Canesfan Satisfaction Meter: 93.5%

[Note: Separate Collball Week 13 post featuring Saturday's UM-South Florida game, FSU-Gators and more may be found in blog post directly below this].

Satisfaction with UM football stands at a solid 93.5 percent after the Hurricanes nded their regular season with a 31-10 victory at South Florida, leaving UM's record at 9-3 entering the bowl game. That includes 62.5% who call themselves "very" satisfied, according to the latest Canesfan Satisfaction Meter poll.

The CSM, new to the blog this season, is a continuing gauge of how UM fans are feeling about the team and season. Polls are posted following the conclusion of every Canes game. Season results appear beneath the latest poll.

The criteria for voting is your own, but I suggest fans consider the most recent game's performance, the season as a whole, the program's direction, and your overall degree of optimism -- all in the context of reasonable expectations.

Poll and comments section stay open, but results become official on midnight the day after each game; in this case midnight last night.

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Canesfan Satisfaction Meter season results:

Game 1: 98.9 percent satisfaction (72.3 very, 26.6 somewhat) following 38-34 victory at FSU.

Game 2: 99.5 percent satisfaction (89.0 very, 10.5 somewhat) following 33-17 victory vs. Georgia Tech.

Game 3: 65.3 percent satisfaction (24.9 very, 40.4 somewhat) following 31-7 loss at Virginia Tech.

Game 4: 99.0 percent satisfaction (87.5 very, 11.5 somewhat) following 21-20 victory vs. Oklahoma.

Game 5: 99.0 percent satisfaction (76.4 very, 22.6 somewhat) following 48-16 victory over Florida A&M.

Game 6: 97.1 percent satisfaction (71.5 very, 25.6 somewhat) following 27-7 victory at Central Florida.

Game 7: 44.1 percent satisfaction (15.5 very, 28.6 somewhat) following 40-37 OT loss vs. Clemson.

Game 8: 59.8 percent satisfaction (13.4 very, 46.4 somewhat) following 28-27 victory at Wake Forest.

Game 9: 95.2 percent satisfaction (66.4 very, 28.8 somewhat) following 52-17 victory vs. Virginia.

Game 10: 24.9 percent satisfaction (5.9 very, 19.0 somewhat) following 33-24 loss at North Carolina.

Game 11: 80.2 percent satisfaction (25.3 very, 54.9 somewhat) following 34-16 victory vs. Duke.

Game 12: 93.5 percent sayisfaction (62.5 very, 31.0 somewhat) following 31-10 victory at South Florida.

[Next and final poll of season will be immediately following bowl game].

Comments

[Tom]

Charlie Weiss is starting to resemble Gerry Faust and his team is staring to lay down like Faust's team laid down on him. Neither is a particularly good HC, but both deserved better from their players than they got.

How bout those Canes! So which bowl game are we getting? My guess is no Gator Bowl which means no New Year's day bowl. Probably the Champ Sports in Orlando (which would be fine by me I'll be able to attend that game) on the 29th or the Meinecke Car Care in Charlotte on the 26th (I'll have to miss that since I'll be in Miami).

[the shadow knows]

Tom,

9-3 deserves a decent bowlgame, one with a better name and more history than chik-fil-a or meinecke car care or champs sport!! of the lesser bowls, i've always liked the sun bowl and the holiday bowl in san diego, which had the great game when BYU and jim mcmahon came back against SMU with three TDs in the last few minutes. the holiday bowl is locked in to one of the lower PAC-10 teams, but USC and miami would be a great match-up. georgia tech can't stop georgia up the gut and they will drop no matter what happens in the ACC conference game. GT was pathetic against miami and is offering up a repeat of that game so far.

[Jimbo]

Who's getting the Heisman? Tebow, McCoy?

[the shadow knows]

Jimbo,

it says here that in next week's matchups, colt mccoy will get bigger numbers against nebraska than tim tebow will against alabama. in the meantime, toby from stanford runs straight up and yet nobody can tackle him- he knocks two people backwards at a time!! there was a day when the trophy went to the best runner in college football, but since football has become pass-happy, real workhorses don't get into the picture. 400 yard passing games are almost common; 200 yard rushing games a rarity.

