ATTENTION: if I invited you to participate, you responded to me, and you are not on the following list, please email me ASAP. I have a nagging feeling I'm missing a few blogs, but I scoured my inbox and couldn't find anything. Additions will be final by week one. Email me if you've got a problem.
Big Ten
- Off The Tracks (Purdue)
- Lake The Posts (Northwestern)
- Varsity Blue (Michigan)
- Michigan Sports Center
- The Nittany Line (Penn State)
Two additional cuts:
- Run Up The Score folded itself in with Black Shoe Diaries.
- Maize 'n' Brew got bumped in favor of Michigan blogs with higher traffic levels and more content.
(7 cuts; net -2. Purdue, NW now covered, net +2)
ACC
- Scalp 'Em (Florida State)
- Canespace (Miami)
- GT Sports (Georgia Tech)
- Old Gold And Blog (Wake Forest)
- BC Interruption (BC)
(Two cuts; net +3. Wake, Miami now covered but we lost our NC State coverage. Net +1)
Big East
- Bleed Scarlet (Rutgers)
(No cuts; +1, Rutgers now covered; net +1)
SEC
- Clay Travis/Deadspin (Tennessee)
- Fulmer's Belly (Tennessee)
- Gate 21 (Tennessee)
- The Hotty Toddy Blog (Ole Miss)
- Vanderbilt Sports Line
- The Joe Cribbs Car Wash (Auburn)
- The Auburner
- Third Saturday In Blogtober (Alabama - actually a weird Bama/Tenn blog; poll will accept ballots from the 'Bama half)
- Update: Bama Sports Report was one of the ones I forgot.
There is an additional cut:
- Losers With Socks. LWS is only vaguely a Tennessee blog and they have no actual analysis of the football, only short humor posts. They're bumped because of the influx of quality UT options.
(Four blogs removed for a net +5. Auburn, Vandy now represented, net +2)
Big 12
- Barking Carnival (Texas)
- Double T Nation (Texas Tech)
- Ralphie Report (Colorado)
- Mizzourah (Missouri)
- Rock M Nation (Missouri)
(One cut; net +4. Texas Tech, Missouri now covered, net +2)
Pac 10
- Please Excuse Me For My Voice (Cal)
- Bears Necessity (Cal)
- WSU Football Blog
- SoCal Sports Hub (USC)
(Three cuts; net +1. WSU now covered; net +1)
Other
- Block U (Utah)
- Blue Gray Sky (Notre Dame)
(Three cuts; net -1. Utah covered, but we lost our Fresno State and Navy guys. Net -1.)
Totals: this year features ten more blogs covering eight additional teams. Conferences by participation:
- Big Ten: 20
- SEC: 17 18
- Big Twelve: 13
- ACC: 9
- Pac 10: 8
- Others: 8
- Big East: 6
We're working towards better parity amongst voters -- the Big Ten was the only conference to shed members -- but there's still some way to go. I'm willing to bend the admissions rules for a few more ACC, Pac-10, or Big East voters if you're out there.
Original Story:
http://mgoblog.com/content/2008-blogp...
