BLOGPOLLIN': ONE ATROCIOUS BALLOT

No way, GT makes a much better #25 than Minnesota.

LSU @ #18 is probably the most logical ranking (for them) I’ve seen since the preseason. We’ll know by 7pm Saturday if even that is a bit lofty.

I think it’s going to take several more weeks to unfuckulate the top 10, and probably a few weeks after that to unfuckulate the rest. But there I go thinking again…

I’m a Bruin, but what the hell are we doing in anyone’s top 25?

We need a most convincing win over Georgia to be considered a true top ten team. Even if that happens, 4th in the country might be a little bit too nice for the tigers.

Reformed Droog: you have a good defense! And you’re undefeated! And—/smothers self with plastic bag.

Boise will stay up there since they’ll hang half a hundred every week. Doesn’t matter who you’re playing if you blow them out.

SC should be out of the poll. They only scored 27 on Wazzu. Guess who matched that against Wazzu the previous two weeks? Hawaii and SMU.

Minnesota a lock at #25? A team that required OT to beat GERG PAULUS???

Now why cant Ohio State play top five teams like Houston!! Damn we never seem to get a top five that we all know really arent top fives…(ie Ole Miss) Oh wait where is USC??

If we won 6-2, would that be 3 safetys or 2 FGs?

I’m honestly shocked you give my Rebels more credit than I do (unranked in my BlogPoll ballot). And you’re right, this season has proven the pegging of a top-25 to be a damned near impossible task thus far.

how the hell does michigan get completely left out? They are top 20

1. re: unfuckulate

Thank you for coining a word used to describe the process by which we salvage any work that our clients have mandated into ‘fuckulated’ territory. Very much appreciated.

It seems lke there should be ginormous geograpical (topographical?) gaps in the layout of these polls. A three or four BR after the top 3, maybe 5 or 6 after VTech before Oregon, etc. Maybe the bottom 5 morass and the also receiving votes can be the equivalent of “Here there be dragons”. ?

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This is actually quite reasonable, although I might toss a little more respect TCU’s way. We’ll soon see I guess. Also, dead right on Houston’s Big XII South wins being worthy of the same respect garnered by actual Big XII teams. Their Mississippi trips will be very interesting.

This is actually quite reasonable, although I might toss a little more respect TCU’s way. We’ll soon see I guess. Also, dead right on Houston’s Big XII South wins being worthy of the same respect garnered by actual Big XII teams. Their Mississippi trip will be very interesting.

I don’t think you can have a blog poll that doesn’t include Michigan at this point. Based on performance, they’ve earned it. Also, you seem a little biased to SEC teams…I would listen to the masses and include Michigan and bump out Kansas or Minnesota….

This is the problem: the best team doesn’t always win. Even if you have 5 games, where each team is 80% likely to win (or 4 out of 5), then that means, on average, you have one upset (why a playoff may be more exciting, but it doesn’t mean the best team wins). Truth is, the pollsters put way too much into an individual week by having a short-term memory. UGA still has yet to have an impressive win. A slight breeze in any win and they lose, but yet they are ranked in the Top 20 in most polls. Meanwhile, Nebraska loses a heartbreaker on the road at VT (a very tough place to play). They barely crack the Top 25. Realistically, Boise St. beat a team that didn’t know what it was doing (Oregon) and then can coast over I-AA opponents (sorry, the WAC is awful minus Boise St.).

The best thing would be to hold voters accountable. If their ballots are constantly being upset, they should be replaced.

I would also like to thank the Dr for the word unfuckulate. I am always on the lookout for new ways to annoy my fellow man. To Orson, thx for the #1 ranking, I just hope we don’t disappoint this season. I think we may have the most potential but we are a Tebow like injury away from losing some games. McElroy is the real deal, Star is not ready by no means. I think Brantley is ready but I am not sure UF has the weapons at wideout for him to utilize fully.

Nebraska’s defense doesn’t warrant a Top-25?

They might be the Big 12’s only real defense.

Personally, I think the Howard Shnellenberger Top 25 should be taking the place of this poll weekly until the final rankings come out. I’m just sayin …

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And just for good measure let’s get some guest ballots from the following: Woody Hayes; Barry Switzer; or Bear Bryant … and maybe one from Ty Willingham just to fuck things up real good.

Weekly, Orson … weekly.

Coach’s Booze Dept:

Perhaps Swindle is drinkin’ what the coaches are drinkin’ ranking tOSU way ahead of USC, even though USC beat tOSU at home a few weeks ago with one hand tied behind their backs (i.e, or e.g. – not sure which applies here – USC used only their first two pages of their play book against the Tree Fruiters or Seeds, – whatever better describes a buckeye)

But, I get the gag….ranking tLSU way below current conventional wisdom.

This is a quibble, but Georgia has played the No. 15 team on the list, and gotten stomped by them. Georgia Tech has played the No. 14 team on the list, and gotten stomped by them, but looked better than Georgia in their other three games (Clemson > ASU). Yet the mutts are No. 22. We suspect SEC East bias, is what the point is. Oh, well, if we’re right, Saturday will sort that out nicely.

I know the sched. has been weak, and the D is atrocious, but Michigan is 4-0 with two romps. I’m not saying they belong anywhere but the 20’s, but they’re a damn sight better than UCLA, and they’ve arguably done more than Kansas. This isn’t an all-scheduling mirage like Iowa State.

