blocku.com - 1/12/2009
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I just want to thank Mr. Kyle Whittingham for sticking to his guns and voting Utah No. 1 in the Coaches Poll. Mack Brown said he would and when pressured, folded faster than Bob Stoops in a BCS bowl game. How awesome is our coach? Seriously, he just ended any chance of having a vote in the ...
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rivals.yahoo.com - 1/12/2009
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rivals.yahoo.com —
This is the real prize, don't ya know
... Now in its fourth year, the Blog Poll...
is a weekly effort of dozens of college football-centric Web sites representing a wide array of schools under the oversight of founder/manager/guru Brian Cook at ...
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Blog Pollin': Florida takes the one that counts
sportingnews.com - 1/12/2009
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Spencer Hall offers a letter-by-letter analysis of the
college football bowl season. A is for Ambiguity, Again,...
ARRRRGGGHH. If the BCS is not dead yet, it has been placed on a metal table, strapped down, and placed in the path of a slowly ...
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The Alphabetical: Bowl Edition
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Final BlogPoll Ballot Explained
Dawg Sports —
Late Saturday afternoon, I posted a draft of my final BlogPoll ballot with a promise to offer a more thorough explanation later. Here now, without further ado, the justification for my rankings:
Let’s start with the question over which I wrestled the most: "Who’s No. 1?" I acknowledged earlier that the Utes had a compelling case to make, so why did I anoint Florida (13-1) rather than Utah (13-0)? Why are Ute fans not saying, "Thank you, Kyle" to me?
There were a lot of similarities between the Mountain West and Southeastern ...
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