College Football Rankings, Week 1: BlogPoll Top 25

The first regular-season BlogPoll Top 25, SB Nation's version of college football rankings, has arrived. Andy Hutchins is in charge of putting together the rankings and presenting them to masses, where he highlights some of the strangest and normalest (word?) ballots in the blogosphere.

This week, CougCenter's ballot was featured prominently, thanks to my newfangled college football rankings system:

The first note in this bit goes to me, your BlogPoll steward. A bit of oversight on my part left FBS newcomers Texas State, UT-San Antonio, and UMass out of the list of choices on the first BlogPoll ballot of the year, which likely denied Texas State its best chance to be ranked in 2012 by keeping the Bobcats off the ballot one week after they upset a ranked Houston team. CougCenter's Craig Powers took up the Bobcats' cause, thanks to a formula that also got Miami (!?) the No. 5 spot.

You can't argue with math. Go Texas State!

You can see every voter's ballot, including those fellows over at WSU Football Blog, here. You can see the voting distribution for each team here.

Click the jump for the rankings.

Results for Week 1

#	School	Points/blog	SD	Delta
1	Alabama Crimson Tide (81)	25.16	2.79	--
2	USC Trojans (10)	23.62	0.95	--
3	LSU Tigers	22.16	3.00	--
4	Oregon Ducks (1)	21.60	2.84	--
5	Florida St. Seminoles	18.20	4.94	--
6	West Virginia Mountaineers	17.77	3.09	--
7	Oklahoma Sooners	16.89	4.60	--
8	Georgia Bulldogs	16.86	4.35	--
9	Michigan St. Spartans	16.45	3.09	--
10	Clemson Tigers	15.52	3.35	--
11	Arkansas Razorbacks	14.11	4.93	--
12	South Carolina Gamecocks	14.00	4.34	--
13	Nebraska Cornhuskers	11.65	3.91	--
14	Ohio St. Buckeyes	11.16	5.74	--
15	Oklahoma St. Cowboys (1)	10.56	5.08	--
16	Virginia Tech Hokies	9.77	4.45	--
17	Wisconsin Badgers	9.10	4.84	--
18	Texas Longhorns	8.78	4.76	--
19	Michigan Wolverines	6.10	4.58	--
20	Kansas St. Wildcats	6.07	4.66	--
21	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	5.68	5.45	--
22	TCU Horned Frogs	5.13	4.41	--
23	Louisville Cardinals	4.00	3.87	--
24	Tennessee Volunteers	2.66	4.96	--
25	Stanford Cardinal	2.32	2.87	--
Others Receiving Votes: Ohio Bobcats | Florida Gators | Utah Utes | BYU Cougars | Boise St. Broncos | Baylor Bears | North Carolina Tar Heels | Central Florida Knights | Washington Huskies | Miami Hurricanes | Missouri Tigers | Nevada Wolf Pack | Connecticut Huskies | Duke Blue Devils | Northwestern Wildcats | UCLA Bruins | Iowa St. Cyclones | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | Texas A&M Aggies | South Florida Bulls | Illinois Fighting Illini | Arizona St. Sun Devils | Louisiana Ragin Cajuns | Purdue Boilermakers | Texas Tech Red Raiders | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | Western Kentucky Hilltoppers | Iowa Hawkeyes | Utah State Aggies | New Mexico Lobos | Temple Owls | Fresno St. Bulldogs | Colorado St. Rams | Louisiana Tech Bulldogs | Auburn Tigers | New Mexico St. Aggies | N.C. State Wolfpack
Updated: Sep 5, 2012 9:30 AM EDT

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