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The Purple Wimple’s week 1 SBNation blogpoll ballot
Posted by Ezra Hood on August 26th, 2010 under College Football, SBNation BlogPoll, SBNation BlogPoll
What's this? Alabama not #1 in a pre-season poll? See this and other heresies in The Purple Wimple's SBNation BlogPoll preseason ballot...
The Purple Wimple is a voter in this year’s SBNation BlogPoll (formerly MoGoBlog’s blogpoll) and here’s my ballot for the pre-season poll.
The Purple Wimple Ballot – Week 1
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | – |
| 2 | Boise St. Broncos | – |
| 3 | Virginia Tech Hokies | – |
| 4 | TCU Horned Frogs | – |
| 5 | Oregon Ducks | – |
| 6 | Alabama Crimson Tide | – |
| 7 | Iowa Hawkeyes | – |
| 8 | Oklahoma Sooners | – |
| 9 | Texas Longhorns | – |
| 10 | Utah Utes | – |
| 11 | Houston Cougars | – |
| 12 | Florida Gators | – |
| 13 | Pittsburgh Panthers | – |
| 14 | Wisconsin Badgers | – |
| 15 | Texas A&M Aggies | – |
| 16 | Oregon St. Beavers | – |
| 17 | Miami Hurricanes | – |
| 18 | Florida St. Seminoles | – |
| 19 | Temple Owls | – |
| 20 | California Golden Bears | – |
| 21 | Missouri Tigers | – |
| 22 | Arkansas Razorbacks | – |
| 23 | Stanford Cardinal | – |
| 24 | Air Force Falcons | – |
| 25 | Tulsa Golden Hurricane | – |
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings »
I submit to you that pre-season polls are an exercise in absurdity, so hold your fire if you think your team deserves a higher spot on my ballot, or if it didn’t appear at all. (Auburn? Georgia? Nevada? West Virginia? Connecticut? Nebraska? Chill out. Really.) Nobody has played anybody yet, and so any team with a pulse has as much a case as yours for a better ranking.
Here at the Purple Wimple, resume polling is the order of the day. So when teams begin to accumulate a resume, my ballot will change immensely and immediately. Look forward to it– it’s kind of a wild ride.
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Ezra Hood
Week One: Favorite Underdogs Are All Chalk, What To Do? said:
August 29th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
[...] of arrival I am talking about. I’m not even referring to far out Blog Poll ballots with as many as six non-BCS teams in the top-25. (Seriously, I love the Al Golden turnaround at Temple, but 19th? Tell ya what, if [...]
September 1st, 2010 at 8:43 am
Looks like somebody didn’t read my commentary to the ballot.
I won’t hold it against him, though–> I didn’t read his take on my ballot, either!
Purple Wimple | ’10 starts off right said:
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:19 pm
[...] beat (overranked) Pitt, in a clunky overtime romp, 27-24. Somebody around here pinned the Utes higher than the Panthers on a pre-season poll… and got a little flack for it. [...]