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blogpoll – Week 14 (12.3.08)

Posted by on November 30th, 2008 under Football

Here’s this week’s. We ranked based on many criteria. Uniform colors. Ferocity of mascots. Tailgating scene. Quality of cheerleader tail. We didn’t feel the need to use head-to-head wins since it doesn’t mean jack fucking shit in college football.

I have also enlisted CloseToJumping to share a few thoughts with us. As one of the more rational Barkers, I felt it was only appropriate to ask him to shed a bit of light, where there is darkness. He should be along shortly.

Rank Team Delta
1 Alabama —
2 Texas —
3 Florida —
4 Southern Cal 1
5 Oklahoma 1
6 Utah 1
7 Texas Tech 1
8 Penn State 2
9 Boise State 3
10 Ohio State 1
11 Ball State 6
12 Oklahoma State 1
13 TCU 1
14 Georgia Tech 4
15 Missouri 2
16 Brigham Young 6
17 Cincinnati 1
18 Georgia 8
19 Oregon —
20 Boston College 3
21 Pittsburgh 3
22 Mississippi 4
23 Michigan State 3
24 Kansas 2
25 Oregon State 10

Dropped Out: Florida State (#21), Nebraska (#25).

PB @ BON was more sanguine so I have awarded him more style points. Check him here.

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18 Responses

  1. TaylorTRoom said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 5:37 am

    I don’t agree with the people who keep referring to Bob Stoops as a bullet-headed churl. He is a visionary. By combining the nation’s best offense with a very mediocre defense (6th in the Big 12 by yardage), he has adopted the same championship model as Marv Levy and Mike Martz.

  2. DBH said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Whatever model Stoops employs, he owns Mack Brown. Mack has beaten him four times and has one conference title. Stoops has beaten Brown six times and will soon have seven titles.

    Moral of the story: Nice guys finish second.

  3. BoomerFreakinSooner said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 6:39 am

    Nice to hear Mack on the OU?OSU broadcast lobby for votes. Stoops was requested be on the TX/aTm broadcast but declined, saying that it would be a lack of class for him to appear. Who’s nicest now?

  4. TaylorTRoom said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 6:46 am

    You’re right. Stoops (a lot of people call him a bullet-headed churl, but I think that’s too harsh) is a very nice guy (I hear he helps his wife sell Mary Kay). Maybe that’s why his defense gives up 31 points per Big 12 game. I think he’s kind of soft.

  5. BoomerFreakinSooner said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 6:56 am

    The OU defense has been less than impressive. I hope Clemson like Venables.

  6. Facebook User said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 7:07 am

    We hope you learn to conjugate verbs. Hope does spring eternal.

  7. BoomerFreakinSooner said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Sailor, what you and your naval pals do behind closed doors is your business, not mine.

  8. Ex-Ex-Pessimist said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 7:18 am

    Stoops would have looked like an idiot had he called in to the Texas game and campaigned when he still had a game on Saturday night, BoomerFrakkinLoser. He did plenty of campaigning Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday the week before, and I’m sure had the schedules been reversed, he would have called in to the Texas game on Saturday night. How you guys can continue to give him a pass on being this classy guy I’ll never know. Nice how he touted the four 60 point performances to close out the season and hanging 20 on OSU when he had his starters in with 27 seconds to play and doesn’t take a knee. Total hypocritical douchebag and he’ll get his either in this life or next.

  9. dick said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 7:22 am

    Stoops had an argument anyways so it would have been very stupid to call in. “They kicked the fucking shit out of us, but vote for us anyways”. Apparently a lot of the voters already had that in their mind so they didn’t need to be told.

  10. jc25 said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 7:50 am

    Boomer, luckily for us, Clemson kept their IHC (something called a Dabo Swinney), so we thus far are looking forward to seeing yet another mediocre coaching job put forth by Mr. Venables. But don’t worry, we’ll counter, check, and mate with our savant, the one, the only, the Greg Davis.

  11. BoomerFreakinSooner said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 7:50 am

    Ex Ex – The network contacted Stoops and asked him to be on the TX/aTm broadcast. He wasn’t going to call in. I see they don’t require reading comprehension beyond the 3rd grade south of the Red.

  12. Tim's Bleeding Vagina said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am

    BoomerFuckingIdiot-

    He declined because he had nothing left to say after whoring himself out to the media to whine about the BCS during the three previous days. I’m sure he would have declined too if the roles were reversed and his game was on Thursday while the Texas game was on Saturday. I see the inbreeding fosters single digit IQs north of the Red.

  13. IJustPlainHateTheBCS said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 11:38 am

    re: _We ranked based on many criteria. Uniform colors. Ferocity of mascots. Tailgating scene. Quality of cheerleader tail. We didn’t feel the need to use head-to-head wins since it doesn’t mean jack fucking shit in college football._

    You didn’t get the memo??? It’s all about how well you run up the score. Offensive points is the only really valid criterion to properly judge teams…

  14. Art Vandelay said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 11:58 am

    “We ranked based on many criteria. Uniform colors. Ferocity of mascots. Tailgating scene. Quality of cheerleader tail.”

    I like our chances. USC has us in cheerleading tail, but Burnt Orange is still in, Bevo is a bad-ass, and Austin dominates in tailgating volume.

    Fox would soooooo broadcast that. Actually that’s not a bad idea…….

    What’s Simon Cowell’s number?

  15. dedfischer said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    We’re the highest ranked team carrying a gun. Underrated, imo.

  16. Vasherized said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    dedfischer, I hereby nominate you to use that weapon and do the right thing: assassinate Robert Stoops.

    Everytime I see his smug mug I want to break my television. Now that these things costs a few grand it’s a losing proposition. I might have to buy a few CRTs off ebay just to relive the pleasure.

  17. dedfischer said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I’m rooting for OU to win it all and Sam Bradford to for Heisman as I am highly anticipating the Landry Jones era. That’s if my West Texas sources are correct. He’s New Mexico’s version of Paul Thompson. I think if Stoops chokes again, Bradford will come back. Also, my sources indicate that Mason Walters may push for playing time as a true freshman, while Porter more than likely will be career depth. Not sure how much of this is true, but my dad picked it up from a Pony Express rider delivering him a telegram out of Carlsbad.

  18. anonymous said:

    December 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    Stoops declined because he didn’t want people talking about the arguments for and against Texas being above UT. That invariably results in the discussion of the head to head victory on a neutral field, and thats not what he wants to talk about.

    And since when did arguing that your team beat both teams slated to be in the big 12 championship turn into some sort of unclassy act? Its nonsense, especially coming from trailer trash fans of a “university” that is yet again on major probation for cheating.

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