With many clarifications thanks to reader input, as noted below.

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

Dropped Out: Wake Forest (#12), California (#14), Tennessee (#16), Purdue (#21), Hawaii (#24), Brigham Young (#25).

Examples of being taken to task properly:

The principal one from yesterday’s draft was the ranking of Penn State and Texas, pointed out innumerable times by readers. (Actually, that requires counting, something there’s obvious trouble with around here anyway.)

Seriously? How did Michigan drop a spot, while Penn State leapfrogs them from out of the top 25 to 17?

That’s just nonsense.–Bucktown Skins Fan.

You might want to rethink putting 7-3 Penn State over an 8-2 Michigan team that beat them earlier in the year.–Evan.

What the fuck is up with your poll? Penn St and Virginia is ranked and Auburn drops out? Holy shit, what a travesty.–Wes.

Seriously. This is the funniest thing you’ve posted in weeks.–Mon L

This officially makes no sense….I need some more klonipin and black coffee, please…and, one day, maybe the BlogPoll fog will lift.–Der Schatten

Orson, I understand you apologize each week when releasing this thing, but apologizing up front doesn’t make up for doing a half-ass job… this poll is embarrassing… it’s the kind of thing that allows people to defend the idea of Mark May voting in the AP Poll.

Fix it. Fix it now. For the love of god, fix it now.–Peter Pumpkinhead.

Pilloried is an overused word, but not in this case. Rightly done, too–the draft was a masterpiece of contradiction, illogic, and haste to rival Das Kapital for incoherence. It stands corrected now in all its beefy majesty. We’d add a Trogdor third arm to it, so beautiful is it.

Priority seating: We bow to our own obvious predjudices and put LSU at number two. Really, no other excuse remains considering Oregon and LSU are in many ways the same team: solid but not platinum OOC schedule, one very close loss to a conference team with three losses, a spread offense, and blitzing defensive schemes yielding largely good results across the board. If we have to go down the rabbit hole and pit the two teams together in the imagination, Oregon’s injuries at wideout probably put them a notch under LSU at this point. But that’s hypothetical valuation based on the injured list, not actual play, and that we do not like.

We’ll just plead SEC homer at this point, since that’s what someone will think anyway when we say one team is perhaps slightly less awesome than another awesome team.

Michigan is valued over Texas, and who the hell knows what to do with Clemson? Auburn re-enters on the shoulders of the BOOM! MOTHERFUCKER Tigerplainseagle defense.

Dropped: Cal, hilariously overvalued and losers of 3 of their last 4; Wake Forest, targets of market correction of our obvious mind-crush on Jim Grobe’s ability to make a degustation from the paltry ingredients at Wake; Penn State, because they bore us, Klytus; Hawaii, for playing no one; Purdue, for being Purdue and racking up a huge record on fluff before losing in-conference; and Brigham Young, because we’re black and have a thing for Mormon girls. Actually, because we ran out of room and really love Boise State running at full steam over them and a few other teams, too.