BLOGPOLL, WEEK TWO: RANK ANARCHY

Excuse me sir, but we are undefeated. Please vote for us next week when we are still undefeated. Thank you.

Not that it matters but the Jayhawks and Bulls will be your Friday night soup or salad course this week.

Where’s the Fighting Commodores? South Carolina won’t be the only SEC team they surprise this year.

Orson, gotta rank those Ball State Cardinals. 2-0, big win over Navy, pending ease of the MAC schedule, win versus IU in 2 weeks. Get ’em now, look like a genius later.

Our SEC homerism stops at the Williamson/Davidson county line, Joe.

Holy Hell…I’d take ECU and give you 10 over that number 5 team of yours, Swindle. I mean, DID YOU NOT THINK ANYONE WOULD NOTICE???

Ok, I’m not an alum or even a fan of Cal, but not ranking them after a 66-3 ass raping of WSU on the road is beyond absurd.

Apparently beating Tulane by 14 is more impressive than beating Southern Miss by 14. Alabama looked like shite in winning by 14, they were lucky to have that large of a margin of victory. On the other hand, Auburn was in control against USM despite fumbles inside the red zone. The game was much more lopsided than a 14-point game.

/Auburn homerism

Bobby, it’s not like they’re a bunch of schlmiels.

PSU @ #5?

I’m a PSU alum and even I’m shocked at that. Woooot!

USC is No 1 Dept:

The Okies and Ugas are good, but not No 1 material. I still think USC looked better doing nothing than these two this past weekend.

Pete Carroll going into the ghetto (unarmed) at 3AM, in a beat-up-station-wagon-without-plates-and-termited-wood-siding STILL out-mans Nuheisel macking it up on the helicopter. What, he is too scared to drive through the ghetto to see recruits?

How does UConn fall out? We won a game in a tropical storm! That should count for something.

And for all y’all S-E-C spleed people…college football in its purest form is 5,000 people in an NFL stadium during the worst weather imaginable. UConn rewarded my stupidity. Orange Bowl, here we come…

Finally, someone ranked ECU higher than we did. Sweet everyone-else-off-a-bridge validation.

Ah, you’re just all goofy over those rag-a-muffins.

Sobering thought of the day:

USC has lost 8 games in the last 6 years by a combined total of 30 points. No one has beaten USC in the last 6 years by more than 7 points – NO ONE.

That includes 4 SEC teams; ND every year; 6 BCS Bowl quality opponents; no FCS teams (or former 1AA teams) and EVERY team in the Pac 10 every year.

But they lost to Stanford last year so we have a shot this weekend.

Put ECU at #1. They’re the only team to beat two ranked opponents this year. Show some balls or, in Holly’s case, some labia. (Maybe ovaries is more physiologically appropriate, but how does one show ovaries? Too messy.)

SHOW YER TUUUBES!! ….oh, gross.

A college football poll leads to immediate references of ass raping and showing labia. 2008 indeed.

The Bring’Em Young Morons still at #22? Vandy desreves that just for beating the Gamechix alone.

BTW, the Gamechix hit a Trifecta this weekend. Also losers in soccer both Friday & Sunday, although those might only count 1/2 pt each.

The tradition continues unabated.

Edsall is God is back! w00t!

Seriously, your Huskies aren’t good, but please be gentle with my Hoos this weekend. It’s my first trip to Hartford.

If you see a group of people wearing shirts that have Rick Astley’s face and the words “Never Going to Give UConn Up”….say hi.

It looks like UVA/UConn is going to be an offensive pillow fight…UConn can’t pass the ball and UVA doesn’t seem to have an offense.

I wonder how the ratings will be for the game on ESPNU the same time that Ohio St/USC is on.

Orson,

Way to stick it to the WWL by putting Penn State at #5!

Orson,
Why did we drop 6? Did it have to do with the fact that our secondary sucks, our linebackers were average, our offensive line couldn’t handle a lousy UTEP blitz and we had absolutely no pass rush?

Yeah Meyer, Richt is the classless one. Not after the douchebaggery you displayed Saturday night.

Can’t believe you didn’t drop UF. “The best offense in the country” looked lost for three quarters. And that final score is very misleading. Not saying they aren’t good, or that they don’t have a chance to run the table, but the logic engine that drives much of the movement in this poll seemed to have stalled out when it comes to the Gates.

I have to admit… PSU has impressed the heck out of me… then i remembered… JoePa’s still there. of course.

West Virginia? Really? Her?

I know they lost to your number 8 team, and on the road, but THREE POINTS. They score only 3 and get absolutely pounded, with nothing really good on the resume, and somehow this merits being ranked? Really?

I’ve been crowing about the scheduling double standards for over a year now. Thanks for finally realizing it.

Um, excuse us Penn St, but you’re in our seat. Dropped 5 spots by a (real) hurricane? Really?

