BLOGPOLL BALLOT, WEEK NINE: CHARLIE CAN'T RUN

You’re gonna put Texas A&M at 18 and drop LSU out of the polls. Seriously?!?!
I know we haven’t beaten any solid teams, but COME ON!
At least we stomp the shit out of sorry/mediocre teams.
LSU should at least fall somewhere between 17-25. Preferably closer to 17.
COME ON!

I guess Rutgers is going to go from really good story that everyone enjoys to overhyped annoyance pretty soon. Its ok, we like the publicity either way…

Wow, either you’re trying to illicit a spike in LSU responses, or you are already halfway through your bottle of Robitussin this morning because it is hard for me to imagine that you actually think LSU falls somewhere beneath the likes of:

13 Wisconsin
14 Boston College
15 Georgia Tech
16 Arkansas
17 Rutgers
18 Texas A&M
19 Nebraska
20 Missouri
21 Wake Forest
22 Boise State
23 Pittsburgh
24 Oregon
25 Oklahoma

Your spread from Louisville to WVU to Rutgers is now down to 12 spots with not a shread of evidence from this year’s games to rank them anywhere more than spitting distance from each other. Mercifully they start playing each other next month. Damned decent of them since they haven’t played anyone else. Standard disclaimer that Louisville at least SCHEDULED top 25 OOC opponents.

On the Rutgers Bandwagon – check (until December 2nd)
Annoyance toward Orson regarding the belittling of WVU – check (I don’t even mind the placement so much, but the comments were not necessary)
Download of Smack That for my happy dance on November 3rd – check (it’s in my head today)

U of L is too high. You can hardly call Miami a “quality win” now, Temple alone drags down their strength of schedule, and they play the same damn teams that we do.

Didn’t GT get their asses handed to them? And they go up one?

The Big East is still a huge lacuna in polling. That’ll settle out.

And if we totally forgot LSU…well, there would be reasons, right? As in, real difficulty naming a quality team they beat.

Please name a quality team West Virginia or Rutgers has beat. Thanks!!!

Lightning Strikes Twice Dept.:

Beano Cook just said on ESPN’s Cowherd radio show that Notre Dame would win TWO (2) national championships in college football by the end of the 2008 football season. No kidding. That boy did not learn about the jack-ass possibilities of making predictions that involve the number two.

The rankings seem about right, except Texas should be way below No. 5.

Rankings Part 2:

Screwyville should also not be ranked as high. I would put them somewhere in the second tier (11-20).

Clemson compared to ’04 Auburn? HA!!!

As far as the poll goes, swap USC and Michie and it looks good. I’m sure the Arkansas drop causes some screams, but until the Razorbacks prove themselves in another decent SEC game, that 50 point USC molestation is just too damaging for a top-10 team.

Greg – You don’t call Eastern Washington a quality team? Don’t be snotty… I know of a lot of people in Cheney, Washington that may disagree with you.

SKLM – That’s right, TWO Champeenships for the school you love to hate.

During that same period, Alabama will claim seven champeenships..

We should give Beano his meds and send him back to the happy farm.

And Rutgers beat Pitt.

And Illinois… who beat Michigan State… who almost beat Notre Dame.

So let’s not split hairs here.

Forget splitting hairs, or shaving them, let’s burn couches!

To the STREETS!!!

Ooh, how about Worlds Largest Outdoor Couch Burning Party…. Surely there’s a rivalry that needs that nick….

Beano’s outdone himself. Weis has a better chance this year than next. If Weis wins an NC in 2007 with Ty’s vanishing senior class his contract needs to be extended through his lifetime plus another 50 years calling plays in from a jar. On the other hand if he comes out of next September undefeated…

I’d buy the world’s largest couch burning party shirt. Can we do it in blue and gold?

dammit as much as it pains me to say this clemson looks great right now. and honestly, I would watch them match up with anyone in the nation on a nuetral field right now.

Yeah why IS Georgia Tech moving up after getting throttled?

