GoldenBlogs Top 25 - Week 14 - California Golden Blogs

GoldenBlogs Top 25 - Week 14

by ragnarok on Dec 3, 2008 1:47 PM PST in Football Comment 3 comments

Well, the people have spoken. Alabama is #1, at least for this week. Interestingly, Florida was leading our poll this morning, when I first submitted our ballot, but was overtaken by 'Bama before noon. In any case, we'll find out who is really #1 this weekend in the SEC title game.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama	--
2	Florida	--
3	Texas	1
4	Oklahoma	1
5	Southern Cal	--
6	Penn State	--
7	Utah	2
8	Texas Tech	1
9	Ohio State	1
10	Oklahoma State	--

Oh, and it appears that Texas doesn't have many fans around here. Which, you know, is entirely understandable. However, they still jump Oklahoma on our ballot, the reverse of real life. Anyone interested in a split national title?

Our top 10 teams remain unchanged -- yeah, OK State stays at #10, despite the home loss to the Sooners. What, did that change your opinion of the Cowboys? Utah does jump two spots, including over Ohio State, despite both teams having BYEs because...because...hold on, let me get back to you that one...

...OK, found it. Turns out we had a substitute voter last weekend, and Yellow Fever likes Utah about 4 spots better than HydroTech. Yeah, stop paying attention to our deltas already.

Also, we've started again with that posting. Check it: Interview with Gary Tyrrell, Women's B-Ball Primer. Beastmode.

11	Boise State	1
12	Cincinnati	3
13	Georgia Tech	6
14	TCU	--
15	Missouri	4
16	Oregon	2
17	Ball State	--
18	Michigan State	2
19	Boston College	2
20	Georgia	7
21	Brigham Young	2
22	Mississippi	2
23	Pittsburgh	3
24	Virginia Tech	2
25	Oregon State	9

Dropped Out: Florida State (#22), Northwestern (#25).

And in other ballot news, Georgia Tech, on its way up the poll, passes Georgia coming down, providing a solid bit of evidence that, just maybe SEC >> ACC isn't true after all.

Oregon State, blowout losers of the Civil War (and a Rose Bowl bid, and a LOT of money, and my respect, and the Rodgers brothers -- though they did finally win a basketball game, against Fresno State, to get to 1-4), very nearly lost their spot in our Top 25, plummeting 9 spots to No. 25. No one else really saw significant movement, which makes sense for a late-in-the-year poll. I mean, after 11 games, is 1 more really going to change your opinion of a team THAT drastically?

Next week, we'll do a fun little 'compare and contrast' between our final regular season ballot and our preseason ballot. (Clemson in the Top 10?? Oh no we didn't!!)

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Oh yes you did!

Please disregard the above ramblings as those of a clearly delusional fan.

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by TwistNHook on Dec 3, 2008 1:56 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I want an eight way national title

That way no one is happy and there’s a playoff in 2011 or whenever it’s first available.

by BearsNecessity on Dec 3, 2008 2:38 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

No playoffs

I have a theory. We don’t want a playoff system. Instead we want cafadodnicks.

Imagine this: the 6, 8, 12 most deserving teams should have to go through some crazy system where they play each other in rounds at the end of the season. And if they lose, they are OUT They don’t pass GO! they don’t collect $200.

The two teams that put everything on the line just to win that one more game left standing, they would be the ones that are really deserving. I call it the "College Football Awesome Do-Or-Die National Championship System" or CFADODNCS – pronounced "Caf-a-dod-nicks"

Being that the idea was born at AtQ, there is a petition to call it JCafadodnicks.

It's spelled "S-h-u-r-l-y-c-o-l-l-e-g-e-f-o-o-t-b-a-l-l-d-e-s-e-r-v-e-s-b-e-t-t-e-r"

by JShufelt on Dec 3, 2008 5:57 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs