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Blogpoll – 2008 Preseason Edition

Posted by on August 10th, 2008 under Football

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Barking Carnival will be joining the gang on mgoblog’s weekly college football blogpoll this year. Each week on Sunday or Monday we’ll post our collective ballot and let you, the readers take potshots, make suggestions, etc. Perhaps we’ll heed these suggestions and remonstrations. Caviling of any sort will be met with stern rebuke.

We start off with the Men of Troy in the pole position. Sure, their quarterback blew up his knee cap doing a footwork drill but with Aaron Corp on the squad, they will fight on.

Our first ballot looks like this:

1. USC
2. Ohio State
3. Oklahoma
4. Missouri
5. Georgia
6. Florida
7. Auburn
8. West Virginia
9. Clemson
10. Texas
11. LSU
12. South Florida
13. Texas Tech
14. BYU
15. Wisconsin
16. Kansas
17. Oregon
18. Virginia Tech
19. Arizona State
20. Wake Forest
21. Tennessee
22. Illinois
23. California
24. Penn State
25. Alabama

Thoughts?

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  1. WWGDD said:

    August 10th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Georgia is ranked too high. They have the talent but their coach can’t compete against the superior others in the SEC.

  2. The Emerging Harris contingent said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 5:01 am

    I believe that Ohio State should not get a top ten ranking until they have played/beaten USC.

  3. WhoooTex said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am

    Is South Florida ranked that high because you guys consider them the 12th best team in the country right now, or is it predictive (meaning you expect them to finish the season ranked there)…?

  4. HenryJames said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    It’s predictive for me.

  5. LonghornScott said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 6:59 am

    I think KU is underranked. They return 15 starters. They play a tough schedule this year but so do the 4 other Big 12 teams you have ranked ahead of them. I thought they played the best defense in the Big 12 last year.

  6. cw said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    is this a power poll or a prediction of the final ranking?

    looks like a good power-poll to me.

  7. Scipio Tex said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 8:42 am

    KU is not underrated IMO. And who they actually lost as starters is key:

    Anthony Collins
    Derek Fine
    Aqib Talib
    James McClinton
    Marcus Henry.

    That’s five NFL types who were the infrastructure of that team.

    We’re looking at a 9-4 football team after the bowl.

  8. BRAGGonUT said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    In my personal poll (which is part of our collective BC poll), I had them #25 for the reasons Scipio mentioned.

  9. BRAGGonUT said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    And their schedule got a boatload tougher.

  10. Doperbo said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am

    Is BYU really that good? Or is it one of those ‘no one knows/cares enough to call us on it’ picks. Sometimes I make up diseases and do that to the students. Deep down they appreciate it.

  11. Kafka said:

    August 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    1. USC
    2. Ohio State
    3. Oklahoma
    4. Missouri
    5. Georgia
    6. Florida
    7. Auburn
    8. West Virginia
    9. Clemson
    10. Texas
    11. LSU
    12. South Florida
    13. Texas Tech
    14. BYU
    15. Wisconsin
    16. Kansas
    17. Oregon
    18. Virginia Tech
    19. Arizona State
    20. Wake Forest
    21. Tennessee
    22. Illinois
    23. California
    24. Penn State
    25. Alabama

    If the USC QB is out for several weeks, then USC probably loses their big game with Ohio State so #1 is improbable.

    I was surprised that Georgia wasn’t ranked higher. I don’t actually know how good they are but 5 is lower than the other polls that I have seen.

    I don’t think both Mizzou and OU finish that high. At best, one will knock off the other in the Big 12 championship game.

    I think both West Virginia and clemson will disappoint, WV because they have a new coach who is probably not that great, and Clemson because Bowden usually disappoints.

    10th sounds about right for the horns but UT may elevate their game this year because of the Muschamp direct effect on D, Akina going back to special teams and DB skills teaching (both areas where he excels). Muschamp is also having an invigorating impact on the O and I hope Major does, too.

    Major should help quite a bit on getting the backs more involved in the short and dump passing game and will, if nothing else, be there every day (Ken Rucker was missing most of last season so the TE coach was splitting his time between TEs and RBs).

    O line should be quite a bit better with lots of depth. Colt has to be much better just learning from his 2007 mistakes. The running game is going to be better than I had anticipated (O line, cody johnson may gives us the best power running UT has had since Cedric, Fozzie is going to be fine, Vondrell will improve a bit, and Ogbonnaya will be quicker because he lost about 15 pounds). I even think Mack/GD will involve the WRs in the running game more and this will help quite a bit.

    The O should be able to hang onto the ball better by moving the chains more reliably and turning the ball over less (Jamaal’s big plays will really be missed, though). Malcolm Williams will be a big improvement over an injured Limas Sweed. Buckner should help some before the end of the year.

    Wild hope: Mack/GD figure out how to optimize/customize the O when Chiles is at QB. Changes that might help:

    1. Replacing one of the possession receivers (such as Quan and Shipley) with explosive TB type (at WR) who can take a short pass and get some YAC.

    2. Simplify the passing game for Chiles such that he only has to read half the field (or less) and restrict his passing to mostly short passes (but actually throw some short passes).

    3. Bring in Cody Johnson when Chiles is in the game.

    I hope that the run group of players (eg: Chiles at QB, Fozzie at WR, Vondrell at TB, Cody Johnson at FB, Malcolm Williams at WR) will be brought in on obvious running downs and when the horns want to kill the clock.

  12. South '06 said:

    August 12th, 2008 at 6:27 am

    I think the poll is largely predictive (which isn’t necessarily bad). Georgia is at least top 3 in terms of talent but could easily lose 3 games. South Florida would lose to Tech by 2 TDs, but they don’t have to navigate a tough conference.

    Other than WVU (who hired a coach based solely on emotional overreaction), I could easily see this being the final poll.

  13. Vasherized said:

    August 12th, 2008 at 8:03 am

    Georgia’s season just got a little tougher.

    Soph OL Sturdivant blew out his knee. Out for the season.

    Not a good start to fall camp for the Bulldogs.

  14. dedfischer said:

    August 12th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    Damn, the Russians are going to really lay it on now.

  15. Facebook User said:

    August 16th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    AP and USA Today: ESPN

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