December 1, 2004
Fanblogs XIV - Week 15
Poll of the Fanblogs.com authors & contributors for games played through November 23, 2004:
1. Southern California (8) 188
2. Auburn (5) 181
3. Oklahoma (1) 176
4. California 143
5. Texas 137
6. Utah 125
7. Louisville 97
8. Georgia 95
9. Boise St. 63
10. Miami (Fla.) 55
10. Virginia Tech 55
12. LSU 37
13. Michigan 32
14. Tennessee 28
Others Receiving Votes:
Iowa 21, Virginia 14, Florida St. 13, West Virginia 5, Texas A&M 2, Wisconsin 2, Pittsburgh 1
Author Voting:
Kevin Donahue: 1) Oklahoma, 2) Southern California, 3) Auburn, 4) Texas, 5) California, 6) Louisville, 7) Georgia, 8) Virginia Tech, 9) Utah, 10) Miami (Fla.), 11) Michigan, 12) Virginia, 13) Texas A&M, 14) Tennessee
Pete Holiday: 1) Southern California, 2) Oklahoma, 3) California, 4) Auburn, 5) Texas, 6) Georgia, 7) Miami (Fla.), 8) Michigan, 9) LSU, 10) Florida St., 11) Louisville, 12) Tennessee, 13) Utah, 14) Iowa
Derek Willis: 1) Southern California, 2) Auburn, 3) Oklahoma, 4) California, 5) Texas, 6) Utah, 7) Louisville, 8) Georgia, 9) Boise St., 10) Miami (Fla.), 11) Virginia Tech, 12) LSU, 13) Florida St., 14) Michigan
Dave Frey: 1) Auburn, 2) Southern California, 3) Oklahoma, 4) Utah, 5) California, 6) Texas, 7) Georgia, 8) Miami (Fla.), 9) LSU, 10) Louisville, 11) Boise St., 12) Tennessee, 13) Michigan, 14) Wisconsin
Jeff Quinton: 1) Auburn, 2) Oklahoma, 3) Southern California, 4) Utah, 5) California, 6) Texas, 7) Tennessee, 8) Virginia, 9) Georgia, 10) Florida St., 11) Louisville, 12) Boise St., 13) Virginia Tech, 14) Miami (Fla.)
John Ludwig: 1) Southern California, 2) Oklahoma, 3) Auburn, 4) California, 5) Utah, 6) Texas, 7) Iowa, 8) Georgia, 9) Michigan, 10) Boise St., 11) Louisville, 12) LSU, 13) Miami (Fla.), 14) Virginia Tech
Mike Boone: 1) Southern California, 2) Auburn, 3) Oklahoma, 4) Texas, 5) Utah, 6) Boise St., 7) Louisville, 8) California, 9) Georgia, 10) Virginia Tech, 11) LSU, 12) Miami (Fla.), 13) Iowa, 14) Florida St.
Josh McClain: 1) Southern California, 2) Oklahoma, 3) Auburn, 4) California, 5) Utah, 6) Texas, 7) Virginia Tech, 8) Georgia, 9) Boise St., 10) Louisville, 11) LSU, 12) Miami (Fla.), 13) Iowa, 14) Tennessee
Ben Prather: 1) Southern California, 2) Auburn, 3) Oklahoma, 4) California, 5) Utah, 6) Louisville, 7) Texas, 8) Boise St., 9) Georgia, 10) Michigan, 11) Virginia, 12) Virginia Tech, 13) Iowa, 14) Miami (Fla.)
Dave: 1) Auburn, 2) Southern California, 3) Oklahoma, 4) Utah, 5) California, 6) Texas, 7) Louisville, 8) Miami (Fla.), 9) Georgia, 10) Virginia Tech, 11) Boise St., 12) LSU, 13) Michigan, 14) Tennessee
Robert Knodell: 1) Southern California, 2) Auburn, 3) Oklahoma, 4) Texas, 5) California, 6) Louisville, 7) Miami (Fla.), 8) Utah, 9) Georgia, 10) Boise St., 11) Iowa, 12) Virginia Tech, 13) LSU, 14) Pittsburgh
Michael Hickerson: 1) Auburn, 2) Southern California, 3) Oklahoma, 4) Texas, 5) California, 6) Louisville, 7) Utah, 8) Tennessee, 9) Georgia, 10) West Virginia, 11) Virginia Tech, 12) Boise St., 13) LSU, 14) Michigan
Matt Shobe: 1) Southern California, 2) Oklahoma, 3) Auburn, 4) California, 5) Texas, 6) Utah, 7) Georgia, 8) Louisville, 9) Virginia Tech, 10) Boise St., 11) Michigan, 12) Miami (Fla.), 13) Iowa, 14) Tennessee
Aaron White: 1) Auburn, 2) Oklahoma, 3) Southern California, 4) Utah, 5) Texas, 6) California, 7) Louisville, 8) Virginia Tech, 9) Boise St., 10) Georgia, 11) LSU, 12) Tennessee, 13) Miami (Fla.), 14) Wisconsin
Comments:
boifromtroy said:
posted on December 1, 2004 12:24 PM — 66.122.151.157 — link — abuse?
