I Wanna Be Cool Too!: Rock Chalk Talk's 2009 Preseason CFB Ballot

As you may remember, last season us here at RCT were lucky enough to be a part of the inaugural CBSSports.com College Basketball blogpoll, which started up sometime around February. It was a very cool experience, and one that I hope to get to do again.

More than anything, the CBB blogpoll was a branch off of the internet-famous CFB blogpoll, which was founded and is operated by Brian Cook of mgoblog.com, a Michigan blog. It has since moved to CBSSports.com, prior to the basketball one, and is, as Ron Burgundy might say, kind of a big deal.

Anyways, I suppose RCT isn't big enough or something, because we weren't invited to join the CFB blogpoll. So, yeah, that's that. However, there isn't some law that only those involved in the CBSSports.com blogpoll can submit ballots online, so I figured I'd throw mine out there. This, of course, gives you a great opportunity to debate any potential risers or fallers in the 2009 slate of CFB.

Anyways, if you want to actually view my bracket (which won't be able to use the awesome table things CBSSports.com provides, and instead just be a table with justifications by each, it's after the break.)

So, yeah. As much as I know about CBB, and I'm not ashamed to admit it I know a ridiculous amount and way too much, I don't get into CFB as much. I love it, sure. But it usually takes me a week-or-two into the season before I really have opinions on who should be where. Of course, these polls, no matter how educated, are all just guesses in their own right, which is why preseason polls having a say in who plays for the National Championship is the biggest joke in all of sports. If you want to stick to the polls system, I don't really care. I really don't.

Just don't have the polls start until the BCS polls are released. I know it'll probably never go through, because ESPN is so involved and they love to have the numbers to splatter all across their advertisements telling you to watch Saturday Night Football with godawful Brent Musberger, but it's the fairest way. That way, everyone starts the season on (relatively) equal footing, taking some of the bias out of it. Obviously, the bigger name teams will still be given the edge, but hopefully at least a few of the media members would pretend not to know who was "supposed" to be good, and just vote based on how the teams have all played for the first 6-or-7 weeks or whatever. At least make it fair at the start.

Or, the media members could consider rehashing the entire poll week-after-week, instead of just moving some teams up and others down.

But, whatever. Off my soapbox.

I'm sure all of you disagree here-or-there. Let me know. I really just know how groups of teams shake out right now, and there are a lot of places where there wasn't one particular reason why I chose one team over another.

More CFB-general content will be coming in the next week, right up until kickoff 8 days from now, Thursday night, September 3rd. Oh, what a glorious day that will be. Think of it as a week-long cram session on all things CFB. At least, that's how I hope it will turn out.