This is not as much fun as you would think. I feel pretty good about #1 through 15. I’m sure there’s a little off here and there, but nothing too egregious. After that, it feels like it is one step above throwing darts.
You can take a look at individual BlogPoll ballots here. The results should be up some time in the afternoon.
UPDATE: Full Poll results are now available.
Everyone seems to have real question markss. Or at least I have questions about them.
- Southern California – Still winning
- Texas – Mack Brown’s moment of truth this weekend
- Virginia Tech – I still have a feeling about the traditional late October swoon
- Ohio State – DNP
- Tennessee – They have at least one more loss in them
- Miami (Florida) – Can they run the ball?
- Georgia – They’ve been dominating, but not getting that much buzz
- Alabama – It’s an issue of health and depth right now
- Notre Dame – They can score, but do they have enough defense?
- Florida State – Good defense but can they score enough against the better teams?
- Louisiana State – Bounce back win. I guess.
- Florida – Maybe not as good as I thought.
- Cal – They just keep winning
- Michigan State – Gave that game away
- Arizona State – No shame in losing to USC
- Auburn – Quietly rising in the SEC
- Texas Tech – Could only hang 30 on Kansas? They feel very shaky now that they actually have to play Div. 1-A teams
- Georgia Tech – DNP
- Louisville – Rising only because so many others lost
- Wisconsin – Typical Badger team
- Boston College – I guess
- UCLA – 4 Pac 10 teams in my top 25? Strange days, indeed.
- Michigan – As long as Hart is healthy they look to hang in and around
- West Virginia – Lost to a top-5 team. I’ll keep them in a little longer.
- Nebraska – Hey, they had some offense, finally
Out: UVA, Purdue, Toledo, Iowa St. and Vandy.
In: Wisconsin, Michigan, UCLA, BC and Nebraska
Standing by: Penn St. (and no, I’m not happy about that).
At least I can feel good about not ranking Minnesota last week, just for pulling off an overtime home win against a now completely exposed Purdue team. That’s part of why PSU doesn’t crack the rankings this week.
#16-25 I don’t like at all. I kind of want to group them more as #16a – e and #21 a-e. There doesn’t feel like much of a difference.
Games seen in whole or part: VT-WVU; Iowa-OSU; Mich.-MSU; Minn.-Neb.; ND-Pur; Fla-Ala; and Pitt-RU.