How come more people don't respect VaTech?!?
Maybe after Saturday...
posted on December 1, 2004 5:06 PM — link — abuse?Kevin Donahue said:
I'm either a genius or an ass. I'm the only one with the Sooners at the top.
posted on December 1, 2004 5:11 PM — link — abuse?
Why limit yourself to one or the other Kevin?
Mike said:
posted on December 2, 2004 5:47 PM — 199.44.241.20 — link — abuse?
I don't know Kevin, but I'll tell you what, if Oklahoma plays USC, Mark Clayton will go for 150+ yards and 3 TDs no sweat. I don't think the Trojan secondary could cover you and me at this point, much less an All-American receiver with Adrian Peterson in the backfield. But the truth is, I hope the Trojans blast them and shut up all those grain-eating Big 12 folks.
posted on December 2, 2004 7:21 PM — link — abuse?
I promise you the Trojans could cover me. I've got like a 5 second 40. :)
posted on December 2, 2004 7:45 PM — link — abuse?
That's a good 40 time for a lineman....
posted on December 2, 2004 11:10 PM — 69.73.43.133 — link — abuse?
1) I am biased in favor of Louisville, and all other non-BCS teams.
2) I am biased against Texas. I feel they, like FSU and select others, are unfairly inflated in the polls due to their tradition.
3) I really think Louisville would play Texas well.
PS...
I am still hoping Auburn hops Oklahoma so Utah gets the honor of knocking off Oklahoma.This saturday is going to be great. So many BCS things to be shuffled out this week.
posted on December 3, 2004 7:48 AM — link — abuse?
And #4, Ben is heavily medicated. ;)
Johnny said:
posted on December 4, 2004 8:07 AM — 70.2.116.221 — link — abuse?
Wow, Ben, I wasn't aware that the computer polls measured things like tradition. That would explain the huge gap between Texas and Louisville in the computer polls.
Texas - 5-4-4-4-4-4
Louisville - 16-16-14-15-8-8Of course, I realize now that we need people like you to do things like vote Louisville ahead of Texas to offset this unfair advantage teams like Texas have.
Johnny said:
posted on December 4, 2004 8:46 AM — 70.2.116.221 — link — abuse?
Ben, one more thing - here are some guys you need to buy a beer for that are making this whole BCS thing more fair by handing out justice to the non-BCS teams and punishing teams like Texas (just like you are).
Neal McCready, Mobile Register: ranks Texas 9th, behind Louisville, Boise State and Iowa
Edgar Thompson, Palm Beach Post: has Louisville ranked in front of Texas (6th and 7th respectively)
Ken Tysiac, Charlotte Observer: has Louisville ranked in front of Texas (6th and 7th respectively)
Matt Hayes, The Sporting News: has Louisville ranked in front of Texas (6th and 7th respectively)
Johnny said:
posted on December 4, 2004 8:47 AM — 70.2.116.221 — link — abuse?
Okay, I'm bored this morning.
Here's my breakdown of AP votes for Cal:
#4 - 48 votes
#5 - 14 votes
#6 - 3 votes (from Iowa, Kansas and Ohio)Here's my breakdown of AP votes for Utah:
#4 - 12 votes
#5 - 30 votes
#6 - 19 votes
#7 - 1 vote (Ohio)
#8 - 2 votes (Ohio, James-CBS)
#13 - 1 vote (Illinois)Here's my breakdown of AP votes for Texas:
#4 - 5 votes (Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, James-CBS)
#5 - 21 votes
#6 - 35 votes
#7 - 3 votes (Florida, NC, Hayes-TSN)
#9 - 1 vote (Alabama)Johnny said:
posted on December 4, 2004 9:03 AM — 70.2.116.221 — link — abuse?
Just say an interesting Blog from a guy in Alabama...
Alabama Voter-
Just got off the phone w neale mcready. He said he DOES think he ranked Texas a little low, and will probably finish with them at 7th or 6th if everyone wins out this weekend. In fairness to him, he saw the UT vs Kansas game, the A&M game, and the OU game wire to wire and that may have somewhat tainted his view of Texas. He is going to look at a couple other Texas game films but he thinks he will probably finish with them at 7th or 6th. PS he said he would return his non-obscene e-mails but the volume has been too much to also keep his jobJR
posted on December 4, 2004 8:24 PM — 69.73.43.133 — link — abuse?
The computers and the way they factor in strength of schedule brings all teams closer to their conference average than they should be, in my opinion.
I dropped the ball on Virginia, they should be gone. Virginia Tech will move up this week with their win over a good team. Definately over Boise, maybe higher.
If Louisville played Texas I would expect the line to be about 10, and I would have to take Louisville on that one. Their is enough uncertainty in the strength of the teams to justify disagreement as to who is the better team. The polls show the predominant view is Texas by a large margin.
One final note. This is why the coaches should open up their voting, so the results are open to inspection and coaches can be held accountable for the accurace of thier votes.
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Mike said:
posted on December 1, 2004 10:03 AM — 199.44.241.20 — link — abuse?I can't figure out how I keep putting Auburn #2 even though Oklahoma is going to win the national title.