Pollin': BlogPoll and Power Poll Results for Week 7, Plus the Weekend in Review

Florida and LSU take obvious rises, while Texas and West Virginia take huge tumbles in this week's SB Nation Blog Poll.

Results for Week 8

#	School	Points/blog	SD	Delta
1	Alabama Crimson Tide (62)	24.64	0.84	--
2	Oregon Ducks (3)	23.32	2.15	--
3	Florida Gators (5)	22.51	1.40	2
4	Kansas St. Wildcats (1)	21.99	1.36	2
5	Notre Dame Fighting Irish (4)	21.30	1.81	2
6	LSU Tigers	18.41	2.62	3
7	South Carolina Gamecocks	17.05	2.44	-4
8	Oregon St. Beavers	16.89	3.84	2
9	Oklahoma Sooners	16.18	3.44	5
10	Ohio St. Buckeyes (1)	16.05	5.49	-2
11	Florida St. Seminoles	13.70	3.69	--
12	USC Trojans	13.09	4.69	--
13	Georgia Bulldogs	11.82	3.12	--
14	Mississippi St. Bulldogs	10.21	3.80	5
15	Louisville Cardinals	9.88	3.84	3
16	Clemson Tigers	9.49	4.56	--
17	West Virginia Mountaineers	9.29	3.46	-13
18	Texas Tech Red Raiders	8.32	4.52	13
19	Rutgers Scarlet Knights	7.33	3.61	1
20	Texas A&M Aggies	6.36	3.70	4
21	Cincinnati Bearcats	6.24	3.87	--
22	Stanford Cardinal	4.83	4.42	-5
23	Ohio Bobcats	3.96	4.92	--
24	TCU Horned Frogs	2.11	2.61	4
25	Michigan Wolverines	1.76	2.58	4
Others Receiving Votes: Boise St. Broncos | Arizona St. Sun Devils | Iowa St. Cyclones | Louisiana Tech Bulldogs | Northwestern Wildcats | Nevada Wolf Pack | Texas Longhorns | Tulsa Golden Hurricane | Northern Illinois Huskies | Toledo Rockets | North Carolina Tar Heels | UCLA Bruins | Wisconsin Badgers | Virginia Tech Hokies | Western Kentucky Hilltoppers | Penn St. Nittany Lions | Nebraska Cornhuskers | Ball St. Cardinals | Utah State Aggies | Kent St. Golden Flashes
Updated: Oct 16, 2012 9:30 AM EDT

Total Ballots: 76 | Votes by team | Ballots by voter

Full poll analysis is here.

The SEC Power Poll results are as follows:

1. Alabama Crimson Tide, 140 points (unanimous)
2. Florida Gators, 130
3. LSU Tigers, 120
4. South Carolina Gamecocks, 110
5. Georgia Bulldogs, 96
6. Mississippi St. Bulldogs, 90
7. Texas A&M Aggies, 83
8. Mississippi Rebels, 62
9. Arkansas Razorbacks, 54
10. Tennessee Volunteers, 53
11. Vanderbilt Commodores, 49
12. Missouri Tigers, 33
13. Auburn Tigers, 18
14. Kentucky Wildcats, 12

Wow, the rest of the conference's bloggers are giving our Rebels more credit than I am?! Full poll results and commentary are here.

For the SB Nation dot com extracurriculars, you've got the alphabetical which includes Spencer Hall's wary endorsement of what Hugh Freeze is doing so far in Oxford, the gist of which is "they don't suck all that much"; Bill C's numerical, highlighted by his astonishment at Ole Miss' inability to beat Auburn by more points than we did last weekend; and Brian Cook's This Week in Schadenfreude which features Texas and Auburn misery, among many other fan bases which, horray, aren't ours.