2011 SJ.com football poll -- FINAL POLL finally posted!!!

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After another exciting (but sad - how do Notre Dame and Michigan not play defense?) finish, here are my rankings for this week. Shifted some things around in 5-15 range as I see more of certain teams and there are four new teams on my ballot.

1. Oklahoma (1)
2. Alabama (2)
3. LSU (3)
4. Florida State (4)
5. Stanford (5)
6. South Carolina (7)
7. Wisconsin (8 )
8. Texas A&M (6)
9. Boise State (9)
10. Oklahoma State (11)
11. Nebraska (10)
12. Arkansas (14)
13. Virginia Tech (12)
14. Ohio State (13)
15. Oregon (15)
16. Michigan State (16)
17. USC (17)
18. Florida (19)
19. Texas (22)
20. Arizona State (24)
21. Auburn (NR)
22. Baylor (NR)
23. South Florida (25)
24. West Virginia (NR)
25. Houston (NR)

OUT: Missouri (18), BYU (20), Penn State (21), Mississippi State (23)

 

Re: 2011 SportsJournalists.com football poll -- WEEK ONE posted on PAGE 2

Virginia Tech really disappointed me, and Alabama showed me a little running game (albeit late in the game after they wore down the Lions) and improvement at quarterback. Auburn peeks back in. South Carolina jumped three spots into the Top 10. Arkansa picked up a spot and Florida was the beneficiary of a couple of poor performances (hello, Ohio State!) ahead of it. Mississippi State and Missouri hang in there and Penn State drops out, joining Georgia.

Week 2

1. Oklahoma (1)
2. LSU (2)
3. Alabama (3)
4. Stanford (4)
5. Florida State (5)
6. Boise State (6)
7. Oklahoma State (7)
8. Texas A&M (8 )
9. Wisconsin (9)
10. South Carolina (13)
11. Oregon (11)
12. Nebraska (12)
13. Virginia Tech (10)
14. Arkansas (15)
15. Florida (18)
16. Michigan State (21)
17. Ohio State (14)
18. TCU (22)
19. South Florida (24)
20. Texas (20)
21. Auburn (NR)
22. Arizona State (NR)
23. Missouri (17)
24. Mississippi State (16)
25. Southern California (NR)

 

Re: 2011 SportsJournalists.com football poll -- WEEK ONE posted on PAGE 2

1. Oklahoma [1]
2. Alabama [2]
3. LSU [3]
4. Stanford [4]
5. Boise State [5]
6. Wisconsin [7]
7. Florida State [6]
8. Texas A&M [9]
9. Nebraska [8]
10. Oklahoma State [10]
11. South Carolina [15]
12. Arkansas [12]
13. Oregon [13]
14. Virginia Tech [11]
15. Michigan State [17]
16. Michigan [20]
17. Ohio State [14]
18. Auburn [23]
19. Texas [21]
20. Arizona State [--]
21. South Florida [--]
22. Baylor [22]
23. TCU [24]
24. West Virginia [25]
25. Tennessee [--]

GTFO: Mississippi State [16], Missouri [18], Penn State [19]

 

Re: 2011 SportsJournalists.com football poll -- WEEK ONE posted on PAGE 2

Sorry, bd77. Not picking up what you're putting down with that one.

 

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yeah the bd post lost me too

 

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Honestly, I have no idea what I did there either...I was using my BlackBerry and apparently, I screwed something up.

Dammit!

 

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1. Alabama
2. LSU
3. Oklahoma
4. Stanford
5. Boise St.
6. Florida St.
7. Oklahoma St.
8. Texas A&M
9. Wisconsin
10. S. Carolina
11. Oregon
12. Nebraska
13. Va. Tech
14. Arkansas
15. Florida
16. Michigan St.
17. THE Ohio St.
18. TCU
19. S. Florida
20. Texas
21. Auburn
22. Arizona St.
23. Missouri
24. Mississippi St.
25. Southern California

 

Re: 2011 SportsJournalists.com football poll -- LAST CALL FOR VOTES

Sorry coco. I had my poll ready to go and was just running late for work and spaced on sending it. I'm still at work but just got on my break. Sending now .

 

Re: 2011 SportsJournalists.com football poll -- LAST CALL FOR VOTES



Sooners-FSU: My old school viewing

By I SHOULD COCO
Cableless couch potato

Most of us remember TVs such as this beauty, a 1974 Zenith console. On Saturday afternoons in the 1970s and 80s, we spent plenty of quality time sitting on the sleeper sofa, lying on the living room’s shag carpeting or down in the wood paneling-walled basement catching some college football action on this behemoth.

No matter where you watched it, one thing was constant about televised college football in the 1970s: The Oklahoma Sooners.

Only the best teams appeared on national TV back then, and most years, the cameras followed the Sooner Schooner.

