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Who's No. 1?: How I Cast My BlogPoll Ballot and Why
I put more thought into my preseason BlogPoll ballot than most Americans put into their votes for president of the United States (as evidenced by the fact that John McCain and Barack Obama are the nominees of the two major parties). On Thursday evening, after much deliberation, I formally exercised...
Without Trinton Sturdivant, Is Georgia No. 1?
Football season is almost upon us. Seemingly the entire membership of the United Nations (Burnt Orange, Double-T, and Rock M . . . for crying out loud, there are more Big 12 blogs with "Nation" in the name than there are Big 12 stadia with "Memorial" in the name!) is talking about poll voting,...
Last Call for BlogPoll Ballot Feedback
The e-mail from MGoBlog’s Brian Cook arrived in my in-basket at 2:38 this morning. (Dude, get some sleep already!) The 2008 preseason BlogPoll will be coming your way in a week. The ballot I intend to cast remains unchanged from the updated version I posted on August 4. As was the case a year...
Decision 2008: Presenting the Third and (Probably) Final Draft of My Preseason BlogPoll Ballot
I started thinking about my preseason BlogPoll ballot with about six weeks remaining until the start of the season. After circulating a preliminary draft privately and receiving some feedback, I published a revised top 25. I solicited and received public comments on this version, to which I...
Friendly Fire: Addressing the Constructive Criticisms of My Pre-Preseason Top 25
When college football season was just six weeks away, I began putting together notes on my preseason BlogPoll ballot. After privately circulating a draft ballot among a few friends and family members, I received some feedback, upon the basis of which I posted a revised edition of my top 25 for...
A Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Pigskin Quicky Approaching
Greetings, lady and gentlemen. Sorry for the non-Samardzija related content over the last fortnight, but it was a busy few weeks, with a wedding, The Dark Knight and my move down to DC to start the real world. (The actual real world, not The Real World: DC. I’m not sure if that would be...
A Preliminary Public Draft of My 2008 Preseason BlogPoll Ballot
After offering some preliminary notes on my preseason BlogPoll ballot, I drew up and circulated privately an initial draft of my top 25, with respect to which I solicited and received feedback from friends and family members. Ere I submit for your review a revised (yet still far from final)...
Family Feedback: Further Notes on a Preseason BlogPoll Ballot
Late last Monday night, I offered some initial thoughts on my preseason BlogPoll ballot, which my fellow BlogPollsters and I will be asked to cast next month. After taking an initial stab at an inaugural top 25 for the 2008 campaign (but before I read Sunday Morning Quarterback’s excellent...
Election Night Dawg Bites
I’m not going to lie to you: I have a lot of ground to cover and we’re going to be jumping around quite a bit, so, if all this seems pretty random, don’t worry; it’s not just you. Here are the minutiae of which you need to be aware, arrayed in all their crazed randomness: I’m thinking seriously...
A Midsummer Night's (Top 25) Teams: Preliminary Notes on a Preseason BlogPoll Ballot
It’s getting to be that time of year once more. It is mid-July; only six Saturdays stand between us and college football season. The preview magazines are on the newsstands, Sunday Morning Quarterback’s assessments have moved from the absurdly premature through the reasonably anticipatory to the...
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