Here's the ballot this week:

1. Alabama
2. Southern California
3. LSU
4. Oklahoma
5. Oregon
6. Florida State
7. Georgia
8. South Carolina
9. Michigan State
10. West Virginia
11. Kansas State
12. Texas
13. Virginia Tech
14. Ohio State
15. Boise State
16. Clemson
17. Michigan
18. Louisville
19. Stanford
20. TCU
21. BYU
22. Notre Dame
23. Arizona State
24. Florida
25. UCLA

Also considered: Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia Tech.

It was moving week: Wisconsin, Nebraska, Arkansas and Oklahoma State all exit my poll after losing to unranked teams. I have a bit of sympathy for Nebraska and Oklahoma State because they went on the road to other BCS conference teams. But Arkansas … see ya, for awhile probably. As for Wisconsin, as I said last week I wasn’t going to dock a team for a sluggish first-week win. But combine a sluggish first-week win with a loss to an unranked team, and you’re out of the poll. For now.

Moving in first were Notre Dame and Arizona State, the two teams I had on the precipice last week. After that, it was between Florida, Tennessee and UCLA for two spots. I settled on Florida and UCLA because those teams had the more impressive wins. UCLA knocked off Nebraska, and the Gators winning at Texas A&M was more impressive than a neutral-site win over N.C. State.

You could argue I should have put in Louisiana-Monroe. Or Arizona, or Oregon State. It’s still so early, there isn’t enough body of work for teams that you could make a case for a lot of teams. In a few weeks, hopefully, everything will start to think out a bit.