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Bull Run versus the Blog Poll

By Tim Riordan
When two teams that I loath lead off as the game of the week I know it could be a long year..
When two teams that I loath lead off as the game of the week I know it could be a long year..

Well the Blog Poll is out and yours truly like to see just how much smarter I am than the masses..

2012 BlogPoll, Week 2: No. 1 Alabama Breaks Everything, Including Michigan - SBNation.com
After clobbering Michigan on Saturday night, Alabama has taken the top spot in the BlogPoll, mirroring its one-spot rise in the AP Poll and USA TODAY coaches poll to displace USC from the throne. The Crimson Tide did such a good job of wiping out Michigan, in fact -- the Wolverines tumble from No. 8 to 19 in this week's poll -- that they received 81 first-place votes ... and more points per ballot than is mathematically possible, at 25.16. (It's a glitch in the BlogPoll that is producing a phantom ballot, and we're aware of it and getting it fixed, but ROLL TIDE, and September polls are silly anyway, right?)

So where do I differ?

Blog Poll Bull Run
1 Alabama Crimson Tide (81) Alabama Crimson Tide
2 USC Trojans (10) USC Trojans
3 LSU Tigers LSU Tigers
4 Oregon Ducks (1) Oregon Ducks
5 Florida St. Seminoles West Virginia Mountaineers
6 West Virginia Mountaineers Florida St. Seminoles
7 Oklahoma Sooners Georgia Bulldogs
8 Georgia Bulldogs Michigan St. Spartans
9 Michigan St. Spartans Oklahoma Sooners
10 Clemson Tigers TCU Horned Frogs
11 Arkansas Razorbacks Arkansas Razorbacks
12 South Carolina Gamecocks Ohio St. Buckeyes
13 Nebraska Cornhuskers Clemson Tigers
14 Ohio St. Buckeyes Virginia Tech Hokies
15 Oklahoma St. Cowboys (1) Oklahoma St. Cowboys
16 Virginia Tech Hokies Kansas St. Wildcats
17 Wisconsin Badgers Nebraska Cornhuskers
18 Texas Longhorns Central Florida Knights
19 Michigan Wolverines Stanford Cardinal
20 Kansas St. Wildcats Michigan Wolverines
21 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Notre Dame Fighting Irish
22 TCU Horned Frogs Ohio Bobcats
23 Louisville Cardinals Louisiana Ragin Cajuns
24 Tennessee Volunteers Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
25 Stanford Cardinal Connecticut Huskies

Just a reminder guys that when I publish my Ballot over the weekend you are encouraged to suggest changes. That's the difference between the BlogPoll and the USA Today / Coaches polls. We listen to reason!

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