BlogPoll: Week 5 Ballot

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

Dropped Out: Wisconsin (3-1) (#13), Clemson (3-2) (#17), TCU (4-1) (#22), East Carolina (3-2) (#25).

Welcome! Connecticut (5-0) (#20), Oregon (4-1) (#23), Ohio State (4-1) (#24), Oklahoma State (4-0) (#25)

Others Receiving a Top 25 Vote: Ball State, Boston College

Highest Standard Deviation Between Individual Ballots: Ohio State (5.66), Florida (4.95), Utah (4.24), Wake Forest (4.24)

Lowest Standard Deviation Between Individual Ballots: Alabama, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State

By Conference: SEC 7, Big XII 6, ACC 3, Mountain West 2, Big Ten 2, Big East 2, Pac 10 2, WAC 1

Games Jeff Watched:
Southern Cal at Oregon State
Maryland at Clemson (in-person)
Virginia Tech at Nebraska

Games Brian Watched:
Connecticut at Louisville (50%)
Navy at Wake Forest (50%)
Alabama at Georgia (50%)
Marshall at West Virginia (25%)


Notes

We continue to reward the strongest undefeated teams in our poll as they are ranked #1 through #6. Of our ranked teams that lost last weekend, we dinged Georgia the least as they lost to our now #1 Alabama.

Southern Cal and Florida drop 10 and 11 spots, respectively, due to their losses to unranked Oregon State and Ole Miss (at home). We drop Wake Forest 14 spots to #22 for their poor performance at home against Navy (a team Duke beat ... just sayin).

The bottom falls out for East Carolina and Clemson as they both fall to 3-2. Wisconsin is gone due to not showing up in the second half against Michigan (c'mon Badgers, it was 19-0 at half?!). And TCU drops out after making a brief appearance at #22 with their loss to the Sooners.

The pool of Division I-A (FCS) teams that are currently undefeated stands at 18. We voted for 15 of them and left out Northwestern (#26), Tulsa and Ball State. Next week this number of teams will be reduced by at least 1 when Kentucky travels to Alabama.

Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.