Week 10 Mumme Poll Draft

Top Five
Florida
Alabama
Texas
TCU
Cincinnati

Next Seven
Boise State
Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh
LSU
Ohio State
USC
Oregon

I think the Top 7 were fairly easy to place. I guess Pitt is a legit Top 12 team now. Watch them lay an egg to Jimmy Heisman this week. LSU, Ohio State, USC, Oregon round out the tail end of my ballot because they would be favored over any team behind them. Please don't give me Houston or Utah. Houston was a one point favorite over Tulsa and TCU opened at -17.5 over Utah. Who else can you argue to put in? Miami sucks. Iowa really sucks. Penn State really really sucks against decent teams. Maybe Arizona, but they lost to Iowa. Go Frogs.

Week 9 Mumme Poll Draft

Top Five
Alabama
Florida
Texas
TCU
Cincinnati

Next Seven
Oregon
Boise State
Iowa
Georgia Tech
LSU
Penn State
Pitt

Putting Pitt in the Top 12 bothers me, because both Ohio State and USC would be favored over them, but at this point I am valuing having one loss to NC State over having two losses to USC/Purdue or Washington/Oregon.

Week 8 Mumme Poll Draft

TCU and Cincy finally gave me enough reason to knock Boise out of the Top 5. At this point, I think those two teams would be favored over anyone in the next seven on a neutral field, except USC.

Top Five
Florida
Alabama
Texas
TCU
Cincinnati

Next Seven
Boise State
Iowa
Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
USC
Oregon
LSU

Teams 6-11 seem pretty solid to me in some order. I thought about lifting Penn State, Oklahoma State, or Pitt ahead of LSU, but I left it as is for continuity. I'm sure I'll address it again next week.

Week 7 Mumme Poll Draft

The coaches' poll is such a joke. I can't wait to see what the Harris folks put out today.

Top Five
Florida
Alabama
Texas
Boise State
TCU

Next Seven
Cincinnati
Southern Cal
Virginia Tech
Miami
Georgia Tech
Iowa
LSU

I wanted to drop Boise out of the Top 5, but for whom? USC looked like garbage yesterday. Cincinnati and Iowa don't really impress me.

At the end of the ballot, you can make an argument for Oregon over LSU or Virginia Tech. VT is still a Top 12 team, at least by this year's standards, with losses to Bama and GT and beating a maybe decent Nebraska team while thumping everyone else.

Week 6 Mumme Poll Draft

This week's ballot is exactly like last week's ballot. What happened that would have changed my opinion? The only upset was Auburn, which was clearly overrated last week (#11 after only being favored 1.5 @ Tennessee?) and no team overperformed or underperformed expectations except Texas, who was obviously looking ahead to OU.

Top Five
Florida
Alabama
Texas
Virginia Tech
Boise State

Next Seven
TCU
Cincinnati
Miami (FL)
Ohio State
USC
Iowa
LSU

The only team I debated about moving up was Nebraska. Which team on my list are they better than though? Maybe Iowa or LSU, but Iowa is undefeated and LSU's loss is (slightly) better. If LSU lays an egg against inferior competition again, maybe I'll elevate Nebraska.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Week 5 Mumme Poll

I'm participating in the Mumme Poll this year. This week's ballot is a dry run and doesn't actually count. I'm going to post a draft of my ballot on Sunday afternoons to make sure I didn't screw anything up. Monday night, I'll submit my final ballot before the 9p deadline.

Top Five
Florida
Alabama
Texas
Virginia Tech
Boise State

The Rest
Southern Cal
Iowa
Ohio State
LSU
Miami
TCU
Cincinnati

Note: order doesn't matter and I didn't take any time to separate the above into an ordered 1-5 and 6-12. I would imagine the biggest gripe will be leaving undefeated LSU out of the Top 5 while having Boise and VT in. My rationale is that LSU is going to be a double digit dog at home against Florida next week if Tebow plays, and I don't think that would be true for Tech or Boise.

Feel free to tell me where you think I am wrong in the comments.