When drafting my BlogPoll ballot this week, I started with a clean white piece of paper.

I didn't look at any ballots, whether my previous ones or anyone else's current or former ones, and I didn't look at any rankings, whether by coaches, sportswriters, or webloggers. Instead, I started from two sets of data: a list of the undefeated teams in Division I-A and a list of the college football teams with one loss. I ranked them separately, putting all the unbeatens in order in one column and all the once-beatens in order in the other, then I merged the two lists.

Here are the results at which I arrived:

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Ohio State	--
2	Oregon	3
3	Michigan	1
4	Texas	3
5	Auburn	3
6	Louisville	--
7	Louisiana State	1
8	Clemson	1
9	Southern Cal	6
10	Tennessee	5
11	West Virginia	3
12	Florida	2
13	Cal	7
14	Notre Dame	4
15	Georgia	1
16	Georgia Tech	10
17	Wisconsin	9
18	Nebraska	1
19	Boise State	7
20	Iowa	7
21	Rutgers	--
22	Florida State	3
23	Washington	2
24	Wake Forest	--
25	Missouri	2

My explanation will follow later, but, for now, feel free to offer your constructive criticisms in the comments below.

Go 'Dawgs!