Week Four Blogpoll Final Verdict is In

by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 30, 2009 3:00 AM 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.

Some adjustments were made with bringing back USC who I inadvertnatly left off. Then I dropped Nebraska and made votes that actually makes sense, like head to head matchups. This might be the final week of head to head voting, unless the two schools are next to each other in the polls.

Oregon gets the nod over Cal, Houston stays ahead of Oklahoma State, BYU over Oklahoma for at least this week, and Iowa over Penn State.

As usual check the poll and let me know what you guys thinks.

Rank	Team	Delta

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

Dropped Out: Florida State (#11), Nebraska (#20), Oregon State (#22).

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You still have USC behind Ohio State (even though USC beat them in Columbus)

But other than that this is a very good poll.

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by displacedute on Sep 30, 2009 8:49 AM PDT reply actions

USC

The reason is because USC losing to Washington who is ending up being bad as expected, is a worse loss then Ohio State losing to USC. Ohio State has the better loss and since the USC/OSU game was close nod goes to Ohio State this week.

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by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 30, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions

That doesn't make sense to me.

But I’m a firm believer that head-to-head results trump everything after record. So if the records are equal (same number of losses) and the teams played each other, I do not see any reason to rank the loser above the winner. At least, that’s how I feel about it.

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by displacedute on Sep 30, 2009 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions

i would only have houston ahead of tcu if they beat miss.state in10 days

that would give houston 3 bcs wins over tcu’s 2 bcs road wins. i still think houston will lose one game b/c they probably will have to play someone twice b/c they have the conference usa championship game. it is hard to beat a quality time twice in the same season. no doubt boise state will go undefeated. the only thing i’m interested in is can they go 13-0 vs the spread. they have an extra game this year. nobody has ever gone even 12-0 against the spread. kansas once went 11-1 and rutgers went 10-1-1. ramble on!.

by wolfmanshowlforever on Sep 30, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions

BCS teams

If you go that route then TCU would beat 3 BCS teams since Utah has made the BCS twice in five years. Also, rankings need to matter and TCU will have beat 3 teams who were ranked at one point while Boise and Houston will have one win apiece against teams that were ranked.

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by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 30, 2009 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions