First Draft of Final BlogPoll Ballot Submitted

I don’t know about you, but, now that the season is over, I’m spent. A report on last night’s gymnastics meet will follow tomorrow; a full explanation of---and, if necessary, revision of---my postseason top 25 will follow shortly thereafter.

For now, here is the preliminary BlogPoll ballot draft I submitted this afternoon, which (to reiterate) will be explained soon. Ignore the arrows; I started from a clean white piece of paper (several, actually) and organized the entire top 25 anew, without regard to my own earlier ballots.

Here is how my resume-based rankings break down:

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Florida	2
2	Utah	6
3	Texas	1
4	Southern Cal	2
5	Oklahoma	4
6	Texas Tech	2
7	Alabama	--
8	Penn State	3
9	Ohio State	--
10	TCU	8
11	Boise State	1
12	Virginia Tech	4
13	Georgia	8
14	Missouri	12
15	Mississippi	2
16	Oregon	2
17	Oregon State	6
18	Georgia Tech	7
19	Cincinnati	7
20	California	6
21	Pittsburgh	6
22	Florida State	4
23	Oklahoma State	4
24	Michigan State	11
25	Iowa	--

Dropped Out: Boston College (#20), North Carolina (#22), Northwestern (#24).

Your constructive criticisms are appreciated. I’ll let you know how I distinguished the teams---and, particularly, why I came down the way I did on choosing the No. 1 team, a question with which I wrestled extensively---in short order. As always, persuasive cases made in the comments may sway me and convince me to change my rankings before the final deadline.

Go ‘Dawgs!