Sorry this is so late. I often confuse these “AM” and “PM” things you hear so much about.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Texas Tech |  2 |
| 2 | Alabama | — |
| 3 | Texas | 1 |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 2 |
| 5 | Florida | 2 |
| 6 | Penn State |  5 |
| 7 | Southern Cal | 1 |
| 8 | Utah | 1 |
| 9 | Oklahoma State | 4 |
| 10 | Georgia | 2 |
| 11 | Boise State | 1 |
| 12 | Missouri | 1 |
| 13 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 14 | TCU | 3 |
| 15 | Michigan State | — |
| 16 | Brigham Young | — |
| 17 | Virginia Tech | 9 |
| 18 | Pittsburgh | 2 |
| 19 | North Carolina | 7 |
| 20 | California | 2 |
| 21 | Maryland | 2 |
| 22 | Florida State | 1 |
| 23 | Ball State | 3 |
| 24 | Georgia Tech | 7 |
| 25 | Tulsa | 3 |
Dropped Out: Minnesota (#21), West Virginia (#24), LSU (#25).
Games Watched: NIU-Ball State, 1st half of TCU-Utah (plus the highlights), Virginia Tech-Maryland, Michigan-Minnesota, Ohio State-Northwestern, Portions of Texas-Baylor, Portions of Michigan State-Purdue, The end of Illinois-Western Michigan, Alabama-LSU, Penn State-Iowa, Portions of Florida Satte-Clemson, Oklahoma State-Texas Tech, Portions of Vanderbilt-Florida, BC-Notre Dame.
Things I’m Iffy About:
- #1 and #2. Texas Tech’s schedule has a worse back end, seeing as how they played TWO(!) 1-AA schools, and Alabama played none. However, the top of the resume is much better, as Texas Tech has beaten a pair of top 10 teams, whereas Alabama’s best win is… in overtime against a not-very-good LSU unit? Alabama has also struggled much more with the teams on their schedule, whereas Texas Tech has blown out pretty much everyone except Texas. For now, I’ll give the benefit of the doubt to the team with the better wins, not the one with fewer bad teams on the schedule.
- Not having Oklahoma State ahead of Utah. However, they do have 2 losses (to the Utes’ 0), regardless of against whom those losses came. Aside from the #1 wins on the resume (which give OK State a slight edge) and losses on the resume (which gives Utah a slight edge), I think the resumes aren’t as far off as you’d think. Utah is ahead of the Cowboys until someone convinces me otherwise.
- TCU over Michigan State. IT looks like MSU wins that comparison easily, on second review. Those teams will be switched on the final ballot unless someone tries to convince me why they shouldn’t be.
- The order after #15 or so. I feel like there are a lot of comparisons that are similar enough I just threw the teams in there.
Part of the reason for huge deltas is that I managed to not
rank North Carolina last week. Have at it. The more comments, the better my ballot ends up.
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