FINALLY! SJ.com College Football Poll -- FINAL POST-BOWL POLL -- PAGE 48

[amraeder]

For the record, mine's been in for a while now. So I'm not the delinquent. Who knew midday Tuesday didn't mean midday Alaska Daylight Time?

[slappy4428]

Speaking of that... the last three stragglers have finally found their way home so the poll and story should be done by midnight.

As an FYI, from now on, polls with be due by 3 p.m. Eastern every Monday. Hard deadline. If your going to be late, fine. Tell me, give me a time and stick to that time.
Jesus Muscatel called a sj.com member from the road, gave him his top 25 and he PMd that to me.

As Sgt. Hulka said, "Your mamas are not here to take care of you now."

[sportschick]

For the record, mine's been in for a while now. So I'm not the delinquent. Who knew midday Tuesday didn't mean midday Alaska Daylight Time?

I woke up early to get mine in before noon EDT, course I was so tired I ranked West Virginia and Georgia twice.

[amraeder]

For the record, mine's been in for a while now. So I'm not the delinquent. Who knew midday Tuesday didn't mean midday Alaska Daylight Time?

I woke up early to get mine in before noon EDT, course I was so tired I ranked West Virginia and Georgia twice.

It's damned East Coast bias I tells ya

[sportschick]

For the record, mine's been in for a while now. So I'm not the delinquent. Who knew midday Tuesday didn't mean midday Alaska Daylight Time?

I woke up early to get mine in before noon EDT, course I was so tired I ranked West Virginia and Georgia twice.

It's damned East Coast bias I tells ya

Those Eastern schools. They're all so interchangeably

[Eagleboy]

Come on come on come on...

I'm salivating over here...

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Jesus Muscatel called a sj.com member from the road, gave him his top 25 and he PMd that to me.

Juan Valdez has to get me a better transportation next time ....

"EL BURRO!"

[slappy4428]

By SLAPPY 4428
sj.com Pollmeister

Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're just a fool in love
Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger
Sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together
Sometimes you're gonna lose it all
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

OK, maybe a better choice would have been "Freefalling."� For that's just what Michigan did after its buns-up-kneeling loss to Appalachian State.
True, there's no excuse for Michigan losing to a Division IAA/BCS/BS team. At home. After trailing most of the game. Healthy. You get the drift.
But while Chaminade of the Smokies relishes the fact that were they eligible, they'd probably be 22nd or so in most polls, Lloyd Carr now truly understands what he put John Cooper through. However, Michigan is not the only team that went through the rollercoaster.

One day you got the glory and then you got none
One day you're a diamond and then you're a stone
Everything can change in the blink of an eye
So let the good times roll before we say goodbye because

Take Hawaii, for example. In the first week, only one voter ranked it higher than 16th. This week, there are four.

And there's Clemson, which had one voter rank it in the first week and after a Monday-night kicking of Florida State shot the Tigers ahead of Michigan. (Note to ESPN, editors and everyone else who feels that the all-purpose use of the word "bowl" can apply to every game because you need a cute catch phrase: You earn a spot in a bowl, as in post-season. Tradition can also dictate the game's title such as "Egg Bowl"� or "Iron Bowl."� Use of the word "Bowl" to make things tidy and cutesy goes through my iron bowels like runny eggs.)

You gotta know happy - you gotta know glad
Because you're gonna know lonely
And you're gonna know sad
When you're rippin' and you're ridin'
And you're coming on strong
You start slippin' and slidin'
And it all goes wrong because

Another case in point is Georgia Tech, which shot into the 24 spot on the strength of its road game over the Fighting Irish, henceforth known as the Irish because the fight clearly has gone out of them.

And yes, you can look ahead -- everyone else is -- to that game in Ann Arbor on Sept. 15 for the possibility of 0-2 Michigan hosting 0-2 Notre Dame; the possibility of which has all the broad appeal of a high-colonic.

Well it's a strange old game you learn it slow
One step forward and it's back you go
You're standing on the throttle
You're standing on the brake
In the groove 'til you make a mistake

Really, who am I kidding? It all comes back to Michigan. The voter who ranked them No. 1 in the preseason didn't rank them this week. In fact, neither did 23 others -- including someone else who had Michigan third. On the other hand, they are one spot ahead of this week's opponent -- Oregon. God help 'em if they move to one spot ahead of next week's opponent.

