2009 CBS Sports BlogPoll Top 25 Ballot: Week 14
Here’s my ballot for this week’s CBS Sports BlogPoll Top 25 hosted by — as you might imagine — CBS Sports.
Week 14
Through 29 November 2009
Ahh, Championship Week. How quickly the 2009 regular season has passed us by. Still, even this late in the game there were still a few surprises this past week in the world of college football. Thus, here’s in my BlogPoll Top 25 ballot for week 14. Most of these should be fairly obvious. Either way, here is is:
My Ballot for the Week
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | – |
| 2 | Florida | 1 |
| 3 | Texas | 1 |
| 4 | TCU | – |
| 5 | Cincinnati | – |
| 6 | Ohio State | – |
| 7 | Boise State | 2 |
| 8 | Penn State | 2 |
| 9 | Oregon | 2 |
| 10 | Brigham Young | 3 |
| 11 | Virginia Tech | 3 |
| 12 | LSU | 5 |
| 13 | Nebraska | 8 |
| 14 | Southern Cal | 4 |
| 15 | Georgia Tech | 8 |
| 16 | Pittsburgh | 8 |
| 17 | Miami (Florida) | 2 |
| 18 | Houston | 2 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 3 |
| 20 | Oklahoma State | 8 |
| 21 | Iowa | 3 |
| 22 | California | NR |
| 23 | Stanford | NR |
| 24 | Utah | 9 |
| 25 | Clemson | 9 |
| Last week’s ballot | ||
Explanations after the jump…
Comments, Explanations, and Excuses
Here are the high-points of the week’s changes:
A Flip-Flop at the Top:
Yeah, yeah, I know some folks will think I am an SEC homer for advancing the Florida Gators (2) ahead of the Texas Longhorns (3), but that could not be farther from the truth. I loathe the Gators with a white-hot fervor that is as irrational as it is juvenile, but they are a damn-good football team. Their complete annihilation of the Florida State Seminoles (NR) was both impressive and efficient, much more so than the hap-hazard victory by the Longhorns over the Texas A&M Aggies (NR). Thus, Florida gets the nod this week to the number 2 spot.
Take heart, Texas fans, either the Gators or the Alabama Crimson Tide (1) have to lose this week in the SEC Championship Game (for what it is worth, my money is on Bama taking home the hardware), thus this drop is sure to be short-lived. That is, unless Texas loses to the Nebraska Cornhuskers (13) in the Big XII Championship Game, which I think is quite possible, in fact, it might even be likely. Who knows?
Returners & First Timers:
After one week outside my poll ballot, the Stanford Cardinal (23) return to this week’s poll along with in-again-out-again Pac-10 comrades the California Golden Bears (22). Stanford picked up a nice win against Notre Dame (NR), likely sending Charlie Weis on his way. Cal, on the other hand, didn’t do a damn thing this weekend, except watch Stanford—whom they soundly beat the week before—play the Irish.
Nice, to jump back into the rankings without having to do a thing…
Everyone Else:
In the event that you don’t grasp the concept of rankings, everyone else who moved this week either lost (thus dropping) or were ranked near someone that did (thus rising). It’s all very simple and orderly, don’t you think?
Parting Thoughts
Having taken the time to consider my feeble attempt at ranking the powers in college football, feel free to try and convince me that I am wrong — which is part of the way the BlogPoll is supposed to work. I promise that I will consider all insults comments.
You can view the final results of this week’s poll over at CBS Sports later this week and check out an analysis of how the collective blogging brain-trust arrived at this week’s result. If you’re craving even more BlogPoll goodness, you can also check out how other bloggers voted and see how your team fared across the Blogosphere.
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