Poker Room Updates

Back like we never left....here's what's happening in the Poker Room.

There is a new poll question. On the podcast last night, a member of the Knoxville Connection league suggested a new wrinkle to our Fantasy Football Leagues. Her wrinkle is our poll question. The Knoxville Connection League does not play for any prize while the Poker League obviously rewards cash & prizes. Members of the Knoxville Connection League would like to have something to play for, so this is their proposition. The 2 teams that finish 9th & 10th in the poker league would drop out of the Poker League and be replaced by the playoff and regular season winner from the Knoxville Connection League. If that team is the same then the team that is the playoff runner-up will be the 2nd team. Basically it is like Premier League Soccer. However, we would never try to amend the rules without a consensus from Poker Room Members. So take a look at the poll question and let your voice be heard. Your fantasy football league life could depend on it.

If you are interested in a NCAA Fantasy Basketball League, please sign up so we can get a number on who is interested. The rules for the league will be up 4 debate and we can discuss them on a poker night in the future. The league will be through Fantrax.com. I'll go ahead and save you the trouble of typing. To get there click here. Once there follow the registration instructions and then enter the following:

• League ID: g0gvb4m5g13wlhjg (that 1st 0 is a zero not a letter)
• Password: govols

Please submit your Centeroak College Football Top 16 poll by Tuesday @ midnight. We will discuss during the podcast which will hopefully be Wednesday, but could possibly be Thursday. Check back later in the week to be sure.

The reason for the uncertainty of the podcast is that Poker may have to be moved from Tuesday to Wednesday. Will make those it concerns aware on Tuesday afternoon.

Let's keep this thing going.

Centeroak College Football Top 16

Here is our poll. There will be commentary tomorrow, but I do want to note that the parentheses represent a team's number this week vs. their number last week. Same criteria apply. One change is that ties are not displayed as they were last week. The reason for that is that only 2 other teams were ranked and they were only in 1 poll a piece. Teams that can't do better than that don't deserve to be in our Top 16 no matter how much (Houston @ 5-1 that beat the #14 team) or how little (South Carolina Maples, really?) they deserve it. If you don't know the criteria, scroll down to last week's poll. The method to our madness is there. 

And let's be honest....some of these rankings are madness.

1. Alabama (5 from same)
2. Florida (7 from same)
3. Texas (14 from 17)
4. Cincinnati (19 from 28)
5. Boise St. (20 from 17)
6. Iowa (25 from 40)
7. USC (30 from 31)
8. Miami (32 from 31)
9. Oregon (38 from 34)
10. TCU (38 from 50)
11. LSU (42 from 57)
12. Georgia Tech (44 from 68)
13. Penn St. (49 from 54)
14. Oklahoma St. (60 from NR)
15. BYU (61 from NR)
16. Virginia Tech (65 from 19)

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College Football Top 16

Before unveiling our poll, here is how we got here. Centeroak Poker Room Members & Guest Members sent their polls in. We then put each team's ranking beside them added those rankings up, and the team w/the lowest numbers were ranked the highest.

For example, If Alabama received 3 1st place votes, 2 2nd, and 1 3rd, they would have be given a 10. Then say Florida received 3 1st place votes and 3 second place votes, they would have a 9. Thus Florida would be ranked higher than Alabama.

In a situation where a team was ranked in some polls but not in others, that team was given 1 more point than the final team ranked in that person's poll. For example, if Kansas was ranked in 13,14, & 16 in 3 polls, but not ranked in 3 others, they were given 3 17th rankings for the polls not ranked in. 

Therefore.....(13+14+16+17+17+17=94), 94 would be their number. 

Also if a person only didn't rank 16, non-ranked teams were still given 1 more point than than the final team ranked in their poll. For example if someone ranked only 10 teams, the non-ranked teams would all be given an 11. And if a person sent in more than 16 teams, than the team was given the exact ranking they had in a person's Top 20. In other words, the 18th ranked team in a Top 25 poll received 18 points.