Orson – If UCLA loses to Stanford this weekend, I’ll be the one slipping the bag over his head.

Miami has what is easily the toughest first four games of the season, and if they come out of it 3-1 it would be hard not to put them in the top 10. Every team, particularly one quarterbacked by a sophomore, is going to shit the bed once every few weeks. Miami just happened to have a stretch of schedule where there was no good week for this bed shitting against, say, Duke.

That said, having GT not in the top 25 and Minnesota at 25 is a damned insult to the ACC. It might be the most maddeningly inconsistent conference in college football, but it’s getting better (Maryland has chosen that they are no better than a mid table Sun Belt team), and the Golden Gophers have victories over Syracuse (OT), Air Force, and Northwestern. Georgia Tech at least has had the courtesy to beat a ranked opponent in its 3-1.

Of course I’m biased, but I also suffered through the Chan Gailey years and worry constantly whenever Georgia Tech ends up garnering some sort of national attention, because that’s always when we turn around and drop a steamer against Duke.

@ #12 -

“unfuckulate” is nothing I can claim as original. I picked it up from a co-worker after one too many gigs fixing other peoples’ ineptitude. Nice work if you can get it…

@ #20

“Michigan is 4-0 with two romps. I’m not saying they belong anywhere but the 20’s, but they’re a damn sight better than UCLA”

Are they?

cough N.C State/Russell Wilson cough

@Raider Red

Boise will stay up there since they’ll hang half a hundred every week. Doesn’t matter who you’re playing if you blow them out.

That’s why Auburn isn’t ranked in any of the mainstream polls, right?

I know LSU has looked mediocre, and I’m not arguing that we’re top ten, but at least we haven’t lost by 40 (I’m looking at you Cal).
At what point does winning trump style points?
And really what has OSU done to warrant being ranked in the 6 spot? Was it barely beating Navy or losing at home to a rebuilding USC.

Flaming bag of dicks… you can’t be serious with tOSU that high? Knock them down to 14 where they belong… below the other one-loss teams that they are not better than.

Give the Hawkeyes their due and slide them up to at least the Buckeye’s old spot… 6 seems just about right. They walked into Happy Valley whiteout and beat PSU, and surely that is more impressive than shitting the bed when Pete Carrol and his entourage of genetic freaks rolls into the horseshoe? Iowa’s opponents have not lost games except to Iowa. Three BCS schools (ISU, Arizona, and PSU) plus a 1-AA Northern Iowa that has won its subsequent games 131-14. Yeah, I know they’re 1-AA, but at least they’re not a shitty 1-AA.

Michigan deserves some love… somewhere between 20-25. I don’t like typing that. Fuck you for making me admit they deserve ranking.

UCLA and Minn’s presenece in here is like looking into the toilet after doing some business and finding some blood… you’re pretty sure it doesn’t belong there and the fact that it is there makes you feel sick and a little nervous.

But, overall a lot better than the coaches and AP polls. Abortions, they were.

I cant tell if its COTG or the Ginger Ninja, or both are working in cahoots with one another, all of these injurys, on an off the field. The “barbell to the throat” was very creative.
The chop block, although legal, sucked. So did Tebow getting blowed up.
Why does God hate football?

Is my voice back from screaming like a schoolgirl last Saturday night? Yes.
Am I having fun and prancing like like a pony since the Coogs won? Yes.
Is the future scary because every new game is a trap game? Yes.
But right now, Cougarball is one big lovable “Fuck Lion”!!!

Michigan can have our spot in your poll, Orson….

at least until next sunday… then we’ll see

Why so serious??

Pump the brakes, kids. It is a…blog poll. Read the rest of the blog votes and rant at why Cincy isn’t #1 or UF isn’t #25.

@21, wait, did any of USC’s players have the flu? Were they jet lagged? How many hands did they have tied behind their back versus UDUBBBBBBBB? Rankings won’t matter as soon as they contract the mighty BURFLICTion. It’s like the clap but with hot flashes.

From the perspective of an Oregon fan… First of all, to all you doubters. DUCK YOU! Not only did we annihilate the Teddybears, we banged their cheerleaders and smoked their cigarettes. Had they brought along their treesitters, we’d have teabagged the fuckers.

As for the rest of the poll, wow, no love for LSU! Besides that, Auburn should be around 15 and Mississippi should be removed entirely. Fuck, I’d have removed Mississippi even if they’d have won the game; they are horrible.

At least this poll lacks credibility and doesn’t matter.

Auburn? UCLA? South Carolina? Minnesota? MINNESOTA?!?!

What is this rubbish?

I really do not like Ohio St above USC. SOmething wrong about going into someone’s house beating them then having the same record and being ranked below them.

  Also I would have Iowa at 4 based on merit. Besides Penn St, Arizona is a very solid ball club, undefeated with 2 quality wins has to count for something.

  USC has to above OU. Oklahoma lost to the only decent team they played. They have no victories of substance. USC went into Columbus and won.

That Top 5 reminds me of a Sesame Street song…

One of these things is not like the other things
One of these things just doesn’t belong…
Can you guess which of these things is not like the other things
Before I finish my song?