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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | |
| 2 | Florida |
 1 |
| 3 | Texas |
 1 |
| 4 | Southern Cal |
2 |
| 5 | TCU |
7 |
| 6 | Virginia Tech |
5 |
| 7 | Cincinnati |
1 |
| 8 | Houston |
2 |
| 9 | Ohio State | |
| 10 | Iowa | |
| 11 | Boise State |
8 |
| 12 | Oklahoma |
4 |
| 13 | Penn State |
6 |
| 14 | South Florida | |
| 15 | LSU |
5 |
| 16 | Oregon | |
| 17 | Georgia |
1 |
| 18 | California |
13 |
| 19 | Miami (Florida) |
15 |
| 20 | South Carolina | |
| 21 | Nebraska |
3 |
| 22 | Auburn |
3 |
| 23 | Georgia Tech |
2 |
| 24 | Oklahoma State |
10 |
| 25 | Missouri |
2 |
| Last week's ballot | ||
Dropped Out: Mississippi (#13), Brigham Young (#15), North Carolina (#17), Kansas (#22).
See you later, Ole Miss. With a bad taste in my mouth, I moved them up last week by default. They have literally done nothing at this point to deserve any ranking.
Regression to the mean is a wonderful thing. As always, I rank based on overall resumes, not overweighing one particular week. For instance, I don't see four teams better than USC. I'm much lower on LSU than most polls. I like their roster, but they aren't playing like a top ten team to this point.
With the season sample size getting bigger, it's getting slightly easier to put together a coherent ranking, although all the upsets don't help. Nice to see the Big East making a little noise however.