Week Nine Blogpoll: First Draft and MORE!

Written by Michael Felder on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 10:04.

The Blogpoll is up, yeah I know it is a day late but that's because I was taking so much time making sure it was almost perfect for you folks to shred up. Hats off to Auburn for ending the LSU crazy train as well as to Wisconsin for following up their Ohio State victory with a nice showing against the Hawkeyes in Kinnick Stadium. New BCS standings are out along with the polls and the biggest thing that stood out to me wasn't the Auburn leap frogging of everyone to #1 but the thin sliver separating Boise State from TCU. Just .0013 separates the Broncos from the Horned Frogs and the boys from Ft. Worth still have a game against #7 Utah on their schedule next weekend.

Before we get to the Blogpoll goodness we also give a nice little shout out to our boys over at Wide Right and Natty Lite and their Cyclones of Iowa State for physically manhandling Texas. Not a fluke win, a truly impressive showing by Paul Rhoads. On the flip side of that coin we've got the Longhorns and the fine folks over at Barking Carnival decided to have me join them on a podcast along with Adam Kramer to talk about the overall state of college football as we are a week away from November. Click here to download the show folks or just go ahead and listen to spot while you check out the site, plenty of great information on the show; everything from Boise St vs TCU/Utah and revised BCS Championship Match-Ups to some talk about John Blake and the UNC football program.

Now on to the poll folks and after this weekend my national championship game is completely dead, Oklahoma won't be able to get in as a one-loss team AND Iowa is completely out of it with their second loss of the year.

In The Bleachers Ballot - Week 9

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Oregon Ducks	--
2	Auburn Tigers	4
3	Utah Utes	1
4	Boise St. Broncos	-1
5	TCU Horned Frogs	--
6	Alabama Crimson Tide	1
7	Michigan St. Spartans	3
8	Wisconsin Badgers	4
9	Missouri Tigers	8
10	LSU Tigers	-2
11	Iowa Hawkeyes	-2
12	Stanford Cardinal	-1
13	Oklahoma Sooners	-11
14	Arizona Wildcats	-1
15	Ohio St. Buckeyes	-1
16	Florida St. Seminoles	2
17	Arkansas Razorbacks	2
18	Nebraska Cornhuskers	2
19	South Carolina Gamecocks	4
20	Virginia Tech Hokies	2
21	Baylor Bears	4
22	Miami Hurricanes	--
23	Mississippi St. Bulldogs	--
24	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	-8
25	Georgia Bulldogs	--
Dropouts: Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers, Northwestern Wildcats

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings »

-Dropping out of the poll. We've got the Longhorns, Wildcats and Mountaineers tap dancing out of the Top 25. All three teams lost, Texas and WVU lost to teams they were supposed to be athletically and schematically superior to. Northwestern fought hard but couldn't hang on at home to a still undefeated Michigan State football team that, appears to be gaining in a dynamic capacity.

-Moving in. Miami and two Bulldogs rise up to take the discarded spots. I struggled putting the Canes in the most because their only beating ACC teams and as folks with VT, Florida State and NC State know, in my poll that doesn't hold much water. As for the gang from Starkville, they're mighty impressive at 6-2, bowl eligible and with Kentucky and Ole Miss still on the schedule could be staring down the barrel of an 8-win season. As for the Georgia Bulldogs; yes I know they've lost to Colorado, Mississippi State and are sitting at 4-4 but if we're going week by week the Dawgs have started to hit their stride and while the defense still has some issues their offense is one that is a treat to watch on a weekly basis.

-ACC returns? We've got three ACC teams in the Top 25 and that is the most since the opening week of the season when UNC, GT, FSU, Miami and VT were all hanging out in that rarefied air. UNC and GT disappeared from the list week one and by week three FSU and VT were out leaving just Miami. Now there are three in the rankings and we'll see how long they last.

-SEC and Big Ten. Oregon has got a stranglehold on the top spot but we'll see what happens going forward with their schedule. As for the dominant leagues we've got two this year; the SEC and the Big Ten. Seven teams in the Top 15 and a one-loss Wisconsin, Bama, LSU or Ohio State will have a shot at shaking up the rankings. And it is pretty clear and undefeated Auburn or Michigan State will leap frog the mid-majors and some of lesser conferences.

-Do your worst folks. I'm here all day, send me some tweets on your thoughts and we'll make sure to get this things revised to our readers' specifications.