Well, folks, here it is:

The Crimson Quarry Ballot - Week 14

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	--
2	Alabama Crimson Tide	1
3	Ohio St. Buckeyes	-1
4	Florida Gators	1
5	Oregon Ducks	1
6	Kansas St. Wildcats	1
7	Georgia Bulldogs	-3
8	LSU Tigers	--
9	Texas A&M Aggies	--
10	South Carolina Gamecocks	--
11	Stanford Cardinal	--
12	Oklahoma Sooners	--
13	Clemson Tigers	--
14	Florida St. Seminoles	1
15	Oregon St. Beavers	1
16	UCLA Bruins	3
17	Nebraska Cornhuskers	-3
18	Northwestern Wildcats	--
19	Michigan Wolverines	2
20	Texas Longhorns	-3
21	Vanderbilt Commodores	3
22	Utah State Aggies	3
23	Penn St. Nittany Lions	-1
24	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	-1
25	Northern Illinois Huskies	--
Dropouts: TCU Horned Frogs

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "

As promised, I moved Alabama to number one. Ohio State is undefeated, but simply hasn't had to test its mettle in a title game or a bowl game. The winner of the BCS title game will be my number one in the final poll. A few notes:

• How did I move UCLA up after losing its conference title game? I don't know, but perhaps I had them underranked last week.
• I really hated to rank Northern Illinois. I don't begrudge the Huskies their BCS bid, as it was earned fair-and-square under the rules. There have been plenty of not-so-great conference champs to make a BCS appearance over the years. I'm not offended by their presence. But I am not convinced they are any good. Per Sagarin, their schedule strength is #129. They didn't play a team in the Sagarin top 30. They made two forays into the world of major conference football. In those games, they lost to an Iowa team (on a neutral field in Chicago) that probably was the second-worst team in a bad Big Ten, and needed a furious fourth quarter comeback to beat Kansas at home. They Jayhawks finished 1-11 and have lost their last 21 games against FBS opposition. NIU also needed a comeback to beat 2-9 Army by one point, which is #153 in the Sagarins (meaning that at least 33 FCS teams were better.