When you see polls with wild week-to-week swings, it generally means the voters are reacting to the latest results rather than thinking through the process. If they have the rankings right, the teams in fact shouldn't move much, as you will note week to week later in the year as the season progresses. For now, you will still get those wild swings as everything sorts out.
Remember as you follow the poll that since both the Pac-12 and Big 12 had a request from Boise State to join their respective leagues and they did not invite the Broncos, the "strength-of-schedule" argument does not work against Boise State for those two conferences, and thus their teams will always be ranked behind Boise State with the same number of losses. As it should be. You can't deny a team a place in your conference and then complain about their strength of schedule.
A team that beats another head-to-head on the field will always be ranked ahead of that team if they have the same record. As it should be. If the winner of that game has more losses, further evaluation regarding the closeness and location of the game needs to take place, as well as week-to-week evaluation of all season results.
1-1-1. Notre Dame (5-0, walloped a good Miami of Florida team 41-3; biggest wins over #12 Michigan State, #23 Michigan and Miami of Florida)
4-4-2. Oregon (6-0, outdistanced #23 Washington 52-21; biggest wins over #22 Washington, Arizona and Fresno State)
2-2-3. Alabama (4-0, did not play; biggest win over #23 Michigan)
12-10-4. Florida (5-0, knocked off #8 LSU 14-6; biggest wins over #8 LSU, #24 Tennessee and Texas A&M)
8-7-5. South Carolina (6-0, ran over #10 Georgia 35-7; biggest wins over #10 Georgia and Missouri)
11-8-6. West Virginia (5-0, scored an impressive 48-45 win over #9 Texas; biggest wins over #9 Texas and Baylor)
13-11-7. Kansas State (5-0, took care of Kansas 56-16; biggest wins over #16 Oklahoma and Miami of Florida)
6-5-8. LSU (5-1, was exposed by #4 Florida 14-6; biggest win over #23 Washington, lost to #4 Florida)
5-3-9. Texas (4-1, fell to #6 West Virginia 48-45; biggest win over Oklahoma State, lost to #6 West Virginia)
7-6-10. Georgia (5-1, was whipped by #5 South Carolina 35-7; biggest wins over #24 Tennessee and Missouri, lost to #5 South Carolina)
15-13-11. Boise State (4-1, rocked Southern Mississippi 40-14; biggest win over BYU, loss to #12 Michigan State)
9--14-12. Michigan State (4-2, beat Indiana 31-27; biggest win over #11 Boise State, losses to #1 Notre Dame and Ohio State)
3--16-13. Stanford (4-1, got by Arizona 54-48; biggest win over #17 USC, loss to #23 Washington)
10-9-14 Florida State (5-1, lost to North Carolina State 17-16, biggest win over #20 Clemson)
20-17-15. Oregon State (4-0, downed Washington State 19-6; biggest wins over #25 UCLA, Wisconsin and Arizona)
17-19-16. Oklahoma (3-1, throttled Texas Tech 41-20; biggest win over Texas Tech, loss to #7 Kansas State)
16-18-17. USC (4-1, defeated Utah 38-28; biggest win over California, loss to #13 Stanford)
14-12-18. TCU (4-1, fell to Iowa State 37-21; biggest win over Virginia, lost to Iowa State)
18-20-19. Louisville (5-0, was idle; biggest win over North Carolina)
15-23-20. Clemson (5-1, held off Georgia Tech 47-31; biggest win over Auburn, loss to #14 Florida State)
20-24-21. Rutgers (5-0, scored a 19-3 win over Connecticut; biggest win over South Florida)
----15-22. Washington (3-2, lost to #2 Oregon 52-21; biggest win over #13 Stanford, losses to #2 Oregon and #8 LSU)
21-25-23. Michigan (3-2, cruised past Purdue 44-13; biggest win over Air Force, losses to #1 Notre Dame and #3 Alabama)
---------24. Tennessee (3-2, idle; defeated North Carolina State, lost to #4 Florida and #10 Georgia
23-21-25. UCLA (4-2, lost to California; biggest win over Nebraska, lost to #15 Oregon State and California)
Dropped Out: Nebraska
Also Considered: Nebraska (4-2), Texas Tech (4-1), Iowa State (4-1), North Carolina State (4-2), Ohio (6-0)
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