Welcome to the last edition of reviewing open USA Today coaches poll ballots for the BCS formula. It's the annual exercise where we review unusual votes on coaches' final regular-season ballot. With the College Football Playoff coming next year, the coaches' poll will no longer carry the same significance as it does now.

It should be noted: As usual, most of the coaches' votes fall in line with what their peers and media members think. (And that's not to say media members are always correct. They're not. Also, what defines correct anyway in the subjective world of college football?)

Nonetheless, every year there are some coaches' votes that stand out. Click here to review the ballots yourself. Here's the final analysis of some of the more unique votes:

* Arkansas' Bret Bielema gets this year's award for most unusual ballot. Bielema ranked Louisville No. 6 instead of its No. 16 finish; put Ohio State at No. 12 instead of No. 6; put Missouri at No. 5 instead of No. 9; and put Clemson at No. 18 instead of No. 11. To put Bielema's ballot in perspective, he ranked Louisville six spots higher than Louisville coach Charlie Strong ranked his own team.

* Michigan State's Mark Dantonio helped Auburn get into the BCS Championship Game by beating Ohio State, but voted his Spartans No. 2 ahead of the Tigers. West Virginia's Dana Holgorsen was the only other coach with Michigan State at No. 2. Dantonio showed his Big Ten love by ranking Ohio State ahead of Alabama.

* Vanderbilt's James Franklin showed his SEC love by putting five SEC teams in the top 10: No. 2 Auburn, No. 3 Alabama, No. 5 Missouri, No. 7 South Carolina and No. 10 LSU. His rankings for Missouri, South Carolina and LSU were all higher than the final poll, and no one voted LSU higher than Franklin -- not even LSU coach Les Miles.

* Texas Tech's Kliff Kingsbury voted Alabama No. 6, the Crimson Tide's lowest ranking. Kingsbury put Big 12 champion Baylor at No. 3 and also had Michigan State and Stanford ahead of Alabama.

* Three coaches put South Carolina in the top 5. Two of them are former Steve Spurrier assistants: Louisville's Strong and Middle Tennessee's Rick Stockstill. The third coach, UCF's George O'Leary, ranked the Gamecocks No. 4. UCF barely lost this season to South Carolina, which finished eighth in the poll.

* Spurrier continued his love for Duke, where he once coached. Spurrier ranked the Blue Devils No. 16, five spots higher than where they finished and four spots better than where Duke coach David Cutcliffe put his team. For years, Spurrier often ranked Duke No. 25 in the first poll to show his support for the Blue Devils, who typically were in the basement of the ACC.

* Nebraska's Bo Pelini gets the award this year for highest inflation of his own team. Pelini ranked the Cornhuskers No. 25 -- the only vote they received. Based on the final poll results, Pelini inflated Nebraska by 11 spots. Pelini did not rank Minnesota, which finished with the same overall record as Nebraska and beat the Cornhuskers 34-23 on Oct. 26.

* Twenty-six of the 62 coaches in the poll voted for their own team. On average, they ranked their own team three spots higher than the final poll. Florida State's Jimbo Fisher and Alabama's Nick Saban were the only coaches to rank their teams exactly where they finished. Auburn's Gus Malzahn did not have a vote.

Biggest Vote Inflation of Own Team