cartman's FOFC/SGS Top 25 final regular season poll open for voting

[cartman]

Well folks, all that is left are the bowl games. Time to look forward to ESPN's most wonderful time of the year, and debate who should and should not have received BCS bids.

Submissions are due in by 12 noon, Central time, on Saturday, December 10th. I'd like for everyone who has voted this season to submit a poll for both this one, and also the final poll that will open after the Rose Bowl. Thanks to all who have participated this year!


Team Rec. Results from last two weeks
1. USC 12-0 Bye, beat #12 UCLA 66-19
2. Texas 12-0 beat Texas A&M 40-29, beat Colorado 70-3
3. Penn State 10-1 Bye, Bye
4. LSU 10-2 beat Arkansas 19-17, lost to #13 Georgia 34-14
5. Virginia Tech 10-2 beat North Carolina 30-3,lost to #23 Florida St. 27-22
6. Ohio State 9-2 Bye,Bye
7. Notre Dame 9-2 beat Stanford 38-31, Bye
8. Oregon 10-1 Bye, Bye
9. Miami 9-2 beat Virginia 25-17, Bye
10. Auburn 9-2 Bye, Bye
11. West Virginia 10-1 beat Pitt 45-13, beat S. Florida 28-13
12. UCLA 9-2 Bye, lost to #1 USC 66-19
13. Georgia 10-2 beat #22 Georgia Tech 14-7, beat #4 LSU 34-14
14. Alabama 9-2 Bye, Bye
15. TCU 10-1 Bye, Bye
16. Fresno State 8-4 lost to Nevada 38-35, lost to La. Tech 40-28
17. Louisville 9-2 beat Syracuse 41-17, beat UConn 30-20
18. Texas Tech 9-2 Bye, Bye
19. Florida 8-3 beat #23 Florida St. 34-7, Bye
20. Wisconsin 9-3 beat Hawaii 41-24, Bye
21. Boston College 8-3 Bye, Bye
22. Georgia Tech 7-4 lost to #13 Georgia 14-7, Bye
23. Florida State 8-4 lost to #19 Florida 34-7, beat #5 Va. Tech 27-22
24. Michigan 7-4 Bye, Bye
25. Iowa State 7-4 lost to Kansas 24-21, Bye

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Here's the Top 25 from solecismic.com:

1. Southern California
2. Penn State
3. Texas
4. Virginia Tech
5. Georgia
6. Oregon
7. Ohio State
8. Texas Tech
9. Notre Dame
10. Miami, Florida
11. Florida
12. Georgia Tech
13. North Carolina
14. Auburn
15. West Virginia
16. Louisiana State
17. Wisconsin
18. UCLA
19. Louisville
20. Iowa State
21. Iowa
22. Oklahoma
23. Minnesota
24. Boston College
25. Alabama

[duckman]

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Notre Dame
5. West Virginia
6. Georgia
7. Oregon
8. Auburn
9. Ohio State
10. Louisiana State
11. Texas Christian
12. Virginia Tech
13. Miami
14. Alabama
15. Louisville
16. Boston College
17. Texas Tech
18. Wisconsin
19. Michigan
20. UCLA
21. Florida
22. Rutgers
23. Florida State
24. Boise State
25. Oklahoma

[cartman]

Here's my Top 25:

1. Texas
2. USC
3. Penn State
4. Oregon
5. Ohio State
6. Notre Dame
7. Georgia
8. LSU
9. Auburn
10. Miami
11. TCU
12. West Virginia
13. Virginia Tech
14. Alabama
15. Louisville
16. Florida
17. Texas Tech
18. Boston College
19. UCLA
20. Florida State
21. Wisconsin
22. Clemson
23. Michigan
24. Toledo
25. Boise State

[JonInMiddleGA]

1. USC (1)
2. Texas (2)
3. Notre Dame (4)
4. Penn State (6)
5. Auburn (7)
6. Ohio State (8)
7. Miami (9)
8. Virginia Tech (5)
9. Oregon (10)
10. TCU (11)
11. Florida (13)
12. Georgia (14)
13. LSU (4)
14. Alabama (15)
15. Michigan (18)
16. West Virginia (19)
17. Florida State (17)
18. Louisville (21)
19. Boston College (20)
20. Texas Tech (23)
21. South Carolina (22)
22. UCLA (12)
23. Wisconsin (24)
24. Georgia Tech (25)
25. Northwestern (--)

Dropped Out - Fresno State (16)

[timmynausea]

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Notre Dame
5. Auburn
6. West Virginia
7. Ohio State
8. Georgia
9. Miami
10. LSU
11. Louisville
12. Texas Christian
13. Virginia Tech
14. Oregon
15. Alabama
16. Florida
17. UCLA
18. Texas Tech
19. Clemson
20. Wisconsin
21. Rutgers
22. Florida State
23. Northwestern
24. Fresno St.
25. Tulsa

[Cuckoo]

