{"id":439,"date":"2005-08-22T01:12:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=439"},"modified":"2005-08-22T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T06:12:06","slug":"blogpoll-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"BlogPoll Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I ended up a little more nervous than I should have been picking my first official BlogPoll. Though in the end, I think it ended up being like any exam I took in college. Spend copious amounts of time wondering if I&#8217;ll get it right, the occasional moment studying anything semi-related to the task at hand, then see if I can be the first one done. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, three warning shots&#8230;errr..e-mails later about the impending deadline of it all, and I&#8217;m left with a disgusting hybrid of what others think. (Which, when you combine &#8220;professional&#8221; pollsters, the turkeys in the BlogPoll, and the left side of my brain, you come up with about 12% of something.) <\/p>\n<p>While guessing was semi-discouraged, and using &#8220;potential schedule&#8221; theories will get you 20 lashes, I think I did all right. Here&#8217;s my Top 25 with about 11 days until kickoff*:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n(*-Notes where applicable, everything else, assume &#8220;Meh&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>1 USC &#8211; Consensus, and for good reason. As an impartial voter, I can&#8217;t wait until they lose.<br \/>\n2 Texas &#8211; Solid team that has no reason to not get the job done against anyone. Except Oklahoma. Since &#8220;schedule peeking&#8221; is banned in BlogPoll voting, they get the two spot.<br \/>\n3 Louisiana State<br \/>\n4 Michigan &#8211; As <a href=\"http:\/\/mgoblog.blogspot.com\">Brian<\/a> noted, there may be some homerism involved, but Michigan has the tools to deserve it, until they piss it away. (See Week 4.)<br \/>\n5 Tennessee<br \/>\n6 Oklahoma<br \/>\n7 Miami(FL)<br \/>\n8 Ohio State &#8211; I just had a thought. Do you think it says something psychologically about someone if they write on the post-it note, <em>then<\/em> peel it and stick it, as opposed to peeling, sticking, writing?<br \/>\n9 Virginia Tech<br \/>\n10 Georgia &#8211; The hunch in my head is that UGA will be the biggest climber this year, but not out of the gate.<br \/>\n11 Louisville &#8211; Not being allowed to peek ahead at their schedule keeps Louisville lower than they should be, I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217;.<br \/>\n12 Florida State<br \/>\n13 Iowa &#8211; Big Ten title possibilities, but they have questions to answer first.<br \/>\n14 Texas A&#038;M<br \/>\n15 Boise State &#8211; Poised for a <strong>big<\/strong> move with a win between the hedges, shaking up my ballot before UGA MCMXVIII is done licking himself.<br \/>\n16 Pittsburgh<br \/>\n17 Bowling Green &#8211; See <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=430\">here<\/a> for why I think BG deserves this spot. See <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=436\">here<\/a> for why I think their first game of 2006 could come well before September.<br \/>\n18 Florida &#8211; He&#8217;s done it twice, but in a much tougher conference, Mrs. Meyer&#8217;s husband has some questions to answer before <strike>packing for the NFL<\/strike> telling Florida fans that he loves them and plans on staying around.<br \/>\n19 Purdue &#8211; Don&#8217;t base it on the schedule. Don&#8217;t base it on the schedule. Don&#8217;t base it on the schedule. Joe Tiller&#8217;s got him a purty mustache.<br \/>\n20 Boston College<br \/>\n21 Arizona State<br \/>\n22 Fresno State &#8211; The mid-major flag keeps flying. But it&#8217;s not like the Bulldogs don&#8217;t deserve the love.<br \/>\n23 Virginia<br \/>\n24 California<br \/>\n25 Alabama <\/p>\n<p>And now, Charlie Weis in sweatpants&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/espn.starwave.com\/media\/ncf\/2005\/0820\/photo\/quinn_weis_412.jpg\" alt=\"Look mom, no bra!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, dude&#8217;s gotta be a C-cup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like sands through the hourglass, and pulling rabbits out of hats. So is Blogpoll #1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}