SDMB College Football Top Ten Poll

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Here’s your chance to voice your opinion and show your college football smarts by ranking the 10 best Bowl Division (1-A) teams. Collectively the SDMB must be smarter than any other pundits out there. Or at least as dumb.

We’ll keep this thread going each weekend and close it Tuesday night 10ET. I’ll post the results then.

My vote for Week 7 (Oct 15)

  1. LSU
  2. Oklahoma
  3. Alabama
  4. Wisconsin
  5. Stanford
  6. Oklahoma State
  7. Oregon
  8. Boise State
  9. Clemson
  10. Arkansas

I’m not really happy with Arkansas there, but I really couldn’t find anyone else I wanted to put there either. So what are your Top 10?

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My vote for Week 7 (Oct 15)

  1. Alabama*
  2. LSU
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Wisconsin
  5. Stanford
  6. Boise State
  7. Clemson
  8. Oklahoma State
  9. Oregon
  10. Arkansas/West Virginia**
  • You’re welcome, Ogre. :wink:
    ** These guys are tied, IMHO. If I have to pick one, I’ll take WVU.
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Just to give a different slant on the issue:




 1 LSU (1)              4-0 7-0 Southeastern West         
 2 Alabama (2)          4-0 7-0 Southeastern West         
 3 Clemson (8)          4-0 7-0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic  
 4 Stanford (7)         4-0 6-0 Pacific-12 North          
 5 Oklahoma (3)         3-0 6-0 Big 12                     
 6 Oklahoma State (6)   3-0 6-0 Big 12                   
 7 Kansas State (17)    3-0 6-0 Big 12                  
 8 Wisconsin (4)        2-0 6-0 Big Ten Leaders           
 9 Houston (25)         2-0 6-0 Conference USA West       
10 Boise State (5)      1-0 6-0 Mountain West
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  1. LSU - 7-0
  2. Alabama - 7-0
  3. Oklahoma - 6-0
  4. Clemson - 7-0
  5. Oklahoma State - 6-0
  6. Boise State* - 6-0
  7. Wisconsin** - 6-0
  8. Stanford - 6-0
  9. Kansas State*** - 6-0
  10. Arkansas - 5-1
  • It is an old argument, but I really wish Boise played more solid competition. They are good, but as it is it is really hard to say how good. Thumping Toledo, Tulsa, Nevada, Fresno State, and Colorado State would be a forgone conclusion for any top 10 team. So all we have to grade them on is the Georgia game.

** The Badgers have the exact same problem. They’ve only played one good team, ok very good team. But their schedule firms up quite a bit more going forward. They’ll have a chance to prove themselves.

*** Yes I am aware of what an outlier they are on my list. And yes I don’t expect they’ll be here after November (they may have the toughest November schedule of all). But I think they do deserve to be here now. And if they can even go 2-2 in November I may keep them here.

I had a hard time leaving Oregon off the list. They probably would have been 11. But this week was the first where they have really impressed me.

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  1. Oklahoma
  2. Alabama
  3. Wisconsin
  4. LSU
  5. Boise State
  6. Stanford
  7. Oklahoma State
  8. Clemson
  9. Oregon
  10. Michigan State

Top 7 are way ahead of 8 and beyond. From 8 on, who knows. Think this is the year the SEC’s streak ends, as I would expect either Oklahoma or Wisconsin to beat LSU or Alabama.

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  1. LSU
  2. Bama
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Oklahoma St
  5. Boise St
  6. Wisconsin
  7. Clemson
  8. Stanford
  9. Kansas St
  10. Houston
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  1. LSU
  2. Alabama
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Oklahoma St
  5. Wisconsin
  6. Stanford
  7. Clemson
  8. Boise St
  9. Oregon
  10. Arkansas
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  1. LSU
  2. Alabama
  3. Stanford
  4. Wisconsin
  5. OU
  6. Clemson
  7. Oklahoma St.
  8. Oregon
  9. Boise St.
  10. Kansas St.

I think there are 2 clear strata of quality at the top. 1-5 are all very good to great teams, and the next 4 look to be a loss waiting to happen (though Boise’s may not be til a BCS game). I watched KSU’s qb play a very good and very tough game against Miami, and maybe he could carry KSU to a 1-loss season, but overall, the Wildcats aren’t very impressive.