Have you seen their Math team?

Yeah, they’re scary good.

We’ll find out this weekend if you have Tennessee overrated, the only time Fulmer beats Spurrier is when he has a national championship caliber team.

 Is Georgia Tech your new Iowa?

dbldomer7375:

If Cheeseburger Charlie wins TWO champeenships during the next few years that would be so awful, so unimaginable, that it would probably knock me out of following college football to perhaps, baseball. Arghhhhhhh.

My guess, is that without Quinn and Howard Stern next year, Cheeseburger Weis will not be able to win the MNC. And if anyone can guess what will happen in two plus years, then they ought to be trying to solve the Middle East mess, instead of playing on these college football blogs with the rest of us….

why has it taken this long for people to realize that darius walker wouldn’t be starting on any other team in the top-25? mediocre is being nice.

Never mind the arrows—they actually refer to our previous draft, which was worse.

World’s largest outdoor couch burning contest – West Virginia v. Pittsburgh. November 16.

sklm, your odds are good in 2007. If there aren’t any fifth years, the returning starters could make up a foursome and blitz Ty on the links.

Write it down— this year’s SEC Champion (Florida) will play Notre Dame in the [USF&G redacted] Sugar Bowl and wipe the formerly Katrina refugee-stained floor of the Superdome with them.

Auburn vs. Clemson in the Orange Bowl is also a possibility, since Auburn won’t lose again, nor will they play in SEC Title game thanks to Arkansas.

I like PW’s prediction… it’s got some beef in it, and no silly speculation that anyone’s going to take a likin’ to Auburn and put them in the psuedo-champ BSC game.

As for dropping LSU out of the top 15… that my friends, is a mistake you will regret. Beware of the pissed off Cajun tiger…

I heard Beano on the radio this morning and actually what he said was that Weis would win 2 national championships between 2008 and 2012.

He seems to think that Jimmy Clauson is going to be the next Ron Powlus.

As part of a fanbase that famously gets its panties in a wad whenever someone mentions corndogs or doesn’t at least add the “co” to “champs” when referring to the 2003 USC team, I have learned – the hard way – to recognize deliberate baiting when I see it.
There’s not a team in the country – especially in your bottom 15 – that would rather play LSU in exchange for any of their future games. LSU, on the other hand, would gladly play any of those 13-25 teams than take on Tennessee or Arkansas or Bama. We’ll keep Ole Miss, though, thanks.

Hmmm… coach Weis coaching from a jar 50 years after he dies. Sounds like a plan. I wonder if Dr. Zoidberg will be team doctor by then?

WVU/Marshall should get the couch-burnin’ title. The trophy could be something like the Bronze Gas Can.

Projecting high school QB’s to 2012 is a farce. JC will have to be sharp to QB for Weis, just like the other contenders.

I’d definitely buy a BC themed t-shirt, but we just don’t have any personality!

Behind the Orange Curtain OC Phil:

RE: Beano Cook – 2 ND Championships

This morning I thought I heard Beano say, “… two championships by the 2008 season”. Do not remember hearing ‘by 2012’, but you may be right.

However, what did amaze me was that Cow Herd just let it ride and did not grill him a bit on such an obvious boneheaded comment. He stopped for a second, went off tangent and later came back with more ND questions, but not a beep about the two champeeenships. Hmmmm.

You brought up a very interesting new way of ranking teams by electronegativity
LSU = Cs
Rutgers = N
Clemson = F

Canuck,

JC may be unproven, scrawny, and a pretty boy, BUT, not even John Elway threw a ball like that in high school. IF he has the necessary intangibles he won’t be a Ron Powlus. Thank God his running back is going to ’SC.

Beano Cook just said…

SKLM and OC Phil,
You’re preachin’ to the choir here. Pretty much everyone here hates Beano Cook. I’ve never actually heard him talk, but trying to kill Special Agent Orson Swindle is simply unacceptable.

