The Guru's BlogPoll (Final Regular Season)

The Guru's BlogPoll ballot (final regular season), with notes below:

BCS Guru Ballot - Week 14

Rank	Team	Delta
1	LSU Tigers	--
2	Alabama Crimson Tide	--
3	Stanford Cardinal	1
4	Boise St. Broncos	1
5	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	1
6	USC Trojans	2
7	Oregon Ducks	2
8	Arkansas Razorbacks	2
9	South Carolina Gamecocks	2
10	Kansas St. Wildcats	3
11	Wisconsin Badgers	4
12	Michigan Wolverines	4
13	TCU Horned Frogs	4
14	Virginia Tech Hokies	-7
15	Houston Cougars	-12
16	Georgia Bulldogs	-4
17	Nebraska Cornhuskers	2
18	Michigan St. Spartans	-4
19	Clemson Tigers	4
20	Baylor Bears	--
21	Southern Miss. Golden Eagles	3
22	West Virginia Mountaineers	-1
23	Penn St. Nittany Lions	-1
24	Oklahoma Sooners	-6
25	Arkansas St. Red Wolves	--

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* The vote is to rank teams based on performance, not to arrange a national championship game, so LSU-Alabama at 1-2 is really indisputable.

* The rest of the ballot more or less followed the form of last week, with the four teams losing conference championship games taking a plunge of varying degrees. The most disappointing among them was Houston, which really proved that it didn't belong on the top of the ballot with that pathetic effort against Southern Miss.

* Oklahoma stays on the ballot, but barely. This team has just completely fallen apart after being bit by the injury bug. For the record, I ranked the Sooners No. 1 in the preseason.

* The Pac-12 proved to be the most top-heavy conference, more so than even the SEC. Three teams are in the top 7, and then nobody else would even warrant consideration.

* No team came into the ballot this week and no team left.

* Conference-by-conference tally: SEC (5), Big Ten (5), Big 12 (4), Pac-12 (3), C-USA (2), MWC (2), ACC (2), Big East (1), Sun Belt (1).

The Guru's BlogPoll (Week 13)

The Guru's BlogPoll ballot, with notes below:

BCS Guru Ballot - Week 13

Rank	Team	Delta
1	LSU Tigers	--
2	Alabama Crimson Tide	--
3	Houston Cougars	2
4	Stanford Cardinal	--
5	Boise St. Broncos	1
6	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	1
7	Virginia Tech Hokies	1
8	USC Trojans	1
9	Oregon Ducks	1
10	Arkansas Razorbacks	-7
11	South Carolina Gamecocks	1
12	Georgia Bulldogs	1
13	Kansas St. Wildcats	-2
14	Michigan St. Spartans	--
15	Wisconsin Badgers	--
16	Michigan Wolverines	--
17	TCU Horned Frogs	1
18	Oklahoma Sooners	1
19	Nebraska Cornhuskers	3
20	Baylor Bears	3
21	West Virginia Mountaineers	3
22	Penn St. Nittany Lions	-5
23	Clemson Tigers	-3
24	Southern Miss. Golden Eagles	1
25	Arkansas St. Red Wolves	--
Dropouts: Notre Dame Fighting Irish

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* After giving this some more thought, I decided to move Houston up to No. 3. Sure, the Cougars have not played the toughest schedule, but being undefeated with that schedule has to count for something. I don't think they're in LSU or Alabama's class, but on a neutral field, I'm not sure if they can't beat Stanford or Virginia Tech, especially at this juncture.

* Arkansas was exposed, not necessarily as a fraud, but nowhere in the class of the top two teams. It may be the third-best team in the SEC (and even that's debatable), but there's a chasm between LSU, Alabama and the rest of the conference.

* Even if that was a hapless UCLA just ready to be pistol-whipped (pun intended), USC is clearly the best two-loss team in the nation, after also beating Oregon in Eugene the week before. The Trojans were determined to make a mockery out of the inaugural Pac-12 title game and they have succeeded in spectacular fashion.

* The bottom of the ballot is one messy lookin' grab bag. Not sure any 4-loss team belongs on there, so I'm giving Arkansas State the benefit of the doubt.

* New teams that made the ballot this week: Arkansas State.

* Conference-by-conference tally: SEC (5), Big Ten (5), Big 12 (4), Pac-12 (3), C-USA (2), MWC (2), ACC (2), Big East (1), Sun Belt (1).

The Guru's BlogPoll (Week 11)

The Guru's BlogPoll ballot, with notes below:

BCS Guru Ballot - Week 11

Rank	Team	Delta
1	LSU Tigers	--
2	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	2
3	Alabama Crimson Tide	2
4	Oregon Ducks	2
5	Arkansas Razorbacks	2
6	Stanford Cardinal	-4
7	Houston Cougars	1
8	Boise St. Broncos	-5
9	Clemson Tigers	1
10	Virginia Tech Hokies	1
11	Oklahoma Sooners	-2
12	Kansas St. Wildcats	1
13	South Carolina Gamecocks	1
14	Georgia Bulldogs	1
15	Michigan St. Spartans	1
16	Wisconsin Badgers	1
17	Nebraska Cornhuskers	1
18	Penn St. Nittany Lions	-6
19	Michigan Wolverines	--
20	USC Trojans	--
21	TCU Horned Frogs	4
22	Southern Miss Golden Eagles	--
23	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	--
24	Florida St. Seminoles	--
25	Cincinnati Bearcats	-4
Dropouts: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Texas Longhorns

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* Both Stanford and Boise State too their obligatory drops after losing on Saturday, but I cut Stanford a bit more slack because of the competition. Keep in mind that Arkansas lost by 24 points to Alabama and yet is still in the top five. Stanford lost by 23 to Oregon.

* Houston gets a slight bump but the Cougars will now be tested, going into the toughest part of their schedule with games against SMU (which beat TCU) and Tulsa (whose only losses were to Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Boise State) left. A sweep of those games will land Houston in the C-USA title game against potentially 11-1 Southern Miss. The Cougs have a lot of work to do to stay unbeaten.

* Oklahoma was idle but dropped two spots. Of all the teams in the top 10, the Sooners by far have the worst loss. They were beaten by a Texas Tech team (in a game that actually wasn't that close) that went on to lose by an average of 42 points in its next three games. That really can't be so easily overlooked.

* Cincinnati remains the only Big East team on the ballot. But with the season-ending injury to QB Zach Collaros, it's only a matter of time before the Bearcats take a dive.

* New teams that made the ballot this week: Notre Dame, Florida State.

* Conference-by-conference tally: SEC (5), Big Ten (5), Big 12 (3), Pac-12 (3), ACC (3), C-USA (2), MWC (2), Big East (1), Independent (1).