This week's Blogpoll is now slightly more logical provided you remember that LSU is 5-0 but has looked like the luckiest pile of gilded mule shit you've ever seen in doing so. Call them the Wisconsin of the SEC at this point, albeit with the OMG LOUISIANA MUTANT TALENT factor ready to explode. They're overrated from potential, but they haven't lost, so yeah floaty floaty tigers far too high. The rest follows
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | |
| 2 | Florida | |
| 3 | LSU | 15 |
| 4 | Texas | 1 |
| 5 | Boise State | |
| 6 | Oregon | 2 |
| 7 | Virginia Tech | |
| 8 | Southern Cal | 4 |
| 9 | Iowa | 1 |
| 10 | Miami (Florida) | 3 |
| 11 | Cincinnati | 2 |
| 12 | TCU | 5 |
| 13 | Ohio State | 7 |
| 14 | Auburn | 6 |
| 15 | Notre Dame | |
| 16 | Mississippi | 8 |
| 17 | Stanford | |
| 18 | Houston | 14 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | |
| 20 | Kansas | 1 |
| 21 | Penn State | 6 |
| 22 | South Florida | |
| 23 | Georgia | 1 |
| 24 | Georgia Tech | |
| 25 | South Carolina | 2 |
| Last week's ballot | ||
Dropped: Cal (implosion complete,) UCLA (seduced by Neuheisel's pretty face,) Minnesota (there are other more solid #25 teams with more than one receiver,) Oklahoma (two losses, and one to an ever-more suspect BYU team,) and Oklahoma State (a byproduct of some poll shuffling and losing to Houston, and yes they beat Georgia, but Georgia didn't lose to Houston, and into everyone's life some logical inconsistency must fall LOOK ELSEWHERE THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN.)
Ambiguous Valuations: Texas slides a bit due to weak scheduling and others actually playing people, but they're still velvet underwear class all the way, and giving way to an LSU team that will either double down and earn their spot this week, or collapse and be relegated to the mid-teens next week. They're in a transitional phase: wait for the butterfly to appear from the pupa, or accept next week their perpetual, disappointing wormhood, Tiger fans.
Alabama maintains with processed, Nick Saban-style consistency, though it would be just the kind of dickhead Houston Nutt flip-eroo to pull this week by looking iffy against Vandy last week before blasting Alabama in a patented "effort" victory over Alabama this weekend. Woo, we're as good as people say we are! Then drop the following conference game against Arkansas in two weeks. Thus the difference between Houston Nutt and Nick Saban: high-variance hootin' and hollerin' with emotional lows resulting in losses, and the icy professionalism of "process" coaches like Saban and Urban Meyer.
Other assorted defenses: Boise's immobile for the moment thanks to Oregon looking so vicious the last two weeks and looking like the best team in the Pac-10. Cincy trumps Ohio State right now because of their actual live ability to score points and play defense, thus making them more complete than the Buckeyes at this point. TCU is good, but only has a win against Clemson to really validate their existence. Stanford rises; USC is a rank guess at this point; the rest, as usual, is a hopeless muddle.
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