Huh. Our numbers 3, 5, 6 and 9 teams lost. Kind of makes the whole top ten look a little undeserving now, I think. LSU all the way up to #4? Sure, they're winning, but they haven't impressed. But the reckoning comes in two weeks when they host Florida. Boise up to #5? I like the little guys getting a chance as much as anyone, but their schedule is just not very impressive. I can't imagine them moving any higher -- maybe one slot if teams ahead keep dropping. And while they seem odd at #5, I don't know who else should be there.

Here's the draft ballot for this week.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Florida
2	Texas
3	Alabama	1
4	LSU	3
5	Boise State	3
6	Southern Cal	4
7	Oklahoma	4
8	Ohio State	4
9	TCU	4
10	Houston	5
11	Cincinnati	3
12	Virginia Tech	4
13	Oklahoma State	4
14	Georgia	4
15	Penn State	12
16	Mississippi	10
17	Kansas	2
18	California	13
19	Miami (Florida)	10
20	Missouri	1
21	Nebraska	3
22	Michigan	2
23	Iowa
24	South Carolina
25	Oregon
Last week's ballot

Some other thoughts... PSU is punished pretty hard for not showing up against Iowa... at home... during a "whiteout" (the concept which they amusingly think they invented). Just no sack, as Boilerdowd put it.

Ole Miss also gets punished -- not because South Carolina isn't a good team, but because people were questioning them as a top ten team and their first sort of test and they poop the bed.

And then there's Cal.... who went to Autzen Stadium, where Purdue almost pulled out a victory, and got dump trucked by Oregon. Sorry, but if you're a top ten team, you don't lose by 39 to an unranked team. In fact, if you're ranked at all you shouldn't lose by 39 to an unranked team, ever.

Thoughts/comments welcome. As in previous weeks, we'll take it under advisement and make adjustments and the official ballot will be up by Wednesday morning.