HOOOOOKAY RANDOMNESS EXPLAINED. Here's the Blogpoll Ballot for week two, and boy howdy is it the usual mess. The good news: we can blame it on life, and on the haphazard balancing of a.) top rank teams we think are good, but played no one, and b.) crediting teams who actually did stuff and played people and things.
Notes and exactly one apology follows.
EDSBS Ballot - Week 2
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boise St. Broncos | 2 |
| 2 | TCU Horned Frogs | 7 |
| 3 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -1 |
| 4 | Utah Utes | -- |
| 5 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -1 |
| 6 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 1 |
| 7 | BYU Cougars | -- |
| 8 | Oregon Ducks | 2 |
| 9 | Iowa Hawkeyes | 6 |
| 10 | Texas Longhorns | -9 |
| 11 | Georgia Bulldogs | 2 |
| 12 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 13 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
| 14 | Miami Hurricanes | 5 |
| 15 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -- |
| 16 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 17 | Florida Gators | -11 |
| 18 | Oklahoma Sooners | -13 |
| 19 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | 4 |
| 20 | Pittsburgh Panthers | -9 |
| 21 | USC Trojans | -- |
| 22 | Michigan Wolverines | -- |
| 23 | Wisconsin Badgers | -11 |
| 24 | Houston Cougars | -2 |
| 25 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -5 |
| Dropouts: Washington Huskies, North Carolina Tar Heels, Michigan St. Spartans, Arkansas Razorbacks, Oregon St. Beavers, Texas A&M Aggies, Cincinnati Bearcats, Florida St. Seminoles | ||
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YEAH YOU HOLD ON A SECOND THERE. We've never been a fan of complete powerpolling, nor of saying any ballot makes a lot of sense before week eight or so, but here we go anyway trying to balance the two with the inevitable ghosts of preseason expectations living on deep into the season. TCU and Boise both won their biggish games to start the season, with Boise playing a tougher opponent in a tougher environment. (The Jerrydome was basically a home game for TCU, while FedEx Field was Lane Stadium's road show complete with "Enter Sandman.")
The Mountain West's bubble continues as Utah pops in for beating Pitt at home, which isn't quite as impressive but still merits a significant bump. As is customary, the Deltas here don't mean much here: Ohio State and Alabama are down because of the rises of TCU and Boise, and VT bumps up because for once we'd like to keep a team up for manning up and playing someone in week one and two. Will Miami and Ohio State receive the same treatment next week? You're damn right they will, barring one team completely paving the other into a fine, ruined pavement of football failure. Pitt's in there, and should be followed by Oregon State in a world where we don't hit "submit' and then yell NOOOOOO as the Rodgers brothers fall off the map.
SO WHERE'S UNC? Beating LSU doesn't count for what it used to, even with a skeleton crew manning the ship. John Shoop's offense would anger us to the point of violence, which is something you may get to see anyway if Florida continues their current offensive trend.
MOVED DOWN FOR NEGATIVE PERFORMANCE: Florida. We--that's the "Gator fan we"--are going to be a season-long disaster on offense, and it won't improve until the offense is put in the hands of someone who can call a game, which Steve Addazio demonstrably cannot at this point. Texas suffers for the sputtering of their run game, which still seems like it's in practice mode. Establishing Tre (accent) Newton as the feature back should fix this, but they're in a transitional state offensively at the moment, too. Unlike Florida's, this does not appear to be a coaching personnel issue, and should improve.
THE MUDDLED MIDDLE: Everything else could be reordered without too much harm due to the lack of data provided by cakey week one appearances.
TWO BLATANT ERRORS: We should have left Oregon State in using the logic of "willing to play tough opponents," and what the hell is that Wisconsin ranking, you ask? An error caused by clumsy fingers. Seriously. We get paid to do this.
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