Preseason BlogPoll
(Written by kencraw)
The BlogPoll is the invention of mgoblog’s Brian Cook. He solicits the opinion of LOTS of different bloggers and other web-oriented college football fans. He explicitely notes the team loyalties of each of his pollsters.
This year I have been invited to participate in the poll. The “normal” schedule is to create the weekly poll on Sunday or Monday and post it to your own blog for feedback from your readers to be finally posted on Wednesday morning. The preseason poll has a slightly different schedule with it being due next Monday.
In any case, here’s my preliminary preseason poll:
| Rank | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Southern Cal |
| 2 | Florida |
| 3 | Oklahoma |
| 4 | Georgia |
| 5 | LSU |
| 6 | Virginia Tech |
| 7 | West Virginia |
| 8 | Ohio State |
| 9 | Missouri |
| 10 | Oregon |
| 11 | Texas |
| 12 | Clemson |
| 13 | Arizona State |
| 14 | Texas Tech |
| 15 | Auburn |
| 16 | Tennessee |
| 17 | Wisconsin |
| 18 | Illinois |
| 19 | Brigham Young |
| 20 | Penn State |
| 21 | Rutgers |
| 22 | Kansas |
| 23 | Oregon State |
| 24 | Michigan |
| 25 | Notre Dame |
Comments?
(It’s worth noting that the expected difficulty of a team’s schedule is not supposed to be a factor in this poll. It’s supposed to be about how good the team is, not how many wins they’re going to get. The opposite is true for the end of the season, it’s not about how many wins they got, it’s about how good they proved to be, so difficulty of schedule should be a significant factor.)
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