So without further ado, here is the Centeroak Poker Room Top 16 College Football Poll.

1. Alabama 
2. Florida
3. Boise St. / Texas
4. Virginia Tech
5. Cincinnati
6. Miami / USC
7. Oregon
8. Iowa
9. Ohio St.
10. TCU
11. South Florida
12. Penn St.
13. Kansas
14. LSU
15. Nebraska
16. Georgia Tech

I realize most polls don't rank a 5th place team if there is a tie for 3rd, but I for 1 have always hated that so we are gonna do that here. We have some things to discuss on the next podcast....whenever that might be. 

Because some of us are idiots.

College Football Poll & Podcast Info

Look to your right fellas. No look down. Little bit further down. Poll question. The one about the # of teams. Yeah, voting's over. That means we have a win-nah. 16 teams. I will admit it is not a consensus, in fact, I was the deciding vote. But this is a democracy people, and a democracy states the answer with the most votes wins. If you have a problem with it, send a friend to our little sight and have them rock the vote.

Anyway, it is now time to send in your top 16 poll (if your already sent it in, I'll whittle it down to 16). Please have them in by 12:00 am Thursday night/Friday morning. It will then be posted Friday morning. Next week and every week after polls should be in by 12:00 am Monday night/Tuesday morning.

We may attempt a podcast on Thursday night. We will get a consensus tonight at poker. If we play. Up to you guys.

Let's keep this thing going.

Podcast Tonight

We will start at 7:09. Discussions will range from UT vs. UGA and our College Football Polls to last week's poll question and poker night. And you can bet we hit on our Fantasy Football Action as well as some thoughts on the off-season. It all comes to you Live from the Centeroak Poker Room.

Let's keep this thing going.

Top 25 Poll Update

As you can see we have received a few Top 25 polls from some members. After speaking with and getting what I feel as consensus from our members, one thing is for sure....putting together a College Football Top 25 is not easy. The dissension on the podcast, as well as the difference in our polls bears witness to that. There was one thing that every one agreed on though, after you got past the first 15 or 16 teams, ranking the teams to 25 was a crap shoot. With that being said, I propose a change....screw a Top 25. The Centeroak Poker Room needs to be original. And that leads me to next week's poll question. 

How Many Teams Should be in Our College Football Poll?

The new question will be up on Sunday. Voting will close Tuesday. Vote as often as you wish. Our new poll, whatever the number, can then be submitted to our Poker Room address so we can have it up by Friday of next week. Lots of great games Saturday. Pay attention fellas. 

Jeremy's Top 25 College Football Poll

1.Alabama- *censored*
2.Florida- *censored*
3.Texas- Mack Brown was born in TN, right?
4.Cincinnati- Skyline Chilli is great and this one is for Basilio
5.Virginia Tech- I wish UT played Beamer Ball for Special Teams
6.Auburn- They might not deserve it, but they have looked better than lsu
7.USC- Thanks for smoking Cal
8.LSU- I do not believe, but they are SEC, so.....
9.Boise St- Blue turf rhymes with smurf...If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
10.TCU- I've been called a horned frog
11.Miami- I wish I was there
12.South Florida- they beat "hot bobby,hot bobby" good enough for me and I wish I was there
13.Iowa- They beat Penn State, thankee
14.Oregon- Ranked higher if their uniforms were not hideous
15.Oklahoma State- When I turn 40, will I be a man like Mike Gundy...I hope not
16.Nebraska- Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl *censored*
17.Ohio State-whatever
18.Ga Tech- Love the offense and anything that pisses off Ga Bulldogs is fine by me
19.Penn State- Bobby Bowden is not going to catch JoPa now, bwahhh
20.Wisco- undefeated, but who really cares
21.Kansas- undefeated, but who really cares
22.Missouri- undefeated, but who really cares
23.South Carolina- SEC
24.Ole Miss- SEC
25.UCLA- If I rank them, it makes the Vols look better, right?

