College Football Top 25: Final Regular Season Blogpoll Ballot
by Glenn Logan on Dec 5, 2011 6:51 PM EST
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The 2011 season is getting long in the tooth now, and there are not many more ballots to be cast (maybe one more, or so I suppose), so here is my final whack at the top 25 now that the regular season is officially over.
There were a lot of positional changes this week due to some huge games. Just as in the other polls for the BCS, the Oklahoma St. Cowboys did not quite eclipse Alabama. How close were they? 22/100ths of a point (0.22) of of a total of 100 points. They almost got there. Of course, I don't get a say in the BCS rankings and that's a darn good thing, too.
Anyway, the biggest movers on my ballot, which I prepared but did not get to submit last week, were South Carolina with their big defeat of Clemson, Clemson with their come-back defeat of top 5 Virginia Tech, and the aforementioned Hokies in a negative direction. Houston was the biggest negative drop from #9 to #20 after getting beat by Southern Miss. Oklahoma also crashed, down 9 after their devastating loss to Oklahoma State.
Here is my ballot:
A Sea of Blue Ballot - Week 15
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 3 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | -- |
| 4 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 5 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 6 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 7 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 8 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
| 9 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 10 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -- |
| 11 | USC Trojans | -- |
| 12 | Kansas St. Wildcats | -- |
| 13 | Michigan Wolverines | -- |
| 14 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 15 | TCU Horned Frogs | -- |
| 16 | Baylor Bears | -- |
| 17 | Clemson Tigers | -- |
| 18 | Georgia Bulldogs | -- |
| 19 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 20 | Houston Cougars | -- |
| 21 | Southern Miss. Golden Eagles | -- |
| 22 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -- |
| 23 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -- |
| 24 | Florida St. Seminoles | -- |
| 25 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -- |
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
Your comments are welcome and encouraged. If I have something grossly wrong, I want to fix it.
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I can not agree with any reason to have Stanford ahead of Oregon....
I understand it’s 1 loss vs 2 losses but Oregon demolished Stanford, essentially proving Stanford is not in its class of team.
Couple other things, the Trojans should be much higher (they are easily a top 10 team) and not sure I would have the Gamecocks ahead of Wisconsin.
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All these are valid, I think, except the Stanford one.
I never consider head-to-head games unless they are very close, points-wise. By my system, they aren’t close. Stanford is fully 4 points ahead of Oregon. That’s dispositive to me.
The Trojans are a top ten team. I refused to put them there because they are ineligible for post season competition. Its a personal thing, but you are right to observe I have them too low.
I think you’re right about Wisconsin. That looks like an error, and I’m not sure why I did that. I think I’ll change it and swap those two.
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