Week 9 CBS Sports Blogpoll Draft Ballot

Okay… Ohio State at 10 baffles me… they only put up 6 on Penn State, at home. If you’re going to put them that high, then put Missouri higher since they have two quality losses. Boise should be above TCU. The Broncos have played a decent schedule, and TCU beat BYU, a team that you keep telling me had no business in the poll, so why are they so high, and Utah and Boise aren’t?

I’m okay with your reasoning behind FSU, fwiw… but Georgia Tech shouldn’t be at 21 after losing to Virginia… granted the Cavs are on a hot streak, but they’re a 3 loss team and they lost to Duke.

I’d probably have FSU at No. 18. All those teams above FSU I think have more embarrassing losses. Yeah, and Ohio State should be lower, probably around 12, I’d move Utah and TCU above them. West Virginia is a joke (ECU and Colorado losses). Throw Ball or Tulsa in there.

Of course we have a fundamental difference in how we view mid-majors. I’ll never buy the “Tulsa’s (insert any team) not in the BCS, so we can’t rank them argument.” They are in the conference they are in and they can do nothing about it in the middle of the year. Because of the weekly grind, going unbeaten is the hardest thing a team can do — whether they are in the Sun Belt or the SEC. If it were easy we’d see unbeaten teams in the MAC and Sun Belt every year. Whatever, we won’t see eye-to-eye on this.

from the bottom up…

Va. and VaTech should not be in there…period.

FSU behind WVU, GaTech, Oregon, Cal, & Maryland?????

UNC should not be in there…let alone that high!

The rest is a matter of debate, but looks fine.

I think you’re being overly critical on FSU since you’re a fan. We are top 20, at the very least.

What the hell is Ohio State doing way up there. They were overrated comming into the season, huge loss to USC, then they were ranked were they should have been in the first place, lose to Penn St and dont even get knocked out of the top 15. They have no schedule and their conference is weak. Im so sick of OSU. There are also 2 other teams with 2 losses still in the top 15, why? I wonder whats going to happen if any of these teams take 3 losses. Are they still going to rank them in the top 20. Must be nice to have 2 mulligans. The BSC is so screwed up. It is a beauty contest. As for the Noles, I dont think they should be ranked higher then they are right now until we can continue winning games.

i agree with most of your selections, but i dont know how i feel about a 2 loss big ten team being #12. outside of penn state this year, i have very little respect for the big ten. i think that a 2 loss Missouri team with two losses to ranked teams (Ok state and #1 Texas) should be higher than Michigan State losses coming to Cal and getting embarassed by an overrated Ohio St team. living in big ten country, Ohio, you’d think that there was only one conference in the entire country.

I was going to write up some resumes and make the argument that FSU should be alot higher (mid-teens). While I do think we are a lot better than some of those teams (CAL, MINN, UNC, etc) our wins suck. Our only good win is against VT and then we have second teir wins such as Miami, Col, NcSt. But really, they aren’t good. Our SOLE loss is a good loss (against a good team) but we have 2 AA wins. That just doesn’t cut it. I do think Cal should drop down because we have the same amount of games as them and one less loss (they lost to Arizona who is not very good). Anyway, I think we have to let it play out more in order for us to jump. However, I would agree, that there is NO WAY WVU should be ranked ahead of us, but you have admitted that so I have no argument.

However, I was talking to a friend and we were talking about USC’s schedule v. FSU’s. I don’t think it’s likely that we win out, in fact I think it’s improbable. However, if we were to, we would still be ranked behind USC which is complete crap. The media is biased towards USC. Lets talk about an unimpressive Resume. How Florida, Georgia and OK are ranked BEHIND them in your poll is beyond me. However, I have made this case repeatedly and you have not budged so I will not waste my time now. I do think you like USC and are blinded by their AWFUL “resume.”

Wake is loosing some games, but it was our first real game and we were still playing with numerous suspensions….Anyway…

Arizona is terrible man. They have lost to Stanford, New Mexico while only beating teams like Idaho, Toledo (UCLA and Cal which we could also debate that its not all that impressive).

I can’t wait for the UF/GA game. What a great game that is shaping up to be. I do think Florida wins but It could go either way.

I would say winning out is less than a 2.5%, ha, but regardless. While I do respect your opinion it will be the AP and BCS and Coaches that will not put FSU over USC and not yours.

Have a great one.