If this ain't the last nail in the coffin of the off-season, I dunno what is. It's time to re-up the Frogs O' War ballot in the SBNation BlogPoll, pre-season edition.

Only this time, the usual disclaimers are nearly muted; mooted, even. The corral of bloggers here at Frogs O' War are pooling ballots and making an averaged ballot for the whole blog. Purple Wimple's ballot will (always!) abide by The Rule,* but the other voters in the FOW combined ballot probably aren't as persnickity. So with a fond hat tip to Black Hearts Gold Pants, probably Frogs O' War won't make the wildest swing top five every week in the poll analysis.

Another note: pre-season polls are stoopid. These measure hype, bias, carry-over from last year's wins and losses, and little else.

Frogs O' War Ballot - Week 19

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama Crimson Tide	6
2	USC Trojans	-1
3	LSU Tigers	-1
4	Oregon Ducks	--
5	Oklahoma Sooners	-2
6	Florida St. Seminoles	9
7	South Carolina Gamecocks	3
8	West Virginia Mountaineers	--
9	Wisconsin Badgers	-3
10	Michigan Wolverines	-1
11	Georgia Bulldogs	-6
12	Arkansas Razorbacks	2
13	Texas Longhorns	11
14	Nebraska Cornhuskers	11
15	Michigan St. Spartans	-3
16	TCU Horned Frogs	-5
17	Clemson Tigers	-1
18	Kansas St. Wildcats	-1
19	Stanford Cardinal	--
20	Virginia Tech Hokies	1
21	Oklahoma St. Cowboys	--
22	Utah Utes	-2
23	Boise St. Broncos	--
24	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	-6
25	BYU Cougars	--
Dropouts: Ohio St. Buckeyes, South Florida Bulls, Florida Gators

SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "

*what's The Rule? Why, it's simple, and maddening: for at least one week, the winner of a game must outrank the loser of the same game. This is how you make on-field results really matter. All that other crap is window dressing.

Analysis: after the jump.

So FOW is on the Alabama train. The Crimson Tide got two first-place votes, and USC got one. (USC and LSU tied in the ballot average, and I used the first-place vote to break the tie.

Speaking of ballots, and my hatred for pre-season ones, I used Paul Myerberg's ranking (as far as it has been revealed) for my ballot. His analysis is as good as anyone's, but even his is just a lot of guessing.