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Other Half of the BlogPoll Draft Ballot

Top 25 here, comments after the jump.

  1. Alabama
  2. Florida
  3. Texas
  4. TCU
  5. Cincinnati
  6. Georgia Tech
  7. Iowa
  8. Boise State
  9. Oregon
  10. LSU
  11. USC
  12. Ohio State
  13. Miami (FL)
  14. Pittsburgh
  15. Oklahoma State
  16. Penn State
  17. Arizona
  18. Nebraska
  19. Virginia Tech
  20. Clemson
  21. Boston College
  22. Utah
  23. Stanford
  24. Auburn
  25. Wisconsin

As always, I start with my stat rankings. They're printed below for your perusal.

I tried to do as little shuffling as possible. Florida's strength of schedule took a hit with Vandy and Bama's got a boost with LSU, so they swap places this week. They're still well ahead of Texas.

I moved Boise State up ahead of Oregon because I don't think I can have undefeated Boise behind a two loss Duck team. Maybe they could be behind a one loss Oregon, but not a two loss Oregon. I also moved Georgia Tech up and Virginia Tech down because of their records. Also, I dropped Ohio State a spot behind USC because of the head-to-head result. Arizona, Stanford, Oklahoma State, and Wisconsin came in with Central Michigan, Navy, Tennessee, and Oklahoma dropping out.

Please give me some feedback since I don't feel overly great about this one. The general answer for "why isn't _____ ranked higher?" though is "strength of schedule."

Rank Team SSOS YPP Diff PyWin Pct Real Win Pct Average
1 Alabama 20 7 6 1 7.00
2 Florida 29 8 3 1 8.40
3 Texas 59 6 2 1 13.80
4 Oregon 15 20 14 15 15.80
5 TCU 81 2 1 1 17.20
6 Cincinnati 69 11 9 1 18.20
7 Iowa 37 22 21 7 18.80
8 LSU 54 3 10 15 19.40
9 Virginia Tech 13 14 18 28 20.20
10 Boise St. 89 9 5 1 21.00
11 Ohio St. 70 4 4 14 21.20
12 Southern California 40 18 20 15 21.60
13 Miami (FL) 8 49 35 13 23.60
14 Georgia Tech 30 45 30 7 23.80
15 Pittsburgh 77 13 12 10 24.40
16 Nebraska 63 1 7 28 25.40
17 Clemson 12 21 23 36 25.60
18 Penn St. 86 5 8 15 25.80
19 Oklahoma 6 12 11 53 27.00
20 Boston College 16 23 40 36 30.20
21 Utah 118 19 13 7 32.80
22 Auburn 27 50 37 28 34.00
23 Central Mich. 93 15 24 21 34.80
24 Tennessee 35 30 15 48 35.20
25 Navy 67 28 29 26 35.20
26 Stanford 61 32 27 28 35.20
27 Wisconsin 18 77 41 21 35.60
28 Notre Dame 47 44 32 28 35.80
29 Arizona 41 62 26 25 35.80
30 Oklahoma St. 74 36 28 21 36.00