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Buckeye Planet Preseason Top 25
So, we decided if ESPN can do it, we can do it better. And it turns out that the real reason ESPN took its name off of the Coaches poll was fear of the new BP poll. OK, maybe not. Anyway, we did decide to have a poll. Like every other poll, we’ll rank teams weekly from here on out (with a break between this preseason poll and the first week of games). As you can easily see – since USC is the consensus #1 – there are 24 pollsters. These pollsters were selected from a not very random cross section of BP regulars.
Points are awarded on a decreasing basis, that is 25 for a First Place vote, and so on down to 1 point for a 25th Place vote. Then, teams are ranked according to their total points. Those receiving votes are ranked in the same fashion, so the team listed first is essentially Twenty-sixth. The number of number 1 votes are in parentheses. We’ll also list where a team was rated the week before, although this being the first poll, there isn’t such a column now. In the future this poll will appear on a side panel of the front page, so as not to take attention away from real blogs. All the voters are taking care to put out a quality poll, and not just a fan site homer poll. Be sure to check it out, hope you enjoy. Rank....Team............Points 1.........USC.(24).......600 2.........Tennessee.....552 3.........Texas...........539 4.........Ohio St.........530 5.........LSU..............503 6.........Miami (FL).....457 7.........Michigan.......438 8.........Virginia Tech..434 9.........Oklahoma......429 10.......Iowa............391 11.......Florida..........369 12.......Georgia.........334 13.......Florida St......285 14.......Purdue.........266 15.......Auburn.........250 16.......Louisville......228 17.......Arizona St....190 18.......California......176 19.......Texas A&M...146 20.......Boise St.......122 21.......Virginia.........95 22.......Boston Coll....87 23.......Alabama........84 24.......Texas Tech...56 25.......Minnesota.....47 Others receiving votes: Pittsburgh 35, Georgia Tech 28, Bowling Green 25, Oregon 16, Wisconsin 12, Penn St. 11, Oregon St. 10, Fresno St. 10, Colorado 8, Arizona 7, Notre Dame 6, N.C. State 6, Clemson 6, Michigan St. 5, Utah 3, Nebraska 2, Iowa St. 1, West Virginia 1. |
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I see I was the only one who felt that my sleepers were actually sleepers...you people have no vision. Stay inside your cliche' box thinking
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Wow, I was way off. It will be nice to see how all of these teams play before the next poll.
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Look at Purdue benefit from that Big-10 schedule. Solid rankings overall.
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I had Purdue pretty high, such an easy schedule.
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Just out of curiousity... who are our esteemed pollsters?
Let's see some accountablilty, people ![]() |
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I thought we were going to put this in a thread to, so we could get into that kind of stuff... its pretty non contoversial at this point, everyone did a nice job.
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I'll leave it up to individual pollsters as to if they want their identity known. No reason we can't start a thread, if'n ya want.
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I'm a pollster and would be perfectly comfortable making my ballot known each week...if anyone is even interested.
![]() BTW: GREAT job on organizing this guys. |
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I am also a pollster and I have no problem making mine public....
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My pollster check bounced... what kind of operation are you running bkb??? (for a small fee I have no problem making my ballot open to the "public"
)seriously good job... I hope we are all willing to dramatically change our poll after a couple of weeks. IMO preseason polls are only on hype. We'll see who the real players are after a couple of weeks into the season... |
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who gave MN enough points to get into the top 25?
I have no problem with making mine public... I have nothing to hide. ![]() Overall it looks pretty good.. seems to get interesting after the top 15. Great job by everyone who got this rolling. ![]() |
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Same here, I'm also a pollster. Nice to see how this one turned out, it actually is very respectable.
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I'm glad to see that most of you are willing to make your picks public. That makes it much easier for me to ridicule your picks publicly. I'll wait for the second poll though. No reason to get all ridiculy in the preseason.
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