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BP Poll - Week 4
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Wow, what a tough week to put in the poll. There are some deserving teams out there that I wasn't sure how to even get into my poll this week.
There are also some teams in my poll that I believe may be pretenders and not contenders.....
on the outside peaking in....Houston, South Florida, Minnesota, Texas A&M, Marshall, Air Force, Notre Lame, Boston College, NC, NC St. |
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I've created my poll for week 4. Here's my methodology.
First, I considered every team in FBS with no more then 1 loss. I think it's too early to consider any 2-loss teams like FSU, Washington, or Texas Tech. Looking at each team's wins and losses and considering their opponents, I ranked each team within their own group, the 6 BCS conferences and everybody else. Here are the 36 teams I considered ranking after that: SEC......Pac.10....Big.12....Big.10....ACC.....Big .East..Others Alab.....USC.......Texas.....Iowa......VaTech..Cin cy.....Houston Florida..Oregon....Oklahoma..tOSU......Miami...USF .......Boise LSU......UCLA......Mizzou....TSUN......GaTech..... .......TCU Auburn...Cal.......Kansas....Wiscy.....N.Car...... .......BYU Georgia..Ariz......Okla.St...Penn.St.............. .......Utah S.Car....Stan......Neb............................ .......N.D Ole.Miss Then I started ranking teams, based solely on what's happened on the field so far this year. Preseason polls weren't factored in, last year's results weren't factored in, what I expect to happen the rest of the year wasn't factored in, and who I think would win on a neutral field wasn't factored in. Also, no polls from last week were factored in; teams with losses or with good wins weren't moved a certain number of spots, they were slotted accoriding to my evaluation of season-to-date results. Head-to-head was considered. Chains of an undefeated team and a bunch of 1-loss teams were looked for, here's one: Houston-Okla St-Ga-S.Car-OleMiss. Two chains that existed last week were broken when teams near the beginning of the chain lost: Miami-FSU-BYU-Oklahoma no longer applies, so each team is evaluated on overall results. Also the LSU-Washington-USC-tOSU chain was broken. The severity of a loss was also factored in, So although USC beat tOSU, their loss to now-unranked Washington is more damaging than tOSU's loss to USC. Combined with 2 straight shutouts, I have tOSU ahead of USC. Here's what I came up with: 01. Alabama 02. Florida 03. Texas 04. Iowa 05. Houston (their schedule will prevent them rising to the top-2) 06. LSU 07. Va Tech (best results of the 1-loss teams) 08. tOSU 09. Oklahoma (BYU loss is looking worse with FSU results) 10. USC 11. Cincinnati 12. Boise St 13. Auburn 14. Mizzou 15. Kansas 16. Okla St 17. Oregon 18. TCU 19. USF 20. UCLA 21. Miami (they were my #1 last week) 22. TSUN 23. Georgia 24. BYU (beating Oklahoma carries weight) 25. S. Carolina Cal and Penn State dropped from the top 10 to unranked, since Cal got hammered and hasn't beaten a ranked team, and Penn State also hasn't beaten anybody with a pulse. |
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I realize you're not calling Iowa the 4th best team in the nation for end of year purposes, and they are undefeated presently, but #4 seems awfully high to me. In as much as they needed two blocked FGs to beat N. Iowa, beat a bad ISU team, a pretty OK Zona, and a discounted (in your own discussion) PSU...
