Final BS Blogpoll

We interrupt this basketball-heavy time of year to interject one last blogpoll ballot into your face. The mythical national championship game was last week and Alabama hung on to beat a freshman who hadn't played this year. Read that again before you anoint Alabama all-powerful -- they nearly blew a 24-6 lead in the second half against a kid who was playing in high school last year.

Anyway, I present to you our final blogpoll for the year. Sure, some topsy-turvey-ness but, hey, most of these teams didn't play for weeks (or more than a month) so you can't expect consistency. Awesome finish to the season, college football!

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama
2	Boise State	3
3	Texas	1
4	Florida	2
5	Ohio State	3
6	Iowa	3
7	TCU	4
8	Penn State	2
9	Cincinnati	5
10	Virginia Tech	7
11	Oregon	4
12	Nebraska	10
13	Brigham Young	6
14	Wisconsin	9
15	Pittsburgh	3
16	Georgia Tech	4
17	Utah
18	Miami (Florida)	4
19	Central Michigan	5
20	Texas Tech
21	Mississippi
22	Rutgers
23	Southern Cal	2
24	Stanford	13
25	LSU	10
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Oregon State (#13), West Virginia (#16), Houston (#20), Oklahoma State (#21).

As I said, lots of bouncing around. LSU, you're lucky to still be there. Existing on name alone after a season where you wilted at every challenge.

A bunch of teams in my top 25 are there just because there's nobody better. You'll see a lot of names with decent rankings who lost their bowls. Just a sucky showing by a lot of members of the top 25.

I don't see how other polls don't have Boise State #2. They just went undefeated -- AGAIN -- and yet they're #4 in AP and USA Today. I get that they don't play in the SEC but still....they're undefeated over a lot of games now. Let's throw them a bone, everyone.

I also still think Texas would have won that game if McCoy didn't get hurt. Sure, every UT fan is playing that card, too, but come on.... a FRESHMAN almost pulled it off. And as Boilerdowd texted me late in that game, "We saw that kid grow up in two quarters...Curtis Painter had four years and never progressed." Sadly, so true.

Anyway, point is, that's why I have UT #3 still. Sure, Florida probably looked better during bowl week, but it's hard to make these judgements.... Florida playing on Urban Meyer-Tim Tebow adrenaline, Cinci playing without their head coach, UT playing without McCoy. What a mess. But hey, let's make sure we don't change a thing, BCS! This was awesome!

So let me know what I have wrong in the poll here. All reasonably-made cases will be considered and probably acted upon.

Final Regular Season Blogpoll

Here lies the final Blogpoll ballot for the regular season. Comments and input request after the poll.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama	3
2	Texas	1
3	TCU
4	Cincinnati	1
5	Boise State	1
6	Florida	4
7	Oregon	1
8	Ohio State	1
9	Iowa	1
10	Penn State	1
11	Stanford	2
12	Georgia Tech	7
13	Oregon State	4
14	Miami (Florida)
15	LSU	1
16	West Virginia	5
17	Virginia Tech	8
18	Pittsburgh
19	Brigham Young	3
20	Houston	8
21	Oklahoma State	2
22	Nebraska	2
23	Wisconsin
24	Central Michigan
25	Southern Cal	10
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: California (#17).

• Lots of teams I'm not sure what to do with. Lots of teams semi-deserving and I don't know how to parse it. Should USC still be ranked? Should Arizona get in there? I also considering votes for Nevada, Fresno and Northwestern. Thoughts?
  
  
• If I had voted at the conclusion of the Texas-Nebraska game Saturday night, I would not have put Texas number 2. They did not play all that well and, yeah, yeah, Nebraska's defense is good...whatever. Texas has steamrolled teams all year and I'd been voting them number 1 for a while because I was not completely sold on Florida or Alabama. I turned out to be right about Florida (Tebow can only exert his will so far) but Alabama -- when properly prepared -- does look impressive.
  
  
• All that said, I obviously did vote UT number 2 because how can you justify not? They were #3 and won their conference championship game. Still, I'd have loved to see Nebraska win and TCU or Cinci get a shot.
  
  
• I also feel like maybe Miami is too high. Should Houston still be there? I think so, because ten wins is ten wins.
  
  
• Wisconsin returns after an impressive beatdown of Hawaii. Yes, it was only Hawaii, but that's a hell of a road trip for Wisconsin and they were focused. Though if pasty fat kids from Wisconsin go out in the Hawaiian sun they burst into flames (or melt into cheese curds) so I guess they had nothing to do but prep for the Rainbow Warriors.
  
  

This is the last poll until after the bowls so let me know if I have these right -- or close to right.

Thanks for the input all season.

Revised BS Blogpoll Ballot for Week of Nov 30

Below is the final and revised blogpoll ballot for this week.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Texas
2	Florida
3	TCU	1
4	Alabama	1
5	Cincinnati
6	Boise State
7	Ohio State	2
8	Oregon	3
9	Oregon State	3
10	Iowa	4
11	Penn State	1
12	Houston	3
13	Stanford	3
14	Miami (Florida)	3
15	Southern Cal	3
16	LSU	7
17	California	7
18	Pittsburgh	11
19	Georgia Tech	11
20	Nebraska
21	West Virginia
22	Brigham Young
23	Oklahoma State	10
24	Central Michigan
25	Virginia Tech
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Utah (#19), Mississippi (#20), Navy (#21), North Carolina (#22), Wisconsin (#25).