The Guru's BlogPoll Ballot (Final)

The Guru's final BlogPoll ballot for 2012, with notes below:

BCS Guru Ballot - Week 15

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama Crimson Tide	4
2	Oregon Ducks	1
3	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	-2
4	Ohio St. Buckeyes	-2
5	Texas A&M Aggies	5
6	Georgia Bulldogs	2
7	Stanford Cardinal	--
8	Florida Gators	-4
9	Florida St. Seminoles	3
10	South Carolina Gamecocks	3
11	Clemson Tigers	3
12	Kansas St. Wildcats	-6
13	LSU Tigers	-4
14	Utah State Aggies	2
15	San Jose St. Spartans	2
16	Louisville Cardinals	9
17	Oklahoma Sooners	-6
18	Northwestern Wildcats	3
19	Boise St. Broncos	5
20	Vanderbilt Commodores	New
21	Texas Longhorns	New
22	Oregon St. Beavers	-7
23	Nebraska Cornhuskers	-4
24	Northern Illinois Huskies	-2
25	Arkansas St. Red Wolves	New
Dropouts: UCLA Bruins, Michigan Wolverines, San Diego St. Aztecs

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings

* OK, so Notre Dame was thoroughly exposed as a fraud. In retrospect, that wasn't hard to see. While nine of the Irish's 12 opponents went to a bowl game, they only went 3-6 and five of those teams were pounded - Oklahoma, Purdue, Navy, Pitt and USC. The only "good" win they had turned out to be Stanford, at the time yet to start the more dynamic quarterback Kevin Hogan.

* The SEC is once again the best conference, leading all AQ leagues with a 6-3 bowl record, including New Year's Day (or later) wins by Georgia, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Alabama. The only real disappointments were LSU, which lost a nailbiter to Clemson, and Florida, which was inexplicably routed by Louisville in the Sugar Bowl.

* Despite constant harping about the inadequacies of BCS 2.0, it'll be far superior to the current version - IF - it could've included Notre Dame, Alabama, Oregon and another SEC team in the Final Four. We could've had Alabama-Oregon or an all-SEC championship game - and either would've been preferable to the debacle in Miami on Monday night.

* The worst BCS conference once again is the Big Ten, which was lucky to finish 2-5, as Michigan State really should've lost to TCU to make it 1-6. The only B1G team that did its conference proud was surprising Northwestern, which finished the season with a 10-3 record and routed Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl.

* But the most disappointing team of the year has to be USC. My - and many others' - preseason No. 1 team finished 7-6, ending the disastrous year with a desultory loss to Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl.

* Conference-by-conference tally: SEC (7), Pac-12 (3), Big Ten (3), Big 12 (3), ACC (2), WAC (2), MWC (1), MAC (1), Big East (1), Sun Belt (1), Independent (1).