It really does get worse every week: the more evidence we get, the more inept we look trying to pile it into some comprehensible order that can be defended with "fuck off, you try doing this shit !"
With that, our Blogpoll draft for week eleven. Someone brain it with a shovel before it squirms into the wild. Notes and clarifications of a sort follow:
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State | -- |
| 2 | Michigan | -- |
| 3 | Texas | -- |
| 4 | California | 1 |
| 5 | Louisville | 1 |
| 6 | Florida | 3 |
| 7 | Southern Cal | 3 |
| 8 | Arkansas | 8 |
| 9 | Auburn | 1 |
| 10 | Notre Dame | 1 |
| 11 | West Virginia | 4 |
| 12 | Tennessee | 8 |
| 13 | Rutgers | 2 |
| 14 | LSU | 8 |
| 15 | Wake Forest | 5 |
| 16 | Oregon | 5 |
| 17 | Oklahoma | 2 |
| 18 | Wisconsin | 5 |
| 19 | Georgia Tech | 5 |
| 20 | Maryland | 6 |
| 21 | Clemson | 3 |
| 22 | Nebraska | 4 |
| 23 | Boston College | 11 |
| 24 | Brigham Young | 2 |
| 25 | Boise State | -- |
Notes
1. The Big Ten Bolus doesn't move: OSU or UM's up there, and no one budges for two weeks barring completely unforseeable football cataclysm. Toss in Texas as best one-loss team, and there's some sanity at 1-3.
2. Cal at 4. Straight up destroying people and benefits from Early Season Loss Rule. (Memory so...short...did they lose? Who was that to...YAY! CANDY BOWL LOVE CANDY YUM!)
3. Louisville's defense performed elegant Tai Chi around West Virginia's runners all night last Thursday; kudos to them for nourishing their spirit and their body simultaneously. That also gives up five hundred plus in total offense, too; take out the TOs, and it's another Arena Ball Special. Thus, Cal above them.
4. Florida at five. Offensive decline makes this very jittery pickings indeed.
5. USC whips legless dog Stanford up a few lines in the polls, so they still show they are capable of wrath, which is good for them. Likely still too high here, but watch your polls because popping up down there is...
6. Arkansas, who lost by four zillion points to USC. Some margins seem rational to forgive on losses--see Auburn/Florida here--but Arkansas just got mangled by USC. And Arky beat...
7. Auburn, who has taken a month off since Florida and is rolling in the warm, healing mud of Buffalo, Tulane, and Arkansas State. Sequencing matters; thus, late season cookie binge gets punished.
8. Notre Dame's settled in at the ten spot. Bought some nice stuff at IKEA. Did a little painting. Bought a rug or two. Made Joe Dailey look competent. Ten's nice and comfy, don't you think?
9. West Virginia tumbles because despite having a DB named John Holmes they get no penetration on defense. Tennessee gets the karma boomerang courtesy of their home stunner victim last year, LSU, who gets a moderate bump because they beat Jonathan Crompton, not Erik Ainge. Tennessee would have won with Ainge. We say that not only because we think that, but also to torture the souls of Tennessee fans bingeing on hypotheticals today. Because we're like that, you know.
10. Wake Forest says "Move, bitch." This alone should make you prepare to steal all those unoccupied cars that'll be rolling into trees and apartment buildings when the Rapture comes.
The rest, as usual, is a mess. Gouge away.
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