With my vacation-related absence coming to a close, I hereby submit this week’s ballot for the BlogPoll. A morning tailgate followed by a 5 hour, 21 minute football game tends to limit one’s college football watching, but I did the best I could catching games here and there, a lot of highlights and some studious reading of the Internets to come up with this week’s entry. Next week, things should get back to normal.
(And by normal, I mean Michigan will take it to ND for about two and a half quarters, then a break and a brain cramp will give ND the lead and probably some kind of jacked up win.)
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio State |  2 |
| 2 | Auburn |  1 |
| 3 | Louisiana State | 2 |
| 4 | Notre Dame | 5 |
| 5 | Southern Cal | 1 |
| 6 | Florida | — |
| 7 | Texas | 5 |
| 8 | West Virginia | 2 |
| 9 | Georgia | 3 |
| 10 | Michigan | 1 |
| 11 | Louisville | 4 |
| 12 | Florida State | 5 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 5 |
| 14 | Oklahoma | — |
| 15 | Nebraska | 2 |
| 16 | Miami (Florida) | 3 |
| 17 | Arizona State | 3 |
| 18 | Cal | — |
| 19 | Virginia Tech | 2 |
| 20 | Iowa | 4 |
| 21 | Oregon | 5 |
| 22 | Texas Tech | 1 |
| 23 | Boise State | 3 |
| 24 | Pittsburgh | — |
| 25 | Clemson | 8 |
Really, the only games I watched much of were Boise State-Oregon State (first half and parts of the second) and part of Ohio State-Texas. But while you all were enjoying a full slate of college football, I was standing in Doyt Perry Stadium watching a thrilling 48-40 Bowling Green triple overtime win over Buffalo in and around two lightning delays, feeling the temperature drop from 81 degrees at kickoff to what would shock me if it was much over 60 at game’s end. Brrrr.
Some notes from this week’s poll: Ohio State gets the jump for obvious reasons, and I had ND at 2 or 3, but then I got this feeling that Penn State being ranked at all is starting to look like it could have been a silly idea come November. Boise State impressed my socks off by laying 14 points on the table right off the bat, then steamrolling OSU the rest of the way. Somewhere in the middle of this poll is a ridiculous conundrum of “what do you do with teams that lost your respect in Week 1, gained some of it back in Week 2, but aren’t deserving of the spots they’re in when the whole thing shakes out?” (read: California).
San Jose State just missed the ballot.