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Top 26 Poll: Week Three and still no Boise State

by kevanlee 8 September 2008 145 views Comments

Three weeks into the Bronco Blogger Top 26 Poll and there is still no breakthrough for Boise State. Even the Nevada voter is stumping for them, and they still can’t get in. No matter, a good Bowling Green drubbing should do the trick.

For more on the Top 26 poll, visit the poll’s homepage. For a breakdown of who voted for whom, download the Top 26 pdf. To complain, leave a comment.

  1. USC (7)
  2. Georgia (5)
  3. Florida
  4. Oklahoma
  5. Missouri
  6. LSU (2)
  7. Ohio State
  8. Texas
  9. Auburn
  10. Wisconsin
  11. Kansas
  12. Alabama
  13. Texas Tech
  14. Oregon
  15. Arizona State
  16. East Carolina
  17. Penn State
  18. BYU
  19. Wake Forest
  20. Utah
  21. South Florida
  22. California
  23. Fresno State
  24. West Virginia
  25. Illinois
  26. Tennessee

Say good-bye to: Tennessee, Boston College, South Carolina

Also receiving love: Clemson, UCLA, Boise State, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma State, Florida State, Arkansas State.

Each week, we pick a member of the voting committee to defend their picks. This week, we decided to force the voter with the strangest votes to explain his line of thinking. That man is OBNUG’s Kevan Lee, and his line of thinking could use some work.

Kevan’s poll:

  1. LSU
  2. Georgia
  3. USC
  4. Missouri
  5. Oklahoma
  6. Kansas
  7. Ohio State
  8. Florida
  9. Texas
  10. Auburn
  11. Arizona State
  12. BYU
  13. Oregon
  14. Wisconsin
  15. Texas Tech
  16. Alabama
  17. Penn State
  18. East Carolina
  19. Wake Forest
  20. South Florida
  21. Utah
  22. California
  23. Illinois
  24. UCLA
  25. Arkansas St

If you remember, I decided to base my poll on last year’s season-ending Top 25. I felt this would be a fair way to take the bias and inequity out of a traditional preseason poll. I did not fully prepare for the consequences of later polls, however.

You may see that I have Florida at No. 8. At least you didn’t see them last week at No. 11! But really, with the way that I made things, I couldn’t have voted them any higher. Courtesy of their finish last winter, they started lower and therefore must work their way to the top. I owe Tim Tebow nothing.

As far as having four Big 10 teams in the Top 10, I have no excuse for that other than I obviously should watch more Big 10 football than I do.

Here’s another interesting one: I have BYU in front of Oregon even though I am 1,000 percent sure that the Ducks would beat the Cougars to a pulp on the field. After BYU’s “win” over Washington last weekend, I wanted to drop them like a rock down the rankings, but then I sat there and thought about it. BYU beat a solid Pac-10 team on the road by making plays when they had to. Oregon beat Utah State in Oregon. The ends did not justify the means in my opinion.

East Carolina hit 18th for me because I’d like to see them beat a team they should beat first before I anoint them BCS busters. I’m weird like that. No doubt they’ll be favorites in most every game from here on out.

And last but not least, I threw Arkansas State my No. 25 bone courtesy of their fast start. They beat Texas A&M in Week One, and they hung 83 points on Texas Southern on Saturday. I felt this would be my first and only time to vote for a Sun Belt team so I better take advantage while I could.

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