Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Blogpollin' | by Jay

The first weekly BlogPoll is out, care of the Karl Hungus of the blogosphere, mgoblog. (And here's our ballot, for what it's worth.)

The blogpollers weren't too terribly different from the USA Today/Coaches or AP preseason polls. In fact, the BP selected the same collection of top 25 teams as did the coaches (the AP only swapped Fresno State for Alabama), and the only severe variances (relatively speaking) were Miami, Ohio State, and Alabama.

BlogPoll
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Team
Southern Cal
Texas
Tennessee
Michigan
Louisiana State
Miami (Florida)
Oklahoma
Virginia Tech
Ohio State
Iowa
Florida
Louisville
Georgia
Florida State
Auburn
Texas A&M
Purdue
Cal
Boise State
Arizona State
Texas Tech
Alabama
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Virginia
AP
1
2
3
4
5
9
7
8
6
11
10
12
13
14
16
17
15
19
18
20
21
26
22
23
25
Coaches
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2
3
4
6
8
5
7
9
10
11
14
13
12
15
17
16
20
19
18
21
24
22
25
23
BPVariance
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.22
1.56
0.89
0.22
2.00
0.22
0.22
0.89
0.00
0.89
0.22
0.22
0.67
0.67
0.22
0.89
0.00
2.67
0.22
0.67
0.89

I'm curious to see if the BP will do anything drastically different than the official polls as the season unfolds. For now, it looks we're all flying down the same trench, heading for the same denouement.