Hammer & Rails Ballot - Week 8
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oregon Ducks |
 1 |
| 2 | Boise St. Broncos |
1 |
| 3 | TCU Horned Frogs |
1 |
| 4 | Auburn Tigers |
3 |
| 5 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 6 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys |
5 |
| 7 | Michigan St. Spartans |
2 |
| 8 | Utah Utes |
2 |
| 9 | LSU Tigers |
 -1 |
| 10 | Missouri Tigers |
2 |
| 11 | Alabama Crimson Tide |
4 |
| 12 | Stanford Cardinal |
6 |
| 13 | Wisconsin Badgers |
8 |
| 14 | Ohio St. Buckeyes |
-13 |
| 15 | Arizona Wildcats |
4 |
| 16 | Iowa Hawkeyes |
4 |
| 17 | Nebraska Cornhuskers |
-11 |
| 18 | Florida St. Seminoles |
-1 |
| 19 | West Virginia Mountaineers |
4 |
| 20 | Texas Longhorns | -- |
| 21 | Arkansas Razorbacks |
-5 |
| 22 | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | -- |
| 23 | Miami Hurricanes | -- |
| 24 | Kansas St. Wildcats | -- |
| 25 | Purdue Boilermakers | -- |
| Dropouts: Nevada Wolf Pack, South Carolina Gamecocks, Air Force Falcons, Oregon St. Beavers, Florida Gators | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
A few notes:
- With 10 unbeatens left and Nevada falling to Hawaii this week your national championship game will come from those 10 teams as long as two finish the year unbeaten.
- Alabama moves to the head of the 1 loss teams with South Carolina falling to Kentucky.
- Among the 1 loss teams, Wisconsin will stay ahead of Ohio State, Arizona ahead of Iowa, and Oklahoma ahead of Florida State based on head to head non-conference games.
- The bottom three was a pretty mediocre group to rank, so why not put Purdue there as a pity #25? I know it is likely the only time this year where I can rank them, so we'll be gone next week if we lose to OSU. I might as well dream with one ballot this year, and who cares who is at #25? If we were playing Toledo again with the experience Henry has gotten I would absolutely pick us. At 5-1 we would be ranked right now too.