BlogPoll Week Eight: Split Decision

(What's the blogpoll? Pretty much what it sounds like: a football poll voted on by bloggers. Every week around 50 or 60 bloggers who have been invited to participate send in top 25 ballots to a sophisticated computer system that adds them and stuff. Then it gives you numbers. There's a lot of hoodadery that surrounds it which you can check out below. FYI: "PPB" == "points per ballot". Since bloggers are lazy and unreliable the total number of ballots changes week-to-week, so the poll uses an average instead of a raw point count.)

Right: Jim Tressel loves him some polls and voters. And Celine Dion.

Expanded Poll with full flagellation and awards.

A split electorate saw #2 USF go down, taking 26 first place votes with it, and in their infinite wisdom saw fit to vote like so for first place:

Ohio State: 37
LSU: 23
Arizona State: 1

Matt Flynn's last second heave, coupled with a deceptively close game against yet another bleah Buckeye opponent, was enough for the electorate to remain relatively divided. Other movement was pretty standard save a three-spot dip for Hawaii after yet another close game against dubious competition; the Warriors are now 21st; in a hypothetical Blogger Championship Series they wouldn't sniff a bid. Full poll after the jump.

Rank	Team	PPB	Delta	Snark
1	Ohio State (37)	24.1	--	Welcome to the 2007 season, OSU. We've been waiting two months for you to show up. Enjoy Happy Valley, and by "enjoy" I mean "do not enjoy."
2	LSU (23)	23.5	1	Is that a sack of basketballs in your pocket or are you Les Miles late in a football game?
3	Boston College	22.4	1	VT comin' in. Prove it time for the Eagles. No, beating Notre Dame doesn't count this year.
4	Oklahoma	21.1	1	Lost a little ground to Oregon in an uninspiring victory over Iowa State.
5	Oregon	21.1	2	Every time they put up 600 on some poor Pac-10 schmuck I feel a tiny bit better about getting pwned earlier in the year.
6	Arizona State (1)	19.8	3	Dennis Erickson may be blind on schnapps, but he can coach him some football teams.
7	Kansas	17.0	6	This week's sign of the apocalypse.
8	Florida	17.0	4	That photoshop of 11 Tebows beating Kentucky was not far off.
9	West Virginia	16.5	2	Ugh. No offense to West Virginia, but...
10	South Florida	16.1	8	I hate it when teams with the same record who have played each other end up next to each other and the wrong one is on top.
11	Missouri	15.2	4	An clubbing of to-date impressive Texas Tech probably means that Missouri is finally -- finally! -- for real. Congrats, Gary Pinkel.
12	Virginia Tech	15.0	2	Given the way this season has gone, will beat BC by 20 then lose the week after.
13	Southern Cal	14.1	3	Will get whiplash going from 0 (Notre Dame's offense) to 200 (Oregon's).
14	Kentucky	12.1	6	Double ugh...
15	South Carolina	10.2	9	...another instance of same-record-head-to-head violation in the same poll. I guess Kentucky didn't lose to Vandy.
16	California	7.0	6	Surprisingly kind... but where's UCLA? I know, I know, they lost to two awful teams but they have a better resume than, say...
17	Texas	6.9	5	...Texas, whose best win is over 4-4 TCU.
18	Virginia	6.7	6	Weird, huh?
19	Michigan	6.7	6	Did grit out a road victory without Hart and with but half of Henne.
20	Auburn	5.4	3	Small consolation: Auburn is the poll's top three-loss team.
21	Hawaii	5.4	3	Hallelujah, as someone is paying attention to the Rainbows' narrow wins over the San Jose States of the world.
22	Georgia	4.7	1	Suddenly, a three-point win over Vandy seems less shameful.
23	Alabama	4.0	3	WE PAID FOUR MILLION DOLLARS FOR THIS?
24	Penn State	3.4	2	Suddenly frisky.
25	Rutgers	2.6	1	Crotchety old newspaper columnists who don't care about college football thank you, Scarlet Knights. Now get off their lawn.