Okay, here’s how the Pitt Blather ballot finally went.
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southern Cal | — |
| 2 | LSU | — |
| 3 | Oklahoma |  2 |
| 4 | West Virginia |  1 |
| 5 | Texas | 5 |
| 6 | California | 1 |
| 7 | Florida | 1 |
| 8 | Louisville | 4 |
| 9 | Wisconsin | 3 |
| 10 | Rutgers | 3 |
| 11 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 12 | Penn State | 3 |
| 13 | UCLA | 1 |
| 14 | Georgia | 5 |
| 15 | Nebraska | 1 |
| 16 | South Florida | 9 |
| 17 | Georgia Tech | 6 |
| 18 | Boston College | 4 |
| 19 | Clemson | 5 |
| 20 | Texas A&M | — |
| 21 | South Carolina | 5 |
| 22 | Hawaii | 5 |
| 23 | Oregon | 3 |
| 24 | Missouri | 2 |
| 25 | Auburn | 7 |
On the Cusp/Watching: Washington, Cinci, Alabama, Tennessee, VT
Washington and Cinci just missed making my poll. I did move Missouri in, while dropping VT from the draft ballot.
You can see what the full ballot results look like, here. Every blogpoller’s ballot can be viewed here.
There are plenty of teams that I wanted to rank lower, but the problem was that there was a lack of teams that I could justify putting ahead of them without thinking how overrated that would make those teams. That was the one factor that mitigated against fully embracing some of the comments.
Keep in mind that several teams still moved up simply by virtue of other teams being knocked way down or out of the poll.
Did teams like Cal, Florida, Ohio State and UCLA really deserve to rise in the polls even one spot after this past week? Not really but Louisville, Wisconsin, VT and Georgia all deserved to fall further — which is how the others moved up.
