First Take on the Week Three Blogpoll

by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 21, 2009 12:00 PM PDT in Blogpoll

The Blogpoll is set up by MGoBlog and is a collection of bloggers who actually watch the games, which is more then what the coaches, AP, or Harris poll voters can say. The poll is so respected that CBS Sports is behind the poll and it is posted along side the polls that actually count. Here is an explanation of the Blog poll from Brian himself.

Let me know how great or terrible my voting is. Little time for explanation let me know what you all think. Is FSU too high after their win, is USC too low, or what about BYU. No way Washington should be ranked. But if people can convince me other wise go ahead and fill out the comments.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama	1
2	Texas	3
3	California	5
4	LSU
5	Florida	2
6	Penn State
7	Miami (Florida)	6
8	Mississippi	1
9	Houston	2
10	Virginia Tech	6
11	Boise State	1
12	Florida State
13	Ohio State	4
14	Oklahoma State	4
15	TCU	3
16	Brigham Young	13
17	Oklahoma	2
18	Cincinnati	3
19	Southern Cal	18
20	Nebraska
21	Michigan	3
22	Oregon State
23	Kansas
24	Oregon
25	Georgia Tech	11
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Utah (#15), Tulsa (#25).

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Texas

I may make the Longhorns number one since they actually played a good opponent and not like Alabama who played North Texas.

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by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 21, 2009 2:24 PM PDT reply actions

One issue.

I have the personal belief that you can’t rank the loser of a game ahead of the winner as long as both have the same record. Once the records are no longer equal then you can evaluate the other games, but as long as both teams have the same win/loss record, you shouldn’t put the loser ahead of the winner.

With that said;
UW should be ahead of USC
USC should be ahead of Ohio State
BYU should be ahead of OU

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by displacedute on Sep 21, 2009 3:15 PM PDT reply actions

That would never work...

I get your point but you have to assume that upsets happen and the better teams lose sometimes, but they are still the better team. UW loses that game 90% of the time.

Ole Miss is the only team that beat the Florida last year so they should have been ahead of them in the polls, should they be national champs then?

Or what happens in the three way situation of the Big 12 last year?

But in your world CSU could be in the top ten cause no one has beat them so maybe I won’t dog on it…

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by bhsmarine on Sep 21, 2009 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions

You're missing a very important part of my criteria.

And that is that you have to have the same record or better. Ole Miss isn’t ahead of UF because Ole Miss was 8-4 and UF was 12-1. The overall record is more important because it represents a team’s entire body of work. That’s why early season polls are a bad idea. But if you’re going to do early season polls, you should base it on what the teams have actually done (the same criteria you use later in the season), and that’s won-loss records and head-to-head. If BYU loses another game, go ahead and put them behind OU. Same for UW.

As for the three-way tie (keep in mind, that’s a rare situation because all three teams would have to have the same overall record, but I recognize that it did happen last year), I have a solution for that as well. Put the teams in whatever order you want, in whatever point on the schedule you want, as long as there are not more than 2 spots between them. So last year you can rank Texas #1, OU #3 and TTU #5 or OU #2, TTU #4, and Texas #6, whatever you want to do.

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by displacedute on Sep 22, 2009 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions

No big complaints...

I might move a team up or down a spot or two but looks like everyone is about where they should be for their current performances.

I totally agree on Nebraska not moving. They lost to a higher ranked team by 1 point which essentially proves their ranking is correct, but I imagine some people will drop them.

Bring back Fum's Song!

by bhsmarine on Sep 21, 2009 4:53 PM PDT reply actions