BLOGPOLL DRAFT, WEEK EIGHT. UM, YEAH.
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| Rank | Team | |
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| 1 | Alabama | |
| 2 | Florida | |
| 3 | Texas | |
| 4 | Iowa | |
| 5 | Cincinnati | |
| 6 | Boise State | |
| 7 | Oregon | |
| 8 | Southern Cal | |
| 9 | TCU | |
| 10 | Miami (Florida) | |
| 11 | Georgia Tech | |
| 12 | Penn State | |
| 13 | Notre Dame | |
| 14 | Pittsburgh | |
| 15 | LSU | |
| 16 | Houston | |
| 17 | Oklahoma State | |
| 18 | Virginia Tech | |
| 19 | Ohio State | |
| 20 | Utah | |
| 21 | South Florida | |
| 22 | Brigham Young | |
| 23 | West Virginia | |
| 24 | Texas Tech | |
| 25 | Wisconsin | |
–First draft, and still mostly a mess.
–Whither Penn State, whose only real game came against a team that beat them by assembling spare points left over by the 1994 Penn State team while their defense and special teams saved the day?
–What of Iowa, who is either the grim subway groper waiting to molest the season in rush hour crowd, or the lurking Big Ten Team of Disappointment waiting to happen?
–Miami is above Virginia Tech, who we now have to assume just caught the ‘Canes on a day when they did not have Jacory Harris’s magical Louis Vuitton scarf in hand.
–The Mountain West teams not named TCU just sprinkle themselves somewhere between 16-25 week to week like cake decorations. Ooh, let’s dust some BYU on there!
–Just a draft. Add comments, outrage, etc.
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51
The Tusk says:
ATLDMR@46 – Beating Coach Frontbutt like a drum in Nawlins would almost make losing the SECCG worthwhile. Almost.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:17 am
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My Shorts are made of Denim says:
Can someone please tell me why these blog polls are important? Please? You can even make fun of me for not divining the grand results of this poll at the end of the season… oh wait.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:26 am
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Crabapple Buck says:
atlantadomer @46 -
The ND$ myth is the most perpetuated lie in sports. ND has a large fanbase, but small alumni base. If you are buying tickets to a bowl game, they go thru the athletic office. Since few alumni will go, many get returned. That is one of the many reasons that ND has so few fans at any site that they play a bowl game. If the opposing team doesn’t travel well (think Miami) then hotels and restaurants in the bowl site city would get minimal help from a game. If subway alumni were to be on the ND mailing list then they may travel better. But they are not, and so they don’t travel well.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:45 am
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Kevin@LSU says:
But I thought every ND grad went on to make millions upon millions of dollars.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:52 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Golden Hand,
Georgia is likely to finish 3rd in the SEC East, which in most everyone’s estimation is a better division than the ACC Coastal.
Basically, I can see anyone in the poll beating anyone else in the poll. Nobody looks like a juggernaut.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:15 am
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GamecockTony says:
It’s Bama… then Florida… then pick 3 through 50 out of a hat.
Re: ND – best offense in the nation; worst defense. Who the hell knows?! They could easily go 6-0 and get throttled in the BCS or go 3-3. Time will tell.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:26 am
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Tricky Dick says:
I would like to take this opportunity, as a Big Ten fan living in the South, that the Big Ten just keeps beating up on each other. We have the toughest conference. Couldn’t be that Florida played down to Arkansas or that they [gasp] might not be that good. I am hoping for a Boise St. vs. Florida mythical championship game and for a Boise St. Win.
/Flips off SEC
October 20th, 2009 at 8:35 am
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paco says:
A big Hey-O to Wf’nVU…
October 20th, 2009 at 8:45 am
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BB_FAN says:
TechDan: Thanks for the compliment. Just look at the bowl game scores for the last how many years. Just look at the non-conference record for the last how many years. OK, Maybe I was a bit over the top with Auburn and Ole Miss but yes, the SEC is the strongest conference in the nation and has been for a while. I predict another SEC BCS Champ (4 in a row) this year (Florida) and probably Bama next year (as much as I would hate to see it
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October 20th, 2009 at 8:50 am
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dc trojan says:
To echo Irish_Wertzy @41, just because SC’s on the right side of this particular streak doesn’t mean that the edge has gone off the rivalry. I may dislike many teams, but only Notre Dame and UCLA have that special place in my heart where just seeing their uniforms makes me mad as a bastard, I don’t even watch their other games in the hopes of seeing someone else beat them because they told me not to do that in RA (Rage-aholics Anonymous).
