It’s royal mess this week, as there were upsets, teams performing well below expectations, and this being the week where resume begins to take exceptional priority over preseason expectations. We’re beginning to get some common opponents and a sample size that’s worthy of evaluating. I’m not entirely sold on this ballot yet, but it’s a draft. A rough rough draft. Tear it up.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Texas |  2 |
| 2 | Florida |  1 |
| 3 | Alabama | 1 |
| 4 | California | 3 |
| 5 | Mississippi | — |
| 6 | Penn State | — |
| 7 | Boise State | 2 |
| 8 | Virginia Tech | 2 |
| 9 | LSU | 2 |
| 10 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 11 | Miami (Florida) | 7 |
| 12 | Cincinnati | 3 |
| 13 | Oklahoma | — |
| 14 | TCU | 5 |
| 15 | Southern Cal | 13 |
| 16 | Brigham Young | 8 |
| 17 | Nebraska | 3 |
| 18 | Oklahoma State | 3 |
| 19 | Houston | 1 |
| 20 | Kansas | 3 |
| 21 | Michigan | 3 |
| 22 | Georgia | — |
| 23 | Washington | 3 |
| 24 | Pittsburgh | 1 |
| 25 | Missouri | 1 |
| Last week’s ballot | ||
Dropped Out: Georgia Tech (#16), Utah (#17).
Filed under: Blogpoll |
Ohio State five spots higher than USC? No Florida State either? They were impressive in slapping around BYU.
Don’t know how I missed FSU. As for the USC-OSU thing, their game was basically a toss up and OSU didn’t lose to an unranked Washington team. Hard to sort of figure that out.