BlogPoll: Week 1 Ballot

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Southern Cal (1-0)	--
2	Georgia (1-0)	--
3	Oklahoma (1-0)	2
4	Auburn (1-0)	2
5	LSU (1-0)	2
6	Ohio State (1-0)	2
7	Florida (1-0)	2
8	West Virginia (1-0)	4
9	Wake Forest (1-0)	2
10	Missouri (1-0)	2
11	Texas Tech (1-0)	1
12	Alabama (1-0)	14
13	Kansas (1-0)	3
14	Texas (1-0)	1
15	Boston College (1-0)	4
16	Brigham Young (1-0)	2
17	Arizona State (1-0)	--
18	Oregon (1-0)	3
19	California (1-0)	3
20	Penn State (1-0)	6
21	Utah (1-0)	1
22	Fresno State (1-0)	1
23	Clemson (0-1)	20
24	Wisconsin (1-0)	1
25	Florida State (0-0)	1

New To The Poll: Alabama (1-0) (#12), Penn State (1-0) (#20), Florida State (0-0) (#25)

Others Receiving a Top 25 Vote: Tennessee, East Carolina, Kentucky


Highest Standard Deviation Between Individual Ballots (where both teams were ranked by us in Top 25), i.e. teams we disagreed on the most: Alabama (5.66), Penn State (5.66) Clemson (5.66), Arizona State (4.95)

Lowest Standard Deviation Between Individual Ballots (where both teams were ranked by us in Top 25), i.e. teams we agree on the most: USC (0.00), Texas Tech (0.00), Kansas (0.00), California (0.00)

By Conference: SEC 5, Big XII 5, Pac 10 4, ACC 4, Big Ten 3, Mountain West 2, Big East 1, WAC 1

Games Brian Watched:
NC State @ South Carolina (75%)
Virginia Tech @ East Carolina (50%)
Boston College vs. Kent State (in-person)
Delaware at Maryland (50%)
Illinois vs. Missouri (50%)
Clemson vs. Alabama
Fresno State @ Rutgers
Tennessee @ UCLA

Games Jeff Watched:
NC State @ South Carolina
Boston College vs. Kent State
Illinois vs. Missouri
Clemson vs. Alabama
Kentucky @ Louisville
Colorado State @ Colorado
Fresno State @ Rutgers
Tennessee @ UCLA


Brian: First off, what happened to your boys Clemson? Down 20 spots? And we seem to disagree on Alabama the most. What did you see Saturday night from the Crimson Tide (you shouldn't have seen anything because you should have been watching your Eagles)?

Jeff: TiVo plus BC game ended early in the 3rd quarter of the Clemson game plus I had 2 TVs set up in the living room for it. But the reason why I moved up the Crimson Tide so much is because their freshmen are awesome. If you have all the same players two years in a row, how much can you really improve? But Alabama had 3 freshman studs playing plus others that contributed. Alabama was THE MOST IMPRESSIVE team of the weekend and there is no way you can argue for any other team.

Brian: And the Big East only gets 1 team into our poll this week after going 0-for-4 against FBS teams. Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Louisville and Syracuse all lose to teams from the MAC, WAC, SEC and Big Ten, respectively. Big East arguably had a worse weekend than the ACC.

Discuss.