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Since the BCS rankings have been released for Week 7 maybe this summary will shed a little light on how SDMB Voters feel about such things:



               LSU  Bama  Okla  Okla-St  Boise  Wisc  Clem  Stan  Ark  Oreg  W-Va  Kan-St  Hous  Mich-St
BCS              1    2     3      4       5      6     7     8     9    10
USA              2    3     1      6       7      4     8     5    10     8 
Harris           1    2     3      6       5      4     8     7    10     9  
AP               1    2     3      6       5      4     8     7    10     9  
Sagarin          2    1     3      6       5      4     9     8    10     7 

Wolverine        1    3     2      6       8      4     9     5    10     7 
Zakalwe          2    1     3      8       6      4     7     5    10     9    10 
Zeldar           1    2     5      6      10      8     3     4                       7      9      
Bartman          1    2     3      5       6      7     4     8    10                 9  
TheFifthYear     4    2     1      7       5      3     8     6           9                         10
notfrommensa     1    2     3      4       5      6     7     8                       9     10 
divemaster       1    2     3      4       8      5     7     6    10     9 
mkecane          1    2     5      7       9      4     6     3           8          10
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Baaahahahahaha! Thanks!

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Actually, I’d agree with this, with the proviso that the 1 and 2 spot don’t really matter, nor do I really know who fits best there. LSU and Bama are both very, very, very good teams. Fortunately, barring any slacking off next week, we’ll get a chance to see for sure who goes in the top slot. Two evenly matched teams, both with healthy personnel and a bye week before the game - how good is this going to be? :slight_smile:

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Week 7 Results

  1. LSU (6) - 85
  2. Alabama (2) - 82
  3. Oklahoma (1) - 71
  4. Wisconsin - 54
  5. Stanford - 49
  6. Oklahoma State - 44
  7. Clemson - 41
  8. Boise State - 36
  9. Oregon - 15
  10. Kansas State - 9

Others receiving votes - Arkansas (3), Houston (3), West Virginia (2), Michigan State (1)

There is clearly a Top 2 (almost tied) with OU a solid 3. A big dropoff to the next 5, with Wisconsin leading that pack. It will be interesting to see if OSU beats OU, if they will leapfrog Wisconsin in our poll.

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Week 8 (Oct. 22) top ten

  1. LSU
  2. Alabama
  3. Stanford
  4. Oklahoma State
  5. Oregon
  6. Boise State
  7. Clemson
  8. Oklahoma
  9. Wisconsin
  10. Kansas State

with Arkansas at 11 and Michigan State at 12 (how did they get blown out by Notre Dame?).

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Once again, a “pure numbers” version:



1- LSU (1)               5-0 8-0 Southeastern West  
2- Alabama (2)           5-0 8-0 Southeastern West  
3- Clemson (8)           5-0 8-0 Atlantic Coast Atlantic 

4- Stanford (7)          5-0 7-0 Pacific-12 North 

5- Oklahoma State (6)    4-0 7-0 Big 12 
6- Kansas State (12)     4-0 7-0 Big 12   
 
7- Houston (21)          3-0 7-0 Conference USA West 

8- Boise State (5)       2-0 7-0 Mountain West 

9- Penn State            4-0 7-1 Big Ten Leaders 
10-Virginia Tech (16)    3-1 7-1 Atlantic Coast Coastal
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  1. LSD er I mean LSU
  2. Bama
  3. Clemson
  4. OK State
  5. Boise
  6. Stanford
  7. K-State
  8. Houston
  9. Arkansas
  10. Michigan St
    Clemson really impressed me yesterday.
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Week 8 results

  1. LSU (3) - 30
  2. Alabama - 27
    3t. Clemson - 20
    3t. OK State - 20
    3t. Stanford - 20
  3. Boise State - 14
  4. Kansas State - 10
  5. Houston - 7
  6. Oregon - 6
  7. Oklahoma - 3

Others receiving votes: Arkansas - 2, Penn State - 2, Wisconsin - 2, Michigan State - 1, Virginia Tech - 1

Observation: 3 way tie for 3rd and future 2nd place. Also, what happened to everyone? Only 3 votes this week.

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  1. LSU
  2. Alabama
  3. Stanford
  4. Clemson
  5. Ok. State
  6. Oregon
  7. Kansas St.
  8. Boise St.
  9. Michigan St.
  10. Oklahoma

I haven’t seen Houston play, so I don’t feel comfortable putting them in the top 10.

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Week 9 (Oct. 27) top ten (reminder that the poll closes at 10pm ET on Tuesdays)

  1. LSU
  2. Alabama
  3. Stanford
  4. Oklahoma State
  5. Oregon
  6. Boise State
  7. Oklahoma
  8. Clemson
  9. Nebraska
  10. Houston

I’m not sold on my bottom 3, but somebody needs to go there.

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  1. LSD er I mean LSU

  2. Bama

  3. OK State

  4. Boise

  5. Stanford

  6. Houston

  7. Arkansas

  8. Clemson

  9. Oregon

  10. Penn St

  11. Colts, Rams, Dolphins

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  1. LSU
  2. Alabama
  3. Oklahoma St.
  4. Boise St.
  5. Stanford
  6. Houston
  7. Arkansas
  8. Oregon
  9. Oklahoma
  10. Nebraska