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Notre Dame
5. Ohio State
6. Oregon
7. Auburn
8. West Virginia
9. Georgia
10. Miami
11. Virginia Tech
12. LSU
13. Alabama
14. TCU
15. Louisville
16. UCLA
17. Florida
18. Wisconsin
19. Boston College
20. Texas Tech
21. Florida State
22. Michigan
23. Oklahoma
24. Georgia Tech
25. Clemson

[General Mike]

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Ohio State
5. Notre Dame
6. West Virginia
7, Oregon
8. Georgia
9. Auburn
10. Miami
11. LSU
12. Alabama
13. Virginia Tech
14. TCU
15. Louisville
16. Texas Tech
17. Florida
18. Boston College
19. Clemson
20. Wisconsin
21. UCLA
22. Michigan
23. Boise State
24. Florida State
25. Rutgers

[sooner333]

1. USC (2)
2. Texas (1)
3. Penn State (3)
4. Ohio State (5)
5. Oregon (6)
6. Miami (8)
7. Auburn (9)
8. West Virginia (10)
9. Georgia (16)
10. LSU (4)
11. Virginia Tech (7)
12. Notre Dame (11)
13. TCU (12)
14. Alabama (14)
15. Florida (15)
16. Wisconsin (17)
17. UCLA (13)
18. Iowa (20)
19. Michigan (21)
20. Oklahoma (22)
21. Texas Tech (24)
22. Louisville (NR)
23. Northwestern (NR)
24. Florida State (NR)
25. Boston College (NR)

Dropped Out
Iowa State (18), Fresno State (19),
Colorado (23), Georgia Tech (25)

[Grammaticus]

2. Texas 12-0 beat Texas A&M 40-29, beat Colorado 70-3

Texas beat Colorado by 67 points! Wasn't that for the Big 12 championship? That has got to be the most rediculous championship game ever.

[timmynausea]

2. Texas 12-0 beat Texas A&M 40-29, beat Colorado 70-3

Texas beat Colorado by 67 points! Wasn't that for the Big 12 championship? That has got to be the most rediculous championship game ever.


That score is a bit deceptive. It was a tie game well into the first five minutes.

[Huckleberry]

1 Texas (1)
2 Southern Cal (2)
3 Penn St. (3)
4 Ohio St. (4)
5 Oregon (6)
6 Miami (FL) (8)
7 Notre Dame (9)
8 Georgia (14)
9 Virginia Tech (5)
10 West Virginia (10)
11 Auburn (11)
12 LSU (7)
13 Texas Tech (13)
14 Alabama (15)
15 Wisconsin (16)
16 Michigan (17)
17 UCLA (12)
18 TCU (18)
19 Louisville (19)
20 Minnesota (20)
21 Boston College (21)
22 Florida (23)
23 Iowa (22)
24 Northwestern (24)
25 Florida St. (--)

[digamma]

1. USC, Texas (tie)
3. Penn State
4. Ohio State
5. Auburn
6. Notre Dame
7. Georgia
8. Oregon
9. West Virginia
10. Miami
11. Virginia Tech
12. LSU
13. Florida
14. TCU
15. Alabama
16. Louisville
17. Texas Tech
18. Boston College
19. Wisconsin
20. Michigan
21. Georgia Tech
22. Clemson
23. Florida State
24. UCLA
25. Oklahoma

[sterlingice]

1 Texas
2 USC
3 Penn St
4 Oregon
5 W Virginia
6 Miami
7 Virginia Tech
8 Georgia
9 Ohio St
10 LSU
11 Auburn
12 Texas Tech
13 UCLA
14 Notre Dame
15 Alabama
16 TCU
17 Florida
18 Wisconsin
19 Louisville
20 Georgia Tech
21 Florida St
22 Michigan
23 Boston Col
24 Clemson
25 Boise St


Just missed: See below
Knocked out: Also, see below
Notes: Frankly, if I didn't think it was the cheap cop out way, I'd have co #1's. There are lots of teams with similar resumes like USC/Texas, Oregon/West Virginia, and Texas Tech/UCLA- same number of wins, losses, quality wins, and bad losses. Take, for instance, Texas Tech and UCLA. Both were 9-2 in a BCS conference, beat 3 other bowl bound teams (Oklahoma, Cal, Arizona St vs Okahoma, Kansas, at Nebraska), each got drubbed by their conference's super team (USC, Texas), and each had a crappy loss on the road (at Arizona, at Oklahoma St). On paper only without some biased "I think one would beat the other on the field", how do you separate those?

As good as Notre Dame looks, their schedule is akin to a team from Conference USA- it's hard to rank them any higher than they are. And, it's not entirely their fault- some of those teams were supposed to be better than they are but facts are facts. For the curious, some conglomeration of Oklahoma, Nebraska, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Iowa just missed the bottom cut. Lastly, there are no previous rankings this week as I didn't have a poll the last two times so I didn't want some crazy skewing.

SI

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I changed the due time from tonight to tomorrow afternoon, so we can get more submissions in. I'll send out PMs as reminders as well.

