As many of you know, I am one of the voters in the BlogPoll Top 25. Each week, bloggers across the country representing the various FBS schools get together and put together their own top 25’s. Here at SOX & Dawgs, we are representing the UConn Huskies. The votes are then tabulated on Mondays.
Each week we are asked to do an initial ballot. This allows you the reader to let us know in the comments whether you agree with my choices or not. The initial ballots will normally be done on Sunday.
After I check the comments for the initial ballot, I then resubmit my final ballot for the week. If there are comments, I’ll take them into consideration before submitting the final ballot by 8 a.m. on Monday.
You can check out the ballot I submitted earlier today by clicking on the read more button below if you’re on the homepage.
SOX & Dawgs Ballot – Week 3
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma Sooners | — |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | — |
| 3 | LSU Tigers | — |
| 4 | Florida St. Seminoles | — |
| 5 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | — |
| 6 | Texas A&M Aggies | — |
| 7 | Wisconsin Badgers | — |
| 8 | South Carolina Gamecocks | — |
| 9 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | — |
| 10 | Boise St. Broncos | — |
| 11 | Stanford Cardinal | — |
| 12 | Arkansas Razorbacks |  1 |
| 13 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 1 |
| 14 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | 2 |
| 15 | Oregon Ducks |  -3 |
| 16 | Auburn Tigers | 3 |
| 17 | Florida Gators | 3 |
| 18 | TCU Horned Frogs | — |
| 19 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 5 |
| 20 | Texas Longhorns | 3 |
| 21 | Arizona St. Sun Devils | 4 |
| 22 | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | -7 |
| 23 | Missouri Tigers | -6 |
| 24 | South Florida Bulls | — |
| 25 | Baylor Bears | — |
| Dropouts: Georgia Bulldogs, Penn St. Nittany Lions | ||
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As you can see there are no changes to my top 11 teams. Made some slight adjustments in the middle with Oregon losing. Obviously with Mississippi State losing to Auburn and Missouri falling, they took the biggest tumbles in the poll and another loss in their next game would knock them out.
The hardest part for me this week was adding two teams to replace Georgia and Penn State. At 0-2, the Bulldogs are in trouble right now. I also thought Penn State would have put up a bigger fight against Alabama at home.
I went with South Florida, not because they are from the Big East, but rather they have played well in their first two games. They knocked Notre Dame out of my poll last week and looked great last night against Ball State. Baylor got in on the merit of beating TCU the first week.
Let me know if you agree or not, especially with the two teams I’ve added in this week. If not, I’ll be submitting this poll in for good in the morning.
