This week's ballot. Comments below it.
Barking Carnival Ballot - Week 6
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 2 | Oregon Ducks |
 1 |
| 3 | Ohio St. Buckeyes |
 -1 |
| 4 | TCU Horned Frogs | -- |
| 5 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -- |
| 6 | Auburn Tigers |
2 |
| 7 | Boise St. Broncos |
2 |
| 8 | Stanford Cardinal |
-1 |
| 9 | Arkansas Razorbacks |
1 |
| 10 | Utah Utes |
2 |
| 11 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 12 | Arizona Wildcats |
1 |
| 13 | Florida Gators |
-7 |
| 14 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -- |
| 15 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 16 | Miami Hurricanes | -- |
| 17 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
| 18 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 19 | Michigan Wolverines | -- |
| 20 | Missouri Tigers |
1 |
| 21 | West Virginia Mountaineers |
2 |
| 22 | Air Force Falcons | -- |
| 23 | Wisconsin Badgers |
-3 |
| 24 | Nevada Wolf Pack | -- |
| 25 | USC Trojans |
-7 |
| Dropouts: Texas Longhorns, Penn St. Nittany Lions, Clemson Tigers | ||
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Texas is now unranked after being ranked every week in the AP Poll since October, 2000.
Letting that sink in...
And we're moving on...
If you missed the end of the LSU-Tennessee game, you missed one of the great 580 SAT SEC moments recorded. After a game filled with errors, with the Tigers down 14-10, Miles mismanages the clock on the goal line on 3rd and 1 in the closing moments, allowing 30+ seconds to tick off as the Tigers run in and out different personnel packages and generally mill around like cattle confronted with a Rubik's cube. They finally run a futile play with the play clock near 0, are stuffed, and mass Vol celebration ensues. Les Miles has repeated last year's Ole Miss effort and he will be clubbed to death with a boudin when the team plane lands in Baton Rouge.
EXCEPT...
Tennessee, equally perplexed by LSU's confusion, victim of some Les Miles dumb-mind-meld, plays the down with 13 men on the field. Running the impenetrable 6-3-4 front. Flag. Ball is spotted on the 1, LSU runs a dive, TD, Tigaz!
LSU - 16, Tennessee - 14. Final.
Hilariously confused interview by Miles post-game. The Tigers are now 5-0 and they're not moving a goddam inch in my rankings.
Alabama stomped Florida in impressive fashion despite not really having to play offense and Oregon pasted Stanford in a wild 52-31 win specifically designed to taunt me with efficient OL play by 3 star recruits and offenses with bizarre notions of continuity and core philosophy. Both defenses were playing two hand touch for much of the contest, but Oregon's speed couldn't be contained.
Ohio State struggled with Illinois and they had no business doing so. 14-10 halfway through the 4th quarter against the Illini. Really? Down a notch for you, Buckeyes.
I "underrate" undefeated Oklahoma not out of bitterness, but rather because the Sooners aren't very good. They just aren't. Bad defense. Above average offense. What can I say? If anything, they're overrated. What that says about us on the wrong end of 28-20 isn't something I want to contemplate. The Sooners may not play another ranked team until the Big 12 title game.