As we near the midway point of the season, who should be the #1 team in the country?
- Alabama
- Boise State
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- TCU
- Other
As we near the midway point of the season, who should be the #1 team in the country?
- Alabama
- Boise State
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- TCU
- Other
Alabama by far. They are the ONLY team worthy of #1 in my opinion.
Because they beat a SEVERELY overrated Florida team?Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Because they beat Penn State, they beat Arkansas, and they bitch slapped a SEVERELY overrated Florida team. Meanwhile, Ohio State's only good win has been Miami. Boise State's only good win has been Oregon State. In my opinion, Boise doesn't get to even consider claiming Virginia Tech as a good win. Virginia Tech just plain sucks, they were SEVERELY overrated AND over-ranked (thanks to the dumbass preseason polls) and Boise still needed to pull the win out of their ass with a minute left in the game. The good thing for Boise, is that Nevada is playing worth a damn this year and is currently ranked, so the Broncos can hope to claim their win over Nevada is a good/quality win when the rest of their craptastic schedule is being examined.
Agreed.
Bama although if Oregon keeps putting up Tecmo Bowl #s I'd love to see their offense go up against the Bama defense.
It's clearer than ever that Bama is number one, but who's number two? That's the tricky question. So which is more important in these three teams' two biggest wins?
Ohio State - Miami by 12, Illinois by 11
Boise State - Virginia Tech by 3, Oregon State by 13
Oregon - Stanford by 21, Tennessee by 35
With that said I'm going to bump Oregon to #2, and have a tie for 3rd between Ohio State and Boise.
My top 10:
1. Alabama (--)
2. Oregon (5)
t3. Boise State (--)
t3. Ohio State (2)
5. TCU (6)
6. Nebraska (7)
7. Oklahoma (9)
8. Auburn (10)
9. Michigan (NR)
10. Michigan State (NR)
Others receiving a thought or two: Arizona, LSU, Utah, Arkansas, Miami
Outside of the minor shuffling near the top, the remaining undefeated top ten teams from last week just simply move up. I've been impressed with both Michigan and Michigan State enough so to jump them ahead of Arizona, LSU, and Utah. For the first time, I'm giving consideration to some 1-loss teams to crack the top ten eventually with Miami and Arkansas. At least one of these teams will be in the top ten at seasons end I'm guessing.
Alabama with Oregon behind them.
As predicted by several PSU fans last week, Penn State is going to struggle the remainder of the season. Alabama's win over Penn State is going to look no better than Boise's win over Virginia Tech by the end of the year. In fact, I think Virginia Tech has a much better shot at a good season than Penn State.
I'll give you Arkansas though. That was an impressive win -- though I think Arkansas lost it more than Alabama won it.
Twitter: @3YardsandACloud
Agreed, Arkansas is a solid team and that is a quality win.
PSU is not the PSU of the past couple seasons. They are average. MSU is better than PSU.
Michigan is not Top10 material. I'd say 15-20 at best, due to the defense being so poor thus far. A team with a lesser offense but a decent defense should likely be ranked better than my Wolverines. (The offense is sure fun to watch though.....and it isn't even close to being well-oiled yet.....wow)
I'd agree that Oregon can be up that high.
Based on Oregon's defense vs ASU and the first half against Stanford, I'd still have to give a slight edge to Boise as #2. If the Ducks keep it up, that margin will vanish based on SoS.
EDIT: I noticed we're not getting votes for Texas anymore.
Living down here, I predicted that Texas was overrated. With Shipley gone, they've had no receivers step up and that includes the past couple seasons as he was the only 'gamer' really. Worse, they wanted to run the ball more, but no RB has stepped up. They have a few talented guys, but none have planted their flag and taken the job. So you knew a young QB was going to get pressured.
Let's see what Scott Wolf (he of the lone AP #1 vote for Texas) says this week ...EDIT: I noticed we're not getting votes for Texas anymore.
Rank Team
1 Alabama
2 Oklahoma (Highest)
3 Oregon
4 Boise State
5 TCU
6 Ohio State (Lowest)
7 Nebraska
8 Florida
9 LSU
10 Auburn
11 Miami (FL)
12 Arkansas
13 Stanford
14 Utah
15 Arizona
16 Air Force (Highest)
17 Florida State (Highest)
18 South Carolina
19 West Virginia (Highest)
20 Kansas State (Highest)
21 Iowa (Lowest)
22 Michigan State
23 Nevada
24 Oregon State
25 Oklahoma State
Twitter: @3YardsandACloud
That guy seriously has a major hate for and bias against the Big Ten. Ohio State ranked 6th (lowest), Iowa ranked 21st (lowest), Wisconsin or Michigan not even ranked at all, good lord. I thought AP voters were "supposed to be unbiased". At least he finally grew a brain and is no longer voting Texas #1 (or in fact at all anymore for that matter).
Yeah, but OU #2? Why? Because they barely beat a mediocre UT team? Ha! Why isn't UCLA high on his list? He's a moron.
Yeah, I forgot, I was going to mention that. Yeah, Oklahoma #2 is just as bad as Texas #1. Ohio State, Oregon, and Boise State all have a better claim to #2 than Oklahoma does. I think this idiot is just trying to fuck up the polls with his vote instead of actually voting logically. Which begs the question, why the hell hasn't the AP revoked his voting card yet? I can guarantee there are hundreds, even thousands of journalists in this country that could actually make a logical, smart ballot rather than this douchebag.
LOL how did you find his ballot? Is there a place that lists them all?
http://www.pollspeak.com/index.htm
I visit it every single week to check out the ballots.
They even list Basketball and Baseball poll ballots, as well as have ballots for football and basketball from back in 2007 on there.
Last edited by SmoothPancakes; 10-05-2010 at 10:15 AM.
Nice, thanks!
THAT is a VERY good question!
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