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Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama
2	Texas
3	Florida
4	TCU	2
5	Cincinnati	2
6	Boise State	2
7	Ohio State	8
8	Georgia Tech	2
9	Pittsburgh	3
10	Miami (Florida)	7
11	Houston	2
12	Oregon	8
13	LSU	2
14	Southern Cal	2
15	Penn State	6
16	Utah	2
17	Iowa	12
18	Arizona	7
19	Oklahoma State
20	Virginia Tech
21	Stanford
22	Wisconsin
23	Clemson
24	Tennessee
25	Oregon State
Last week's ballot

• BOOM, BUCKEYE'D! As BHGP so eloquently put it.... meet the new boss, so on and so forth. With their first thoroughly dominant performance in a big-game since oh, about 2006 or so, the Buckeyes have firmly placed themselves in control of the Big Ten race. All that stands between them and Jim Tressel's first trip to the Rose Bowl is a Stanzi-less Iowa squad and reeling, defenseless Michigan.
• Oregon is a team designed to make me look like an ass; I'm officially convinced. I ranked them in the top 15 to start the season, dropped them following the Boise State loss, basically ignored them until they blew out Cal, and fell head over heels for them in the wake of their blowout victory over USC. A week later, they surrender 52 points to Stanford and Toby Gerheart. I refuse to attempt to figure them out, and place them in blogpoll contempt.
  
• mmmm.... deltas. This is what happens when three top ten teams lose games (they probably) shouldn't have lost under most secondaries. Thus, we've got a delta party from 4 to 18. This was a hell of a hard poll to do.
• Yes, you are looking at mostly new teams from 19 to 25. Oklahoma, Cal and Notre Dame all stunk up the joint against teams they should have waxed, and Okie and Notre Dame find themselves in the midst of surprisingly lackluster seasons. Well, it's surpising for Okie; Notre Dame should be used to this by now with Weis. Both are gone from the poll until they beat someone of relevance.
  
• I have finally relented and let Cincy into the top 5, thanks mostly to attrition. Giving up 45 points at home to UConn should have Cincy fans on edge, especially considering they'll be making the trip to currently-one-loss Pitt here in a few weeks.
  
• I moved Arizona up a bit, so they don't get caught in the swirling 19-25 maelstrom. One of their losses, to Iowa, lost a bit of its luster over the weekend, while the miracle comeback by Washington is looking to be more and more of a fluke with each passing week.

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions?