Vote for your CGB Top-25 for Week 8!
by royrules22 on Oct 25, 2009 8:20 PM PDT
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You know the drill: Go here and vote for the top 25 teams for week 8.
The directions are listed on the voting page and it should be simple enough. Please let me know if you encounter any troubles. The results will be posted either on Tuesday or Wednesday. Blah blah blah blah
The previous week's results are located:
Preseason
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Let's aim to get more than a dozen ballots people!
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Top 25 College Football Poll
- Texas
- Alabama
- Florida
- Southern California
- Cincinnati
- Louisiana State
- Texas Christian
- Boise State
- Iowa
- Oregon
- Georgia Tech
- Penn State
- Virginia Tech
- Oklahoma State
- Houston
- Pittsburgh
- Utah
- Mississippi
- Ohio State
- Miami (FL)
- Oklahoma
- West Virginia
- Arizona
- Central Michigan
- South Carolina
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 8:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Oh dear.
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by rollonubears on Oct 25, 2009 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll Guess
“Oklahoma State is ahead of Houston.”
“Mississippi is ahead of South Carolina.”
“Where’s Cal?”
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Do you live in California or the Southeast?
Mine’s quirkier. Don’t worry.
Houston doesn’t even make it, and Utah’s 25
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol, same joke twice ::shoots self::
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes.
Neither Mississippi or South Carolina should be ranked. The fact that Mississippi is above Ohio State and Miami is my biggest qualm. Yes, more so than that typo next to the number 1.
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by rollonubears on Oct 25, 2009 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And I don’t really care that Cal isn’t ranked. We haven’t really beaten anyone…
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by rollonubears on Oct 25, 2009 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ohio State and Miami
If they wanted to be higher than Mississippi, they shouldn’t have lost to Purdue and Clemson.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
IDK. I think Mississippi is living off all the talent it lost from last year’s team in your poll… absolutely horrible running game this year. I’d be willing to rank them near where you have them if they play very well @ Auburn next week
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and Memphis, Southeast Louisiana, UAB, and Northern Arizona won’t give me any more info about that team.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mississippi
I kept them in the poll after losing to Alabama a few weeks ago. I didn’t see anyone else I could add. I still felt as if they were better than Notre Dame and Pittsburgh, so I kept them in there. Then, in the following week, four teams between 17 and 22 fell. They all dropped out. Ohio State and Oklahoma lost, so I felt as if Mississippi should move up and be ahead of them. Mississippi’s losses were to pretty solid teams and Oklahoma had three losses. There, I had them 19th. They won again on Saturday. I was disappointed in Miami (FL) for losing at home to Clemson. Ohio State’s loss to Purdue is worse than any Mississippi loss. Mississippi’s loss to Alabama is better than any Ohio State loss. I hope that makes sense to you guys.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, the way you’ve evaluated it makes sense. You’re just more rigid in your rankings.
The way I rank, teams can jump and drop incredibly.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Moving Up and Moving Down
It takes kind of a lot for me to move teams up and down. I kept USC, Cincinnati, LSU, Boise State, Iowa and Oregon in the same spot from last week to this week. I moved TCU up four spots for owning BYU.
However, I moved Texas up two spots with Florida and Alabama struggling. Texas’ defense has been outstanding and they totally killed Missouri. I didn’t think Missouri was as bad as they made them look. For me, deciding the top three teams was the hardest. The next hardest thing was deciding where Central Michigan, South Carolina, BYU and California should go.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s all sound to me. I should’ve taken a harder look at Texas’ win over Missouri; I don’t think I gave that enough consideration.
For some reason, I get the feeling you tend to underrate West Coast teams a little bit because you get to see them more much more and can readily see their flaws, whereas you don’t get to see the other teams so much and don’t have a gut reaction to their flaws. Think that’s a possibility?
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe
I actually thought I was biased towards the Pac-10 at first, but I just don’t know.
I would’ve ranked Cal if we ranked the top 27 teams. I still really like Oregon State and they’d be in my top 35.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah, oregon state actually made my top 25!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i did mine haphazardly though, so whatevs
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You have convinced me on why they should be ahead of OSU. But Miami? A team that has had one of, if not the, toughest schedules so far and come out 5-2 versus a team that has done nothing. I don’t really think that SCar is any better than Clemson.