October 20th, 2009 at 9:20 am
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County of Dade says:
The SEC East surely has the pedigree, but is it really better across the board right now than the ACC Coastal? Sure UF is better than anyone in the country except Bama, but after that Miami/VT/GT are better than anyone else in the SEC East. Claiming otherwise is falling victim to the same big name syndrome that you people are criticizing others of.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:53 am
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D-Nice says:
As a big USC fan, and an even bigger ND hater, I hate to admit that year in and year out, even though in theory I’d like the Irish to go 0-12, the fact is that USC needs them to at least be “good” so that the win matters. It’s a huge, visible game, and so many people bemoan the strength of the Pac-10, so beating at least a bowl-eligible ,15-30ish ranked ND team isimportant. Of course, beating a Top 10 or Top 5 ranked ND team even better perception-wise, but that also means that ND would still be on course for a BCS bid, which I don’t want to see happen (though I’d gladly take it, even if it means a BCS bid for ND).
And, a decent ND team is also important for when USC eventually loses to the Irish again (I hate to say it, but it will happen some time), and need a “good loss” to get a better bowl game (though with the Pac-10’s horrible bowl lineup, is one really better than the other after the Rose Bowl?).
So, even though ND probably shouldn’t be anywhere near No. 13, it would be nice if the polls that matter followed suit and gave them an overinflated ranking of 20th or something like that, just to make SC look better.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:01 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
County of Dade,
I’m not sure it is this year, but I’m reserving judgement until the end of the season. Georgia and Georgia Tech will meet head to head to allow for some direct comparison.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:49 am
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atlantadomer says:
Crabapple buck – As an ND alum, I have no idea what you are talking about – other than the fact that we do have a smaller than most alumni base. That team travels very well and especially well to far flung locations. Just look at the “Hawaii Bowl” last year. The venue sold out for the first time ever for a bowl game within a matter of days – the TV number was higher than many other more important bowl games (and it was Christmas eve for crying out loud). In fact, the actual number was 4.4 million viewers, up 119% from the same bowl game in 2007. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/sports-wrap-college-football-bowls-over-audiences/#
See you forgot the all important TV revenue.
All I was trying to impart was that in 2005 and 2006 ND got invited to BCS games that they really didn’t belong in, based solely on the money. Add to that the fact that never in the history of college football has ND ever been able to “Utah” anyone (Utah definition – beat a vastly superior opponent because they just had their championship dreams shattered and they have no earthly idea who you are) – there just isn’t a good scenario lately for us to win one of those CS games. At least the pay day is nice – ND gets to keep all the $$$, no conference sharing (except with the Vatican).
So if ND finishes #14 or better, a BCS bowl will choose them.
October 20th, 2009 at 11:19 am
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Domer Guy says:
Atldomer – re your comment at 48, I think the Fiesta Bowl has the first at-large BCS selection. Can anyone confirm or deny? If so, the general consensus is that they’ll head back to Tempe, er Phoenix, er Glendale.
KevinLSU @ 53: some of us make millions, some of us save the world.
/NBCwhatareyoufightingforcommercial’d
October 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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atlantadomer says:
And oh yeah – we are better people than all of the rest of you.
Tommy K.
October 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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Crabapple Buck says:
Atldomer-
My post only concerned how ND travels. Hotels and restaurants in the bowl host cities don’t make money off of the TV revenue, unless you are talking Spectravision pay per view. In the Fiesta Bowl that we played you in Jan 2006, ND returned many tickets. Bringing up Hawaii, where the host team was the home team, and would never play ND again in their lifetimes, is using some factual license. Fact – ND has many fans. Fiction – they travel well. I’m not disputing that they are a ratings help to the networks. People tune in to watch them lose as much as to win.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:45 pm