BLOGPOLL TOP 25: Unlikely 5-0
by BracketCat on Oct 11, 2011 12:00 PM CDT
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PrintIf you had told me a year ago that a television remake of "Hawaii 5-0" would make it to a second season — and even more inexplicably, attract an actor the caliber of Terry O'Quinn — I would have laughed you out of the room.
And if you had told me then that Bill Snyder 2.0 would make it five games into his third season unscathed, I would have told you to please stand over here while I call the nice authorities to come take you away in a straitjacket.
Yet here we stand at 5-0, the unlikeliest of undefeated teams based on preseason expectations. How 'bout that.
Follow the jump to see what the latest round of K-State veni, vidi, victory did for the Cats in my newest ballot, though I make no guarantees of a similar move in the aggregate SB Nation BlogPoll, obviously.
Bring On The Cats Ballot - Week 7
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 3 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 4 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 5 | Clemson Tigers | -- |
| 6 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | -- |
| 7 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 8 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 9 | Arkansas Razorbacks |  1 |
| 10 | Stanford Cardinal |  -1 |
| 11 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | -- |
| 12 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -- |
| 13 | Kansas St. Wildcats | 2 |
| 14 | Illinois Fighting Illini | -1 |
| 15 | Michigan Wolverines | 4 |
| 16 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 4 |
| 17 | Baylor Bears | 4 |
| 18 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -2 |
| 19 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 3 |
| 20 | Arizona St. Sun Devils | 3 |
| 21 | Texas Longhorns | -4 |
| 22 | Houston Cougars | 2 |
| 23 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 24 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -- |
| 25 | Wake Forest Demon Deacons | -- |
| Dropouts: Florida Gators, Auburn Tigers, Texas Tech Red Raiders | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
Some writers dubbed the weekend that was: Blowout Saturday. A fairly apt description, that, as there were very few of what we normally would call "upsets."
Thus, only slight shuffling this week, and not the full-blown reorganization I had going on last week.
I saw enough of Arkansas and K-State to boost them over undefeated teams Stanford and Illinois, respectively, because the latter two teams haven't played anybody (hell, Illinois hasn't even been on the road yet) of substance.
Texas falling was obvious, but the fall was less drastic in my poll because I never bought into the Longhorns like all those idiot AP and ESPN/USA Today voters. Seriously, you guys thought Texas was a top-10 team? LMAO.
And then there's Nebraska. I SO badly wanted to drop the Huskers out by virtue of the two-loss rule, and for two and a half blissful quarters, that vision nearly was reality. Then Ohio State woke up and remembered that it sucks.
But since unparalleled and obscene lethargy over the course of 6.5 quarters of football can't go completely unpunished, can it? Down you go, Nebraska!
Florida and Auburn drop out with a second loss apiece, and now will play each other this week to determine who never will sniff this ballot again this year.
(My money's on Florida, which is why I defeated a momentary temptation to keep the Gators in my poll at No. 25 — until I remembered that they haven't beat anyone of substance, either.)
Texas Tech falls out because the only reason it even was in was the goose egg that was shattered by the manure- fishbait-slathered Aggies.
In come Michigan State (probably overdue), Penn State (don't look now, but the Nittany Lions have one of the best defenses in the country) and, aw, what the hell... Wake Forest, come on down!
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I guess I agree K-State should be ranked
but I’m still not sure of the top 15 ranking at this stage.
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by Anon_the_younger on Oct 11, 2011 8:20 PM CDT reply actions
Which 3 teams behind us do you think should be in front of us, to bump us out of the top 15?
I can’t find them. And what’s up with the pessimism? “I guess I agree K-State should be ranked”? Any team in a major conference that starts 5-0 is going to be ranked, wouldn’t you say?
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
Funny anecdote:
There’s a 6-0 team in D-III that has a victory over a (then-) ranked team… and not only are they not ranked, there’s five teams ahead of them in “also receiving votes”.
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What's the reasoning behind that kind of thing, I wonder?
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
The team in question is Adrian
Neither a traditional power, nor a lapsed one, and they play in the Michigan IAA, a league which used to routinely provide a team that knifed deep into the playoffs, but hasn’t been that great lately. So they’re viewed about like we view CUSA now.
But still: 6-0, and they knocked the pre-season #8 team out of the polls by beating them decisively, and said pre-season #8 was the defending Michigan IAA champions, so it makes no sense to me at all.
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So, basically, there IS no reasoning, other than "they're not who we usually rank, so we're not ranking them"?
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
Well, I mean, there's got to be some reasoning.
They’re 6-0, and there are 11 one-loss teams ranked. (No 2-loss teams; hard to stay in the D3 poll with two losses, since there’s almost 300 teams in the division.)
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If you look at who we have beat so far
team: sagarin rating (since it ranks all teams) K-State: 23
E KY: FCS not ranked; Kent State: 139; @Miami: 47; Baylor: 31; Missouri: 32; @TXT: 33; @KU: 78; OU: 3; @OSU: 6; aTm: 16; Texas: 14; ISU: 61
K-State beat team 47 on the road on the last play of the game
K-State beat team 31 at home in the last 3 minutes
K-State beat team 32 at home by letting them back into the game.
As I said I don’t think we are a top 15 team. Top 25 yes, top 15 no. Win @TXT and beat at least one of OU, OSU aTm and Texas then I might start considering K-State in the top 20 or top 15. (And I think Sagarin has Texas and aTm higher than deserved).
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by Anon_the_younger on Oct 11, 2011 9:32 PM CDT up reply actions
So, which three teams behind us, are better than us?
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." *Victor Hugo*
Wolverines, Hokey Pokeys, and A&M.
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Michigan? Yes. The other 2? No.
I think most people even on BOTC will have no problem admitting that A&M is probably more talented than K-State, but it should be pretty obvious by now that there’s a lot more to college football games than talent. The Aggies choked away 2 games in embarrassing fashion, and even though those came against good teams, that has to have consequences in the polls.
I don’t know a lot about Virginia Tech and there’s a good chance they have superior talent, too, but their win against Miami (in Blacksburg) was no better than what K-State did, they have a (blowout) loss, and their other four wins are pretty terrible. I don’t see enough there to put them ahead of an undefeated KSU team.
Bracket, thanks for putting us ahead of Illinois this week.
by Ahearn Alley on Oct 11, 2011 11:33 PM CDT up reply actions
A&M got big leads and then barely lost to the #6 and #9 teams in this poll
Which tells me they probably aren’t far behind. Although they didn’t look that impressive against Tech, so who knows.
I think KSU absolutely “deserves” to be ranked that high, because we are still undefeated and have played a reasonable schedule. But I doubt we’re still there at the end of the year. Losses to OU/OSU will give voters the chance to correct our ranking – assuming we lose. I’d be glad to be wrong, and win out. :)
I'd say anything we can do to keep our guys pissed and thinking they're not getting their due.
Keep the pissed off and hungry. They play better that way.
Not that they really pay attention to what we say or how we rank them.
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I think your overrated and this team sucks…
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I think it's funny that you've only got us one spot above the Blogpoll at large
but some of our future opponents have us way up in the top 10. It strikes me that perhaps said opponents are engaging in a little anti-weauxfery.
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