College Football - Week 1 (Sept. 3rd)

[Old Style]

Maryland's unis. It's like watching a different teams every time a player turns the other direction.

 

LOL @ Baylor. They didn't seem too concerned about these cherished rivalries when TCU, SMU, Rice, and Houston got left out of the Big 12.

[shnsajax]

Scott Drew and Baylor basketball would fit in very well in the 24 team Big East.

[UMFan83]

New AP poll is out. Nothing too insane.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm

 

1 OU (43)

2 Bama (9)

3 LSU (7)

4 FSU

5 Boise St.

6 Stanford

7 OK St

8 Texas A&M

9 Wisconsin

10 Nebraska

11 Va Tech

12 South Carolina

13 Arkansas

14 Oregon

15 OSU

16 MSU

17 Miss St.

18 Florida

19 Missouri

20 Penn St.

21 Texas

22 Auburn

23 ASU (NR)

24 WVU (NR)

25 TCU

 

(dropped out: Notre Dame and Georgia)

[Banedon]

That's the USA Today poll, not the AP.

 

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6936273/lsu-tigers-climb-no-2-associated-press-top-25-auburn-tigers-georgia-bulldogs-drop-out

 

Notre Dame, Georgia and Auburn all fall out.

[ConstableRabbit]

New AP poll is out. Nothing too insane.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm

 

1 OU (43)

2 Bama (9)

3 LSU (7)

4 FSU

5 Boise St.

6 Stanford

7 OK St

8 Texas A&M

9 Wisconsin

10 Nebraska

11 Va Tech

12 South Carolina

13 Arkansas

14 Oregon

15 OSU

16 MSU

17 Miss St.

18 Florida

19 Missouri

20 Penn St.

21 Texas

22 Auburn

23 ASU (NR)

24 WVU (NR)

25 TCU

 

(dropped out: Notre Dame and Georgia)

TCU ranked and Baylor unranked is insane.

[UMFan83]

That's the USA Today poll, not the AP.

 

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6936273/lsu-tigers-climb-no-2-associated-press-top-25-auburn-tigers-georgia-bulldogs-drop-out

 

Notre Dame, Georgia and Auburn all fall out.

 

My bad, sorry about that.

 

Look at this one dude's ballot:

 

http://thegazette.com/2011/09/06/my-ap-top-25-ballot-1-lsu/

 

He has South Florida #5, Northwestern #14, Maryland #19, Houston #23, Michigan #24, Oregon #25.

[SouthSideRyan]

And Baylor 6th.

 

Even if you think ND is a really good team, USF was extremely lucky to win that game. They looked terrible and benefitted from ND repeatedly giving the ball away inside the 5.

[UMFan83]

And Baylor 6th.

 

Even if you think ND is a really good team, USF was extremely lucky to win that game. They looked terrible and benefitted from ND repeatedly giving the ball away inside the 5.

 

And its funny that the team that South Florida beat that vaulted them from unranked to 5th, is out of the top 25 in his poll. If they were such a juggernaut, why aren't they ranked anymore? Also, Oregon loses to his new number 1 in pretty much a road game and drops all the way to 25th? wow

[Banedon]

Here's the AP results:

 

1 Oklahoma (32) 1-0 1448

2 LSU (17) 1-0 1415

3 Alabama (9) 1-0 1409

4 Boise State (2) 1-0 1310

5 Florida State 1-0 1196

6 Stanford 1-0 1154

7 Texas A&M 1-0 1033

8 Wisconsin 1-0 1031

9 Oklahoma State 1-0 981

10 Nebraska 1-0 947

11 Virginia Tech 1-0 906

12 South Carolina 1-0 843

13 Oregon 0-1 828

14 Arkansas 1-0 752

15 Ohio State 1-0 606

16 Mississippi State 1-0 594

17 Michigan State 1-0 530

18 Florida 1-0 382

19 West Virginia 1-0 357

20 Baylor 1-0 284

21 Missouri 1-0 242

22 South Florida 1-0 221

23 Penn State 1-0 147

24 Texas 1-0 135

25 TCU 0-1 130

Dropped from rankings: Notre Dame 16, Georgia 19, Auburn 23, USC 25

 

 

Boise with 2 first place votes.

[Tracer Bullet]

And Baylor 6th.

 

Even if you think ND is a really good team, USF was extremely lucky to win that game. They looked terrible and benefitted from ND repeatedly giving the ball away inside the 5.

 

No [expletive]. Some people had usf picked to win the big east, and I could easily see that. Hard to say how different they would have looked had ND not repeatedly shot itself in the foot (Holtz had the benefit of not having to try to win the game). But I can't believe you'd watch that game and jump usf up to 5 unless you thought they were that good to start the season.

 

Polls are so dumb.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

That's the USA Today poll, not the AP.

 

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6936273/lsu-tigers-climb-no-2-associated-press-top-25-auburn-tigers-georgia-bulldogs-drop-out

 

Notre Dame, Georgia and Auburn all fall out.

 

My bad, sorry about that.

 

Look at this one dude's ballot:

 

http://thegazette.com/2011/09/06/my-ap-top-25-ballot-1-lsu/

 

He has South Florida #5, Northwestern #14, Maryland #19, Houston #23, Michigan #24, Oregon #25.

Mike Hlas has always been a special kind of idiot.

[Guest]

Resume voting is actually a very good idea. It gives you kooky and more debatable results in the first couple weeks, but it's better than the traditional inertia that anchors name programs in the polls.

[bcl412]

Resume voting is actually a very good idea. It gives you kooky and more debatable results in the first couple weeks, but it's better than the traditional inertia that anchors name programs in the polls.

 

I like the idea too. I would think, since polls decide the national champion, that it should be done this way.

[TruffleShuffle]

Mike Hlas has always been a special kind of idiot.

 

24. Michigan. The 34-10 win over Western Michigan was halted with 1:27 left in the third quarter because of lightning. What’s the deal with all the lightning in America over the weekend? I mean, that just isn’t right.

 

 

????

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I once saw him get beat up in a bar (owned by Michigan grads) for relentlessly arguing (with a Michigan fan) that Michigan was terrible, overrated, yada yada because they only beat Iowa by 4 in Michigan. Well, the year was 1997, and Iowa was ranked top 15 at the time so it wasn't that out of line that it would be a close game.