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BlogPoll Week Eight: Ballot Undergoes Minor Changes
Another No. 1 falls, although it wasn’t my number one. Oklahoma wasn’t even in the top four in my poll. However, Missouri was vastly underrated.
This weekend’s action had a measured effect on my rankings:
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BCS Know How Ballot – Week 9
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oregon Ducks | – |
| 2 | Auburn Tigers | – |
| 3 | Boise St. Broncos | – |
| 4 | TCU Horned Frogs | – |
| 5 | Michigan St. Spartans |  1 |
| 6 | Missouri Tigers | 9 |
| 7 | Wisconsin Badgers | – |
| 8 | Alabama Crimson Tide | – |
| 9 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | – |
| 10 | Oklahoma Sooners |  -5 |
| 11 | Utah Utes | 1 |
| 12 | Florida St. Seminoles | -1 |
| 13 | Stanford Cardinal | 1 |
| 14 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 3 |
| 15 | Arizona Wildcats | 1 |
| 16 | LSU Tigers | -6 |
| 17 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 3 |
| 18 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -5 |
| 19 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 2 |
| 20 | USC Trojans | 2 |
| 21 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 3 |
| 22 | Nevada Wolf Pack | 3 |
| 23 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | -4 |
| 24 | Baylor Bears | – |
| 25 | Syracuse Orange | – |
| Dropouts: West Virginia Mountaineers, Texas Longhorns | ||
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What I’m Thinking:
- I’m thinking most of these moves make sense here, right?
- Dropping West Virginia and Texas is pretty self-explanatory. Adding Syracuse (Syracuse???) and Baylor as their replacements didn’t take much pondering either. Both have shown skill.
- Syracuse??? Really??? Is that all the Big East can muster?
- Drops from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Iowa and LSU can be explained by losses to Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Auburn. Those teams rises are also a function of their ranked matchup victories.
- USC Watch: Being realistic, if the Trojans can knock off the Ducks at the Coliseum next weekend, they’ll be entrenched in these rankings for a while. If they get blown out, it might spell the end of the Trojans’ season. A close loss would be encouraging, especially because the Trojans have nothing to play for on the surface. They get a couple rungs improvement for not playing this weekend and others falling around them.
- Conference Breakdown: SEC (5), Big 12 (5), Big Ten (4), Pac-10 (4), MWC (2), WAC (2), ACC (2), Big East (1). [Unchanged]
So what do you think? Missing anyone? Giving anyone too much/too little credit? Let me know!
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