OSU/MSU ranked #1 and #2 in new AP Poll
1 |
Ohio State (42)
Record: 3-0
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PV Rank
1
Points
1,490 |
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2 |
Michigan State (7)
Record: 3-0
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4
1,415
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3 |
Record: 3-0
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3
1,345
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3 |
Mississippi (11)
Record: 3-0
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15
1,345
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5 |
Record: 2-0
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5
1,213
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6 |
Record: 3-0
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8
1,183
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7 |
Record: 3-0
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7
1,162
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8 |
LSU (1)
Record: 2-0
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13
1,088
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9 |
Record: 3-0
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10
981
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10 |
Record: 3-0
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9
953
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11 |
Record: 3-0
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11
903
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12 |
Record: 2-1
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2
882
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13 |
Record: 2-1
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12
855
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14 |
Record: 3-0
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17
798
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15 |
Record: 3-0
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16
782
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16 |
Record: 3-0
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20
488
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17 |
Record: 3-0
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23
469
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18 |
Record: 3-0
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21
439
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19 |
Record: 2-1
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6
367
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20 |
Record: 2-1
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14
352
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21 |
Record: 2-1
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41
288
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22 |
Record: 2-1
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24
174
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22 |
Record: 2-1
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19
174
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24 |
Record: 3-0
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25
149
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25 |
Record: 3-0
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22
135
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Others Receiving Votes:
Mississippi St. 52, West Virginia 48, Tennessee 45, California 38, Toledo 36, Arizona St. 25, Houston 22, Auburn 20, Temple 20, Texas Tech 20, Boise St. 17, Miami 13, Iowa 10, Kansas St. 8, Florida 7, NC State 5, Minnesota 4, Virginia Tech 4, Memphis 1
September 20th, 2015 at 3:01 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:27 PM ^
First poll comes out November 3rd this year.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:41 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 5:02 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:07 PM ^
Sparty has defense concerns of its own, especially in the secondary. Really hoping Harbaugh can get the passing game going enough to take advantage.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^
Look at the schedules. Ohio State has Western, Indiana, Maryland, Penn State, and Rutgers before they release the first rankings (Nov. 3rd). That's a nice slate of cupcakes to work out any kinks against.
I think the only way Sparty leapfrogs them is if Michigan beats BYU and Northwestern to wind up a top 15'ish team going in to that MSU game, and then Sparty beats Michigan soundly at home.
I'd put my money on Ohio State figuring things out against a bunch of cupcakes.
And lol at Georgia being a clear No. 1.
September 20th, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^
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September 20th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^
Was it the thrilling 9-6 victory of UConn? A team which beat FCS Nova 20-15 and Army 22-17? Mizzou is a 6-6 team
September 20th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:39 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 4:04 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^
2011 Sugar Bowl.
September 20th, 2015 at 11:01 PM ^
MSU plays Oregon, Air Force, at Michigan, at Nebraska and at Ohio State, not including the B1G championship game. If MSU makes it to the playoff, they will have done plenty.
September 20th, 2015 at 2:57 PM ^
Couldn't care less since it's only September and our team is improving (except perhaps for Rudock's ability to find receivers beyond 8 yards downfield). All I care about is how Harbaugh plans to respond to the same defensive gameplan Sparty has used against us for almost a decade:
8.5 in the box
Massive pass rush
DBs crashing the backfield from the edges
I'll be very disappointed if I don't see a major adjustment by our staff and instead we see a stat line of 40 yards rushing coupled with 6 sacks, 2 fumbles and 1 pick by Rudock due to all the pressure.
Coach just has to find a way to make Sparty pay for all of that hyper-D aggression it has gotten away with for years, and the saddest part is the best way to do so requires what appears to be the one thing our QB can't do - burn defenses over the top...
September 20th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^
Talk about a Michigan fan's worst nightmare.
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September 20th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
Yes that is pretty much 100% impossible. That would require 3 other major conferences producing two loss champions.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
Good for the B1G...but no way is Sparty the #2 team in the country.
