I’m sorry, but who the hell are the voters in the AP Poll? First Alabama goes from un-raked to 13 after beating a suspect Clemson team. Now they go from 13 to 11 after barely getting by Tulane. Yeah I know the score says 20-6 and it looks like they may have dominated the game but I watched the playback yesterday and they looked like Clemson did the first game, pitiful and discombobulated.
Okay Alabama jumping like that has me bugging, but Texas jumping over Auburn (from 10-8) in the polls after beating FAU and UTEP? Give me a FREAKING BREAK! (Yah, I didn’t use profanity. Are you guys proud of me?) I’m just saying man, what are the pollsters smoking and how can you justify both Alabama’s and Texas’ rise after playing not so stellar competition. (Yeah I know Clemson is in the ACC, but if you ask me the ACC is looking like the Big Ten.) They did get one team right, East Carolina makes their entrance into the poll at 13 after beating both Virginia Tech and West Virginia, who if you ask me are teams of a higher caliber than any team in the Top 10 has played. (That’s including Auburn.)
If I were voting my Top 25 would look something like this:

Rk Team
1 Georgia
2 Florida
3 USC
4 Oklahoma
5 LSU
6 East Carolina
7 Missouri
8 Auburn
9 Texas
10 Ohio State
11 Wisconsin
12 California
13 Kansas
14 West Virginia
15 Penn State
16 Oregon
17 Alabama
18 Brigham Young
19 Arizona State
20 Wake Forest
21 Fresno State
22 South Florida
23 Utah
24 Illinois
25 Texas Tech

Now to explain my poll, I have Georgia ranked 1 because that’s where they start and I don’t think USC beating a retooled Virginia team is reason enough to have them jump Georgia. I have Florida second because in both there outings the look like the better team when compared to USC. East Carolina is sixth because well they’ve beaten two very good football teams and deserve it. (Yeah I know some of you are saying both Va Tech and West Virginia are over rated, but they are the class of their respective conferences.) The rest of the poll is pretty self-explanatory though, the only hesitation I had was ranking Fresno State and Wake Forrest.

Just in case you want to see what has me perplexed here’s this weeks AP Top 25 Poll.

Rk Team Prev
1 USC (33) 1
2 Georgia (23) 2
3 Oklahoma (2) 4
4 Florida (4) 5
5 Ohio State (1) 3
6 Missouri (6) 6
7 LSU (1) 7
8 Texas 10
9 Auburn 9
10 Wisconsin 11
11 Alabama 13
12 Texas Tech 12
13 Kansas 14
14 East Carolina 27
15 Arizona State 15
16 Oregon 18
17 Penn State 19
18 Brigham Young 15
19 South Florida 17
20 Wake Forest 20
21 Fresno State 21
22 Utah 22
23 California 28
24 Illinois 24
25 West Virginia 8