I think you'll find this poll a tad more conventional as things start to even out already - I told you they would! - and some lovely questions asked by BurntOrangeNation.  Also courtesy of PB and our great Alabama site, Roll Bama Roll, is this picture of the Texas Tech swim team.  Sweet heavens.

1. Handicap your team's chances to win your conference championship. If your team is not the favorite, who is?

(Notre Dame bloggers, please use the following variation on the above: the over/under on wins in your next five games is being set at 1.5. Can you make a good case for the over? (Next five: vs Michigan State, at Purdue, at UCLA, vs Boston College, vs USC)
How in the world am I going to make a good case for over?  Even playing against Karl Dorrell and Joe Tiller, they have more than enough talent to score, which immediately puts them in the driver's seat for victory.  If we somehow completely overhaul everything we're doing, I imagine there's a shot at maybe - maybe - competing with Michigan State, Purdue and UCLA, but honestly, Matt Ryan is going to throw for 500 yards on us and Southern Cal might win 90-0.  I'm going under under under under, as in zero wins in the next five.  

2. Outline the (realistic) best case and worst case scenarios for your team.

Best Case: Ready for fantasy land?  Weis rights the ship against Michigan State, Corwin Brown's defense relapses Curtis Painter to his 2006 interception-loving self and Karl Dorrell hands us another victory in the Rose Bowl.  Competitive against BC and USC, win out November and finish up with seven regular season victories into a bowl we might have a chance at winning.  People forget that we were once the worst college football team in the history of college football teams.  I go the Independence Bowl like one of the many bowl forecasts predicted and then hang out in New Orleans for New Years.  

Worst Case: I think it's possible we're winless going into the Duke game, because Navy and Air Force are probably a lot more passionate and a lot more intelligent than we are at playing the game of football.  I would think the twelve straight losses dating back to last season would inspire the team to victory over the Blue Devils, but who knows.   We beat Duke on Senior Day, say good-bye to some dead weight and then get mocked by Jim Harbaugh endlessly at Stanford.  

3. We're only three games in to the season, but teams and storylines are starting to take shape. Compare your team to a character or theme from a fable or children's tale.  

 How loose are we being with the word fable?  I'll roll with one of Ovid's Metamorphoses, the story of Niobe.  Niobe was a very proud mother of many children and ran her mouth against Leto, mother of Artemis and Apollo.  In response, the archerially-inclined brother and sister killed all of Niobe's children, drove her husband to suicide and then she turned into a stone because of her grief.  In our story, I imagine Artemis and Apollo as Mark May and Pete Carroll, with the end result being total chaos and everyone dead/every game a loss.

4. Imagine you're the coach of your team. Give three specific changes you'd implement immediately which you think would have the biggest impact on improving the team.

Seriously?  Just three?  You said specific, so "FOR F*CK'S SAKE, BLOCK SOMEONE!" doesn't work, therefore...

1. Golden Tate and Duval Kamara start at wide receiver.  If we're only going to get the ball to our wide receivers a couple times a game, it might as well be in the process of springing a big play.
2. Get Ambrose Wooden and Terrail Lambert out of there.  They have no purpose.  They're awful, they've always been awful and they show no sign of improvement.  We ride Darrin Walls, Raeshon McNeil and two walk-ons when we go to dime, but I'm tired of Mario Manningham and his friends scoring touchdowns where the corners don't even know where they are.  
3. Travis Thomas never plays again.  If he's not committing a fifteen-yard penalty on special teams, he's getting tackled for a loss.  Much like the other veterans who are not good at football, he serves no purpose on a young, rebuilding team, as I'm not sure what "leadership" he is bringing to the table.  

Hmmm, we've got ten spots to fill, and if those take up four, the other six will go to...

Big Ten Winner: Probably Ohio State, as Chris Wells + Tressel Defense seems like a better combination then anything else going on.  Possibly Michigan, because without the spread in the league, they have a much better shot.  I believe in Illinois and Indiana as much as I believe in Wisconsin and Penn State at this point.

Cal/Oregon: I think the PAC-10 will get two teams, and while some of the success these squads have achieved may be the results of poor defense, one of them should keep their head above water.

Boston College looks very, very good, and I think they beat maybe the second-best team in the ACC Saturday night, on the road and at night.

West Virginia: Seriously, who's going to stop that running attack for an entire game?  

Rutgers. They can run the ball, stop the run, pressure the quarterback and now Mike Teel seems to have evolved into a capable passer.  I'm buying what the Scarlet Knights are selling.

I think Texas is pretty severely flawed, but the Big XII isn't inspiring much awe, so they'll slip in.

Week Three Draft - Changes to be made!

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Southern Cal	20
2	Oklahoma	1
3	LSU	1
4	Florida	16
5	Oregon	13
6	Boston College	4
7	West Virginia	9
8	Texas	1
9	Ohio State	5
10	Alabama	14
11	California	3
12	South Carolina	9
13	Kentucky	13
14	South Florida	10
15	Rutgers	4
16	Arizona State	11
17	Missouri	--
18	Clemson	4
19	Wisconsin	6
20	Cincinnati	6
21	Penn State	9
22	Air Force	4
23	Michigan State	3
24	Washington	15
25	Nebraska	10

Dropped Out: UCLA (#6), Georgia Tech (#11), Arkansas (#23), Hawaii (#25).

Not a lot of change, although South Florida, South Carolina, Arizona State and Penn State all drop as their wins look less and less credible.  I think Southern Cal's win over Nebraska in Lincoln is a lot better than beating potentially awful ACC teams Virginia Tech and Miami at home, while Florida's performance may be a result of Rocky Top not being able to stop anyone.  Again, Week Three polls are about as important as Week Three bowl projections, but I think that's a pretty decent scale.