BLOGPOLL BALLOT #3

Rank	Team	Delta
1	West Virginia	—
2	LSU	—
3	Southern Cal	—
4	Florida	—
5	Oklahoma	4
6	California	4
7	Texas	2
8	Wisconsin	—
9	Louisville	2
10	Virginia Tech	3
11	Georgia	1
12	Ohio State	1
13	Arkansas	2
14	Auburn	—
15	UCLA	1
16	Penn State	1
17	Hawaii	3
18	Nebraska	3
19	Rutgers	1
20	TCU	3
21	South Florida	4
22	Boise State	4
23	Michigan State	3
24	Clemson	2
25	Georgia Tech	1

Discussion: No movement at the very top, but a little necessary reshuffling in the mid-upper reaches of the poll.

Oklahoma and Cal move up to fill a vacuum. Oklahoma should have dropped 79 points on North Texas; Cal was very good against a Tennessee team that everybody has been calling overrated since the first preseason mags hit the newsstand. Texas and VT drop for struggling more than they should have against clearly lesser opponents. I almost feel like I should have dropped Texas further. The rest of the movement down to #21 is just re-sorting after one week.

Boise State moves in. I can’t believe I’m ranking Sparty but they were pretty danged brilliant against UAB, even if it was UAB. Clemson wasn’t great against FSU but got the job done. GT beat Notre Dame but don’t worry, I promise I won’t rank every team that beats Notre Dame this year.

As far as the drops, well . . . FSU and Tennessee are obvious, while Miami drops even though they won because I felt Clemson and GT deserved the spots at the bottom of the poll. I wasn’t sold on the Canes to begin with.

For some reason a hacker munged my preseason ballot. They put Michigan as the #6 team in the country! Haha, those crazy script kiddies! This week’s ballot evaluated Michigan a little more realistically.