Wednesday, December 10, 2008 by Tim
Dropped Out: Ball State (#25).
With no comments on the draft ballot, everything remains as it was. Again, the deltas are inaccurate, so pay them no mind.
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Monday, December 08, 2008 by Tim
Dropped Out: Ball State (#25).
Update: Deltas "fixed," by which I mean they are now wrong, because they are deltas from what I originally submitted this morning.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 by Tim
Dropped Out: Florida State (#18).
Changes from Draft: Dropped Alabama below Oklahoma and Texas. Replaced Florida State with Oregon.
The majority of commenters though Texas should be ahead of Oklahoma (and believe me, I think they can make a legitimate case), but I stood by what I thought before. Dropping Alabama seems to now be fashionable (or at least acceptable), especially after the SEC took a pretty major hit over the weekend.
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Monday, December 01, 2008 by Tim
Dropped Out:Ain't nobody.
Oklahoma over Texas because: Against common opponents, the two teams were approximately equal in victory against Baylor and Texas A&M. Texas was more impressive against Kansas by a slight margin, and Oklahoma was more impressive against Oklahoma State and Texas Tech by HUGE margins. The Sooners' schedule was also much more top-heavy, giving them a more impressive resume at this point.
Other potential problems: I'll admit I didn't go through and strictly resume rank at this point, though I may make something of an effort to do it over the next day or so. I don't like having Alabama at the top, but because I haven't done all the legwork in comparing resumes, I think it would be disingenuous to move them down at this point.
Everything else seems fairly straightforward to me, so comment away.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 by Tim
Dropped Out: Maryland (#18), North Carolina (#22), Miami (Florida) (#24), California (#25).
Changes from draft: I slid Michigan State past Boston College because I'm really uncomfortable with the ACC, though they'll have the chance to move up with more football to be played, while the Spartans sit at home. of course, the ACC being what it is, who knows what will happen in their remaining game(s). I also slid Northwestern in at 25 over UNC, because of aforementioned uncertainty about their conference. Northwestern should not, however, be ranked ahead of Iowa as suggested. The Hawkeyes have a far superior signature win, and didn't lose to freakin' Indiana. Their overall resume is superior.
About the Big 12 South: So I pretty much ended up ignoring all the suggestions about what to do with Texas v. Oklahoma (I do think Tech's loss was enough to drop them out of the discussion for #2). Everyone cited the Texas-OU score, or the fact that Texas's loss was away as opposed to Oklahoma's on a neutral field. However, the rankings are composed of more than just the head-to-head score, even when there is a pair (or in this case, a trio) of teams whose only losses come to each other. The entire season resume has to be taken into account, and Oklahoma had non-competitive games against Texas Tech in conference, and out of conference against Cincinnati (the likely Big East champion) and TCU (who finished 2nd in the pretty good Mountain West). Based on the entire season, Oklahoma is more deserving at this point than Oklahoma. The OSU game next week will either vindicate or completely change my opinion of the Sooners.
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