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Have At It: Blog Poll Ballot, Week 2

RankTeamDelta
1 Florida --
2 Oklahoma --
3 Southern Cal --
4 Georgia 1
5 Ohio State 1
6 Missouri --
7 LSU --
8 Texas --
9 Oregon 3
10 Auburn --
11 Alabama --
12 Wisconsin 1
13 East Carolina 13
14 California 1
15 Wake Forest 1
16 Brigham Young 1
17 Arizona State 4
18 Penn State 7
19 Vanderbilt 7
20 South Florida 6
21 Fresno State 3
22 Texas Tech 4
23 Kansas 4
24 Oklahoma State 4
25 UCLA 2
Dropped Out: West Virginia (#9), Cincinnati (#22).

No drastic reshuffling at this point, and I'm not yet undergoing a rigorous resume analysis, in large part because it's still too difficult to determine the quality of any given win. Put another way: To assign values to wins at this point is, essentially, to power poll. Which is basically what I'm doing with the above.

This is not to say results don't matter. They do--more this week than last. But there's a heavy dose of subjective opinion here, as well.The shuffling about among ranked teams 15-25 is... yeah. A mess. Especially considering I just picked Kansas to beat USF on the radio. I may need to revisit the back half of this ballot tomorrow morning.

So have at it. Where does your opinion differ from mine?

Star-divide

POLL ADJUSTMENTS, 9/9

RankTeamDelta
1 Florida --
2 Oklahoma --
3 Southern Cal --
4 Georgia 1
5 Ohio State 1
6 Missouri --
7 LSU --
8 Texas --
9 Oregon 3
10 Auburn --
11 Alabama --
12 Wisconsin 1
13 East Carolina 13
14 California 1
15 Wake Forest 1
16 Brigham Young 1
17 Arizona State 4
18 Kansas 1
19 Penn State 6
20 Vanderbilt 6
21 South Florida 7
22 Oklahoma State 2
23 Fresno State 1
24 Texas Tech 6
25 UCLA 2

 

Dropped Out: West Virginia (#9), Cincinnati (#22).

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Comments

Would you pick Vanderbilt to beat Tech right now?
No....

Could barley hold on agianst Ole Miss

Huh?

Wake Forest beat Ole Miss, Vanderbilt beat South Carolina and Miami (OH) the week before.

I might argue

with dropping Oklahoma State four spots after that whipping of UH (which isn’t a bad team at all).

Glad to see Kansas going down, where they belong. Strongly doubt Vandy is No. 19. I’d have punished BYU for that fluky win.

So...

If Rice beats Vandy this week, will Rice be ranked next week when we play them?

Kansas...

…..shutout a LaTech team that beat Sylvester Croom and his MissSt. squad. Kansas has given up a total of 10 points in their two games.

Peter, you made a good choice. S.Florida will be given fits by the Kansas defense.

Agreed

I’d put Kansas around #14 in a hybrid resume/power poll right now. I’m still on the Jayhawk bandwagon until proven wrong.

Yeap

Adjusted poll is posted above. My KU appreciation is reflected, and a slight bump to Okie State, as well, who’ve been as impressive as MIssouri on offense.

It's Vandy PB

If you’re doing a hybrid poll as BZ suggests, I can believe that they’re ranked, but not ahead of Tech and South Florida (who may not beat Kansas, but will give them fits. Grothe is as inexplicable as he is indomitable.)

Vandy’s win over South Carolina is laudable, but a top twenty program it does not make.

Homer!

Shhh…..PB’s dirty little secret is that he had a cup of coffee at Vandy before coming to his senses and transferring to Texas.

My soft side exposed...

I have a soft spot for Vandy and Wake as teams I grew up ignoring in football that are right now fun and relevant.

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