Blogpoll: Preparing For The Home Stretch

This week saw very few changes until you ventured down the poll and then its approaching anarchy. Not entirely happy with the shape of things right now and so I find myself leaping from week to week, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that my next leap will be the leap home. A seemingly light slate of big games and a Penn State bye week may offer the opportunity to finesse things a bit. Corrections, suggestions and objections are always welcome.

Games watched: Ohio/Temple, Auburn/West Virginia, Boise State/San Jose State, Texas Tech/Kansas, Illinois/Wisconsin, Northwestern/Indiana, Minnesota/Purdue, Oklahoma State/Texas, Georgia/LSU, Michigan State/Michigan, Alabama/Tennessee, Penn State/Ohio State and UCF/Tulsa.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Texas	--
2	Alabama	--
3	Texas Tech	--
4	Penn State	--
5	Oklahoma State	--
6	Oklahoma	--
7	Georgia	--
8	Florida	--
9	Southern Cal	1
10	Utah	2
11	TCU	2
12	Boise State	2
13	Ball State	2
14	Missouri	2
15	Ohio State	4
16	Tulsa	2
17	Minnesota	2
18	LSU	9
19	Florida State	3
20	California	6
21	Michigan State	5
22	Oregon	4
23	Brigham Young	1
24	North Carolina	2
25	West Virginia	1

Dropped Out: South Florida (#17), Georgia Tech (#20), Pittsburgh (#21), Northwestern (#23), Virginia Tech (#25).

Moving Up:
Oklahoma State - not so much moving up as not moving down with what was the most impressive loss of the year, just cannot punish them for it.

Almost Everyone Kicked Out Last Week - congratulations, the replacements all lost in what is turning out to be a blind grab bag at the bottom of the poll.

Moving Down:
LSU - my preseason fears about the quarterback situation are playing out right now along with piss poor defense giving up another 50+ point game.

The Big East - seriously, does anyone want to play in a BCS Bowl?

#1 Texas
Floria Atlantic 52-10 (503/292)
at UTEP 42-13 (404/412)
Rice 52-10 (600/318)
Arkansas 52-10 (421/191)
at Colorado 38-14 (431/266)
Oklahoma (in Dallas) 45-35 (438/435)
Missouri 56-31 (591/348)
Oklahoma State 28-24 (504/416)
at Texas Tech

#2 Alabama
Clemson (in Atlanta) 34-10 (419/188)
Tulane 20-6 (172/318)
Western Kentucky 41-7 (557/158)
at Arkansas 49-14 (402/309)
at Georgia 41-30 (334/324)
Kentucky 17-14 (388/276)
Mississippi 24-20 (326/359)
at Tennessee 29-9 (366/173)
Arkansas State

#3 Texas Tech
Eastern Washington 49-24 (639/364)
at Nevada 35-19 (421/488)
SMU 43-7 (693/274)
UMass 56-14 (538/258)
at Kansas State 58-28 (626/296)
Nebraska 37-31OT (421/471)
at Texas A&M 43-25 (561/306)
at Kansas 63-21 (556/315)
Texas

#4 Penn State
Coastal Carolina 66-10 (594/250)
Oregon State 45-14 (454/332)
at Syracuse 55-13 (560/159)
Temple 45-3 (546/138)
Illinois 38-24 (422/372)
at Purdue 20-6 (422/241)
at Wisconsin 48-7 (377/313)
Michigan 46-17 (482/291)
at Ohio State 13-6 (281/287)
at Iowa

#5 Oklahoma State
at Washington State 39-13 (367/196)
Houston 56-37 (699/483)
Missouri State 57-13 (572/196)
Troy 55-24 (612/416)
Texas A&M 56-28 (401/402)
at Missouri 28-23 (402/454)
Baylor 34-6 (457/204)
at Texas 24-28 (416/504)
Iowa State

#6 Oklahoma
Chattanooga 57-2 (487/36)
Cincinnati 52-26 (592/326)
at Washington 55-14 (591/338)
TCU 35-10 (436/314)
at Baylor 49-17 (594/269)
Texas (in Dallas) 35-45 (435/438)
Kansas 45-31 (674/491)
at Kansas State 58-35 (528/550)
Nebraska