Maybe the SEC does it right (Jumpin' Jeebus, even Wisconsin beefed up its schedule). Maybe the lesson is if you have to schedule teams from a patsy conference, make sure it's a patsy team from a patsy conference.
Or if you're going to schedule a tough team, make sure its on the road for a built-in excuse. Or if you're going to go on the road, make sure its south of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Trinity River.

Otherwise, in a wonderful bit of irony, some other team will be scraping the Carr off the windshield.

[slappy4428]

sj.com football poll Week 1
9/5/07
RK Team                 PTS   Last
1. Southern Cal (27) 884    1
2. LSU (5)               852    2
3. West Virginia (1)   821    3
4. Florida (3)           788    6
5. Wisconsin            689    8
6. Texas                 673    4
7. Oklahoma            661    10
8. Louisville             644    7
9. California             628    12
10. Ohio State         534    11
11. Virginia Tech      503    9
12. Georgia             482    13
13. UCLA                416    18
14. Rutgers             406    14
15. Penn State        389    17
16. Auburn              338    16
17. Nebraska           288    20
18. Boise State        258   19
19. Arkansas           256    21
20. Hawaii              194    23
21. TCU                 187    24
22. Tennessee        160    15
23. Texas A&M        104    25
24. Clemson            100    NR
25. Georgia Tech       96    NR
Also receiving votes: Boston College 93; Michigan 66; Oregon 60; Florida State 26; Miami (Fla.) 16; Texas Tech 13; South Carolina 13; Ohio U. 11; Missouri 10; Alabama 8; Oklahoma State 6; Southern Mississippi and Oregon State 5; Iowa 4; Colorado and Wake Forest 3; Kentucky and South Florida 2; Kent State and Indiana 1.

SJ.com College Football Poll committee: Slappy4428 (chairman), Oz, The Good Doctor, Elliotte Friedman, Hockeybeat, amraeder, Starman, Eagleboy, Hank Scorpio, Sportschick, Mystery Meat, Barsuk, WS, GB-Hack, Della9250, Mayfly, Xanadu, Huggy, dparker85, Gutter, Buckweaver, sxysprtswrtr, Orville Redenbacher, spnited, Idaho, Joel Hammond, Precious Roy, HackWilson191, BYH, AgatePage, Piotr Rasputin, Rufino, Trooper Bari, Beanpole, OJ1818, Jesus_Muscatel. (MIA: Micropolitan Guy)

[wickedwritah]

Michigan got more points in this poll than the AP?

Yowzahs.

[amraeder]

I like whoever voted for Kent State

[sportschick]

I like whoever voted for Kent State

I love whoever besides me voted for Ohio.

[Chi City 81]

Who's the joker(s) who voted for Indiana and Colorado?

[sportschick]

Who's the joker(s) who voted for Indiana and Colorado?

I didn't vote for Colorado, but its QB hasn't lost in the last 60 games he's played in, dating back to his 6th grade pee wee days.

[Hank_Scorpio]

The voter who ranked them No. 1 in the preseason didn’t rank them this week. In fact, neither did 14 others – including someone else who had Michigan third.

hey, I put Michigan at No. 25 in my poll. Figured since I had them at No. 1 to start, I couldnt drop them ALL the way out.

[hockeybeat]

sj.com football poll Week 1
9/5/07
RK Team                 PTS   Last
1. Southern Cal (27) 884    1
2. LSU (5)               852    2
3. West Virginia (1)   821    3
4. Florida                788    6
5. Wisconsin            689    8
6. Texas                 673    4
7. Oklahoma            661    10
8. Louisville             644    7
9. California             628    12
10. Ohio State         534    11
11. Virginia Tech      503    9
12. Georgia             482    13
13. UCLA                416    18
14. Rutgers             406    14
15. Penn State        389    17
16. Auburn              338    16
17. Nebraska           288    20
18. Boise State        258   19
19. Arkansas           256    21
20. Hawaii              194    23
21. TCU                 187    24
22. Tennessee        160    15
23. Texas A&M        104    25
24. Clemson            100    NR
25. Georgia Tech       96    NR
Also receiving votes: Boston College 93; Michigan 66; Oregon 60; Florida State 26; Miami (Fla.) 16; Texas Tech 13; South Carolina 13; Ohio U. 11; Missouri 10; Alabama 8; Oklahoma State 6; Southern Mississippi and Oregon State 5; Iowa 4; Colorado and Wake Forest 3; Kentucky and South Florida 2; Kent State and Indiana 1.

