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Blogpoll Regular Season Finale

Before you yell and say where is so and so team, please read my polling philosophy and then yell afterwards.

~So here we stand after the completion of the regular season and there is pretty much zero controversy. Auburn and Oregon are the most deserving teams to play in the title game with TCU sitting there undefeated as the third wheel. TCU had a great season and will get a trip to the Rose Bowl, but they had no chance of jumping Oregon and Auburn at the end of the season and even less when Utah their best opponent got crunched by ND.

~Congratulations UConn and Randy Edsall, you won the Big East and get to journey to the Fiesta Bowl to grant Oklahoma their first BCS win in their last 6. As a result of your championship I moved you up a few spots.

~Virginia Tech gets a bump thanks to the ACC Championship. In reality the James Madison loss did nothing to their season except for maybe motivate them to show up week in and week out. Plus it probably made JMU's entire season.

~Nebraska, FSU, and South Carolina don't get downgraded much cause it was an extra game no one else got to play and they were all expected to lose. Nebraska was the one team I thought about downgrading but didn't pull the trigger.

~Thought about jumping up Oklahoma over the Big Ten 2 and 3, but opted not to. It doesn't really matter.

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