#7 Georgia
Georgia Southern 45-21 (535/290)
Central Michigan 56-17 (552/309)
at South Carolina 14-7 (252/289)
at Arizona State 27-10 (461/212)
Alabama 30-41 (324/334)
Tennessee 26-14 (458/209)
Vanderbilt 24-14 (425/245)
at LSU 52-38 (443/497)
Florida (in Jacksonville)

#8 Florida
Hawaii 56-10 (406/241)
Miami 26-3 (345/140)
at Tennessee 30-6 (243/258)
Mississippi 30-31 (443/325)
at Arkansas 38-7 (514/361)
LSU 51-21 (475/321)
Kentucky 63-5 (446/268)
Georgia (in Jacksonville)

#9 Southern Cal
at Virginia 52-7 (558/187)
Ohio State 35-3 (348/207)
at Oregon State 21-27 (314/343)
Oregon 44-10 (598/239)
Arizona State 28-0 (387/229)
at Washington State 69-0 (625/116)
at Arizona 17-10 (367/188)
Washington

#10 Utah
at Michigan 25-23 (341/203)
UNLV 42-21 (440/288)
at Utah State 58-10 (446/116)
at Air Force 30-23 (440/191)
Weber State 37-21 (450/359)
Oregon State 31-28 (337/405)
at Wyoming 40-7 (242/252)
Colorado State 49-16 (549/298)
at New Mexico

#11 TCU
at New Mexico 26-3 (291/186)
Stephen F. Austin 67-7 (525/143)
Stanford 31-14 (378/193)
at SMU 48-7 (498/210)
at Oklahoma 10-35 (314/436)
San Diego State 41-7 (498/85)
at Colorado State 13-7 (317/199)
BYU 32-7 (410/297)
Wyoming 54-7 (444/221)
at UNLV

#12 Boise State
Idaho State 49-7 (582/207)
Bowling Green 20-7 (340/307)
at Oregon 37-32 (424/464)
Louisiana Tech 38-3 (464/320)
at Southern Miss 24-7 (350/278)
Hawaii 27-7 (367/288)
at San Jose State 33-16 (393/207)
at New Mexico State

#13 Ball State
Northeastern 48-14 (487/324)
Navy 35-23 (488/413)
at Akron 41-24 (491/418)
at Indiana 42-20 (463/415)
Kent State 41-20 (423/353)
Toledo 31-0 (484/157)
at Western Kentucky 24-7 (355/352)
Eastern Michigan 38-16 (408/376)
Northern Illinois

#14 Missouri
Illinois 52-42 (549/532)
Southeast Missouri State 52-3 (592/334)
Nevada 69-17 (651/362)
Buffalo 42-21 (590/286)
at Nebraska 52-17 (462/369)
Oklahoma State 23-28 (454/402)
at Texas 31-56 (348/591)
Colorado 58-0 (491/199)
at Baylor

#15 Ohio State
Youngstown State 43-0 (495/74)
Ohio 24-16 (272/254)
at Southern Cal 3-35 (207/348)
Troy 28-10 (309/315)
Minnesota 34-21 (414/268)
at Wisconsin 20-17 (327/326)
Purdue 16-3 (222/298)
at Michigan State 45-7 (332/240)
Penn State 6-13 (287/281)
at Northwestern

#16 Tulsa
at UAB 45-22 (601/414)
at North Texas 56-26 (555/450)
New Mexico 56-14 (606/316)
Central Arkansas 62-34 (641/435)
Rice 63-28 (577/453)
at SMU 37-31 (602/469)
UTEP 77-35 (791/338)
UCF 29-19 (435/187)
at Arkansas

#17 Minnesota
Northern Illinois 31-27 (425/398)
at Bowling Green 42-17 (397/389)
Montana State 35-23 (352/356)
Florida Atlantic 37-3 (441/276)
at Ohio State 21-34 (268/414)
Indiana 16-7 (333/293)
Illinois 27-20 (312/550)
at Purdue 17-6 (321/226)
Northwestern

#18 LSU
Appalachian State 41-13 (459/239)
Troy ppd.
North Texas 41-3 (425/199)
at Auburn 26-21 (398/320)
Mississippi State 34-24 (427/285)
at Florida 21-51 (321/475)
at South Carolina 24-17 (363/254)
Georgia 38-52 (497/443)
Tulane

