Boilermakings Is Home Safe

The Minnesota adventure is over. The highlights were meeting reader @BoilermakerAust and his wife at B-dubs before the game and touring the Leinenkugel Brewery yesterday on the way home. Today I am getting caught up on work, so here is the final blogpoll and some Boilermakings notes:

Results for Week 9

#	School	Points/blog	SD	Delta
1	Alabama Crimson Tide (60)	25.04	2.79	--
2	Kansas St. Wildcats (11)	23.75	2.55	2
3	Oregon Ducks (2)	23.43	2.44	--
4	Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3)	22.86	2.45	1
5	LSU Tigers	19.71	0.59	1
6	Georgia Bulldogs	18.58	0.85	9
7	Florida Gators	18.54	0.82	-5
8	Ohio St. Buckeyes (1)	18.09	4.93	1
9	Florida St. Seminoles	17.79	1.45	2
10	Clemson Tigers	14.53	3.09	4
11	South Carolina Gamecocks	14.11	1.71	6
12	Louisville Cardinals	13.83	3.67	4
13	Oregon St. Beavers	12.67	3.45	-6
14	Oklahoma Sooners	12.63	3.44	-6
15	Stanford Cardinal	10.26	3.46	4
16	Texas A&M Aggies	10.12	3.31	5
17	Mississippi St. Bulldogs	8.24	3.72	-5
18	USC Trojans	7.29	3.32	-8
19	Texas Tech Red Raiders	6.79	3.83	-6
20	Boise St. Broncos	5.75	4.17	3
21	Nebraska Cornhuskers	4.87	3.17	8
22	Louisiana Tech Bulldogs	3.86	3.40	2
23	West Virginia Mountaineers	2.37	2.58	2
24	Arizona Wildcats	2.33	3.03	15
25	UCLA Bruins	2.05	2.96	15
Others Receiving Votes: Toledo Rockets | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | Kent St. Golden Flashes | Texas Longhorns | Northern Illinois Huskies | Rutgers Scarlet Knights | Northwestern Wildcats | Tulsa Golden Hurricane | Ohio Bobcats | Utah State Aggies | North Carolina Tar Heels | Iowa St. Cyclones | Central Florida Knights | Cincinnati Bearcats | Michigan Wolverines | ULM Warhawks | Arizona St. Sun Devils | Duke Blue Devils | Penn St. Nittany Lions | Ball St. Cardinals
Updated: Oct 30, 2012 8:37 AM EDT

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Rankings 2011

College football hot seat watch 2012: Who's next to go as firing season approaches? - SBNation.com
Who is most likely (and most quickly) going to be looking for work?

We've Got An Enthusiasm Gap! - Off Tackle Empire
This is kind of a ridiculous piece to write, because we all love college football so damn much. And of course we love our teams so much, thick and thin, yada yada.

Bowl projections 2012: Oregon over Kansas State and Notre Dame, and life isn't fair - SBNation.com
Bowl projections time. Alabama and Oregon are still in line to play for the national title, despite Kansas State and Notre Dame making perfectly convincing cases so far. Purdue has fallen out of the projections entirely.

Head Football Coach
It speaks for itself.