BlogPoll Ballot Week 8: An Appreciation of Kansas State
by CW on Oct 17, 2011 3:50 PM EDT
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As always, this is not a power poll or predictor of future success. More thoughts after the jump:
One Foot Down Ballot - Week 8
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 3 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 4 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys |  1 |
| 5 | Boise St. Broncos |  -1 |
| 6 | Clemson Tigers | -- |
| 7 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 8 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 9 | Kansas St. Wildcats | 1 |
| 10 | Oregon Ducks | -1 |
| 11 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 12 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 4 |
| 13 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 4 |
| 14 | Texas A&M Aggies | 11 |
| 15 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -3 |
| 16 | Illinois Fighting Illini | -1 |
| 17 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | -4 |
| 18 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 1 |
| 19 | Washington Huskies | -- |
| 20 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 21 | Michigan Wolverines | -7 |
| 22 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 23 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | -2 |
| 24 | Georgia Bulldogs | -1 |
| 25 | Houston Cougars | -3 |
| Dropouts: Arizona St. Sun Devils, Baylor Bears, Texas Longhorns | ||
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No real changes at the top. Oklahoma was already at three, so their light struggles to put Kansas away early don't affect them. The winner of LSU and Alabama will play in the national title game, barring an Arkansas upset of the Tigers or Auburn taking down the Tide at the end of the season. With Marcus Lattimore going down, the SEC East looks like it will provide nothing more than a speed bump come the SEC title game, so again, direct all of your eyes towards November 5th in Tuscaloosa.
Oklahoma State gets a win in Austin and slips ahead of Boise. Clemson's resume is way better than anything Wisconsin or Stanford can point to, and they should be ranked accordingly.
The Kansas State Wildcats are 6-0, and after the starting the season with Bill Snyder’s customary sacrifices over Eastern Kentucky and Kent State, they have reeled off four straight victories against respectable to semi-respectable BCS conference foes, including at Miami, Baylor and Mizzou at home and then at Texas Tech this past weekend. The margin of victory in these last four has all been a touchdown or less, including the escape in
Texas A&M’s blowout win against Baylor shoots them up the rankings and causes to reevaluate their record. Instead of looking at it as 4-2 with two chokes against
You try to figure out how to rank
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So what do you guys think? Any teams that have to be over another team, or any team (save for A&M) that I have ranked way too high or way too low?
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Ranking ND, MSU, and Michigan
Each team won the home game and lost the road game.
ND has the best point differential and the best win/loss distribution, winning handily over the better team and losing by the slimmest of margins over the weaker team.
My sense is that solely on the strength of the games played between the teams, ND is ahead. I’d put MSU in the middle and Michigan at the back.
So the question then becomes, how much of a hit relative to those two teams should ND take for the USF loss?
Who else besides aTm did you move in front of the Irish, and what’s your rationale? Auburn doesn’t pass the smell test for me, but then again, ND’s non-MSU wins are looking worse by the week.
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