Blogpoll: You Maniac! You Blew It Up!

or perhaps more appropriately:

I'm the stupid one and Galen is the drunk.

And it all started out so nicely. Another weekend, another massacre of the Top 5, just the perfect time to try and address some of problems I was having with earlier polls. Did I fix it? Hell no, still have lots of issues, it gets real ugly outside of the top 12, probably earning one of the bad awards for my ballot this week, but there's plenty of season left. All those Big 12 and SEC squads crowding the top? Hurray for cannabilism! They should sort themselves out in the near future, however, I am now feeling far less enthusiastic about the Big 12 as a whole than I had previously. BYU? Much more comfortable with where they're at now. USC/Ohio State? Too low, but if they take care of their business, opportunities abound. Corrections, suggestions and objections are always welcome.

Games watched: Troy/Florida Atlantic, Clemson/Wake Forest, Louisville/Memphis, Texas/Oklahoma, Minnesota/Illinois, Notre Dame/North Carolina, Purdue/Ohio State, Tennessee/Georgia, Penn State/Wisconsin, Oklahoma State/Missouri and LSU/Florida.

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

Dropped Out: Northwestern (#19), Illinois (#22), Wisconsin (#24).

Moving Up:
Texas Tech - chalk this up to bad memories of injustices past. Yes they struggled against Nebraska, but they won and having gone through '94 and watching a team drop for winning a close game (albeit differently because Indiana put points up on Penn State in garbage time against the back-ups) still burns me up.

Oklahoma State - Really expected Missouri to potentially run the table to the Big 12 Championship game, since they were set up in the North and the class of the Big 12 is in the South. Oklahoma State went into Missouri and exposed their offense is indeed human, they punt and turn the ball over!

Moving Down:
BYU/Kansas - course correcting my ballot, Kansas lost to South Florida and BYU starts playing some actual competition this week.

Illinois - losses to Missouri and Penn State were understandable, but Minnesota? Old Illinois reared its ugly head with bad turnovers.

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#9 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

#10 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

#11 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

#12 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

#13 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

#14 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

#15 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

#16 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

#17 Wake Forest
at Baylor 41-13 (376/250)
Mississippi 30-28 (348/360)
at Florida State 12-3 (276/220)
Navy 17-24 (313/343)
Clemson 12-7 (342/198)
at Maryland

#18 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

#19 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

#20 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

#21 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

#22 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

#23 Kansas
Florida International 40-10 (384/139)
Louisiana Tech 29-0 (538/267)
at South Florida 34-37 (434/458)
Sam Houston State 38-14 (528/385)
at Iowa State 35-33 (436/365)
Colorado 30-14 (407/223)
at Oklahoma

#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

#25 Vanderbilt
at Miami (OH) 34-13 (360/340)
South Carolina 24-17 (225/325)
Rice 38-21 (344/407)
at Mississippi 23-17 (202/385)
Auburn 14-13 (263/208)
at Mississippi State 14-17 (107/247)
at Georgia

Dropped out:
#19 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

#22 Illinois
at Missouri 42-52 (532/549)
Eastern Illinois 47-21 (533/278)
Louisisana-Lafayette 20-17 (341/287)
at Penn State 24-38 (372/422)
at Michigan 45-20 (501/319)
Minnesota 20-27 (550/312)
Indiana

#24 Wisconsin
Akron 38-17 (479/297)
Marshall 51-14 (487/314)
at Fresno State 13-10 (304/343)
at Michigan 25-27 (384/268)
Ohio State 17-20 (326/327)
Penn State 7-48 (313/377)
at Iowa