Blogpoll ballot Week 3

This is a weird week, because now we have just enough resume information to actually use it to rank the teams, but not enough that it doesn't result in crazy things like Florida dropping from #1 to #20 or so just because they haven't played anyone worth a damn. Therefore you should take the ballot below as more or less a resume ballot with a very, very heavy perception bias.

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

Dropped Out: Utah (#7), Georgia (#19), Clemson (#20), Nebraska (#24).

Explaining myself:

- Guess who the only team is with wins over two other ranked teams? Hence the meteoric rise to the top of the ballot for the Hurricanes. If they win next week they're going to be absurdly difficult to knock from that perch.

- The aforementioned perception bias is what's keeping Florida from dropping lower than they are. They wouldn't have fallen all the way to #20, that was a joke, but with the preseason poll now almost totally scrapped, they haven't done anything to set them apart from the pack.

- Taking care of business is generally held in higher regard than beating someone good and also losing to someone good, but the perception bias keeps USC and OSU from dropping below teams like Auburn, Pitt, and UNC. Because c'mon.

- Two games from this week are having a huge, monstrous effect on the rankings: Washington over USC and TFSU over BYU. Obviously Washington looks a lot better than they did last week. Being #9 is a function of the fact that they pretty much have to be ranked higher than USC and OSU right now, and if I pushed them any lower then I'd have to put Auburn, Pitt, UNC, and the like above USC and OSU and that seemed silly. You might laugh, but consider they almost beat LSU, too, and if they'd done that hell they'd probably be #1 or #2 right now given the reasoning for Miami. LSU is the other obvious beneficiary.

As for Florida State's hammering of BYU, that in combination with TFSU's near-disaster against Jacksonville State means that both BYU and Oklahoma get spiked pretty hardcore. This group might be higher too, but I wanted to reward the teams above them for being undefeated against not-shitty competition, and I felt like it was weird for VT to drop despite beating Nebraska. VT would have held steady, but that win was pretty damn skinny, and the teams above them haven't lost.