Sorry to be so late with this.  Have you ever had an abscessed tooth?  Ouch.

What a weekend coming up.  Last week's slew of upsets reshuffled everyone's ranking, and I look for it to happen again this week. 

One thing I've grown to appreciate from doing this is how much work goes into a poll, and how easy it is to do something stupid.  I vote before I look at anyone else's picks, trying to stay with my own thoughts.  Then when I look at everyone elses vote, I wonder how I could have left some teams off. 

 I also see us bloggers doing the same thing we get upset at the real polls about.  How many times have I read comments and blogs questioning how a team that beat another could end up ranked behind the team they beat.  An example is South Carolina and Georgia.  Over half of our voters put Georgia ahead of SC, even though the Gamecocks beat Georgia on the road.  It tells me that we're as guilty as anyone of voting for the helmet.  Other examples are keeping florida in the top 10 after they lose to the first good team they play, at home.  Auburn is good, but certainly not a great team.  At least we got a few things right.  Oregon is ahead of Oklahoma in our poll. If any team deserved to stay in the top 10 after losing, it's the Ducks.  What a great game!!  And while they did fall from the top 10, they're close.

Oh well, it's all conjecture anyways.

THE POLL

1. LSU   (7)          235
2. USC  (5)          231
3. Cal                  213 
4. Ohio State       183
5. USF                177
6. Wisconsin       162
7. Kentucky         151
8. BC                  133
9. Florida             103
10. South Carolina 100
11. Georgia             98
12. Oregon              95
13. Oklahoma          86
14. Hawaii               82
15. Missourri           77
16. WVU                74
17. Purdue             59
18. Arizona State    50
19. Cincinnatti        49
20. Texas               30
21. Virginia Tech     25
22. Kansas             20
23. Clemson           14
24. Auburn              12
25. Nebraska           10

Others receiving votes:  Rutgers, Illinois, Michigan State, Florida State, Washington State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State.