[Mudbone]

UM 31 USF !) YAM YAM not 31-20

[Mudbone]

UM 31- USF 10 YAM YAM, not 31-20

[the shadow knows]

Jimbo,

stanford's runner comes from norco, which is in the steel mill triangle of san bernardino county, along with colton and fontana- tough boys with low scroring run fests when the high schools play each other!!

[Jimbo]

good point shadow.. my thoughts are that Stanford RB Toby will make more of an impact in the NFL then Tebow or McCoy.

[Cam Cameron]

Nobody will make a bigger NFL impact than Ted Ginn Jr. and his family.

[Jimbo]

ok Cam, if u say so

[mike1]

My vote goes to Gerhart. McCoy 2nd. However, both play against horrible defenses in their conferences..something that is often forgotten. The scandalous Heisman lately always goes to a top ranked team;l so Gerhart doesn't get it.

[mike1]

If we could do playoffs my way. I'd eliminate conference championship games, except if needed as tiebreakers. Then have a preliminary elimination round for those conferences considered weakest. Independents need to join a conference. Doesn't matter this year. Here's an example:

Round 1: Sun Belt (Troy)vs Mid Amer (Ohio or CMU)

Round 2:
A. Mntn West winner (TCU) vs Round 1 winner
B. WAC (Boise St) vs Conf USA winner (UH or ECU)

Round 3:
1. Big 12 (Texas) vs A (probably TCU)
2. SEC (maybe UF) vs Boise St
3. PAC-10 (Oregon) vs Big-10
4. ACC (Ga Tech) vs Big East (Cinci or Pitt)

Round 4:
#1 winner, probably TCU vs #4 winner probably Ga Tech
#2 winner, probably UF vs #3 winner, probably Oregon

Champiosnhip: Oregon vs TCU

Winner: TCU

[Tom]

Jimbo Cam is right. "Impact" is not unidirectional. Teddy has cost us more games than any 2007 draftee has won. So he really has had the greatest "impact" albeit it NEGATIVE IMPACT!

Heisman vote will go as follows:

1. McCoy
2. Tebow
3. Ingram
4. Gerhart

Who should win: CJ Spiller

1,350 yds from scrimmage, 5 yd per carry, well over 2,300 all purpose yds. 5 return TDs (4 KO and 1 punt). 26 yds per punt return, 40 yds per KO return.

Just my 2 cents

[the shadow knows]

Tom,

one of the reasons i believe colt mccoy will win is that cj spiller and tebow will split the votes in the southeast. i just can't believe that a guy who runs straight up like gerhart doesn't get tackled; he may be the strongest runner i have seen in college football in a long time; charles white was strong, but he wasn't even 190 lbs! these are the toughest guys. we don't count jerome bettis as he was 230+.

[fanny farkle + the farkle family]

Who cares what you guys think. Lets wait till dave in los angeles, gives us his unbiased openion.

[Moonbats R US]

How fukking dare anyone out there make fun of dave in los angeles after all he has been through.!

He lost his trailer, he went through a divorce, the strings on his guitar broke. His messiah turned out to be a tax and spend bum.

HE’S A HUMAN! (ah! ooh!) What you don’t realize is that dave in los angeles is making you all laugh and all you do is write a bunch of crap about him.

LEAVE HIM ALONE! You are lucky he even writes on this blog you BASTARDS!
LEAVE DAVE IN LOS ANGELES ALONE!…..Please.

Perez Hilton talked about professionalism and said if dave in los angeles was a professional he would’ve pulled it off no matter what. Perez would know.

Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional to publicly bash someone who is going through a hard time? Mentally disturbed?

Leave dave in los angeles Alone Please…. !
Leave dave in los angeles alone!…right now!….I mean it.!

Anyone that has a problem with him you deal with us, MOONBATS R US.

LEAVE HIM ALONE!

[mike1]

Tom, I agree that's how the Heisman will go but that's not how I thibnk it should go. Would be nice if the NCAA would wake up and stop their bias in not having playoffs and in moving the Heisman selection to after the bowl games.