| 08 December 2009
This is a what have you done for me lately/complete resume poll. Each week I’ll be adjusting positions based on how teams have played, who they have played, and finally how they lost. Last week’s poll won’t have an appreciable impact on this week’s. A team ranked 19th, may stay 19th despite 3 teams losing ahead of them.
As always comments are appreciated and will be integrated into the final ballot
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Taw Poll |
Rationale |
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1. Bama |
Bama's complete and utter domination of UF was enough to make Tim Tebow cry. If Bama can get QB play like that from McElroy along with their powerful running game, I don't see how UT will be able to knock off the Tide. |
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2. TCU |
I would have preferred to see TCU who has 3 quality wins over BYU, Utah, and Clemson in the title game over Cinci, Boise, or Texas. Barring that, I wish TCU had gotten a shot at UF to validate their status by playing the SEC runner up. Instead, they get Boise, to guarantee no chance of a split title by having two undefeated teams who have beaten UF. |
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3 Cincinnati |
The Bearcats may have the best passing attack in college football this year. Bearcat defense did a good job in the second half getting enough stops to allow the Bearcats to make up a 3 td deficit. Marde Gilyard would easily be on my Heisman ballot. Their game with Florida will be interesting to see if the Bearcats offense can score enough to keep up with UF. Defensively quality is the biggest mismatch. Status of their coach might also impact things greatly. |
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4. UT |
So UT played a good offense in ATM and gave up 39 point, and in playing the two best defenses scored 16 and 13 points. Bama is easily as good as NU/OU on defense, and provides the most balanced offense (best running game by a wide margin) that UT will have faced to date. UT has 1 quality win over a depleted (No Bryant) OSU team, and almost choked away the game against a NU team with perhaps the worst offense in football. |
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5. Boise |
Another year, another undefeated season. Unless Boise can schedule at least 2 quality BCS conference teams a year, Boise has got to get into a better conference. |
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6. UF |
UF's defense was surprisingly ineffective against an aggressive Bama defense, only worse than UF's D was the awful announcing by Danielson and The Vern. |
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7. Oregon |
Big time win over in state rival and very good game. |
| 8. Ohio State |
Best Big Ten team. Defense will get a massive test against a powerful Oregon scheme. At least the Buckeyes could use Pryor to try and simulate the Oregon offense for their defense. |
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9. Iowa |
2nd Best Big Ten team and they get a horrible bowl matchup with the Jackets. |
| 10. Georgia Tech | Defense got shredded by CJ Spiller, but option attack generated enough offense to keep up. Great breakthrough year for the Jackets. |
| 11. Pittsburgh | Took Cinci to the limit in a very entertaining start to a great Saturday of football |
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11. Virginia Tech |
Interesting matchup with an improving Tenn team in the Chick Fil A bowl. |
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12. Nebraska |
Barely lost to UT. Probably the most unbalanced team in the country in terms of quality between offense and defense. |
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13. Miami, FL |
Put the finishing touches on USF's usual end of the year dive, and the season that saves Randy Shannon's job. |
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14. Penn State |
I'd love to rank this average team lower. But they are 10-2. |
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15. Oregon State |
Played a great game against Oregon in Eugene. |
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16. LSU |
In a battle of the average, LSU should beat even more average PSU |
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17. BYU |
Fantastic matchup with Oregon State. Best pre Xmas bowl game. |
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18. Utah |
Very interesting bowl matchup with wildly inconsistent Cal |
| 19. Stanford | Great year for the Cards. Bowl matchup with OU pits strength against strength (Stanford running attack v OU run defense). Game will be decided by the battle of the weaknesses (OU offense v Stanford defense) |
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20. Oklahoma State |
Gets a disappointing trip to the Cotton Bowl for a rematch of the 2004 Cotton Bowl with Mississippi |
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21. Arizona |
Breakthrough year for Stoops Cats. Just an overtime loss away from being in the Rose Bowl. |
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22. West Virginia |
Rallied at the end of the year to get major wins over Pitt and Rutgers. |
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23. Central Michigan |
Best non Big 10 upper Mid West team. |
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24. Clemson |
Played a great game against Ga Tech. Spiller might be the most exciting player in college football. |
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25. East Carolina
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Beat Houston to win Conference USA. |
