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Blogpoll Ballot: Week One
If any of you have been around the college blogosphere, I'm sure you've heard of the BlogPoll by now. In football, at least. It was started a few years back by Brian of the Michigan blog, MGoBlog. It quickly became a huge hit, and was picked up midway through this past season by CBSports, who put...
Rankings Ratings and Rantings
For the fun of it I thought I'd throw out a snapshot of where the Gopher's are ranked in various polls. Each ranking and rating has a different method of calculation and all of them are meaningless. Minnesota National Rank Minn rank among B10 Teams Brief Description of...
Final Blog Poll v.16.1
Round 1 of my final ballot... Yes, I did put Utah as #1. I have been down on the non-BCS teams all year (BYU still is overrated) but Utah was very good in their win over Alabama. This vote is in part a protest vote (picture me burning my bra as I flip off the BCS or don't try to picture it, your...
Basketball Blog Poll - v2.1
I have submitted my initial hoops blog poll ballot for this week and it can be seen below. If anybody has paid attention this ballot is VERY different from previous ballots. At the top I have catapulted Georgetow into the #2 spot and dropped UConn a little bit down to #6. This is primarily due...
Blog Poll v.15.1 - Final Regular Season
Here is my final ballot of the 2008 regular season along with my logic for how I sorted out the bevy of one loss teams at the top. I have never been convinced that Florida is the best or even in the top two of the one loss teams. With seven teams all having one loss, why does the team with...
Morning Coffee Is A Cranky Cynic
Don't go grocery shopping stoned. Or, I learned, write critical blog posts while emotionally crushed by the BCS. MGoBrian was a little taken aback by my verbal thrashing of his draft ballot, but though he's not quite 40, he is a Man and took the fisking in stride. Joining what I wrote myself on...
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