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*YAWN*

Believe the Heupel wrote:
“They left an impression on me after the Missouri game, after the Texas A&M game — especially Texas A&M — and after the Texas Tech game,” Hoover said. “To do defensively what they’ve done against three totally different types of offenses — wide open offense, they took the running game away; option offense, they took away the option; passing offense, they took away the pass — that’s pretty impressive.”

the one thing all three of those offenses have in common is that they are one-dimensional--so i don't see that as an insight for the ages.

MU: does not run effectively*
ATM: does not throw effectively*
Tech: does not run effectively*

*except in situational playcalling and only to set up:

MU: pass
ATM: run
Tech: pass

(not disputing that OU has played pretty good D since the ISU game, by any means). but doesn't surprise me much (guy flubbing his vote)....I lived in Nashville for a few years and football outside the SEC/South exists in a vacuum where light simply cannot go.

It's a good thing that the AP no longer has any outcome on the BCS standings.

Just curious, does the AP poll count for anything?

So let me get this straight. The Sooners were 17 last week and 16 this week, but could have been 15? Maybe?

I realize this could be a big deal if OU was ranked higher and in the championship hunt, but it's not. It just reflects the inadequacy of this method.

Hell, I remember in 1993 when NU was undefeated and still ranked as high as 6. Some voters had NU as high as 8 over other 1-loss teams. One voter's rationale was that he determined that the 7 teams ahead of them could beat them on a neutral field. NU in 1994 went to KState with a third-string walk-on QB ranked No. 3, won handily 17-6 against #16 KSU and still dropped one spot to No. 3. This happens all the time as sports writers with little background on the team just glance at the score and go, "17-6? oh, they must have struggled" (maybe not knowing they were without their two starters).

It's imperfect, but unless you require voters to log into a web site, show them how each team won and then let them submit their vote, then this will keep happening.

You know, they would pick a rank, pick a team, the computer would flash on the screen that Team A won (or loss) and the score, and then have them confirm the pick. Otherwise, you'll see this human error from time to time.

Goober McTuber wrote:Just curious, does the AP poll count for anything?

Nope, not anymore.

I bet you if anyone on here was lucky to be a sports writer and had a vote, that we wouldnt slack. What a great job. It's a demanding one but who wouldnt want to be forced to watch Top 25 football teams play every week and then rank them?

That guy should be stripped of his voting rights. The utter negligence is appalling.

[there's a first time for everything]Crown is right.[/there's a first time for everything] Just think of all the people in this country who would love to be able to contribute, and fill out a ballot. Doing such would be a complete thrill and privelege for me. And here this dude is too inconvenienced to even find the 2 minutes of time to check the fuggin espn.com ticker, or something. What a turd.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:That guy should be stripped of his voting rights. The utter negligence is appalling.

[there's a first time for everything]Crown is right.[/there's a first time for everything] Just think of all the people in this country who would love to be able to contribute, and fill out a ballot. Doing such would be a complete thrill and privelege for me. And here this dude is too inconvenienced to even find the 2 minutes of time to check the fuggin espn.com ticker, or something. What a turd.

Hell, why stop there?

WVa was getting two 1st place votes each in the AP poll from weeks 6 thru 10 until they crashed and burned at Louisville. Nobody else except the Buckeyes were pulling the votes during that timeframe. Not that it made any difference, but these were obvious homer calls. I would look at this being grounds to strip away voting rights before I would someone that made an honest mistake one time.