This week's Blogpoll Ballot Draft, Halloween edition is submitted below for perusal. Pay little attention to the arrows, since they reflect moves made after a couple of save and edits. (To view last week's ugly effort, click here.)
Questions and comments follow. Click on the jump...if you dare...
The horrors of our blogpoll ballot are just around the corner, mortal.
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State | -- |
| 2 | Michigan | 1 |
| 3 | Texas | 2 |
| 4 | Tennessee | -- |
| 5 | California | 2 |
| 6 | Louisville | -- |
| 7 | Southern Cal | 5 |
| 8 | West Virginia | 3 |
| 9 | Auburn | -- |
| 10 | Florida | -- |
| 11 | Notre Dame | 1 |
| 12 | Georgia Tech | 4 |
| 13 | Wisconsin | -- |
| 14 | Rutgers | 4 |
| 15 | Boston College | 2 |
| 16 | Texas A&M | 4 |
| 17 | Arkansas | 3 |
| 18 | Clemson | 10 |
| 19 | Oklahoma | 4 |
| 20 | Wake Forest | 2 |
| 21 | Oregon | 6 |
| 22 | LSU | 4 |
| 23 | Virginia Tech | 3 |
| 24 | Boise State | -- |
| 25 | Missouri | 4 |
Dropped out: NFL Reject Crew. Nebraska and Pitt both leave the poll, mostly because both keep crapping out in big games. Go figure that hiring two coaches from the pros whose teams never prevailed under pressure would create two college teams of approximately similar natures. Hmm...
Two OR Operations away from clarity. Two great divides left: OSU/UM and Louisville/WVU. After that, the deluge, a.k.a. a whole bundle of bad math, poll struggling, and PR tussling in very, very awkward fashion. And no one's even thinking about a potential championship game bonus for and SEC or Big 12 team yet, which must have Texas feeling very bullish indeed.
Texas, good. They're massively improved except for the secondary, which Texas Tech shot up on Saturday.
Southern Cal, trending downward. There's a predictive element here, since we see them losing to Cal now and sagging lower and e'er lower in the polls. Dynastic trough reached, no matter how shallow that particular trough may be. (In USC's case, very shallow--they're real good-like out there.)
Bump to WVU.Florida, Auburn go nowhere. Weak sister play for Tigers, weak ass offensive slapfight for Florida means neither team goes anywhere. We hate the Gator offense right now. That is stating it gently, since we just threw our martini glass against the floor thinking about the playcalling Saturday.
Notre Dame, racking up the service academy points. USC's loss wasn't disaster for Notre Dame, but it wasn't great, either. They'll be pulling for the Trojans against Cal and everyone else to finish to bolster their own S.O.S., since they've got sweet, pressed-sandwich snacking between now and USC. They will, in the meantime, beat the daylights out of two service academies and North Carolina. Notre Dame beats the hell out of our fighting men's football teams. Ask yourself this question: why do you hate America, Notre Dame?
Hogs, Clemson down. Clemson looked very one-dimensional against VT (who's back in the poll after the win on Thursday night) and Arkansas is rooting through the candy bag late in the year. Taste the whip of a poll seen by at least three hundred people, Houston Nutt!
LSU, back in. Again, potentially a forecasting hedge based on their two huge games versus Tennessee and Arkansas. If Arkansas wins that game, they'll be rocket propelled to the top ten. If LSU does, we'll have to do some math. That's only going to end in sorrow.
The rest, of course, is a total bloody mess. Please! Kindly requested is your input, which you may leave below. If you don't, we'll send that badass glass ball from Phantasm after you.
Commentary is requested...or else.
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