The top 25 teams in the AP:
1. Florida (48)
2. Utah (16)
3. Southern Cal (1)
4. Texas
5. Oklahoma
6. Alabama
7. TCU
8. Penn St.
9. Ohio St.
10. Oregon
11. Boise St.
12. Texas Tech
13. Georgia
14. Mississippi
15. Virginia Tech
16. Oklahoma St.
17. Cincinnati
18. Oregon St.
19. Missouri
20. Iowa
21. Florida St.
22. Georgia Tech
23. West Virginia
24. Michigan St.
25. BYU
Others receiving votes: California 128, Pittsburgh 106, LSU 95, Nebraska 64, Tulsa 61, Northwestern 53, Ball St. 13, Boston College 11, Rutgers 11, Rice 8, Arizona 4, Kansas 2.
USA Today Top 25 Poll
The Top 25 teams in the USA Today college football coaches poll:
1. Florida (60)
2. Southern California
3. Texas
4. Utah (1)
5. Oklahoma
6. Alabama
7. TCU
8. Penn State
9. Oregon
10. Georgia
11. Ohio State
12. Texas Tech
13. Boise State
14. Virginia Tech
15. Mississippi
16. Missouri
17. Cincinnati
18. Oklahoma State
19. Oregon State
20. Iowa
21. Brigham Young
22. Georgia Tech
23. Florida State
24. Michigan State
25. California
Others receiving votes: West Virginia 101; Tulsa 68; LSU 65; Northwestern 63; Nebraska 62; Pittsburgh 38; Arizona 21; Ball State 14; Rice 14; Boston College 6; Rutgers 5; Kansas 3; Kentucky 3; Connecticut 2; Houston 1.
This may not be how we drew it up at beginning of season but a nice finish. I would not have had so many Little 11 teams in the poll and would have voted UTAH 1.5 in the polls for their season but the polls were pretty close. MOST notably those little wimps from Pittsburgh are looking up at us again. That will always give me a smile. Thoughts on the future lead me to point out that WVU has 6 verbals of the 4 Star variety. None to shabby. We shall see how it pans out. Oh and I have to leave this football season on this note. PAT WHITE IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!
DaGeek
2 comments:
The fact that Wittingham voted for his own team (Utah) is interesting. The coaches are required to vote for the winner of the title game and I wonder if there will be any repercussions on him for not having a unanimous vote. I'm sure there are a lot of people that feel like Utah doesn't really have the talent to compete w/ the best of the best and the competition they played against doesn't warrant them a shot in the title game. That may be true, but their season does warrant a selection in a national playoff. The chances may be very slim that Utah could win 3 games in an 8 team playoff. But we shouldn't forget the NCAA basketball tournament where UAB recently made the Final Four and Davidson game within a hair of beating eventual national champion Kansas in the elite 8. Sometimes these "smaller" teams are legitimate enough to have a chance to compete and the BCS refuses to let them in anyway.
Hope for the "non-BCS" schools is simply not there. If I was a team like Utah I would get on the Horn with the Boise State(s), BYU(s), Fresno State(s), Texas Christian(s)and attempt to form a new conference with BCS impact. The truth is that any team that had to run that gauntlet would deserve a nod.
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