More guesswork that despite all our protests rapidly molds into a shape much like others' poll ballots. We refuse to bump USC down until they lose because they're just the kind of jerk team to struggle through their season and then make us look like complete assfaces by blowing out whomever they face in a bowl game or key rivalry game. Florida also takes a dive, while the rest is the shambles you've come to expect in our poll. Notes and apologies follow the hott MGoBlog table code.
Again, pay little attention to the arrows, since they measure movement from a prior draft we must have done while extremely intoxicated, which could have been any time in the past few hours weeks never mind.
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State | -- |
| 2 | Southern Cal | 1 |
| 3 | Michigan | 1 |
| 4 | Tennessee | 4 |
| 5 | Texas | -- |
| 6 | Louisville | 1 |
| 7 | California | 2 |
| 8 | Auburn | 4 |
| 9 | Florida | 5 |
| 10 | Notre Dame | -- |
| 11 | Georgia Tech | -- |
| 12 | Wisconsin | 14 |
| 13 | West Virginia | 7 |
| 14 | Oregon | 2 |
| 15 | LSU | 5 |
| 16 | Clemson | 3 |
| 17 | Oklahoma | 2 |
| 18 | Arkansas | 4 |
| 19 | Nebraska | 7 |
| 20 | Rutgers | 1 |
| 21 | Pittsburgh | 5 |
| 22 | Texas A&M | 4 |
| 23 | Missouri | 8 |
| 24 | Boise State | 1 |
| 25 | Wake Forest | 3 |
--Michigan would, we guess, cremate that USC team and shoot its ashes into space in a head to head. But that's asinine Dungeons and Dragons fantasy ball, which we can't rule our poll lest our imagination get the better of us and we find ourselves rolling the 20-sided die on a hypothetical Rutgers/Ohio State national championship game. (It's also that kind of thinking that gets votes for "Chuck Norris" and "Boise State" in in the top ten, so there you go.) Until USC loses, they don't budge, leaving OSU/UM as the San Andreas Fault that will shake this season into shape.
USC: has us playing 20-sided die fantasy ball in our head.
--Tennessee, Texas, and Cal are all one loss leviathans and in that order. Louisville's rubbing shoulders though not as convincingly now that Miami's celebrating victories over FIU, while Florida and Auburn enjoy one of those polling logjams after the weirdest game of the year. (No offensive touchdowns for the victor, controversial replay call, and a suppposed Heisman candidate self-immolating on national televison? Superlative earned.)
--Notre Dame camps at number ten because they've bought the place and decorated it tastefully in Scandinavian Moderne, though they plan to flip the spot for a healthy profit once they start playing competition again.
--WV, down, Wisconsin, up-dah. Why? Because Wisconsin's brawny, plays good defense, has a senior quarterback, and a running game anchored by nearly a ton of beef on the line and P.J. Hill, a 242 lb. back who at this rate should be up to a robust 360 lb. Heisman-winning 9,000 yard rusher by his senior year.
Meanwhile, West Virginia looks less and less appealing as your oddball bet for the national title, especially with Louisville lurking in their inbox. The appalling dead spot in the middle of their schedule may be to blame, since they've done nothing but win games. Yet think of that team matching up against anyone with a disciplined, attacking defense and a precision offense like Louisville's and let the cogs start spinning...they lose, right? Then again, are we playing 20-sided die D'nD ball with the 'Eers here? -6 modifier for Swindle following successful casting of Fog of Ambiguous Ranking. Player may not counter.
--Plaudits for PIttsburgh and the Wannstache; demerits for Iowa for scorching faithful pollsters who bumped them despite evidence to the contrary.
--The rest is a sad mess. Comment, discuss, excoriate below.
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