BlogPoll Ballot Week 9... Official

Comments welcomed, as always.

Number one Texas! Why? I think I would go with Texas if the two played, since USC has obvious deficiencies in the secondary and the Texas defense is sixth in the country. Texas can run and throw and has OMG Vince Young going up against a definite weak link, whereas USC would have its hands full against one of the best defenses in the country. It's very close, but there it is. And don't give me any of this "the champs are #1 until they lose" garbage. The poll doesn't know who the "champs" are, because that was last year. This is... this year!

Rank	Team	Snark
1	Texas	See above.
2	Southern Cal	I mean, don't you have to be concerned when Washington has scored more points against you than any team not named "Idaho"?
3	Georgia	Argh. At this point I'm not dinging teams for injuries.
4	Virginia Tech	Choked out Maryland in brutal fashion.
5	UCLA	Solid win over an Oregon State team that's pretty good.
6	Alabama	Rammer Jammer cheers are getting progressively more deafening as the season progresses, but a touchdown or something would be nice.
7	Penn State	Functional DNP versus Illinois... and yeesh. Moving up because I reviewed the schedules of the following set of teams, and PSU's trifecta of Minnesota/Ohio State/Northwestern is better than any other team's set of wins, though the bottom drops out really fast.
8	Florida State	Functional DNP vs. Duke.
9	Miami	Actual DNP. Miami hasn't played anyone with a clue since South Florida on 10/1.
10	Boston College	DNP.
11	Ohio State	Over under on total yards for Michigan in The Game: 72.
12	Notre Dame	Functional DNP versus BYU.
13	LSU	Yeah, you won, I guess. (New acronym: YYWIG, used for thoroughly unimpressive wins due more to the other team failing than anything else.)
14	Oregon	Again with the not punishing for losing starting QB.
15	Wisconsin	Stocco does look incrementally better this year, but if you can throw, you can eat these gentlemen to bits.
16	Minnesota	DNP.
17	Florida	DNP; huge opportuny to steal the Cocktail Party from Shock-less Dawgs.
18	Georgia Tech	DNP Hurricanes due to hurricane. Uh.
19	Fresno State	Mustache gives Hill Samson-like power.
20	West Virginia	Yay automatic BCS bid.
21	Northwestern	Ok, ok, nice offense and stuff but dead last in defense. Last. Like, worse than Buffalo. Of course this means Michigan will put up 27 or something.
22	Michigan	Not that we're good or anything. We're just average, though we are getting healthier, and winning on the road minus the two best players on the team (Hart/Woodley) is something. Officially on the "coaching holding us back" bandwagon now.
23	Auburn	Probably should have won, but didn't.
24	Texas Tech	Certainly proved something.
25	TCU	You had to go and lose to SMU..

Dropped Out: Michigan State(#18), Tennesee(#21), Virginia(#25)

Games I Saw: VT-Maryland, Michigan-Iowa, second half of Alabama-Tennessee, pieces of ND-BYU, most of UW-Purdue.

Help Requested: Suggestions at the bottom requested; what to do with QB-free Oregon and Georgia?

Update: After re-watching the Iowa game, I drop Michigan down below Northwestern. Not much else was offered.