@8 Don’t sweat the poor ranking of AU. Like always, no one will pay attention until after the LSU game.

Early season rankings really aren’t worth that much. Last year, South Carolina and Bama were ranked in the top twenty as late as the third week. By the end of the season, one went home (after making it to #5!!) and the other went to Shreveport.

And the Irish piggy cried wee wee wee wee wee all the way home!

Thought there would be more complaints from Jayhawk fans….but then I realized that they saw their running game and 3rd down defense on Saturday night, too. And they know that a real big-boy (no pun intended) Div 1 schedule is comin’ down the pipe this year. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Not talking about next week’s “The You’re Not As Big As You Think You Are Bowl brought to you by Viagra,” either.

As far as BYU is concerned, they should be dropped out of the poll on sheer principle. Give the Pac-10 official Benedict Arnold the 22 spot.

OU looks angry, friends…very, very angry. Although I am wondering what might happen if they end up playing for the big, shiny punchbowl against Ohio State. I see a 2-2 tie broken in the 14th Overtime (with the game’s 6th First Down) will lead to Bob Stoops saying,

“Well…we just went out there and didn’t want to win it the least.”

I shudder. I truly shudder at the thought.

Cal not ranked?

Your system is broken.

uconn is atrocious.

34 – You play to win the game. UConn is 2-0.

I wholeheartedly agree that PSU should be ranked higher than the “experts” say. However, #5 is jumping the gun a little. NO? AWESOME! FUCK YEAH! GO STATE! DON’T LET THE “MAN” BRING YOU DOWN!!!!!!

After putting away the ladder and rope, I can say that I am amazed you still have my Buckeyes ranked after that turd in a punchbowl game they played. I guess our expectations have been sufficiently lowered. That way we can expect the worst and a win will make us euphoric. Are we that dependent on one player? Is Todd Boeckman that mediocre? I will just hope that our defense matches up well with the SC offense, which thankfully, does not have a mobile QB. If Beanie is healthy, maybe we can give them a game (read: cover the ever increasing spread).

Really not sure how you don’t have Cal on there…

@35, yeah, one of the UCONN wins was against “mighty” Hofstra and the other was against a Temple team that has had exactly one winning season in the last 20 years, and that was 18 years ago. And your team needed OVERTIME to do it. That’s not a case for a top 25 ranking.

Can I just ask what the f*** Cal has to do to get in your poll? Already beaten one team with a pulse (Michigan State) and just went on the road and beat WSU (a real BCS-conference team and everything) 66-3. 66-3!

Settle down Cal fans… I thought you guys were all living in trees and in love with mother earth and all that. You guys will be ranked someday. BTW, WTF did WSU ever do to you people to deserve that?

You people? What do you mean, “you people”?

#41

what do YOU mean “you people”?

(low hanging fruit)

Sullivan-

Are you retarded?

No one will pay attention to poor AU… Wait, what? They’re in the top 10 in the AP?

What more do you want?

@38 – It was a hurricane man! Besides, if UConn doesn’t turn the ball over twice in Temple territory (once in the endzone) in the first half, it’s not a game. We’re still UConn…we take wins in any form.

And I hate to write something so stupid but Temple will win 7 games and make a bowl game this year.

@44, yeah, yeah and if you’re aunt had balls, she’d be your uncle. I get it. That still doesn’t change the score, or the fact that they needed OT to beat fucking Temple. And winning 7 games with that schedule is not a big feat. The rest of Temple’s schedule, besides PSU, looks like every other team’s warmup games at the beginning of the season, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they won 6 of them. They have every directional Michigan school, Akron, Buffalo, Kent State…..but they are still Temple, so I’ll wait until it happens…

To be fair, last year UConn needed a blown call to beat Temple. So winning in overtime is actually an improvement.

To be fair, last year UConn needed a blown call to beat Temple.

Acceptance, finally. Kudos to you sir.

@ #40

Over the weekend, UC finally started construction on a new athletic center. This is the message we sent mother earth:

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/09/06/ba-stadium07_0499095244.jpg

great success!

@#40, over the weekend Cal started construction on a new athletics center. This is the message we sent mother earth:

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/09/06/ba-stadium07_0499095244.jpg

I believe it was “timber!”

>>BTW, WTF did WSU ever do to you people to deserve that?

Well, we can’t help it if the WSU defense parts like the Red Sea every time we try a handoff up the middle.

Why would you move Penn St up 21 spots and drop ASU 2 spots? Last weekend the Devils easily beat Stanford 41-17 and PSU beat Oregon St. 45-14. Did you forget that in week 1 Stanford beat Oregon St 36-28? If Moreno tries flying over the Devils he is gonna to get a pitchfork up his a$$.

No California? No UCLA? Embarassing.