BLOGPOLL DRAFT, WEEK THREE

I know there isn’t time in the day to watch all the games – but (coming from a PSU fan) I would drop PSU after Saturday’s game. It was ugly.
Thankfully we don’t play OSU until November because our O-Line vs the OSU defensive front would be a nightmare right now.

I would’ve dropped FSU just because Bobby Bowden kept referring to them as “Troy” in his post-game show.

tOSU gets a 7-spot bump after a home loss? Is Herbstreit voting more than once again?

A friend actually defended FSU yesterdaaay by saying “well to be fair JSU has Perrilloux.” Any time that is your excuse for almost losing to a I-AA team, you are in for a looooooong season.

/glee

Also, I get moving USC up for winning in a tough road environment even though they didn’t look very good. But putting tOSU at 7 for blowing a winnable game at home against a weakened USC squad? That seems a little weird. I’m not sure who I’d put above them (Oklahoma? Georgia Tech? Virginia Tech?) but if you thought they should be #14 last week, I’m not sure what about Saturday made them that much more worthy.

If Missouri, Georgia and Notre Dame are better than Kansas, then my name is Richard Gere’s Soiled Gerbil.

Mizzou will always be better than Kansas. Plus, how do I become the female version of you, Mr. Swindle,on the Internets, I mean? I went to Mizzou and the U of Florida, have a degree in English, worked in the contact sport of politics, the hotel industry, and taught middle school; which is just like serving in Viet Nam-only without Napalm. I’m a sports vixen, have Dorothy Parkerian wit, lived all over the USA, own a Shi Tzhu and all my grandmother’s hand- scored gameday programs from Card v Cubbies games, and look better than you in a Gator shirt. I love baseball, football, college football and basketball, and any sport that includes being in or on water. I can out-drink and out- talk most guys on sports and really any subject except for cars, guns and porn. I live to travel and am a pro at all aspects of tailgating. Can I be your assistant, apprentice, acolyte? Will you give me tips, be my mentor or just pull up the ladder of Internets Sports God behind you? Oh, I also love Magnum PI. Remember, he had Robin, the rich owner guy, who helped him and a Major Domo. Thanks.

So Texas beats Ohio State last year and people aren’t impressed. USC does it this year and they are the second coming? Does Not Compute.

@ #6

I have been looking for you for a long time without luck. I am convinced you actually dont exist, so stop teasing.

Orson- I think Alabama’s win over VaTech and Florida’s win over Troy are better than USC in the shoe. Troy is a good team.

@jhadleyconrad -

If you are indeed who you say you are, can I marry you?

Sin,

OllieGator

But Texas* has an asterisk!

Troy is a good team.

As much as I’d like to think that’s true, any time the “well the offense isn’t working, so hand it off to the midgets till we’re up by 40” strategy works, I’m skeptical.

TJ,

Don’t underestimate fast midgets with good blocking. There is precedent already set on this issue.

@7 Don: Well said. I appreciate that Orson is favoring results over worthy opponents this early in the season, but there seems to be a general urge toward knob polishing for USC after drubbing San Jose St (“Seriously! We really do have a football team!”) and sucking it up for one drive against Ohio State (enjoying another year as “Big 10 favorite by default” status). That puts them in the “good” category but decidedly below “stratospheric.” Maybe it’s a response to seeing weaknesses in most of the other highly touted teams.

Wow jhadley, you don’t sound desperate at all. There there, I’m sure you’re very pretty by Misery standards (aka, minimal meth scarring).

When Mizzou becomes nationally relevant in anything, then they can start talking about comparing themselves to the University of Kansas. You’ve never been to a BCS bowl. You’ve never been to the Final Four. You are ranked lower in the US News and World Report. You have a smaller endowment. Your state supported raping and murdering terrorists in order to maintain the institution of slavery, and yet is still largely ignored by most Civil War curricula. Your mascot is completely unoriginal. MC Marky M is one of the most beloved characters on this site- could people even pick Gary Pinkel out of a lineup?

I have to agree with TTSU here. KU went all the way down to the Juarez Suburbs (always a risky proposition- several players complained of “flulike symptoms”- if that doesn’t sound like hitting up a Friday night donkey show, I don’t know what does) and held one of the best offenses in the country last year to 7 points. It would have been a shutout except for one blown assignment well after the game was in hand. Everybody knows about the “basketball on grass” offense they run (hey Nebraska fans, remember the last time your team played in Lawrence?). But now they’ve got some speed and a bit of a mean streak on defense too.

I’m not saying the Jayhawks are a Top Ten team yet. But to drop them out of the rankings completely seems bizarre. If it had been a closer game, would people then assume UTEP was better, and be more impressed with the victory or something?

/Our quarterback loves America more than yours does

Dismissing Texas’ blowout of Wyoming on the road while extolling Florida’s blowout of Troy at home smacks of homerism. But would you rally want to live in a world without homerism?

Too Good To Be True Dept:

1. Sounds too good to be true…so I did what everyone does nowadays and Google’d… “jhadleyconrad”…Came up with some Twitter stuff with that name, and came up with a site that had a picture of a very nice looking brunnette with the following biography:

Biography: “wildchild beach girl, sports vixen, luv luv: STL Cards, Steelers, Mizzou, Gators, snarky wit, NOLA, Buffett, da Boss, Nora Jns, travelin, Dems, Patron` liquids”

methinks this person might actually be an irresistible sports-crazed babe…too bad though…because she likes that awful sport -> baseball

dropping tech because they played next to no one? rice went to a gdamn bowl game last year man, sure we’re gonna lose 7 or 8 games this year but we will never be next to no one.

To be fair, Bowling Green IS the creme of the MAC.

Cal down two spots? Really? I know they played a cupcake, but they have looked very good this year. I fully expect them to beat Minnesota, Oregon and USC in the next three games.

Case Keenum is cool – stone cold cool!
Meanwhile, Coach Gundy is still a man! Relatively speaking.

I would take umbrage at the dropping of Texas Tech, but our season starts this Saturday; either we’ll be ranked after that game or not, so this weeks ranking doesn’t matter.

Sorry Lovettowl, but all your talent graduated last year. Tech looked like they were playing a high school team last Saturday.

And I love how ESPN is saying “Big 12 is overrated.” You chumps were the ones hyping up Okie State in the first place. Never mind the fact that they allowed 160 points in their last three games of 2008.

Phil Steele thinks you have CAL underrated.