CBSSports.com BlogPoll Ballot #9

I give up. You win unpredictability. Uncle.

While it's happening, it's all fun and good watching the current polls disintegrate like that random henchman in RoboCop after his toxic waste bath, but then Monday rolls around and you have to try to piece it all back together. Watch the clip and you'll understand how hard that is.

My own horrifying results are after the jump...

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama
2	Florida
3	Texas
4	Southern Cal	2
5	Cincinnati	5
6	Boise State	2
7	Iowa	7
8	TCU	3
9	Miami (Florida)	2
10	Virginia Tech	5
11	Georgia Tech	7
12	Penn State	7
13	Oklahoma State
14	LSU	2
15	Oregon	1
16	Houston	4
17	Brigham Young	4
18	Utah	7
19	Texas Tech
20	Pittsburgh
21	South Carolina	1
22	Oklahoma	5
23	Nebraska	14
24	Kansas	9
25	Ohio State	17
Last week's ballot

IN
Well, Texas Tech, of course. Go read this headline and gaze in wonder. Aggies never want to give any credit to the Red Raiders. Also, Pitt because...well, Dion Lewis?

OUT
Despite the fact that seven teams in my poll lost, I only dropped two of them--USF and Mizzou--as much for lack of better options as for my own refusal to admit that I'm wrong.

METHODOLOGY
--Where to start? I've been a Boise State champion all season long, but the chinks are starting to show. I still think the Broncos are a legitimate Top 10 team but if they want to be taken seriously, with their schedule, they have NO room for error. You have to crush UC-Davis and Tulsa, who admittedly can score the football, on the road.
--Congrats to Iowa. The Hawkeyes are this year's Big 10 favorite and undefeated team that you know isn't REALLY good but they're undefeated halfway through the season. Another legitimate chance to lose, and put a nation at ease, comes this week at Michigan State.
--The ACC three represent my first sign of surrender this week. I've got it Miami, VT, GT and there's no good way to sort it out. VT beat Miami who beat GT who then beat VT. The key for me? Miami was the team to win one fo those games on the road.
--Oklahoma State is the next team I'm not happy with. The Cowboys are basically down to Zac Robinson on offense.
--The second sign of surrender? The bottom four of the poll. Call it a homer pick, but I'm not dropping Nebraska completely out of the polls. Not in this season. The AP poll keeps Ohio State in the poll at two losses (USC and Purdue), but the Huskers two losses (VT and Texas Tech) collectively, not to mention their best win, are better. Kansas lost on the road so I'll go back to grouping NU and KU together as North co-favorites like I did at the start of the season.