Blogpollin' | by Jay

The first weekly BlogPoll is out, care of the Karl Hungus of the blogosphere, mgoblog. (And here's our ballot, for what it's worth.)

The blogpollers weren't too terribly different from the USA Today/Coaches or AP preseason polls. In fact, the BP selected the same collection of top 25 teams as did the coaches (the AP only swapped Fresno State for Alabama), and the only severe variances (relatively speaking) were Miami, Ohio State, and Alabama.

BlogPoll 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Team Southern Cal Texas Tennessee Michigan Louisiana State Miami (Florida) Oklahoma Virginia Tech Ohio State Iowa Florida Louisville Georgia Florida State Auburn Texas A&M Purdue Cal Boise State Arizona State Texas Tech Alabama Boston College Pittsburgh Virginia

AP 1 2 3 4 5 9 7 8 6 11 10 12 13 14 16 17 15 19 18 20 21 26 22 23 25

Coaches 1 2 3 4 6 8 5 7 9 10 11 14 13 12 15 17 16 20 19 18 21 24 22 25 23

BPVariance 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.22 1.56 0.89 0.22 2.00 0.22 0.22 0.89 0.00 0.89 0.22 0.22 0.67 0.67 0.22 0.89 0.00 2.67 0.22 0.67 0.89

I'm curious to see if the BP will do anything drastically different than the official polls as the season unfolds. For now, it looks we're all flying down the same trench, heading for the same denouement.