Week 7 Pac-10 Power Poll and Blogpoll Ballout
by jtlight on Oct 13, 2008 6:37 AM PDT
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PrintToday wasn't the most interesting week in the Pac-10.
ASU has careened to a 2-4 season, after so many expectations. Though I expected 3 losses at this point, the UNLV loss is telling, and the shutout at USC was ugly as hell.
I know many of you must have been just shocked at the Arizona loss. Oh wait, Mike Stoops was coaching? Nevermind.
Oregon had another game, pulled out a win, and simply created more questions, while OSU beat a very bad team, turned the ball over a lot, and still scored 60+.
Anyway, here are the rankings. Oregon's schedule gets tough now, so after a much needed Bye week, we'll see what this team is made of.
- USC
- Cal
- OSU
- Oregon
- Stanford
- Arizona
- ASU
- UCLA
- Washington
- Washington State
In the general college football landscape, it was a great week. Texas-Oklahoma was a very well fought game, with a surprising Texas win. Missouri was upset by a very interesting Oklahoma State team. Florida and Penn State destroyed their opponents in their games.
I try to make sense of all this in the ballot, which is after the jump. As always, leave your thoughts in the comments.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas |  4 |
| 2 | Alabama |  1 |
| 3 | Penn State | 1 |
| 4 | Oklahoma State | 17 |
| 5 | Oklahoma | 3 |
| 6 | Florida | 3 |
| 7 | Southern Cal | -- |
| 8 | Georgia | -- |
| 9 | Missouri | 6 |
| 10 | Ohio State | 5 |
| 11 | Utah | 1 |
| 12 | Boise State | -- |
| 13 | Texas Tech | 1 |
| 14 | Brigham Young | 3 |
| 15 | LSU | 9 |
| 16 | California | -- |
| 17 | Virginia Tech | -- |
| 18 | South Florida | -- |
| 19 | Kansas | -- |
| 20 | Michigan State | -- |
| 21 | Wake Forest | 1 |
| 22 | Pittsburgh | 1 |
| 23 | Vanderbilt | 10 |
| 24 | North Carolina | 2 |
| 25 | Ball State | -- |
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Standford has deserved the #5 spot
Wonder what kind of bowl they’ll get into.
Both AtQ and BtD have OSU over Oregon. Been thinking about it and considering the quality loss/win argument, I agree. I recede the argument that Purdue could count as a quality win. It would have been different if we had pwnd them…
My small quibble
I’d flip ASU and UofA. The difference in schedule between the two teams is ridiculous. and I think Arizona only has 1 more sure win (WSU) on the schedule and ASU has 3 (WSU, UW, UCLA). I think UofA has no shot against USC (duh) and both UO and OSU (because UofA can’t stop the run), while ASU has a chance beat anyone else on their schedule (though I think we take them).
At this point...
I think that U of A beats ASU, because ASU can’t run, no matter how bad Arizona’s run defense is. At this point, I think ASU is just ateam. I can forgive that last 3 losses. But coupled with the loss to UNLV…just yikes.
--www.AddictedToQuack.com, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
I suppose I can't really argue with you
But in the spirit of procrastination, I think they’re 6 and 6a. I have a pessimistic wildcat for a father so he is probably biasing me.
I think their game will be the opposite of the unmovable object vs the unstoppable force, more like the big rubber ball (UofA run D) vs the uncoordinated baby (ASU running game). I think UofA’s run D is worse than ASU’s running game, at least bad enough so that Carpenter’s recievers will actually get some favorable match-ups in the game.
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