Others receiving votes
Dallas Cowboys- they might be a top 25 team if they played college teams
Ohio U- Their coach was at Nebraska for the Fiesta Bowl *censored*

Maples' Top 25 College Football Poll (+ some Podcast Info)

1. Florida
2. Alabama
   
3. Texas
4. LSU
5. Boise State
6. Virginia Tech
7. Oregon
8. Miami (Fl)
9. Cincinnati
10. Southern California
11. Ohio State
12.  TCU
13. Iowa
14. Kansas
15. South Carolina
16. Oklahoma
17. Penn State
18. Auburn
19. Ole Miss
20. Mizzou
21. BYU
22. Houston
23. Notre Dame
24. Southern Florida
25. Oklahoma State

Maples did not send any explanation for his rankings and that is too bad b/c he has got some 'splainin' to do. For example...

• Why is a 3-1 BYU team ranked behind a 2-2 Oklahoma team that it beat?
• Why is a USC team with one loss ranked 13 spots ahead of Notre Dame when Notre Dame beat the team that gave USC that loss?
• Why is an undefeated Auburn team ranked behind a South Carolina team w/1 loss?
• Why is an undefeated LSU team that plays in toughest conference in America and has beaten 1 ranked team, the Washington team that beat USC in the same building, along w/2 other SEC teams ranked behind a Texas squad whose best win is against a 2-2 Texas Tech squad that hasn't beaten a ranked team and scored it's 2 wins against 2 teams w/a combined record of 2-7?
• And most importantly, Florida #1? Thought you were a Vol.

Hopefully he will join the podcast Wednesday night to answer for himself, when we analyze all the polls, including mine which I will make known on the show. The podcast will also include a breakdown of the weekend's Fantasy Football action, a poker re-cap, and reaction to the Centeroak Question results. It's gonna be a full show. (Gotta make up for Sunday.)

Consider yourself teased.

Tate's Top 25 College Football Poll

1 Alabama 4-0 Have done the most so far
2 Florida 4-0 They have Tebow
3 LSU 5-0 SEC is the best conference/ done more than Texas
4a Texas 5-0 ho-hum
4b Boise State 5-0 beat Oregon
6 Virginia Tech 4-1 better than USC
7 USC 4-1 Beat Ohio State
8 Iowa 5-0 better than TCU or natti
9 Cincinnati 5-0who cares
10 TCU 4-0 who cares
11 Oregon 4-1 lost at #4b
12 Miami (FL) 3-1 Lost to #6 on the road
13 Ohio State 4-1 lost to #7 at home
14 Auburn 5-0 Undefeated in the SEC
15 Oklahoma State 3-1

* from here on out you could throw these names up in the air your guess is as good as mine*

16 Penn State 4-1
17 Kansas 4-0
18 Brigham Young 4-1
19 Mississippi 3-1
20 Nebraska 3-1
21 Georgia Tech 4-1
22 South Florida 5-0
23 Missouri 4-0
24 South Carolina 4-1
25 Wisconsin 5-0

Tate also added this note:

*Not in my top 25 is Notre Dame because their QB is gay and sucks giant bags of dicks for breakfast and gets golden showers from Golden Tate and if Harrison Smiths dad is such a good plastic surgeon why cant he do something about Charlie Weiss’s fat ugly ass and they are a catholic school so they probably want to have sex with little boys*

Maples & Fritts Top 25 are on the way.......

Centeroak Poker Room Top 25

Attention Poker Room Members & Guests:

We here at the Centeroak believe that ESPN & those Harris people are full of shit, so we going to compile our own Top 25 College Football poll. Please email the Poker Room your top 25 along with any commentary or reasons for your rankings to the email address in our Contact Info Section. We will compare what we get and release a Centeroak Top 25 on Friday of this week. Starting next week, we will try to release a poll on Tuesday of each week, so all ballots will need to be turned in by Monday as we try to make this a weekly thing. Be sure to participate in our new Centeroak Question section as well. All participation will be greatly appreciated as we try to make the Centeroak Poker Room as interactive as possible. Let's keep this thing going.