Daily Blog • August 30, 2010

The Week One Poll is available right now!

You can vote on who will win this week’s games by clicking the above link. This poll is separate from the conference and non-conference poll contest that you have been voting on all summer long. The tie breaker will be whoever correctly picks the biggest upset to occur. For example if two players are tied at the top, the person who correctly predicted a 17 pt underdog to win will get the nod over someone who did not pick any upsets.

Every week I will announce the winners of the weekly poll along with the prizes. This first week the prizes are as follows:

1st Place. Complete Set of Phil Steele magazines and Polo Shirt
2nd Place. Your choice of two magazines and Polo or T shirt
3rd Place. Phil Steele.com T Shirt
4th Place. Phil Steele.com T Shirt
5th Place. Phil Steele.com T Shirt

Make sure you get in on the week one vote I will keep a running talley of the leaders during the year in two categories A) Total Wins B) Winning Percentage. I will update this weekly as well. Best of all the contest is FREE!!!

Also check out our daily poll on the homepage which you can predict which ranked team is most likely to lose to an unranked team this week. Last year you guys were able to predict several upsets and I will be keeping track on how you perform this year.

The non-conference polls are shaping up and if you have not voted already you have until Wednesday September 1st to vote on who you think will win each non-conference game played this year! First Let's Look at some of the Key Non-Conference Matchups So Far

72% of the voters feel Florida will beat Florida St on the road.
62% of the voters feel Georgia will beat Georgia Tech at home.
59% of the voters feel South Carolina will beat Clemson on the road.
82% of the voters feel Oregon will beat Tennessee on the road.
84% of the voters feel Alabama will beat Penn St at home.
85% of the voters feel Auburn will beat Clemson at home.
69% of the voters feel Arkansas will beat Texas A&M in Arlington.
62% of the voters feel LSU will beat North Carolina in Atlanta.
79% of the voters feel Ohio St will beat Miami, Fl at home.
66% of the voters feel Iowa will beat Arizona on the road.
72% of the voters feel Notre Dame will beat Michigan at home.
72% of the voters feel Nebraska will beat Washington on the road.
78% of the voters feel Oklahoma will beat Florida St at home.
53% of the voters feel Boise St will beat Virginia Tech in Landover.
62% of the voters feel Miami, Fl will beat Pittsburgh on the road.
68% of the voters feel USC will beat Notre Dame at home.
69% of the voters feel TCU will beat Oregon St in Arlington.

Projected Overall Non-Conf Record
Projected Non-Conf Record
Vs FBS Teams
Projected Non-Conf Record
vs BCS Conf Teams
W
L
%
W
L
%
W
L
%
SEC
43
5
89.58%
SEC
32
5
86.49%
SEC
12
4
75.00%
Big Ten
38
6
86.36%
Big Ten
28
6
82.35%
Big Ten
7
5
58.33%
Big 12
38
10
79.16%
Big 12
30
10
75.00%
Big 12
6
6
50.00%
Pac-10
22
9
70.97%
Pac-10
15
9
62.50%
Pac-10
10
5
66.67%
Big East
28
12
70.00%
Big East
19
12
61.29%
Big East
4
11
26.67%
ACC
32
16
66.67%
ACC
19
16
54.28%
ACC
7
12
36.84%
MWC
22
15
59.45%
MWC
18
15
54.54%
MWC
6
9
40.00%
Indep
22
14
61.11%
Indep
20
14
58.82%
Indep
5
9
35.71%
WAC
18
22
45.00%
WAC
10
22
31.25%
WAC
3
11
21.43%
CUSA
17
31
35.42%
CUSA
11
31
26.19%
CUSA
4
23
14.81%
MAC
14
38
26.92%
MAC
4
38
9.52%
MAC
0
28
0.00%
Sun Belt
5
31
13.89%
Sun Belt
3
31
8.80%
Sun Belt
0
26
0.00%

So far if the voters turn out to be right in all of the games to no surprise the SEC is number one in all 3 of the categories with a 89.58% overall mark and an impressive 75% win % against BCS conference teams. The Big 10 was a clear second in the overall record and record vs FBS teams but the Pac-10 is ahead of them with a 66.67% mark against BCS conference teams. I also thought that it was interesting that the Pac-10 played 48% of the non-conference games against BCS schools and were the only BCS conference to be above 40% in this area. The Big East had solid marks in their overall record and win % against FBS teams, but the conference is projected to be just 4-11 vs BCS schools. The MWC also according to the voters is proving agian why they are the best non-BCS conference being the only one to be above 50% in overall record.

Now here is the complete list of how you the fan voted on all of the non conference games this year. (Thanks for voting!)

Only 3 More Days Until the First College Football Game!!