Das Poll

Champ is a busy, busy man. He creates life. No, really, he does. As such, he has had little time for a foolish college football blog, and an even more foolish poll that counts for nothing other than the fact that we have fun writing it. It's not even included in the fancy-pants CBS BlogPoll, as we cruelly found out while posting bail for trying to pay for things with Schrutebucks. The guys down at County liked our American Eagle cologne; we have no regrets.

As such, you get my poll and my poll only, in all its inaccurate and hastily written glory. I mean, what the hell do you do with the Utah teams? Why did Texas Tech jump so dramatically when they were pushed to the brink by Nebraska? Yeah, we're scared too. Here's the poll, along with half-cocked rationalizations:

1) Bama
2) TEX
3) PSU
4) Florida
5) Georgia

Bama moves up to number 1 mostly because I'm a firm believer of "you can't drop if you haven't played." Alabama still has a stronger resume than Texas, despite the glitzy "newness" of Texas's marquee victory. The glitz, however, does get them to number 2, and I think that if Bama comes out weak at any point, they're ripe to get jumped as long as Texas puts that whattaburger-sized whipping on the remainder of their schedule. Penn State is rewarded for the whipping they imparted on Wisconsin, but frankly I think it's becoming clear that Wisconsin just isn't very good. If Florida continues romping and stomping through their competition - which is much stiffer than PSU's remaining competition - they may get jumped. Georgia being at number 5 is going to be short lived, IMO.

6) Oklahoma
7) USC
8) LSU
9) BYU
10) Texas Tech

Oklahoma lost, sure, but they're still a football team that I believe can beat everyone lower than them on this ranking. I just couldn't put them any lower than 6. USC moves up due to BYU and Mizzour's relatively weak performances - strenght of opponent in BYU's case, and a flat out loss by Mizzou. LSU is in the same boat as Oklahoma. Despite the loss, I don't see them losing to anyone ranked lower than they are. Texas Tech was pushed to the brink by the Huskers, but they debut in my top 10 largely because I've had them under-ranked for the majority of the season. They're good - and if they beat some of the Big Boys of the BXII, they should be mentioned for the title race.

11) Ohio State
12) Mizzou
13) Utah
14) OK State
15) Wake

Ohio State is on life support, in my opinion. Pryor has played very well as a freshman, but the fact remains that he is still a freshman, and is playing behind a line that some would call suspect. I call them bad. Mizzou may have been exposed this weekend. I'll admit, I was drinking the kool-aid on them, but really, I don't think OK state is that good - I just think Mizzou was grossly overrated. Utah stays pat - just waiting for their matchup against BYU. OK state, despite what I said about Mizzou, still took care of business, and they make their debut right ahead of Wake, who played terrible football for 3 quarters and still managed to beat Clemson.

16) Boise State
17) Michigan State
18) Virginia Tech
19) Ball State
20) Vandy

I don't know what to do with Boise. They keep moving up because of attrition ahead of them, and frankly, we don't have enough info on them because they haven't played very many "real" opponents. I still can't figure out why nobody just stacks the line against Michigan State and forces Hoyer to throw it, but hey, there they are at 17. Virginia Tech, Ball State, and Vandy are all "still ranked but not that great" type teams, which leads us to the bottom 5.

21) UNC
22) Kansas
23) South Florida
24) TCU
25) Tulsa

Wheeeeee! The only team on this list that I think could win against a team ranked in the top 20 is UNC. There, I said it.