Welcome to Monday, where I will discuss the AP and USA Today top 25 polls in addition to how I would have voted if I had the priveledge of having a say in the polls. If you haven't seen it yet, here are the polls:
AP: USA Today Rank My Vote
Duke Duke 1 Ohio State
Ohio State Kansas 2 Texas
Kansas Ohio St 3 Kansas
Pittsburgh San Diego St 4 Duke
Texas Texas 5 Pittsburgh
San Diego St Pittsburgh 6 BYU
BYU BYU 7 SDST
Purdue Purdue 8 Purdue
Notre Dame Notre Dame 9 Arizona
Arizona Arizona 10 Notre Dame
Georgetown Georgetown 11 Wisconsin
Wisconsin Wisconsin 12 Georgetown
Florida Florida 13 Florida
Uconn Villanova 14 Villanova
Villanova Uconn 15 Uconn
Louisville Louisville 16 Louisville
Syracuse Texas A&M 17 Syracuse
Vanderbilt Vanderbilt 18 Vanderbilt
UNC UNC 19 Missouri
Missouri Syracuse 20 UNC
Texas A&M Missouri 21 St John's
Kentucky Kentucky 22 Texas A&M
St John's Utah State 23 Kentucky
Temple Temple 24 Xavier
Xavier St John's 25 George Mason
Obviously the top of this poll is a complete and utter mess. On the one hand, you've got three very good teams who all just lost to clearly inferior teams that are incredibly hard to beat at home. You've got a fourth team that lost on the road to an archrival, and a fifth team that, while it hasnt lost recently, has arguably the worst single loss of any of the five teams. Behind them are two Mountain West teams that have not played schedules quite as difficult, but are still incredibly good; these two facts create a problem which makes it difficult to ascertain where BYU and SDST truly lie relative to the other five major conference teams.
It's all pretty subjective after that. Generally if there are two teams that have played, I give a nod to the head to head winner unless the loser's at large profile is so much greater that I cannot ignore the difference (hence decisions like ranking Xavier over Temple). Other than that, my top 25 is basically the same teams in a different order, with the addition of George Mason at the end of the poll. I felt that GMU's comeback win at Northern Iowa, in addition to their tearing through the second half of their conference schedule, warranted a top 25 ranking.
Check the blog tomorrow for updates on college football, the NFL draft, and baseball news!
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