- The top nine teams remain the same. With six undefeated teams left in mid-November, we'll most likely hear a lot more screaming about a playoff system this week, how we need one to repair all the injustices in the world. It's been that way for a long time now, but every season teams stumble and the system as it stands turns out to be not nearly as bad as it seems now.

- There are only two teams with one loss at this point, Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh.

- Ohio State is the highest ranked two-loss team. Do they deserve to be above Pitt?

- Otherwise, you've got a big gob of teams at 7-3. These will be worked out of the system in the next week or so as November takes its toll.

- Does Houston still deserve to be ranked over, say, Nebraska?

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Stanford is ranked????? That ought to tell you how weird a season this is.

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Yes, weiners. Not losers, but those teams that just aren't going to have the guts and the depth to make it. By this time, teams should be playing their best and making statements.

- I'm ranking Navy... and not just because they did us all a favor by knocking off Notre Dame.... okay, maybe that has something to do with it. Was I thinking about Notre Dame when I picked the "weiner" headline? Yes. Yes, I was. They are weiners, especially offensive genius Charlie Weis. Come to think of it, Lou Holtz is a weiner too.

- USC didn't lose, but thinking about it further, they suck, at least by USC standards. So, despite beating Arizona State, they're dropping. 

- Which of the undefeated non-BCS teams is the best? Between TCU, Cinncinati, and Boise State, I'm picking TCU.Oh... yeah, the Big East IS a BCS conference. Kind of.

- Pittsburgh higher than Miami? Yeah, for now. They'll meet up with Cincy to determine Big East leader.

- Should LSU drop further? They played Alabama pretty tough, but it's not like the SEC has any great offenses, so every game looks tough.

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20 days ago: Oregon fans celebrate Oregon's 47-20 victory over Southern California during their NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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- Texas looked more impressive than I thought they would. There's not much standing in their way on the road to the National Title game. 

- November. It's November already. Where did the year go? There's still a ton of football left, and with no great teams this year it could be even more insane than the season's already been. 

- Can Iowa win out? Will Florida and Alabama both survive the month? 

- Normally, ranking teams gets hard when you get to 15th, then difficult when you get to 20th. This year - the whole thing is a mess after ten. Look at that list of teams!

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Ah, I get it. Rocky Flop. That's pretty funny, that's what that is.

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- There'll be no arguing about this week about whether or not Nebraska deserves to be ranked. 

- I still have Florida #1 because they have yet to lose. 

- Texas looked excellent against Missouri, but they always look good against Missouri, don't they? 

- Does Iowa deserve to be higher than Boise State or maybe even USC? They win ugly but they continue to find ways to win (as opposed to another program I know that found an incredibly creative way to lose Saturday). 

- Could you give me someone else to rank at #25 besides Notre Dame? Because I know how this works. They'll win a bunch of games against cruddy opponents, then at the end of the season magically end up in a BCS bowl because the media loves to have them in the conversation. So.... should they be ranked? What about Arizona? 

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Matt Barkely - good enough to beat Notre Dame, probably good enough to win the Pac -10. Neither of those are saying much, though, are they?

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Despite Florida's close call with Arkansas, I've kept them at number one. The two must be considered interchangeable. 

Texas stays at third, beating rival Oklahoma in the Red River Shoot Out, looking not at all like the third team in the nation in doing so. The unfortunate fact is there's no one else more deserving. 

And that's kind of the problem. 

Nebraska falls out of the rankings after being #10 last week. Kansas stays in because they lost on the road. Texas Tech moves in because I don't know who else to put in there. Pitt and West Virginia...????  

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Texas - Possibly not that good. Maybe not that good at all. Still ranked highly though. Imagine that.

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Hey, guess what! I did not watch a single college football game this weekend. No, instead, I spent all day Saturday at a Boy Scout Camp in 40-degree temperature with a blustery 25-35 mph wind blowing around, then spent that night camping in below freezing temperatures. Worst part - there were too many Scouts at the camp and we were not allowed to start fires.

Whooooooeeeee! Tell you what, when you get up the next day, you have the best bacon, eggs and sausages you've ever had. The coffee is great, too! 

What this really means is this week I'm playing the part of a football coach. I didn't watch games. They don't watch games. Yet, we're still going to vote. While they may have SIDs who vote for them, I'm betting those SIDs aren't watching any football games either. 

However, I have one thing on my side that they do not - you! YOU watched college football games this past weekend. You have it in your power to correct me. Who corrects the college coaches? No one! No one can because they don't even reveal their votes, yet mine are right here for you to scorn.

So have at it! 

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Love him or hate him, but perhaps Nick Saban's Tide team should be ranked #1 at this point in the season. They have as much a right to it as Florida, don't they?

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The draft blog poll ballot is not in the usual format because my regular laptop hasn't yet made it back from Apple Store repair. In a stroke of amazingly good luck, the backup laptop I normally use in such situations is experiencing hardware issues and is therefore frequently freezing. What a pain in the patootie. 

Instead, you get a somewhat ugly format, but with some notes attached to the individual teams. What this season looks like so far is that Florida, Texas and Alabama appear to be much better than the mush below them. Well, except for the fact that Florida and Texas have played no one to this point that have really challenged them. At least Alabama has a win over another top five-ranked team. 

Five weeks into the season, and the only thing we really know is that non-conference scheduling has made a joke of the polls. Some might say that polls shouldn't come out until later in the season, but without them, how would you know what games to follow? Seriously - how would you know that some of these games were "big" games if they weren't given some relativity? 

In last week's prediction segment, I mentioned that an Oklahoma loss to Miami would be a big blow to the Big 12's prestige. It didn't help that Texas A&M lost badly to Arkansas. After the non-conference season has largely completed, Oklahoma State's victory over Georgia stands out as the conference's lone marquee win. Time to rationalize on behalf of the conference. 

Besides the SEC, who plays no one in the non-conference, can another conference really say much more anyway? (How's that for a good start?) 

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I made some changes to my final ballot, the most notable of which was adding Houston back in after missing them the first time around (no excuse for that).

Also moved some other teams around. It's amazing what happens with a slight change in the poll, if you forget a team (as I did), or get someone out of place, re-shuffling can be quite interesting. Throw one team in there and suddenly you're trying to make sure they're in the exact right place, then move another and suddenly Iowa is in front of Nebraska or something hideous like that..... or maybe Iowa belongs in front of Nebraska because they went on the road and beat a highly ranked team.... but Penn State didn't really deserve their ranking in the first place, while Virginia Tech's stomping of Miami proved that they could at least beat a team with some speed. See all the angst and frustration that this can cause? 

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