked to bring it back, but then they were in a rough patch, so…the old thinking has continued in absence of something real, based entirely on the fact that Miami had gotten the best of Florida in the past. Stands to reason a bit…heck, I’d probably work that angle too, if I were a ‘Cane.
The Miami/UTenn games were good too….”I’m a soldier” came out of that mini-series. The point was that while they are on top, its a great move, but when one is and the other isn’t it does no one any good. I properly repect the Miami program, but the cr.p about anyone being scared of another team?, come on!.
I think the “Corndogs” are saying the same thing about Miami, since they waxed Miami pretty good in their last meeting. They want a 2 game home-n-home series, but it hasn’t happened. Applying the cane logic, it must be because the canes were beaten so badly by them last time out….????
Utah was suppose to be the Gator opener, and they bailed on the game, so…ya gotta fill it. Charlie South was the lucky one…???