Blogpoll Final Ballot: Week 4 Comment Count

Tim

A few changes from the draft, mostly based on the help from commenters. The chart is still the same as the draft ballot, though I'll add South Carolina into the mix, as suggested by Doc Sat.

  • I dinged Brigham Young a bit further, since the Oklahoma win isn't that impressive yet (though the Sooners have a chance to live up to the hype against Miami this weekend) and because Florida State is an embarrassing loss - both in terms of margin and the fact that FSU didn't cover themselves in glory against South Florida. I still think Oklahoma over BYU is defensible because the game between the two was close at a neutral site, and BYU's loss was horrible.
  • I moved Penn State down a bit further because they haven't done anything yet. In their only game against real competition, they were not competitive.
  • Cal drops down a lot because their Oregon loss was an embarrassment. Oregon moves up for pounding a former member of the top 5, and because Boise has proven to be legit competition thus far. A win over Utah isn't something to sneeze at, either.
  • I dropped LSU down a little bit, because in two of their wins (both over unranked opponents), they were outplayed for much of the game, and probably should have lost at least one of them. They'll have plenty of chances in the future to prove themselves.

At this point, a few things look odd (i.e. a couple of teams in the top 10 not feeling like "Top 10 teams"), but that's life, especially early in the year.

Rank Team Delta
1 Alabama
2 Florida 1
3 Texas 1
4 Virginia Tech 8
5 Houston 5
6 Cincinnati
7 Boise State
8 Iowa 13
9 TCU 6
10 Southern Cal 1
11 Miami (Florida) 7
12 Ohio State 1
13 LSU 9
14 Oklahoma State 5
15 Penn State 7
16 Auburn
17 Oklahoma
18 Georgia 6
19 Brigham Young 4
20 Michigan
21 UCLA 4
22 Oregon
23 Georgia Tech 5
24 Missouri
25 California 20
Last week's ballot


Dropped Out: Mississippi (#9), Florida State (#14), Notre Dame (#25).