Blog Poll Countdown: The Cream
A week-long look at SMQ’s preseason ballot. - - - 5. Georgia There are no questions here about the defense, which wreaked all kinds of havoc down the stretch and returns basically everybody (wi...
Anatomy of a Mythical Champion
The ongoing Blog Poll Countdown is down to five "finalists," all of whom appear to me have about an equal opportunity, on paper, to carry the day to the mythical championship. Florid...
Blog Poll Countdown: The Short List
A week-long look at SMQ’s preseason ballot. - - - 10. Wisconsin There has to be a second banana in the Big Ten, and with Michigan presumably on a temporary hiatus from Rose Bowl ambitions, I do...
Anatomy of an Underdog '08
This time the last two last years, in two very different preseason poll environments (2006 was a mashup of unworthy-looking, poor man’s contenders; 2007 was all USC, all the time), I’ve as...
Blog Poll Countdown: The Dreamers
A week-long look at SMQ’s preseason ballot. - - - 15. Texas Tech Well, they can throw -- have you heard? -- and with a lot of people paying fairly close attention for a change, I imagine a rapi...
All-Up-and-Coming Team: Defense
Tomorrow’s All-Americans Today - - - Click here for the Offense. The rules for this team: all players are second or third-year guys -- no incoming freshmen or JUCOs -- set to start for the fir...
Blog Poll Countdown: The Also-Rans
A week-long look at SMQ’s preseason ballot. - - - 20. Illinois The Illini are a mixed bag: on one hand, they lose two of the best players in the conference, Mendenhall and Lehman, and carry the...
Blog Poll Countdown: The Wildcards
A week-long look at SMQ’s preseason ballot. - - - There’s always a debate about exactly what a preseason poll is supposed to be. In this case, rather than a "power poll" that attempts to ...
What To Do With: Nebraska, or, Fighting the Last War
There’s a pretty strong consensus so far about how things are going to play out in the Big 12 North: Switch Nebraska and Kansas State (which lost to the Huskers by six touchdowns in one of th...
From Whence You Came, So Shall You Return
This fall is Joe Tiller’s farewell tour after twelve years at Purdue, more than any other active Big Ten coach except the immortal Paterno, and in relative terms -- if you were looking forward a...
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