So you all can't have it your way.

Rank	Team
1	Florida
2	Texas
3	Alabama
4	TCU
5	Cincinnati
6	Iowa
7	Boise State
8	Southern Cal
9	LSU
10	Oregon
11	Georgia Tech
12	Pittsburgh
13	Houston
14	Oklahoma State
15	Penn State
16	Virginia Tech
17	Miami (Florida)
18	Utah
19	West Virginia
20	Ohio State
21	South Carolina
22	Arizona
23	Oklahoma
24	Central Michigan
25	Mississippi

Why, oh why?  After the break...

After looking over my ballot again with my brain below 100 degrees Fahrenheit, I noticed a few irregularities:

• Cincy and TCU are close, oh so close.  I almost couldn't pick between the stingy Frog defense and the brain on coach Kelly of the Bearcats.  I think I ended up picking TCU because what the hell is a bearcat?
• My top 3 are staying the way they are because the defense and special teams of all three are tremendous, and I'm just ranking the offenses based on body of work.  Sure Texas has scored more points, but putting up an effective 10 points against Colorado (17 minus the 7 they gave to CU on the fumble) and crapping out 16 against OU despite being gifted with great field position multiple times makes me nervous.  The explosion against Missouri was, I think, a vein of fool's gold.  Missouri was playing 12 to 15 yards off of all of our receivers on almost every play, and they were still taking their first step BACK after the snap.  There were several times when Colt just never looked over at poor Fozzy standing at the line about 15 yards from the nearest defender when we needed about 3 yards.  In fact, I think that's how we got into that fourth down where we ran the fake punt.  Davis either continues to call plays with no external input or Colt is being lazy with his reads or both.  I don't expect a similar explosion against OSU, who flat out-schemed us defensively last year in Austin.  Sure, you could say something similar about Florida's offense, but as a Texas fan on the internet, I reserve the right to crap on Greg Davis.  It should have been in the Bill of Rights.
• I just can't imagine Iowa continuing to win.  They are a ball rolling up a hill, which has just stopped at the top.  They are in unstable equilibrium and it won't take much to send them rolling off one way or another.
• Boise beat Oregon beat Washington, USC lost to Washington.  USC beat Ohio State.  LSU should maybe switch with Oregon.  Should Oregon and USC switch places?  This is why I hate voting.  We'll find out this weekend, though, so lucky us.
• Why doesn't Georgia Tech's quarterback get tired after halftime anymore?  Is he on some kind of Tour de France cocktail?
• Pittsburgh: way too high.  But they're putting up good numbers.  Their biggest tests await.
• Houston beat Oklahoma State, but man do I want to shaft them for losing to UTEP.
• The rest isn't worth defending.  You could vote a myriad of different ways justifiably.  I will say this, however:  Yes, OU would probably beat a lot of the teams after Georgia Tech.  That's why they're the only 3-loss team that even sniffs the top 25.  Quit telling me to put them in the top 15.  They can get back there by winning out and being 9-3.

Berate and belittle me as you wish.