Thanks to all the bloggers who voted this week.  It looks like you did a great job as usual.  Once again, our voters seem more willing than the national press to award teams for playing well, and to penalize those who don't.  A little flux is a good thing.

USC has a stranglehold on #1 at this point, just seven votes shy of a perfect ballot.  This is also the first time we've seen widespread disagreement over who should receive the other first place votes.  All five of the top teams were listed #1 on at least one ballot (and no, Rev didn't vote for Florida.)

There are a handful of teams that seem to generate wide disagreement among the voters.  BC is ranked as high as #5, as low as #18.  Wisconsin's support ranges from #6 to #20.  Our pollsters are tired of waiting for the Badgers to wake up this season, and have dropped Wisky out of the top 10.

The big movers were Kentucky, up to #14 with their win over my Hogs (a moment of silence please....................), and naturally Penn State and South Carolina fell after losses.  Some new teams have showed up on the radar.  Missouri, Arizona State and Cincinnatti received some well earned recognition and Purdue and Kansas are knocking on the door. 

 All in all, a pretty good looking poll, I think. 

THE VOTE

1. USC   (9)          293
2. LSU   (3)          284
3. Oklahoma (1)   265
4. Florida (1)        244
5. WVU  (1)         240
6. California         209
7. Ohio State       196
8. Texas             192
9. Rutgers           147
10. BC                  146
11. Oregon            143
12. Wisconsin       138
13. Clemson           97
14. Kentucky          91
15. South Carolina  82
16. Georgia            65
17. USF                 64
18. Hawaii              54
19. Virginia Tech    33
20. Missouri           32
21. Penn State       31
22. Nebraska         17
23. Arizona State   16
24. Alabama          15
25. Cincinnatti        10

Others receiving votes: Purdue, Kansas, Texas A&M, Auburn, BYU, UCLA, Michigan State, Miami.   

As usual, there are some great blogs out there on CFB.  Check out NorCal's top 25, he does an incredible job.  Nostradamus, Lisa, jgrace, Nooch, ksp. I can't list them all, you CFB fans know who they are.  Read their stuff and drop 'em a comment.  Our encouragement will keep them posting.