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Lots of “new” teams entered the poll this week.  TCU, Florida State, Notre Dame and Baylor re-enter the poll to replace Georgia Tech, Texas, Cincinnati and Auburn.  Florida State and Notre Dame will make a lot of readers happy since they were 2 of the top 4 most popular teams to be picked -- 36% and 35% of the people picked them.  Texas was the most popular unranked team so their loss hurt 30% of the contestants.  At the same time only 99 total people picked Georgia Tech, Cincinnati or Auburn, so basically nobody would notice if I didn’t point out their loss.

Individual Ballot Analysis

Brooklyn Blue stays on top of the rankings this week with 93 points.  His highest ranked team is Oklahoma at 5th but he also has the 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th place team.  The perfect ballot has 110 points this week coming from the same six teams: LSU, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Michigan State, Southern Cal and Clemson.

At the other end of the standings there was a lot of shakeup in the race for worst.  TCU, Florida State and Notre Dame had been killing people the last few weeks.  Now that they’re ranked again there is a new person all alone in last place with 25 points.  It’s also the first time in several weeks that the person in last place does not have the worst possible entry.  They chose Notre Dame and are getting a whole 2 points more than the theoretical worst possibility.

Judging Your Picks

This week the MGoBlogosphere is bringing negative value to their picks.  A completely random entry should earn 54 points but the contest’s median and mean is 52 points.  If you have more than 52 points you’re an above average MGoBlog.  Cheer up though, if you’re reading this, then you’re above average in my mind no matter what your Pick 6 score is. 

Games to Watch

According to ESPN’s schedule the weekly ESPN3D game is Vanderbilt at Tennessee.  That is 5-5 Vanderbilt with roughly the 75th best offense in the country playing at 4-6 Tennessee with roughly the 86th best offense in the country.  Wouldn’t the offenses have to be able to move the ball to take advantage of that 3rd dimension?

I guess the punts will look spectacular.

Here are the games that could shake up the Pick Six standings.

#18 USC at #4 Oregon

8 pm on ABC

Oregon has one last test before they crush Oregon State and then crush whoever manages to not lose themselves out of contention for the Pac-12 South title.

#17 Nebraska at #20 Michigan

Noon on ESPN

I don’t need to talk you into watching this game.

#5 Oklahoma at #25 Baylor

8 pm on ABC

Which 8 pm game will score more points?  This one or the USC-Oregon game?  My money is on this one.  Five of Baylor’s nine games have had a total of more than 80 points.

#13 Kansas State at NR Texas

8 pm on FX

If Texas can beat Kansas State at home they should be ranked next week.  I’m not sure if Texas will be able to catch up to Auburn’s record for number of entrances and exits from the poll, but they can try.

NR Cincinnati at NR Rutgers

Noon on ESPNU

There are no Big East teams in the AP poll this week.  West Virginia is receiving the most votes but they aren’t playing this week.  With a strong win this week and a couple of losses Cincinnati might make it back into the poll.  But you shouldn’t actually watch the game.  First, it will probably be terrible.  Second, it is on at the same time as the Michigan game.  Third, only 4 people actually picked Cincinnati as their unranked team so chances are you don’t care at all whether or not they’re ranked.