This week’s blogpoll draft, put up to get the obvious mistakes charred out of the hide of this beast before submission. Preparation: it’s the new procrastination!

Errors, early apologies, and questions below.

Rank Team Delta
1 Ohio State —
2 Oregon 1
3 LSU 1
4 Kansas 2
5 Oklahoma —
6 Missouri 1
7 Connecticut 3
8 West Virginia 1
9 Arizona State 5
10 Boston College 2
11 Georgia 6
12 Southern Cal 14
13 Virginia 10
14 Virginia Tech 6
15 Texas 4
16 Tennessee —
17 Penn State 9
18 Florida State 8
19 Michigan 1
20 Florida 6
21 Clemson 8
22 South Florida 3
23 Boise State 3
24 Alabama 2
25 Arkansas 1

Dropped Out: Wake Forest (#12), California (#14), Auburn (#15), Purdue (#21), Hawaii (#24), Brigham Young (#25).

Errors, queries, other minor tragedies.

Dropped: Wake? Unsure why the first draft doesn’t have them on, other than that we feel the marginal victor of choice in the ACC is not the Demon Deacons but the Virginia Cavaliers. Purdue and Hawaii get no apologies for lack of performance and lack of schedule strength, respectively. BYU gets bumped in the bustle, but Auburn’s the real question mark here. They have the best defense overall in the SEC, and are likely worthy of an edit for inclusion.

Added for dubious reasons: Arkansas, who may be in the poll as a nod to McFadden/Jones alone.

The muddle at the top: The Big 12 dominates the top ten, and we’re suspicious of that clump up there, especially Kansas, who now that everyone has universally acknowledged their goodness will immediately choke–because this is 2007, and we trust no team given a compliment to not let it go to their head and immediately crash and burn the following week.

Oregon at 2 looks like a keeper, though. Their nod over LSU at this point is their snappy, clean offense and discipline, something LSU’s rollicking mess of an offense–talented beyond belief but prone to errors that make things far, far harder than they need be–does not have.

Critiques, invective, and comments below.