#19 Florida State
Western Carolina 69-0 (561/176)
Chattanooga 46-7 (494/164)
Wake Forest 3-12 (220/276)
Colorado 39-21 (378/278)
at Miami 41-39 (440/256)
at NC State 26-17 (392/338)
Virginia Tech 30-20 (248/243)
at Georgia Tech

#20 Cal
Michigan State 38-31 (467/402)
at Washington State 66-3 (505/167)
at Maryland 27-35 (461/297)
Colorado State 42-7 (348/351)
Arizona State 24-14 (277/236)
at Arizona 27-42 (425/404)
UCLA 41-20 (385/253)
Oregon

#21 Michigan State
at California 31-38 (402/467)
Eastern Michigan 42-10 (418/342)
Florida Atlantic 17-0 (347/225)
Notre Dame 23-7 (346/258)
at Indiana 42-29 (497/473)
Iowa 16-13 (275/309)
at Northwestern 37-20 (297/459)
Ohio State 7-45 (240/332)
at Michigan 35-21 (473/252)
Wisconsin

#22 Oregon
Washington 44-10 (496/242)
Utah State 66-24 (688/306)
at Purdue 32-26OT (503/408)
Boise State 32-37 (464/424)
at Washington State 63-14 (507/271)
at USC 10-44 (239/598)
UCLA 31-24 (365/351)
at Arizona State 54-20 (537/333)
at Cal

#23 BYU
Northern Iowa 41-17 (563/362)
at Washington 28-27 (475/337)
UCLA 59-0 (521/239)
Wyoming 44-0 (364/273)
at Utah State 34-14 (406/322)
New Mexico 21-3 (382/285)
at TCU 7-32 (297/410)
UNLV 42-35 (454/463)
at Colorado State

#24 North Carolina
McNeese State 35-27 (384/391)
at Rutgers 44-12 (378/383)
Virginia Tech 17-20 (307/268)
at Miami 28-24 (299/309)
UConn 38-12 (263/378)
Notre Dame 29-24 (472/322)
at Virginia 13-16OT (332/275)
Boston College 45-24 (352/244)
Georgia Tech

#25 West Virginia
Villanova 48-21 (354/399)
at East Carolina 3-24 (251/386)
at Colorado 14-17OT (354/366)
Marshall 27-3 (493/158)
Rutgers 24-17 (333/270)
Syracuse 17-6 (346/268)
Auburn 34-17 (445/260)
at Connecticut

Dropped out:
#17 South Florida
Tennessee-Martin 56-7 (520/97)
at UCF 31-24OT (504/226)
Kansas 37-34 (458/434)
at Florida International 17-9 (320/189)
at NC State 41-10 (520/265)
Pittsburgh 21-26 (245/374)
Syracuse 45-13 (487/230)
at Louisville 20-24 (352/323)
at Cincinnati

#20 Georgia Tech
Jacksonville State 41-14 (484/258)
at Boston College 19-16 (235/262)
at Virginia Tech 17-20 (387/247)
Mississippi State 38-7 (500/407)
Duke 27-0 (454-132)
Gardner-Webb 10-7 (199/227)
at Clemson 21-17 (298/249)
Virginia 17-24 (259/396)
Florida State

#21 Pittsburgh
Bowling Green 17-27 (393/254)
Buffalo 27-16 (352/348)
Iowa 21-20 (259/361)
at Syracuse 31-24 (407/263)
at South Florida 26-21 (374/245)
at Navy 42-21 (499/251)
Rutgers 34-54 (442/486)
at Notre Dame

#23 Northwestern
Syracuse 30-10 (484/225)
at Duke 24-20 (328/472)
Southern Illinois 33-7 (333/263)
Ohio 16-8 (280/232)
at Iowa 22-17 (390/407)
Michigan State 20-37 (459/297)
Purdue 48-26 (451/466)
at Indiana 19-21 (316/319)
at Minnesota

#25 Virginia Tech
East Carolina 22-27 (243/369)
Furman 24-7 (329/247)
Georgia Tech 20-17 (247/387)
at North Carolina 20-17 (268/307)
at Nebraska 35-30 (377/333)
Western Kentucky 27-13 (293/243)
at Boston College 23-28 (240/300)
at Florida State 20-30 (243/248)
Maryland