Notes and admissions of naked, inept error follow.

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

Dropped Out: Michigan (#14), Auburn (#17), Florida State (#20), Alabama (#22), Penn State (#23), Arkansas (#25).

As usual, the readers are far smarter than we are. We claimed that Virginia Tech had won their game versus Chandoridicus Gailey the First while Clemson and Virginia had dropped their matchups. Untrue: Virginia won theirs 28-23, while Clemson did lose theirs. We blame the error on only ourselves and a futile attempt to intuit anything about college football from a win or loss to Georgia Tech. We bump down our irrational exuberance on Virginia substantially, while curbing our innate, undying SEC homerism by putting one-loss ASU over new-model villain-type UGA. Don’t forget that Tennessee shut them out for one half, as pointed out by commenters below, since Georgia eventually scored 14 points in that game. Corrected. That team’s still in there somewhere, Solja Boy or not.

Also: We bump Illinois. A stout run game, a good defense, and a well-managed, conservative play-action passing game will get you far in the Big Ten and elsewhere. Again, if they beat us in a bowl game, the site goes dark for a day with a picture of [NAME REDACTED] as the only content.

Arbitrary line call one: Oklahoma over Kansas. We’re David Hume-skeptical to the end on Kansas until they beat Missouri. Kansas right now feels like the Jason White-era Sooners teams: astonishing numbers, flashy play, and a sick feeling that they’ll cave in the last two games of the season under defensive pressure from a competent foe.

Arbitrary line call two: We’re not ranking Penn State because they’ve got three losses and are sluggish, uninteresting, and not keeping pace with the back of the pack in terms of trend. That’s why it’s just one ballot–because we could totally be wrong here, and are more than happy to admit it. However, they get no vote from us. There’s a moaning at the door here, hold on…JoePa! Why are you clutching at my scalp?…OHHHHH GOOOODDDDD NOOOOOOO!!!! (Num num num num num BRAAAAAINNNNS!!!)