BLOGPOLL: AS GOOD AS GUESS AS ANY

Our preseason follows; the full composite Blogpoll is, as always, over at MGoBlog.

Rank	Team
1	Florida
2	Texas
3	Southern Cal
4	Oklahoma
5	Alabama
6	Penn State
7	Ohio State
8	Mississippi
9	Virginia Tech
10	California
11	LSU
12	Utah
13	Oklahoma State
14	Boise State
15	Georgia Tech
16	Georgia
17	TCU
18	Iowa
19	Oregon
20	Texas Tech
21	Notre Dame
22	North Carolina
23	Nebraska
24	Oregon State
25	South Florida

Really, once you get past the first two teams, there are only a few certain tiers you can file teams into:

Florida, Texas: Hugely talented blue-chip covered glory bombs studded with talented gamebreakers not losing any significant continuity along lines or under center.

Oklahoma, USC, Ohio State, Alabama, Penn State. See above, but with flux along lines and at skill positions.

The Bourgeoisie Everyone to the mid-teens or so, depending on your fine gradations. Virginia Tech wouldn't be here, but the loss of Darren Evans moves them into the firmly offense-deficient category for the moment until someone begins getting steady production out of the backfield besides him. Mississippi is probably the best of these on paper, and sure, they'll blow it and win eight games like Houston Nutt teams under pressure have done in the past, but what we have is paper, so there's your paper eight. All of these teams have at least one glaring weakness.

The Middle Class. A diverse middle class, at that: wacky fauxhemians (Texas Tech), the loud nouveau-riche (Oklahoma State,) and last year's flash aristocrats Georgia, who fell from grace and now must work their way up from middle management all over again.

The rest, as usual, is a bleeding mess, but remember: it's pulled from the same place everyone else is getting their preseason polls, and that is directly and deeply from the ass. Personally, we liked Schnelly's better after the top slot.