AP preseason poll out: OSU #1, Michigan 2 votes
The preseason AP poll is out. In short...
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
Notre Dame #11. Poll invalid.
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
Huge year for Brian Kelly. They return a ton of starters, a good coach would take advantage of this.
August 23rd, 2015 at 4:29 PM ^
Kelly is a good to pretty good coach. Good good...not great. He doesn't have a flamethrower. Boom Beach commercial. Okay I'm done.
August 23rd, 2015 at 10:34 PM ^
True. That was an LSU team on the descent.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:25 AM ^
Ohio State Buckeyes are the first Unanimous AP No.1 in the 66 year History of AP polling. Nobody else got a single vote. Zero!!
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^
here's what the OP forgot to provide:
http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ohio-state-ranked-no--1-in-ap-poll-180053673.html
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
From ESPN today: "Ohio State is the first unanimous preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll. The defending national champion Buckeyes received all 61 first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings released Sunday."
But ESPN also posted this a few days ago...
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^
November 28th...time to wreck it.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:59 PM ^
...schedule and coaching, it's very difficult not to pick Ohio State as the #1 team in the country on the first week of the season. However, that's not the same as picking them to end the season as champions - there's a deliciously high chance that their run is subverted by something unbecoming with very little to do with football...
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
Michigan going 15-0 and gonna make the AP look foolish by not having them number 1
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August 23rd, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
Homer
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August 23rd, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
Virgil
August 23rd, 2015 at 5:40 PM ^
Aeneid
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
Simpson
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^
Iliad. What has this become, MGoGreatBooks???
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^
the Brave
August 23rd, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^
God and Country.
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August 23rd, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
Utah also slightly ahead of us.
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
Shirley, the winner will be ranked in week one polls.
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
depends on how big we win, and don't call me shirley
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
call him surely!
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:51 PM ^
I think there will be a fair amount of top 25 teams bring upset in the first few weeks, as many teams have unsettled QB situations.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^
And Ohio's is unsettled!
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:40 PM ^
Sparty 5? Yes they're good but they lose some top contributors on D.
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August 23rd, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^
pre season polls mean nothing, especially now that the bcs is gone
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^
I think we can all admit at this point that they're better than just "good". They've lost defensive contributors for the last few years and still managed to find players to fill those spots.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:34 PM ^
They lost some key players in the secondary, but their D-Line is going to be STOUT next year and maybe enough to make up for the DBs.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:56 PM ^
Sparty got rung up whenever they played a top offensive team - Oregon, Ohio, and Baylor. Their effectiveness depends on overwhelming a relatively weak offense. We aren't elite, but I think our offense and scheming will be good enough to expose them a bit.
August 23rd, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^
Weak offense? Didn't they finish in the top 10 in totoal offense and top 5 in scoring? Sparty is going to be tough, but it's our first really big game unde Harbaugh and they come to our place.
August 23rd, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^
Every D sucked against Baylor, Oregon, and OSU.
August 23rd, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^
MSU offense finished at top 10 on offense so if that's weak, I'd like to see good offense.... Their OL may be one of the best in the country
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August 23rd, 2015 at 6:18 PM ^
This is not what the original poster meant at all. They meant that MSU relies on teams having weak offenses for their defensive scheme to work. Teams that have a good offense expose MSU. That was the original posters point. It had nothing to do with the MSU offense.
August 23rd, 2015 at 6:41 PM ^
That's a stupid way to word it. In that case Michigan's defenses were weak all of the 2000s because I don't know if you remember, but we got exposed pretty hard against teams like USC, OSU, Texas, Oregon, Appalachian State, etc.
August 23rd, 2015 at 10:15 PM ^
Right. I don't agree with his point tho. MSU's defense last year was the weakest it's been in the past few years. Just because they were ripped up by Oregon/OSU/Baylor last year isn't an indictment on their D throughout Dantonio's tenure.
With that being said, there is a significant chance they are horrible in their secondary (for their standards, anyway) this year. Their front seven could have had a chance to be the best in the country, but that was dependent largely on Ed Davis having an All-American year (Calhoun & Waynes got the most hype, but Davis was their most consistant player on D last year).
Like last year, they will need to average 45+ a game to contend..
August 23rd, 2015 at 5:17 PM ^
Kool Aid for you
August 23rd, 2015 at 10:24 PM ^
And a troll button for you. Nice posting history.
August 23rd, 2015 at 5:06 PM ^
Still have a ton of NFL prospects on the roster like Cook, Conklin, Allen, Calhoun, Thomas, etc
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August 23rd, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
We got right were we want them. You know who I'm talking about. They will be so full of themselves by the time they come up to Ann Arbor.
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
(them)
"where"
"down"
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
Up to Ann Arbor is correct.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:36 PM ^
Maybe from the perspective of a flat map, but I would say gravity is the true determinant of what is up and what is down. So unless somebody is traveling to to stratosphere for a game, I'd say neither up nor down are technically correct.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:21 AM ^
Per Google, Columbus altitude 781 ft and Ann Arbor 900 ft. Therefore 'up' regardless of being a flat mapper or a topographical snooty snoot. You've taken grammar nazi to new heights. I'm putting all of my money on Michigan due to their superior natural erythropoeitin levels, it's science!
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
No 7 votes for Illinois??
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
GT number 16? Are they that good? I haven't seen them play in awhile.
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August 23rd, 2015 at 2:50 PM ^
They aren't great at anything but do a lot of things ok, they chew the shit out of the clock it's so boring teams fall asleep against them and they run that navy triple option
August 23rd, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
They dominated Miss State (who were ranked #1 a good portion of the yr) in their bowl game
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August 23rd, 2015 at 3:05 PM ^
They beat Georgia, too, and came close to taking down FSU in the conference title game. Their QB (I forget his name) is a terrific option QB and they have a lot of good pieces. Seems like a fair starting point.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^
Has to be nearly impossible to prepare for a team like that. No scout team will ever be able to duplicate the triple option.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:55 PM ^
I never want to see them on our non-conference schedule as long as Johnson is their coach. It's impossible to prepare with only a week prep. That's why they are always in games, no matter who they play