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by rollonubears on Oct 26, 2009 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that talent being Mike Wallace, Michael Oher, Peria Jerry (all monsters)
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Do you actually live in California… or the Southeast?
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
California
I was born in the East Bay and I live in Modesto now.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh you poor thing.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
by AERose on Oct 25, 2009 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I will say, I’m impressed by your ability to submit the first ballot-comment every week.
I’m still not a fan of the mentality of moving teams up or down week to week based on the previous weeks performance, but in general at this point I don’t have any specific problems with your poll. I don’t even have my own poll yet so we’ll see if we have any major disagreements. Also think we’ve gotten to the point where ranking Ok St above Houston is fair (especially since Houston has a loss), though I’m pretty unimpressed by either of their resumes…
by Missing Barry on Oct 26, 2009 8:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's getting a little easier week by week
1 Florida
2 Alabama
3 Iowa
4 Texas
5 Cincinnati
6 Southern California
7 TCU
8 Oregon
9 LSU
10 Penn State
11 Georgia Tech
12 Virginia Tech
13 Oklahoma State
14 Miami (Fla.)
15 Boise State
16 Pittsburgh
17 Utah
18 Ohio State
19 Arizona
20 Houston
21 Notre Dame
22 Brigham Young
23 Oklahoma
24 West Virginia
25 Mississippi
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by Berkelium97 on Oct 25, 2009 8:50 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Boise State
Dang!
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Them’s the breaks.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 25, 2009 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ll give them credit if they notch a big victory over a solid team in a bowl game, but until then they’ve pretty much hit the ceiling. Playing in a crappy conference like that, they need to schedule more than one A-team per year if they want to be taken seriously. Too bad for them Hawaii isn’t so great anymore.
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by Berkelium97 on Oct 25, 2009 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thank you for fixing the fact that for some reason OSU is ahead of Miami in the actual poll.
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by rollonubears on Oct 25, 2009 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I didn't notice that until you pointed it out
Voters must be pretty impressed with those solid wins over teams like big, bad Illinois and Wisconsin.
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by Berkelium97 on Oct 25, 2009 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wisconsin
They’re not bad.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
They’re not bad, but they’re tOSU’s best win. That’s not saying much…
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by Berkelium97 on Oct 25, 2009 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ohio State
Well, they’re only 18th in yours and 19th in mine. It’s not like we have them really high or anything.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 25, 2009 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
They very well could be bad. Check out their resume so far. Close win against Minnesota. Close win against Michigan State. The rest of their wins are a joke. They’ve also been stomped by Ohio State and lost to Iowa. I think they’re in a pretty similar position to Cal right now – they need a couple more games against BCS conference teams before we can really figure out where they’re at.
by Missing Barry on Oct 26, 2009 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Trying something...different.
1 Alabama
2 Iowa
3 TCU
4 Texas
5 Boise State
6 Florida
7 Cincinnati
8 Georgia Tech
9 Oregon
10 USC
11 LSU
12 Houston
13 Miami
14 Oklahoma State
15 Pitt
16 Penn State
17 West Virginia
18 Virginia Tech
19 Central Michigan
20 Arizona
21 Notre Dame
22 Utah
23 Wisconsin
24 South Carolina
25 Ohio State
26 Mississippi
27 Cal
28 BYU
29 Navy
30 Kansas
31 South Florida
This week I did a blind-resume fashion, meaning I took out all the names (replaced by Sagarin predictor ranking) and then sorted teams based on their resume. Interesting results. Obviously this method can’t account for a lot of variables, I don’t intend it to be perfect.
by GBB4188 on Oct 26, 2009 6:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Boise @5 in a resume-ballot?
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on Oct 26, 2009 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You could look at them of 5/7 in the undefeateds. Florida and Cincinnati haven’t beaten any great teams (LSU is like 26 in Sagarin), while BSU has a win over Oregon.
by GBB4188 on Oct 26, 2009 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also keep in mind that many teams have played 4 crap OOC teams anyway at this point, so they aren’t really any better than Boise yet.
by GBB4188 on Oct 26, 2009 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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