[bronconick]

1. USC (2)
2. Texas (1)
3. Penn State (4)
4. Ohio State (6)
5. Notre Dame (7)
6. Oregon (8)
7. Auburn (9)
8. Miami (11)
9. Georgia (12)
10. West Virginia (13)
11. LSU (3)
12. TCU (14)
13. Virginia Tech (5)
14. Alabama (15)
15. Texas Tech (16)
16. Louisville (17)
17. UCLA (9)
18. Georgia Tech (19)
19. Florida (20)
20. Boston College (21)
21. Clemson (21)
22. Michigan (23)
23. Wisconsin (--)
24. Florida State (25)
25. Oklahoma (--)

Dropped out- Fresno State (18), South Carolina (24)

[kingnebwsu]

Final Regular Season 12/7

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Ohio State
5. Oregon
6. Notre Dame
7. Georgia
8. Auburn
9. West Virginia
10. LSU
11. Miami (FL)
12. Alabama
13. Virginia Tech
14. TCU
15. Louisville
16. UCLA
17. Florida
18. Texas Tech
19. Wisconsin
20. Florida State
21. Boston College
22. Clemson
23. Michigan
24. Georgia Tech
25. South Carolina


Thanks for all your work on this Cartman. It was great and look forward to next year's version :)

[Swaggs]

1. Texas
2. USC
3. Penn State
4. Ohio State
5. Auburn
6. Georgia
7. Miami
8. West Virginia
9. Oregon
10. Notre Dame
11. Virginia Tech
12. LSU
13. Alabama
14. Louisville
15. TCU
16. Florida
17. Texas Tech
18. UCLA
19. Wisconsin
20. Georgia Tech
21. Northwestern
22. Michigan
23. Clemson
24. Oklahoma
25. Florida State

[Young Drachma]

1. USC
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. West Virginia
5. TCU
6. Oregon
7. Virginia Tech
8. Georgia
9. Texas Tech
10. Auburn
11. LSU
12. UCLA
13. Notre Dame
14. Alabama
15. Miami
16. Louisville
17. Georgia Tech
18. Florida
19. Boston College
20. Florida State
21. Wisconsin
22. Clemson
23. Michigan
24. Northwestern
25. Oklahoma

[JeeberD]

1. Texas (2)
2. USC (1)
3. Notre Dame (4)
4. Ohio State (6)
5. Penn State (7)
6. LSU (3)
7. Oregon (8)
8. Virginia Tech (5)
9. Miami (Fl) (9)
10. West Virginia (10)
11. Auburn (11)
12. Georgia (13)
13. TCU (14)
14. Alabama (16)
15. Florida (17)
16. Louisville (18)
17. UCLA (12)
18. Texas Tech (19)
19. Michigan (22)
20. Florida State (20)
21. Boston College (23)
22. Wisconsin (25)
23. Clemson (-)
24. Iowa (-)
25. Georgia Tech (21)


Dropped out: Fresno State (15), UTEP (24)

[Bearcat729]

1. USC
1. Texas
3. Penn St
4. Notre Dame
4. Ohio State
6. Oregon
7. Virginia Tech
8. Miami
9. LSU
10. West Virginia
11. Auburn
12. Georgia
13. TCU
14. Alabama
15. Louisville
16. UCLA
17. Florida
18. Texas Tech
19. Wisconsin
20. Boston College
21. Michigan
22. Florida State
23. Georiga Tech
24. South Carolina
25. Rutgers

[kingfc22]

1. USC (1)
2. Texas (2)
3. Penn St. (4)
4. Notre Dame (5)
5. Ohio St. (8)
6. Auburn (5)
7. Oregon (9)
8. Georgia (13)
9. LSU (3)
10. Virginia Tech (7)
11. Miami (10)
12. West Virginia (12)
13. Alabama (15)
14. TCU (16)
15. Louisville (18)
16. Florida (19)
17. UCLA (11)
18. Wisconsin (20)
19. Boston College (21)
20. Texas Tech (22)
21. Michigan (24)
22. Florida St. (--)
23. Georgia Tech (23)
24. Iowa St. (24)
25. Oklahoma (--)


Dropped from poll:
Fresno St. (14)

[Joe]

1. Texas
2. USC
3. Penn State
4. Ohio State
5. Notre Dame
6. Miami
7. Oregon
8. West Virginia
9. Georgia
10. Virginia Tech
11. LSU
12. Auburn
13. Alabama
14. UCLA
15. Louisville
16. Florida
17. Texas Tech
18. Boston College
19. Michigan
20. Florida State
21. Northwestern
22. Georgia Tech
23. Wisconsin
24. Rutgers
25. Oklahoma

[SnDvls]

1 USC
2 Texas
3 Penn St.
4 Oregon
5 West Virginia
6 Georgia
7 Miami, Fl
8 UCLA
9 LSU
10 Virginia Tech
11 Note Dame
12 Ohio St
13 Auburn
14 TCU
15 Alabama
16 Louisville
17 Texas Tech
18 Florida St.
19 Wisconsin
20 Florida
21 Boston College
22 Michigan
23 Iowa St.
24 UTEP
25 Fresno St.