SJ.com College Football Poll committee: Slappy4428 (chairman), Oz, The Good Doctor, Elliotte Friedman, Hockeybeat, amraeder, Starman, Eagleboy, Hank Scorpio, Sportschick, Mystery Meat, Barsuk, WS, GB-Hack, Della9250, Mayfly, Xanadu, Huggy, dparker85, Gutter, Buckweaver, sxysprtswrtr, Orville Redenbacher, spnited, Idaho, Joel Hammond, Precious Roy, HackWilson191, BYH, AgatePage, Piotr Rasputin, Rufino, Trooper Bari, Beanpole, OJ1818, Jesus_Muscatel. (MIA: Micropolitan Guy)

If I may be so bold, I do believe that one voter had the reigning national champions as the land's No. 1 Division 1-A collegiate football team.

[buckweaver]

Ahem. Florida got at least one first-place vote. Just sayin'.

EDIT: And I do not know of whom HB speaks. But I do know of whom I speak.

[wickedwritah]

hey, I put Michigan at No. 25 in my poll. Figured since I had them at No. 1 to start, I couldnt drop them ALL the way out.

That accounts for only one point. They got 66.

[slappy4428]

Florida got three, actually.

[slappy4428]

As a note... the first post on this thread is now and will be an active archive. Click on the link and it will take you to each week's poll....
And BYH owes us a No. 25 pick. Unlike the others who did vote of appy state, he didn't offer an alternative.

And Michigan ranged from 14th to 25th among those who voted

[hockeybeat]

sj.com football poll Week 1
9/5/07
RK Team                 PTS   Last
1. Southern Cal (27) 884    1
2. LSU (5)               852    2
3. West Virginia (1)   821    3
4. Florida (3)           788    6
5. Wisconsin            689    8
6. Texas                 673    4
7. Oklahoma            661    10
8. Louisville             644    7
9. California             628    12
10. Ohio State         534    11
11. Virginia Tech      503    9
12. Georgia             482    13
13. UCLA                416    18
14. Rutgers             406    14
15. Penn State        389    17
16. Auburn              338    16
17. Nebraska           288    20
18. Boise State        258   19
19. Arkansas           256    21
20. Hawaii              194    23
21. TCU                 187    24
22. Tennessee        160    15
23. Texas A&M        104    25
24. Clemson            100    NR
25. Georgia Tech       96    NR
Also receiving votes: Boston College 93; Michigan 66; Oregon 60; Florida State 26; Miami (Fla.) 16; Texas Tech 13; South Carolina 13; Ohio U. 11; Missouri 10; Alabama 8; Oklahoma State 6; Southern Mississippi and Oregon State 5; Iowa 4; Colorado and Wake Forest 3; Kentucky and South Florida 2; Kent State and Indiana 1.

SJ.com College Football Poll committee: Slappy4428 (chairman), Oz, The Good Doctor, Elliotte Friedman, Hockeybeat, amraeder, Starman, Eagleboy, Hank Scorpio, Sportschick, Mystery Meat, Barsuk, WS, GB-Hack, Della9250, Mayfly, Xanadu, Huggy, dparker85, Gutter, Buckweaver, sxysprtswrtr, Orville Redenbacher, spnited, Idaho, Joel Hammond, Precious Roy, HackWilson191, BYH, AgatePage, Piotr Rasputin, Rufino, Trooper Bari, Beanpole, OJ1818, Jesus_Muscatel. (MIA: Micropolitan Guy)

You're a good man, slappy.

[Eagleboy]

Yeah, that was me at 14. As I sent to Slappy for possible quotables,

"Ranking Michigan was my toughest decision. I originally left them out of my Top 25 Sunday afternoon, but thought quite a bit about what I wanted to do and ended up revising it Monday afternoon. After all, since the poll is still based upon speculation after one week, I couldn't see Michigan losing many more games this season. Thus, they stuck at No. 14 for me."

I figured that their schedule is pretty simple for the rest of the season, and they'll hang in tough for the close games (one loss doesn't really change their talent level), so I figured a nice, middle-of-the-road slot was conservative.

[wickedwritah]

I respect your reasoning, Eagleboy.

I do think, though, that the loss was a statement loss, and thus a statement needs to be made regarding their ranking in the subsequent poll.

[Xanadu]

I had Michigan No. 5, IIRC, and didn't rank them this week; damn piddly asses.

[Sxysprtswrtr]

Take Hawaii, for example. In the first week, only one voter ranked it higher than 16th. This week, there are four.

Full disclosure: Still haven't seen one down of Hawaii football, but I moved 'em to No. 13 and I stand by it.