MSC’s Week 7 CBSSports.com BlogPoll
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama |  1 |
| 2 | Florida |  1 |
| 3 | Texas | |
| 4 | Cincinnati | 1 |
| 5 | Iowa | 7 |
| 6 | Southern Cal | 3 |
| 7 | Boise State | 1 |
| 8 | TCU | 5 |
| 9 | Miami (Florida) | 2 |
| 10 | LSU | 2 |
| 11 | Georgia Tech | 11 |
| 12 | Oregon | 2 |
| 13 | Penn State | 7 |
| 14 | Virginia Tech | 10 |
| 15 | Oklahoma State | |
| 16 | Brigham Young | 2 |
| 17 | Houston | 8 |
| 18 | Texas Tech | 8 |
| 19 | Pittsburgh | 8 |
| 20 | West Virginia | 8 |
| 21 | Ohio State | 11 |
| 22 | Utah | 4 |
| 23 | Kansas | 7 |
| 24 | Arizona | 2 |
| 25 | Central Michigan | 1 |
| Dropped Out: Nebraska (#11), South Carolina (#17), Oklahoma (#19), South Florida (#21), Missouri (#23), Auburn (#24). | ||
Here are my thoughts on this week’s poll:
- I know I said last week that I probably won’t change the top team in the poll, but I was wrong. After watching Alabama control South Carolina on Saturday night, which followed Florida barely hanging on at home against Arkansas, I decided to move ‘Bama to the top spot.
- After the top three, I did some general remodeling of my poll by moving undefeated Cincinnati up to #4 and undefeated Iowa up to #5. USC moves up a few spots after winning at Notre Dame. Yes, I realize Boise State is still undefeated, but I’m really not on the Broncos bandwagon at all. In fact, a TCU win over BYU likely means that the Horned Frogs will be the top non-BCS conference team in the poll next week.
- Miami and LSU dropped due to other teams’ moving around.
- Georgia Tech is up 11 spots to #11 after beating Virginia Tech, which is now ranked #14.
- Other teams moved up in the poll due to a total of 6 teams dropping out of the top 25. That made way for Texas Tech, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Utah, Arizona, and Central Michigan. I don’t usually drop that many teams out of the poll for losing, but I wanted to mix things up a bit and include some new teams in the top 25. Since many of the teams that lost were toward the bottom of the poll anyway, it wasn’t a tough decision to simply replace them.