The Fall will hit them hard...they are a 3-4 loss team before its all over. Mark that Down.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
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September 20th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^
I could see MSU going undefeated this year, especially with the sloppy play OSU has been displaying the last 2 weeks. Would they beat Ole Miss? Not sure, but I'd absolutely peg them as a top 4 team right now. Not sure what they've shown you that makes you think they'll lose 3-4 games in the Big Ten this year.
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September 20th, 2015 at 4:09 PM ^
MN, M, OSU and PSU. so it is possible
September 20th, 2015 at 5:42 PM ^
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September 20th, 2015 at 5:47 PM ^
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September 20th, 2015 at 5:55 PM ^
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September 20th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:43 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 5:46 PM ^
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September 20th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^
Please tell me what 3-4 teams on MSU's schedule even have a prayer of beating them
CMU
Purdue
@Rutgers
@Michigan
Indiana
@Nebraska
Maryland
@OSU
Penn State
Michigan State is going to throttle every one of the those teams except OSU and maybe Michigan and Nebraska. It would be shocking if they finished with more than 2 losses
September 20th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:33 PM ^
Here's my vaild argument why Ole Miss shouldn't be ranked #1. The SEC is incredibly overrated and polling at this time of year doesn't mean squat.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:37 PM ^
This. I think that the preseason poll is the last time that 1. Anything that happened last year should count for anything and 2. That the polls should be a prediction of how the voters expect things will play out in the end.
Once games have been played, we should be ranking teams exclusively based on what we've seen on the field. This whole idea of "I can't drop a team for playing poorly because they didn't lose so they don't deserve it," is silly. Their spot in the poll isn't some birthright. It's based on educated (hopefully) guesses made over the summer. If a team that was ranked lower has looked better to date, move them ahead. If future games prove that you were wrong to move that team up, guess what, you can vote in the next poll to move them back down again. That's the great thing about these polls: They're voted on every week, giving you the opportunity to change your mind as new data comes in. Unfortunately, very few voters are willing to change their minds (see Auburn receiving votes.)
I didn't think Mississippi was #1 in the preseason. I don't think they will finish that way in January. But I'll vote them #1 right now because they have the best win in the country so far, and I am not going to pretend OSU looks better than they do based on last season or the fact that I had them #1 in August.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:57 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
At this point in the year you can't unseat #1 for a bad winI don't understand this. If anything it should be easier to unseat them now than later on. Being 3-0 isn't a huge accomplishment, but if they're 9-0 or whatever, that looks a lot better.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
It doesn't matter. Michigan is going to beat MSU.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 6:04 PM ^
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September 20th, 2015 at 3:09 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
Their special teams are shaky as well. Time for some Baxter magic.
September 20th, 2015 at 3:26 PM ^
September 20th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^
9 years ago when Bo was still alive and UM was marching toward an 11-0 start before that epic matchup with OSU, WHO among us would have predicted that by 2015, OSU and MSU would be 1 and 2? At that time, we were aware (but not fully aware) of some poor recruiting by Lloyd that would come up and bite us by 2008 but I, at least, felt that UM would be fine anyway and MSU would still be languishing in mediocrity. Instead we've become mediocre. Please Harbaugh...little help?
September 20th, 2015 at 3:28 PM ^
Carr's recruiting didn't seem poor at the time. His 2005 class was ranked #6 by Rivals; his 2006 class ranked #13; and his 2007 class, which he was in the process of recruiting that fall, was ranked #12.
The main long-term concern at the time was over who would succeed Carr whenever he would decide to retire.
September 20th, 2015 at 4:31 PM ^
My general feeling at the time was that the recruiting was in a downward trajectory (fewer players each year were becoming difference-makers) although I was (and am still not) any sort of recruiting devotee/expert. I'd been watching M football since the mid-seventies (student in the early 80s and 86 grad) and I feel my football knowledge is/was decent enough to have a valid opinion.
I do remember wondering who would follow Carr; my disgust with his and his staff's conservative play-calling and gameplans made it hard for me to want any of his assistants. I also remember when RR was hired I thought he couldn't miss and we'd dominate in the years to come, oops.