We recommend the playing of the following YouTube clip during your perusal of the BlogPoll. Midnight Star never got enough play. Plus our dad's in the clip in the white outfit. Or at least we wish our dad had that kind of fashion sense.
And now, our latest stab at a Blogpoll. Notes and clarifications follow:
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State | -- |
| 2 | Auburn | -- |
| 3 | Southern Cal | -- |
| 4 | Michigan | -- |
| 5 | Louisville | -- |
| 6 | Florida | -- |
| 7 | Iowa | -- |
| 8 | West Virginia | -- |
| 9 | Oregon | -- |
| 10 | Texas | -- |
| 11 | Louisiana State | -- |
| 12 | Virginia Tech | 1 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 6 |
| 14 | Cal | 10 |
| 15 | TCU | 1 |
| 16 | Notre Dame | 1 |
| 17 | Georgia | 5 |
| 18 | Nebraska | 8 |
| 19 | Clemson | 2 |
| 20 | Rutgers | -- |
| 21 | Oklahoma | 5 |
| 22 | Georgia Tech | 4 |
| 23 | Wake Forest | 3 |
| 24 | Boston College | 6 |
| 25 | Washington | 1 |
Notes, clarifications, and errata:
1. No games of shocking upset, clear emergence from mediocrity, or serious entry into decline resulted from this week's competition. Thus, we have complete and total parking on the dancefloor this week in the upper ranks. Therefore there's zero movement in spots 1-11. What's cracked there remains cracked this week.
2. New foolishness lurks below the once, however. Cal, after weeks of mistrust, earns their way back into the fold by shattering the remaining fragments of Rudy Carpenter's ego and beating Arizona State, who appears well on their way to another bowl game with an improbably sponsor.
3. Virginia Tech goes up a spot because Jenkins told us to put them up a spot.
4. Tennessee, apparently the second best team in the east, appears to be in form. Bacon-flavored donuts for all!
5. Notre Dame goes down one spot simply for being close to the contagion that is the Michigan State football program. Panic not, for their succulent mid-year schedule promises an upward trajectory in the polls.
6. TCU jumps just because, as we keep repeating, their real mascot can fire blood from his eyeballs. Has "www.givesuperfrogeyesthatsquirtblood" been claimed yet? If not, that bitch is ours.
7. Georgia falls because they're plummeting into qb controversy and Colorado knocked them around stank-nasty last Saturday. Their O-line and their WRs may be more of a problem in the long run, since neither seems to have a proper understanding of what they're supposed to be doing on the field. We'll be happy to hoist them high with a sound Orgeron-ning of the Orgeron this weekend, but until then their turmoil on the offensive side of the ball scares us off them.
8. Rutgers over Oklahoma. Why, you ask? Well, I got me a movie, wah ha ha ha, slicing up eyeballs, wa ha ha ha....
Every poll needs a little surrealism. Well, there you go.
9. Wake Forest: run for cover, motherfuckers!
10. Clemson's just stupid fast on the ground, and should--should--pave their way through the majority of the ACC schedule. This being a Tommy Bowden team, they will fail to do this, and drop one to three dumb games they should not lose for reasons that film study and hours of quiet contemplation will not elucidate.
11. In conclusion: everything after 11 is fiction backed up with whimsy, an occasional reference to a stat, and pure bullshitting guesswork. Please contribute outrage, questions, concerns, and well-crafted emoticons below.
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