My Harris Poll
Here is my Harris Poll ballot for this week:
Rank # 1: Alabama
Rank # 2: Oklahoma
Rank # 3: Florida
Rank # 4: Texas
Rank # 5: USC
Rank # 6: Texas Tech
Rank # 7: Penn State
Rank # 8: Utah
Rank # 9: Boise State
Rank # 10: Ohio State
Rank # 11: Georgia Tech
Rank # 12: Cincinnati
Rank # 13: Oklahoma State
Rank # 14: TCU
Rank # 15: Ball State
Rank # 16: Oregon
Rank # 17: Iowa
Rank # 18: BYU
Rank # 19: Georgia
Rank # 20: Michigan State
Rank # 21: Missouri
Rank # 22: Boston College
Rank # 23: Pittsburgh (Pitt)
Rank # 24: Florida State
Rank # 25: Oregon State
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About Inside UCLA
This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
Brian: What are the factors that led you to rank OU higher than Texas?
It looks good and is a hell of a lot better than Scott Wolf's AP ballot.
It's possible for one team to able to beat another but be stronger against common opponents, but in this case, with no play off, Texas beat Oklahoma on a neutral field and they did so by double digits (10 points). Alabama-Florida will work itself out in the SEC Championship game but by that exact same token, I believe, Texas should rank ahead in the Big 12 - head-to-head really ought to be the determinant when considering two teams compared with one another.