Beano, oh beano,
Another prediction, another likely failure. 2 champeeonships? Really, ND? With Charlie Weis, the John Cooper of ND? Just like 2 heisman’s for Powlus after his first game which he beat Northwestern, thats right, football powerhouse NU. (Anyone remember Brent Musberger saying he’d win 3 tho?)

I couldn’t hear Beano over the sound of his neck skin flapping against his jowels. Thanks for the clarification.

Seriously, GaTech?!?!?!

As much as I would have loved to see the Irish’s SOS look good with GaTech ranked high, it’s now time to watch the Chan Gailey 7-5 Principle in full effect.

Orson,

I don’t even want to get into why you possibly dropped Arkansas after a 38-3 beatdown of Ole Miss. Clearly, you hate me. I can think of no other logical reason.

I think the heads on ESPN just have Beano on as sort of a legacy kinda thing, that’s why they rarely grill him on anything anymore. The guy lost his fast ball years ago and now he’s kinda like that one uncle that we all have that we only see at Christmas time. yeah, hes got 900 theories on why this country is screwed up, and roughly 904 of them are wrong, but you just let him babble and babble because, really, what’s he harming?

And I can’t WAIT for the World’s Largest Couch Torch 2006. Just look for the Pitt Zubaz carflag.

Rutgers has beaten everyone who lined up against them and that is all that matters. Give them some credit. Their RB is an absolute stud and their D is shutting everyone down.

Moan about Texas. They have played one good team and played like they didnt belong on the same field. Oklahoma? Suck. Nebraska? Suck. North Texas?

I grew up with a retarded kid. So I know retarded. While I will refrain from calling you mentally handicapped, I will say that this kid from my youth knows where to rank LSU.

Anyway, let’s set aside this ranking deal and talk about college football circa 1979, interesting year, doncha think?

PW#26 —

There is not a team with even moderate offensive speed and BCS aspirations who doesn’t think want to snap a piece off of Cheeseburger Charlie’s secondary. Zbikiowski may be able win a steel cage death match with a grizzly bear, but he’s not running down a quality wideout.

My prediction: Whoever ND plays in a BCS game — Boise State included — will enjoy a re-enactment of the Oregon State – Domer Fiesta Track Meet from few years back.

RE: Taco Town

Some guys from Norman actually did this:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=95037&blogID=110345567&MyToken=9bd254ae-cc5e-4093-8a2f-7043a2ff2c06

And USC number 2? You guys are idiots. But in spite of your shortcomings in the brain department, you still write pretty well. So you have that going for you, which is nice.

They may have done the taco thing, but if they were really cool, they’d have Quarry for breakfast.

The idea that U$C is better in any phase of the game than Michigan is pretty damn funny. I would love to see that MNC game. I have the picture in my head of J.D. Booty getting turned into a pretzel by the front seven from hell. Of course, U$C actually has 8, yes that is EIGHT, quarterbacks listed on their roster, so maybe one of them would leave the game being able to remember their name.

Re: comment #33:

I don’t think there could ever be a more apt description of your school, Fredo.

re: #45…

while i certainly agree that tom zbikowski is an overrated safety, saying that he cant run down a quality wideout is one of the more stupid comments that has ever been made. Do me a favor…go to youtube and watch the final minutes of the USC/ND game last year. Leinart’s 80yd pass went to, oh what is his name again, i think its Jarrett something, who was caught from behind by zbikowski. that jarrett character must not be a quality wideout. joke. Notre Dame’s secondary problem is not speed, they just make bad decisions. Whenever Zbikowski is late getting to the ball, its not b/c he wasnt fast enough, its because he made the wrong read and then had to adjust from his stupid mistake.

The idea that U$C is better in any phase of the game than Michigan is pretty damn funny. I would love to see that MNC game.

2) That said, I believe the appropriate yardstick for your monster d-line would be 10 – one sack more than the 2004 Rose Bowl UM O-line gave up. And if the beating were that bad, you’d be doing Booty a favor by knocking the short term memory out.