The RTT computer rankings serve as the rough draft for RTT's BlogPoll ballot.  After discussion, any necessary tweaks will be made before finalizing the ballot.  And I suspect that the computers will raise some eyebrows this week.  (And yes, I know that Marshall and Central Florida play this evening.  You play on the NFL's clock, you can wait a week.)

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Florida
2	Texas	1
3	TCU	1
4	Alabama	2
5	Iowa
6	Penn State	4
7	Boise State
8	Cincinnati	2
9	Oregon
10	Georgia Tech	1
11	LSU	2
12	Arizona	4
13	Southern Cal	5
14	Pittsburgh
15	Utah
16	Ohio State	3
17	Virginia Tech	5
18	Brigham Young	2
19	Miami (Florida)	1
20	Oklahoma	1
21	West Virginia	4
22	Wisconsin
23	Nebraska
24	Oklahoma State	1
25	Notre Dame
Last week's ballot

Discussion and the full computer results after the jump.

Thoughts:

• TCU  The obvious double-take comes in early this week.  But looking at their numbers, there's just not a weak point to the Horned Frogs.  A critical glance at the schedule shows wins over BYU and Clemson as their best two, which are quite respectable, and wins against Texas State (enter obligatory 1-AA team!) and UNLV as their weakest opponents.  They still have Utah left, along with SDSU, Wyoming and New Mexico, so they'll need some help; their schedule won't have enough beef to do it on their own.  But things look good for a BCS bid, even if it isn't the national championship game.
• Alabama fell because they actually do have a weakness - picking up third downs.  Their 38% conversion rate is continually falling.  It's not a tremendous deficit, but at -0.189 on the RTT scoreboard, it's decidedly below average.  If that were any better, they'd probably pass TCU.  On the other hand, if offensive metrics counted for more, they'd lose ground - especially with regards to passing.
• Iowa and Penn St.  Yeah, I'm bothered by them being so high, too.  But Iowa gets great SoS marks and hasn't lost, while Penn State continues to clean up their cupcake trail.
• Arizona continues to hang around because their good opponents are almost all in November:  California, Oregon, Arizona State, and USC.  That will most likely fix this little eye-popper, but then again, if they win these games, Arizona will end highly ranked.  I don't mind waiting on them, honestly.
• Close Margins:  There are a few.  Cincy-Oregon.  Utah - Ohio State.  Oklahoma State - Notre Dame - California.  These teams are all statistically equivalent.  So make an argument for knocking Notre Dame below Cal.  I'm all ears.
• Tennessee at 27.  I'm surprisingly comfortable with that, even at 4-4.  Boy, I wish we could get UCLA and Auburn back, though.
• Is Western Kentucky the worst 1-A team ever?  I hate superlatives, but multiple categories that fall three standard deviations below the norm is something to behold.  Take a gander at Halloween's last nightmare at #120 in the rankings.

Ok, so the data follows.  Here is the Excel 2003 version, and here is the Excel 2007 version.  Have at it and let me know what adjustments need to be made.