Vote for the CGB Top-25 for Week 1!

Making a top 25 is hard.

Should we wait until after the two monday games? Miami vs. FSU in particular could impact anybody’s top 25.

Royrules, is there anyway when we access the site that there could be an introductory page where we enter our username which would take us to a page showing the user’s ballot from the week prior?

I can only imagine that would be an enormous amount of labor, and not doing it would allow us the benefit of constructing the ballot from scratch each week (i.e. what Doc Saturday does), but I can’t remember just exactly everyone I ranked last week, which could make this week’s ballot look really silly by comparison.

Even if you can’t do that, thanks again for putting this together. Looking forward to filling the ballot out tomorrow.

I don’t plan on watching Miami-FSU so I’ll just throw mine in already.

1 Florida
2 Texas
3 Southern California
4 Alabama
5 Oklahoma State
6 Penn State
7 California
8 Boise State
9 Brigham Young
10 Ohio State
11 Oregon State
12 Nebraska
13 Florida State
14 Georgia Tech
15 Notre Dame
16 North Carolina
17 LSU
18 TCU
19 Utah
20 Mississippi
21 Michigan State
22 Cincinnati
23 Tennessee
24 Iowa
25 Stanford

A little screwy because it’s the first weak and I dropped anyone who’s 0-1 out completely. Strangely enough Stanford is in there, though realistically they’re probably somewhere around 30-35 if you include the 0-1 “good” teams.

(NO DBD today?!)

But Cal should abduct FSU’s kicker. The dude is a stud. Also, both FSU’s and Miami ought to be ranked next week I think.

1 through 10 aren’t too tough, but 11 through 20 are complete guesses. 21 through 25 are fairly easy.

Thoughts:

Placing Oklahoma and Virginia Tech was hard. I dinged V. Tech much more than Oklahoma in part because V. Tech was dominated much more than the final score indicated, and because Sam Bradford will (presumably) be coming back while Darren Evans will not…plus I just think Oklahoma is better.

Numbers 20-25 were filled with teams that beat up on cupcakes. Those teams may be better than a few teams in the teens but until they play a team with a pulse the jury is out.

Iowa is gone for ‘winning’ against NIU. Ohio St., Mississippi and LSU are all slightly dinged for struggling against lesser competition. Georgia, Oregon & Florida St. are gone for losing. Miami and Cincinnati both join in for impressive victories on the road.

I felt uncomfortable ranking TCU (though I did anyway) since they have yet to play a game. Miami looked pretty good, and I really like Jacory Harris as a quarterback. In addition to teams that lost, I punished Boise St. Iowa, Ohio St. and Mississippi. Also the Big East entered my poll with Cinci. having a big day. I’m suddenly looking forward to their match-up with Oregon St.

1) Flo Rida (special note on their game coming up in a DBD comment section near you)
2) Texas
3) USC
4) Alabama
5) Oklahoma State (remains TBD)
6) BYU – their victory over Oklahoma was not just a fluke
7) Boise State – same as above, but with Oregon
8) Penn State
9) California (clap, clap, clapclapclap)
10) Ole Miss

But I probably won’t update anything this week because I’m under the weather thanks to the sudden climate change from Seattle and Bay Area. I also injured my lower back and I can barely sit for more than 10-15 mins.

Next week I promise!