{"id":535,"date":"2005-12-07T01:06:18","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2005-12-07T01:31:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T06:31:19","slug":"blogpoll-back-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Blogpoll&#8230; back in the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some unforseen computer-related issues and a whirlwind of activity surrounding that holiday we call &#8220;Grey Cup Weekend&#8221;, I&#8217;m back at it for the final regular season BlogPoll of the year! Wheeee!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit, this is going to be quite the effort in futility. I&#8217;ve watched games even with a bum computer, but without reliable means of posting a ballot, I watched them in a bit of a different light. What I did learn is that A) the prevent defense still sucks (this, as we inch closer to the OMG 20TH ANNIVERSARY!?!?! of &#8220;The Drive&#8221;), and B) Tyrone &#8220;He Of The Zig-Zag Tibia&#8221; Prothro deserves the Heisman as much as anybody.<\/p>\n<p>So here goes:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n1. Southern Cal &#8211; Flip a coin.<br \/>\n2. Texas &#8211; &#8216;Horns call &#8220;heads&#8221;. Dumbasses don&#8217;t know that &#8220;tails never fails&#8221;.<br \/>\n3. Penn State &#8211; Henne to Manningham saved the BCS&#8217; hide.<br \/>\n4. Ohio State &#8211; Just think if the Lord of the Sweatervest could have made up his mind at QB&#8230;.<br \/>\n5. Notre Dame &#8211; Mmmmm&#8230; Charlie like candy!<br \/>\n6. Auburn &#8211; The apathy for the poll begins&#8230; Georgia could have been here, but&#8230;.<br \/>\n7. Georgia &#8211; &#8230;if Shockley didn&#8217;t miss a game, the loss to Auburn might be overlookable. But a two-loss team can&#8217;t go ahead of an equally decent team they lost to.<br \/>\n8. Oregon &#8211; Ironically, it&#8217;s the &#8220;meh&#8221; attitude of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thejamootz.com\">a Ducks fan<\/a> that pushed them this low. That and the midseason deepthroating they did to USC.<br \/>\n9. Miami (Florida) &#8211; Meh.<br \/>\n10. LSU &#8211; Double meh.<br \/>\n11. West Virginia &#8211; Are you noticing a trend here?<br \/>\n12. Virginia Tech &#8211; Oh how the mighty have fallen.<br \/>\n13. Alabama &#8211; Ditto.<br \/>\n14. Louisville<br \/>\n15. TCU<br \/>\n16. Florida<br \/>\n17. Texas Tech<br \/>\n18. Boston College<br \/>\n19. UCLA<br \/>\n20. Michigan<br \/>\n21. Wisconsin<br \/>\n22. Clemson<br \/>\n23. Florida State<br \/>\n24. Georgia Tech<br \/>\n25. Iowa<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, there were going to be a whole lot of &#8220;eh&#8221; comments through that last half of the poll, so I saved you, me and the children of Tibet the misery.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon, there&#8217;s a whole new roundtable (which I also have missed out on. Man, I&#8217;m a pretty shitty blogpoller, huh?) to be discovered. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some unforseen computer-related issues and a whirlwind of activity surrounding that holiday we call &#8220;Grey Cup Weekend&#8221;, I&#8217;m back at it for the final regular season BlogPoll of the year! Wheeee! I&#8217;ll admit, this is going to be quite the effort in futility. I&#8217;ve watched games even with a bum computer, but without reliable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogpoll&#8230; back in the saddle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/535"}],"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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}