BlogPoll Week 9: SEC Largely Uncontroversial in This Week's Edition

For all the grumbling there sometimes is about whether the SEC is really the best conference or deserves what has almost become an automatic berth in the national championship game, there's not much controversy this week about many of the SEC's teams. In fact, there seems to be quite a bit of consensus about most of them.

Results for Week 9

#	School	Points/blog	SD	Delta
1	Alabama Crimson Tide (60)	25.04	2.79	--
2	Kansas St. Wildcats (11)	23.75	2.55	2
3	Oregon Ducks (2)	23.43	2.44	--
4	Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3)	22.86	2.45	1
5	LSU Tigers	19.71	0.59	1
6	Georgia Bulldogs	18.58	0.85	9
7	Florida Gators	18.54	0.82	-5
8	Ohio St. Buckeyes (1)	18.09	4.93	1
9	Florida St. Seminoles	17.79	1.45	2
10	Clemson Tigers	14.53	3.09	4
11	South Carolina Gamecocks	14.11	1.71	6
12	Louisville Cardinals	13.83	3.67	4
13	Oregon St. Beavers	12.67	3.45	-6
14	Oklahoma Sooners	12.63	3.44	-6
15	Stanford Cardinal	10.26	3.46	4
16	Texas A&M Aggies	10.12	3.31	5
17	Mississippi St. Bulldogs	8.24	3.72	-5
18	USC Trojans	7.29	3.32	-8
19	Texas Tech Red Raiders	6.79	3.83	-6
20	Boise St. Broncos	5.75	4.17	3
21	Nebraska Cornhuskers	4.87	3.17	8
22	Louisiana Tech Bulldogs	3.86	3.40	2
23	West Virginia Mountaineers	2.37	2.58	2
24	Arizona Wildcats	2.33	3.03	15
25	UCLA Bruins	2.05	2.96	15
Others Receiving Votes: Toledo Rockets | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | Kent St. Golden Flashes | Texas Longhorns | Northern Illinois Huskies | Rutgers Scarlet Knights | Northwestern Wildcats | Tulsa Golden Hurricane | Ohio Bobcats | Utah State Aggies | North Carolina Tar Heels | Iowa St. Cyclones | Central Florida Knights | Cincinnati Bearcats | Michigan Wolverines | ULM Warhawks | Arizona St. Sun Devils | Duke Blue Devils | Penn St. Nittany Lions | Ball St. Cardinals
Updated: Oct 30, 2012 8:37 AM EDT

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Rankings 2011

Only Texas A&M and Mississippi State have a standard deviation over three, and only Alabama has a standard deviation of more than two but less than three. Meanwhile, LSU, Georgia and Florida are all under one and South Carolina is less than two. If you look at the other standard deviations on the chart, you don't have to be a stat geek to realize that the SEC teams inspire more consensus than some of the others. (And while Alabama is moderate, all of the teams who have No. 1 votes have a standard deviation of more than two.)

In movement, of course, we see Florida dropping five spots after losing to Georgia, which moves up nine places. South Carolina moves up six on a narrow win against Tennessee, probably more because of teams moving down; other teams around the same place also saw their rankings rise because of some upsets of more highly ranked teams.

Including by Mississippi State, which dropped five places after the loss to Alabama -- which doesn't seem that bad. Texas A&M moved up five. But those rankings are a little more controversial than the others, of course.