HP’s Top 10 Teams, Final 2009-2010 Rankings

By on January 8, 2010 in The HP Top 10 Teams

1. Alabama

2. Texas

3. Florida

4. Boise State

5. Ohio State

6. TCU

7. Penn State

8. Virginia Tech

9. Iowa

10. Oregon

On the cusp: Nebraska, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Brigham Young, Utah

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11 Responses to HP’s Top 10 Teams, Final 2009-2010 Rankings

  1. CloroxingTheGenePool January 8, 2010 at 1:02 pm #

    Oregon is not in the top 10 of either the AP or Coaches poll but the Ducks somehow manage to make it into yours. Admire your efforts to always make the Pac 10 relevant, although it undermines your credibility.

    Where’s Navy? The Midshipmen didn’t get any respect for their wins over Notre Dame and Missouri and a close & late loss to Ohio State.

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  2. Jonsi January 8, 2010 at 1:28 pm #

    I assume HP is projecting Oregon as the favorite to win the Pac 10 next year, and I’d agree the winner of that conference is a top 10 team. But moreover, the AP and Coaches polls have them at #11, so how exactly does HP lose credibility by placing them at 10?

    FAIL.

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  3. Heismanpundit January 8, 2010 at 1:43 pm #

    Yeah, the crime of the century, putting Oregon at No. 10 instead of No. 11.

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  4. CloroxingTheGenePool January 8, 2010 at 1:51 pm #

    HP has overrated the Pacthetic 10 teams all season long. No surprise he puts the Ducks ahead of where either of the respected polls place them, even if it’s just 1 spot. Maybe that should be Chris’ next blog entry/question to the readers, “Am I fair or biased in my assessments”? I dare you……:P

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  5. Brandon January 8, 2010 at 2:44 pm #

    The emofootball.com rankings finished up like this:

    1.Boise State
    2.Alabama
    3.Texas
    4.Florida
    5.TCU
    6.Cincy
    7.Ohio State
    8.Central Michigan
    9.Penn State
    10.Oregon

    They have a points based ranking system instead of a poll.

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  6. sandymex January 8, 2010 at 4:11 pm #

    “emofootball” ignores conference strength, while simultaneously rewarding teams in the weakest conferences for large margins of victory. According to Sagarin, Alabama’s weakest in-conference opponent was 47th. Boise St’s strongest in-conference opponent was 59th!

    Here’s Sagarin’s final conference rankings:
    1 SEC
    2 Big East
    3 Pac 10
    4 ACC
    5 Big 12
    6 Big 10
    7 Independents
    8 Mountain West
    9 WAC

    According to Massey, here’s the computer poll consensus:
    1 Alabama
    2 Florida
    3 Texas
    4 Boise St
    5 TCU
    6 Ohio St
    7 Cincinnati
    8 Virgina Tech
    9 Oregon
    10 Penn St

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  7. slippy January 9, 2010 at 9:05 am #

    The coaches poll is hardly a respected poll. VT finished ahead of GT and LSU ahead of Ole Miss due to the pure stubbornness and lack of actual game watching the coaches do.

    Oregon is still a good team. If Blount doesn’t fumble that ball that’s a whole different ballgame and none of you would be complaining if they finished 11-2 as P10 and Rose Bowl champs.

    HP, PSU over Iowa? Really?

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  8. Bucknut January 9, 2010 at 10:55 am #

    Sagarin’s ratings are bullshit. Big Ten is better than ACC. Iowa over GT. Wisky over Miami. Big Ten champ also beat Pac 10 champ.

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  9. PAC 10 Homer January 9, 2010 at 10:17 pm #

    HP…I’d love to see an article by you acknowledging the error of your frequent assertions that the PAC 10 was the best conference this year. Do you have the integrity to admit that you were wrong?

    You always site Sagarin when it’s to the PAC 10s advantage. When’s the last time you sited Sagarin to prove the SEC was the best conference this year? In the straight mean calculation, the one that has no bias at all and should therefore be preferred as the truest measure (at least of Sagarin’s ratings), the PAC finished 5th….5th! The SEC was a clear winner in all of Sagarin’s calculations. Oh, and SOS…SEC dominates according to your oft sited source: Sagarin. 5 of the top 7 and 10 of the top 21 most difficult SOS.

    Why are you so quiet about Sagarin, SOS and strength of conference all of the sudden? Is it because you won’t report on stuff that goes against your erroneous judgments derived from your PAC bias?

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  10. mosdog January 16, 2010 at 10:59 am #

    wtf is emofootball I guess it involves blading and crying

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  11. mosdog January 16, 2010 at 11:03 am #

    Alabama played 10 bowl teams and beat all 10 of them including 5 major new years day and beyond teams

    BSU beat no one except for TCU. The Oregon win was fluky and against a weakened PAC-10.

    Its easy to run up the score on bad teams and win 2 close to semi close games against i okay and 1 “good” opponet who also played nobody all year long.

    Meanwhile Alabama played a tough as hell schedule against VATech, LSU, AU, Ole Miss, Florida and the rest of the gang. BSU would have had at least 3 most likely 4 losses against all of those teams

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