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Pollin': Week Eight Results and the Weekend in Review

Who can stop Alabama's dominance of the college football realm? (No, not you Mississippi State. Put your hand down. Go home. You're drunk.)

By The Ghost of Jay Cutler
Andy Lyons

Alabama remains the number one team in the country to the surprise of nobody. Oregon, though, is no longer the number two team in the BlogPoll, as they've been jumped by the Florida Gators.

College Football Rankings 2011

Results for Week 8

# School Points/blog SD Delta
1 Alabama Crimson Tide (55) 24.41 1.05 --
2 Florida Gators (16) 23.19 1.37 Arrow_up 1
3 Oregon Ducks (2) 23.00 1.22 Arrow_down -1
4 Kansas St. Wildcats (4) 22.61 1.75 --
5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (1) 20.92 1.53 --
6 LSU Tigers 18.62 2.12 --
7 Oregon St. Beavers 18.15 2.70 Arrow_up 1
8 Oklahoma Sooners 17.48 2.95 Arrow_up 1
9 Ohio St. Buckeyes (1) 15.34 5.12 Arrow_up 1
10 USC Trojans 15.03 3.38 Arrow_up 2
11 Florida St. Seminoles 14.51 3.40 --
12 Mississippi St. Bulldogs 12.51 3.22 Arrow_up 2
13 Texas Tech Red Raiders 11.24 3.98 Arrow_up 5
14 Clemson Tigers 11.09 3.54 Arrow_up 2
15 Georgia Bulldogs 10.97 3.84 Arrow_down -2
16 Louisville Cardinals 10.35 3.72 Arrow_down -1
17 South Carolina Gamecocks 9.97 3.72 Arrow_down -10
18 Rutgers Scarlet Knights 9.20 3.72 Arrow_up 1
19 Stanford Cardinal 7.19 4.02 Arrow_up 3
20 Ohio Bobcats 5.10 4.31 Arrow_up 3
21 Texas A&M Aggies 4.70 3.95 Arrow_down -1
22 Michigan Wolverines 4.15 3.18 Arrow_up 3
23 Boise St. Broncos 4.09 3.58 Arrow_up 3
24 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs 1.82 2.56 Arrow_up 5
25 West Virginia Mountaineers 1.54 2.42 Arrow_down -8
Others Receiving Votes: Texas Longhorns | Wisconsin Badgers | Toledo Rockets | Nebraska Cornhuskers | Northern Illinois Huskies | Penn St. Nittany Lions | Duke Blue Devils | Tulsa Golden Hurricane | Cincinnati Bearcats | TCU Horned Frogs | Arizona St. Sun Devils | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | North Carolina Tar Heels | Arizona Wildcats | UCLA Bruins | Michigan St. Spartans | Nevada Wolf Pack | ULM Warhawks | N.C. State Wolfpack | Kent St. Golden Flashes | Northwestern Wildcats | Ball St. Cardinals
Updated: Oct 23, 2012 9:00 AM CDT

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Rankings 2011

Other than that, there's nothing too surprising here. The Mountaineers fell. The Gamecocks fell. The Longhorns are out of the poll. Louisiana Tech's back in. Louisville, despite being undefeated, is still in the Big East, etc.

The full poll analysis from SB Nation's Andy Hutchins is here.

The SEC Power Poll is here and, man, if you check out the commentary you'll see that whoever is behind the reigns at SBN Atlanta really does not like the Ole Miss Rebels at all.

1. Alabama Crimson Tide, 139 points (9 first-place votes)
2. Florida Gators, 131 (1)
3. LSU Tigers, 119
4. South Carolina Gamecocks, 106
5. Mississippi St. Bulldogs, 98
6. Georgia Bulldogs, 95
7. Texas A&M Aggies, 82
8. Arkansas Razorbacks, 57
9. Vanderbilt Commodores, 56
10. Mississippi Rebels, 54
11. Tennessee Volunteers, 50
12. Missouri Tigers, 32
13. Kentucky Wildcats, 17
14. Auburn Tigers, 14

Also from the SB Nation network are a few links that you, as a college football fan, should check out.

  • The Numerical, which looks at Texas' underachieving defense, A.J. McCarron's unlikely dominance, and Johnny Manziel's turnover issues among many, many other things.
  • The network's bowl projetions, which has the Rebels facing the Virginia Tech Hokies in the Music City Bowl. Yep. I'll take that.
  • And "Auburn Family Feud," Steven Godfrey's look at the Auburn Tigers fan base in the wake of their loss to Vanderbilt last weekend and the worst start for their program since 1952.