re: TD Top 10 Voting Thread

how did ole miss crack your top 10 after their sunday performance against memphis yet LSU gets bounced for a shoddy game?

LSU was #9 last week. I dropped them for struggling against a team that didn't win a game last year. Yes, it's a punitive ranking. LSU can bounce back, but on resume, that wasn't good. Ole Miss gets a bump not so much for what they did but that everyone else struggled worse.

i am not picking on you, but this is why preseason rankings really screw with the minds of voters.

byu has arguably the best win out of any team this year and yet, still they are not in the majority of top ten polls.

it personally doenst make sense to me...ah well

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Thank you for voting, rondozombie. Here is how you voted:

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Alabama
4. Southern Cal
5. Penn State
6. Oklahoma State
7. Ole Miss
8. BYU
9. LSU
10. Ohio State

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if you are going strictly by resumes (and your own personal votes from the last week even) then byu is #1.

they beat a top 3/4 in the country according to everyone on here and everyone in the media.

i was not prepared to vote them #1, but they deserve some love in the poll. not only did they defeat a favorite for the national championship, but they looked damn good doing so.

anyways, it really is just a matter of perspective. im not bashing your rankings, i know you were one person would give me justification for your votes, so i asked.


i would also throw mizzou out of your impressive win list and maybe add cincy.

For all the OSU haters, no way we fall out of the top 10 when ranked 6th coming into the game. 2 teams lose in the top ten and you expect OSU to fall 5 spots after a win? No way.

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2 teams lose in the top ten and you expect OSU to fall 5 spots after a win? No way.

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No. We're saying they didn't belong in the top 10 in the first place.

Thank you for voting, lsumatt. Here is how you voted:

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Alabama
4. Southern Cal
5. Oklahoma State
6. Ohio State
7. Ole Miss
8. Penn State
9. Boise State
10. BYU

I know you're not bashing and I like the discussion. I think it's way too easy to overreact to the first week. I also think just having the top ten doesn't show a lot of my down ballot thinking.

I vote in the CBS' blogpoll, and BYU and Mizzou are both in the top 15. Cincy is ranked. Georgia is not ranked at all, and I have OU at #20.

I don't feel bound by last week's ballot at all, so I am voting based on resume, prediction, and just general feeling I got from teams in their first game. For example, I really thought LSU was going to come out like gangbusters, but their struggles, particularly on defense, makes me revise my preseason prediction for them. Cincy was a team I liked but I wasn't sure how graduation would effect them. I'll quote Doc Saturday, who called them "ruthlessly effective". Sure, Rutgers sucks, but I feel that the talent drain won't be too severe for Cincy.

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Redd, your tactics are flawed big dog.

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Elaborate, rondothon.