Posted by NoleCC

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama	—
2	Florida	—
3	Texas	—
4	Oklahoma	—
5	Southern Cal	—
6	Penn State	—
7	Boise State	—
8	Utah	—
9	Texas Tech	—
10	Ball State	—
11	Ohio State	2
12	Georgia Tech	5
13	TCU	3
14	Cincinnati	4
15	Boston College	4
16	Missouri	5
17	Oklahoma State	5
18	Oregon	6
19	Michigan State	1
20	Oregon State	6
21	Brigham Young	—
22	Northwestern	—
23	Pittsburgh	3
24	Mississippi	2
25	Nebraska	1

Let’s talk Texas, OU and Texas Tech:

I’ve watched all three teams play a lot of games this season, and the MOST impressive is Oklahoma. They were pretty impressive in the loss to Texas, but they LOST to Texas. Texas Tech proved that it’s much improved, but can’t hang with the top two teams in the Big XII, Texas and OU, last second win against Texas aside.

So what does a voter do? You have to send Texas to the Big XII title game by ranking them higher than OU. They beat OU by 10 points on a neutral field. And, “most impressive” at this point means nothing when you have a head-to-head game to look at. Yes, OU is on fire, but so is Florida. Should the Gators be ranked #1? Hell no, not until they beat Alabama next weekend, then all hell can break loose.

As for the rest of the poll:

It’s driving me nuts to rank Georgia Tech as the best ACC team, when they won’t even be in the championship game, but “dems da facts.” The ACC must be cringing at the thought of B.C. / V.T. again this year, and the Orange Bowl must be thrilled about a Cincinnati / winner of the ACC Title game match up, for all 10 people that are going to attend.

Other than that it was some shuffling around in the 15-25 range, and I decided that Ole Miss deserved a spot in the Top 25 after reviewing their schedule. Solid wins, and a couple of tough losses. Plus Ole Miss girls are hot.

What say you? Leave me some comments if you’d like me to change some of it up.