With a wishbone offense, a roster filled with fleet-footed I-backs and burly fullbacks, and huge defenders roaming the astroturf, the Sooners dominated just about every fall during the 70s and dared teams from the SEC, state of Florida or elsewhere to beat them on New Year’s Day.

For the nine seasons from 1971-79, Oklahoma won 11 games six times, and 10 games two times (they only played 11 regular season games back then, plus — possibly — a bowl game). The Sooners were often the top-ranked team in the Associated Press football poll. And they finished off this era of dominance with a 24-7 thumping of an up-and-coming independent team, Florida State, in the Jan. 1, 1980 Orange Bowl.

Which brings us, of course, to this weekend.

These days there’s plenty of college football games to watch, on plenty of different networks. But one game will have the spotlight on Saturday.

Oklahoma is back on top of the college football world — ranked No. 1 for the 100th week overall (a record) by the Associated Press. Off the field, the Sooners are seemingly kingmakers in the scramble among the super conferences, with the ability to make either a new Pac-16 or a revitalized Big 12. OU fans know what it’s like to be king, and they would love to be coronated after a dominating BCS title game victory in January.

Before they get there, though, here comes a fly in the ointment — those pesky upstarts from Tallahassee, once again.

Florida State has been waiting for this one ever since Landry Jones and the Sooners rolled up 34 first-half points and routed the Seminoles last September in Norman. The Seminoles are young, led by junior QB EJ Manuel, who has tossed for nearly 600 yards and 6 TDs in two season-opening routs.

A win Saturday night, before a national ABC audience, puts Florida State — and the ACC — back on the national football map. It knocks the BCS title game chase wide open, with other challengers such as Texas A&M and Oklahoma State waiting to jump ahead of the Sooners.

And, more than anything, it takes fans back to the days when a nationally televised game was always a can’t-miss sporting event.

Just ask this guy ...


TRIVIA TIME

We had a few people guess the answer to last week’s question, which asked where Michigan and Notre Dame have met in football other than Ann Arbor or South Bend.

The answer: Toledo, Ohio, on Oct. 18, 1902. The Wolverines won 23-0 to improve to 7-0 against the Irish. No lights or last-second defensive meltdowns needed in that one.

Here’s this week’s question: In honor of our good friend Mark Richt (who is NOT the answer, Georgia fans), which coach had the worst coaching tenure (record during his stint at one school) over the past 50 years? Hint: “Smoke on the Water”

Also topping the charts: this week’s poll, as selected by SportsJournalists.com voters:


SportsJournalists.com COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL
WEEK TWO — 9/12/11
RK. TEAM (1st) PTS Last week
1. Oklahoma (19) 725 1
2. Alabama (5) 708 2
3. Louisiana St. (4) 699 3
4. Boise St. (1) 644 4
5. Stanford 607 5
6. Florida St. 588 6
7. Wisconsin 550 8
8. Texas A&M 513 7
9. Oklahoma St. 508 9
10. South Carolina 441 13
11. Nebraska 437 10
(tie) Oregon 437 11
13. Arkansas 394 14
14. Virginia Tech 391 12
15. Michigan St. 293 16
16. Ohio St. 248 15
17. Florida 246 19
18. Auburn (1) 202 20
19. Arizona St. 155 23
20. West Virginia 154 21
21. Texas Christian 129 —
22. Baylor 119 24
23. South Florida 107 —
(tie) Texas 107 —
25. Southern Cal 97 22

Also receiving votes: Michigan 61, Mississippi St. 53, Houston 34, Maryland 34, Central Florida 17, Northwestern 14, Missouri 13, Tennessee 10, Penn St. 4, Illinois 3, Bowling Green 2, Georgia Tech 2, Washington 2, Pittsburgh 1, Toledo 1.

The SportsJournalists.com college football poll committee: I Should Coco (tabulator), slappy4428, Mile High, ChrisMaza, McNuggetsMan, Matt Stephens, ejhayes737, TrooperBari, Huggy, Della9250, dparker85, Inky Wretch, Piotr Rasputin, Layman, Hank Scorpio, KY Sportswriter, bydesign77, Dragon Steamboat, rmanfredi, dixiehack, Joe Schmoe, Mystery Meat II, beanpole, Precious Roy, Suicide Squeezer, The S, CarltonBanks, three bags full, Starman, crusoes. Not voting: Oz, Madhavok, Tommy Dreamer.

 

Re: 2011 SportsJournalists.com football poll -- WEEK TWO posted on page 3

Oooh ... just missed me. I think I was posting the poll/story as you PM'd me. Your vote pretty much followed the overall voting, though, so it wouldn't have changed much. We'll catch you next week.

 

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Francis Peay?

 

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Della needs to have a new No. 1 now for sure.