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| Rank | Team | Delta |
| 1 | Texas (8-0) | -- |
| 2 | Alabama (8-0) | -- |
| 3 | Penn State (9-0) | -- |
| 4 | Texas Tech (8-0) |  3 |
| 5 | Georgia (7-1) | 1 |
| 6 | Oklahoma State (7-1) |  2 |
| 7 | Oklahoma (7-1) | 2 |
| 8 | Southern Cal (6-1) | -- |
| 9 | Florida (6-1) | -- |
| 10 | Utah (8-0) | 1 |
| 11 | Boise State (7-0) | 4 |
| 12 | Florida State (6-1) | 8 |
| 13 | TCU (8-1) | 3 |
| 14 | Ohio State (7-2) | 1 |
| 15 | Tulsa (7-0) | 7 |
| 16 | Brigham Young (7-1) | 10 |
| 17 | Missouri (6-2) | 1 |
| 18 | Ball State (8-0) | 8 |
| 19 | Minnesota (7-1) | 7 |
| 20 | LSU (5-2) | 10 |
| 21 | North Carolina (6-2) | 5 |
| 22 | Oregon (6-2) | 4 |
| 23 | Michigan State (7-2) | 3 |
| 24 | Georgia Tech (6-2) | 12 |
| 25 | South Florida (6-2) | 11 |
Dropped Out: Pittsburgh (#17), Boston College (#19), Kansas (#21), Virginia Tech (#23), Northwestern (#24), Vanderbilt (#25).
Welcome! Brigham Young, Ball State, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Michigan State
Waiting Room: Boston College, Pittsburgh, Kansas, Virginia, West Virginia
Highest Standard Deviation Between Individual Ballots: LSU (6.36), Missouri (5.66), Ohio State (4.95)
Lowest Standard Deviation Between Individual Ballots: Texas, Alabama, Penn State, Texas Tech, Utah, Brigham Young
By Conference: Big XII 5, SEC 4, Big Ten 4, ACC 3, Mountain West 3, Pac 10 2, WAC 1, Big East 1, Conference USA 1, MAC 1
2 comments:
way too many non bcs teams ranked... you mean to tell me Boise, Tulsa, Utah, BYU, and Ball St are better than the likes of LSU, GT, UNC, Oregon? I would disagree
While I would agree with you that Boise, Tulsa, Utah, BYU and Ball State might lose to an LSU, Georgia Tech, North Carolina or Oregon, the intent of the blogpoll isn't to rate teams based on a hypothetical 'who beats who.'
Instead, the blogpoll is meant to measure how much a team has accomplished on the field.
LSU has two losses to the only ranked opponents they have played, and the games weren't close. Outside of those games, who have they beat? South Carolina by 7? MSU by 10? Auburn (now looking very suspect) by 5? If Jeff didn't put them in his Top 25, I had left them out and they wouldn't have been in our poll this week ... and we wouldn't have been alone.
Ranking the undefeated non-BCS schools is justified in my opinion. I might agree with you thought that BYU could be unranked given that their wins against BCS conference teams (UCLA and Washington) are looking very suspect at this point.
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