But.. a win is a win, and they do have 4, so... |
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They're the only team to beat both Penn State and Arizona at this point. And Arizona is the only team to beat Central Michigan. So they get bumped because of those facts. |
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1) Florida
2) Alabama 3) Texas 4) Virginia Tech 5) Ohio State 6) Cincinnati 7) Oklahoma 8) USC 9) TCU 10) Boise State 11) Iowa 12) LSU 13) Oklahoma State 14) Auburn 15) Miami (FL) 16) Oregon 17) Nebraska 18) California 19) Missouri 20) Penn State 21) Kansas 22) Houston 23) South Florida 24) Wisconsin 25) Georgia Tech Dropped from last week's poll: Ole (censored) (7), scUM (16), Washington (18), Georgia (20), North Carolina (21), Florida State (23) |
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1. Florida
2. Texas 3. Alabama 4. Boise State 5. LSU 6. Oklahoma 7. Virginia Tech 8. Southern Cal 9. Ohio State 10. TCU 11. Houston 12. Cincinnati 13. Iowa 14. Oklahoma State 15. Kansas 16. Missouri 17. Georgia 18. Oregon 19. BYU 20. Penn State 21. Miami 22. Nebraska 23. California 24. Ole Miss 25. South Florida |
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1. Florida
2. Alabama 3. Texas 4. Southern Cal 5. LSU 6. Ohio State 7. Virginia Tech 8. Oklahoma 9. Boise State 10. Oregon 11. Cincinnati 12. Kansas 13. Iowa 14. Oklahoma State 15. Houston 16. Missouri 17. Georgia 18. TCU 19. Michigan 20. Miami 21. BYU 22. Nebraska 23. California 24. Ole Miss 25. Penn State Observations: 1). Bama is playing as well as anybody. With the offense gaining 490 yds a game while only giving up 200 yd/gm, including only 50 yds rushing, this might be the most balanced team in the country. I would not be shocked if they supplant Florida at the top of the SEC. 2). As proven this week, Oregon is still a dangerous team. They might give SC a run for their money. 3). PSU is worth [censored]. Can't run, can't pass, can't hang on to the ball, no playmakers. The only way we lose to them is by beating ourselves. 4). Time to think about either realigning the crappy conferences or kicking them out of D1 altogether. It is unacceptable that TCU/Boise/Houston/BYU are all sitting in the top twenty and only play one or two good team a year. Last edited by Tresselbeliever; 09-27-2009 at 06:28 PM. |
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1. Florida
2. Alabama 3. Texas 4. Virginia Tech 5. USC 6. Ohio State 7. LSU 8. Iowa 9. Oklahoma 10. TCU 11. Houston 12. Cincinnati 13. Boise State 14. Oregon 15. Miami Fla 16. Mississippi 17. South Florida 18. Penn State 19. Michigan 20. Kansas 21. Nebraska 22. Oklahoma State 23. Georgia 24. California 25. BYU |
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Your trolling has been moved here:
Mine's bigger than yours, I promise... |
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Well that was interesting.
Anyway, my poll is based on more of the "neutral field" argument, who, IMO, is the better team. Not really a guess on who will finish where based on strength of schedule or anything.
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1. Florida
2. Texas 3. Alabama 4. Virginia Tech 5. Oklahoma Sooners 6. LSU 7. The Ohio State University 8. USC 9. Georgia 10. TCU 11. Boise State 12. Houston 13. Oklahoma State 14. Iowa 15. Nebraska 16. PSU 17. Kansas 18. Cincinnati 19. BYU 20. Ole Miss 21. Michigan 22. Oregon 23. Miami, FL 24. Cal 25. Georgia Tech |
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1. Texas
2. Florida 3. Alabama 4. LSU 5. USC 6. Ohio State 7. Virginia Tech 8. Oklahoma 9. Iowa 10. Boise State 11. Houston 12. Cincinnati 13. Missouri 14. Oklahoma State 15. Auburn 16. Georgia 17. BYU 18. TCU 19. Oregon 20. South Florida 21. Penn State 22. South Carolina 23. Miami 24. Ole Miss 25. Cal Note to any UM fans who might read this: If you struggle to beat Indiana in your own backyard, you don't deserve to sniff the top 25. Last edited by buckeyesin07; 09-28-2009 at 12:09 PM. |
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Dropped: Florida State (17), UCLA (24) Biggest Gain: Houston, NR to 10 (Missed ranking them last week) Biggest Drop: California, 5 to 25 |
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