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Final BlogPoll Top 25 Ballot

I wanted to deface my ballot, but I went through with it and gave Dark Lord Saban his due.

ROLL EVIL EMPIRE TIDE

Yuck, whatever. The one thing I do enjoy is that it's turning into less of an "SEC is dominant" thing and more of a "Nick Saban is dominant" thing. The conference argument loses a lot of steam when you consider:

1. Five of those seven titles were won by Nick Saban and Urban Meyer, who are completely consumed by coaching to the point where it doesn't seem healthy or even sane.

2. Don't you think Saban could do this at some other football factory school if he was there? Like he couldn't reel off three national titles at Ohio State, or Texas, or USC (sanctions aside), or maybe Oklahoma?

3. Louisville pantsed Florida.

SB Nation BlogPoll Top 25 College Football Rankings

Voodoo Five Ballot - Week 15

Rank Team Delta
1 Alabama Crimson Tide Arrow_up 1
2 Oregon Ducks Arrow_up 1
3 Ohio St. Buckeyes Arrow_up 2
4 Georgia Bulldogs Arrow_up 2
5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Arrow_down -4
6 Stanford Cardinal Arrow_up 2
7 Texas A&M Aggies Arrow_up 3
8 Kansas St. Wildcats Arrow_down -4
9 Florida Gators Arrow_down -2
10 Florida St. Seminoles Arrow_up 2
11 South Carolina Gamecocks Arrow_up 2
12 Clemson Tigers Arrow_up 2
13 LSU Tigers Arrow_down -4
14 Louisville Cardinals Arrow_up 7
15 Oklahoma Sooners Arrow_down -4
16 Boise St. Broncos --
17 Northwestern Wildcats Arrow_up 6
18 Northern Illinois Huskies Arrow_down -3
19 Utah State Aggies Arrow_up 5
20 Michigan Wolverines Arrow_down -1
21 Oklahoma St. Cowboys Arrow_up 4
22 Oregon St. Beavers Arrow_down -4
23 UCLA Bruins Arrow_down -6
24 Nebraska Cornhuskers Arrow_down -2
25 San Jose St. Spartans --
Dropouts: Kent St. Golden Flashes

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "

I like the way this came out. It's still pretty logical with regards to who actually beat who during the season (like Notre Dame over Stanford, South Carolina over Clemson, etc.), and I didn't feel like I was reaching too hard down at the bottom of the poll. I decided not to punish Oklahoma too hard because Johnny Manziel made every defense look stupid after about the middle of October. Same with Michigan, which should have beaten South Carolina until they blew a coverage with 10 seconds to go in the Outback Bowl.

Until next year...

P.S. I was perusing the final AP ballot and some moron gave a shoutout vote to North Dakota State. That might be the worst vote of the year. Sorry, but there are way more than 25 FBS teams that would beat the Bison. And they lost to Indiana State.