Buckeyes 9th in Meaningless April Poll
College football rankings are a year-round game these days and while the purists might despise or scoff at late April polls, we see them for what they are: just something else to chew on while we endure the Long Wait.
The first of the post-spring-but-pre-Memorial-Day-arrests variety comes to us from Andy Staples of SI who has the Buckeyes 9th behind a top five of Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, USC and Virginia Tech.
Sounds about right -- that top four is burly. You could take issue with VT, Oklahoma State (6), Ole Miss (7) or Oregon (8) coming in ahead of the Buckeyes, but Ohio State has the fewest number of returning starters of any team in the top 15 and the second-fewest of any team in the top 25. All praise be to Terrelle.
It will be interesting to see where they check-in once Steele, the AP and Coaches polls come out, but the last time the Buckeyes started the season 9th in the AP poll Tressel had one of his more challenging years in town when the 2004 squad ultimately finished 20th (oh, thank you, Iowa, for that soul-cleansing). I don't see 2009 playing out like that season, but getting into the top five will be a challenge.
Penn State was the only other Big Ten team making an appearance in this quite imaginary poll and the Bearcats, Ohio's BCS Team, checks in at 21.
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sounds more accurate than that article you had in good shizzy from espn expecting us to be 10th in basketball next season, haha
Am I really the only homer who reflexively selects "top five"?
That is fucking rediculous having oklahoma state above oregon, oregon beat oklahoma state in there bowl game, and old miss is a joke, we atleast deserve 5th or 6th.
Fuck Michigan....Go Bucks
Ole Miss won't be there long. Houston Nutt is a great coach with no pressure on him. Florida has a cakewalk to the title with LSU and the SEC championship game being the only hard ones. When will ESPN start calling UF's OOC schedule soft???
That is the worst list I have ever read in my life. I could pick a common bum off the street and he could pick a better top-25 than that embarassment of a list.
Don't count out the Villain!
QB Kellen Lewis released from team by the Hoosiers?
Not to malign Boom, but why does Staples name him "Spring Star"? I feel like we were hearing a lot of other guys' names more often than Boom's this spring.
Definatley not! However, like the past 5 years i trully believe we will win the NC this year. Curse or blessing to be a buckeye fan and always have that luxury who knows. But god I just want some respect back. And after we beat Hollywood we will get that and then clean up the big 11 en route...
Literally LOL'd @ all praise be to Terrelle and Ohios BCS team.....
Bearcats = ohio's OTHER BCS team. Or better, Kentucky's BCS team.
Everyone see TP's new tat? Pretty sweet.
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Im with you guys, maybe not a NC this year but atleast a RoseBowl I truly believe that pryor is ready to become the leader we need him to be, and theres alot of people out there that say no no no he still young and blah blah blah i think hes as ready as he'll ever be to take us back to the promise land, a couple of the throws he made in the spring game, vince young still cant make as a 3rd year NFL vet, his improvement thus far is like night and day compared to last year so im hoping 11-1 and a rose bowl birth this year and 12-0 and a BCS NC birth next year.
Cincy Lost their BCS game... their one and only. As far as I am concerned they can shut the F up.
you know what sucks? it's april 30th and i shouldn't care about this at all. to be honest, no one should. it's about as useful as the thousands of mock drafts. some of these teams dont even have defined starters at a few skill positions. But, and it's a big but it's unfortunate that stuff like this DOES matter because it influences the coaches and the AP who vote on the preseason polls which ultimately influence how a team is judged the entire year. Look at a team like Notre Dame in basketball this year. they were preseason top 5, they had a bad year and by week 10 they had 5 losses, more than any team ranked, and the were ranked 19th! I mean yeah they made the NIT but you can't tell me if they weren't ND they wouldn't have even been talked about being on the bubble. The same exact thing happens in football, not just with ND but with lots of teams.
Just discussion material man, dont blow a gasket. Save it for when Bollman's o-line costs us the USC game... ooops, did I say that out loud?
For real...In my opinion, polls shouldn't even come out until mid-October, let alone 4 months before the first kick-off.
However, when Ole Miss is the only other top-10 team in your conference (and it's a preseason top-10), doesn't that mean the conference sucks? The SEC is taking a step back this year...too many players went to the NFL. We saw that Alabama can't beat a MWC team in their own bowl game when only one OT was missing. Now they'll be missing him, and their star Coffee, and their QB JP Wilson. Georgia barely beat a MSU team that we obliterated, and now they're missing their 3 best players from last season (weren't they supposed to go to the national title?).
Maybe the Big Ten can make an upswing this year. The critics are saying it's going to be worse, but if Illinois can beat Missouri, and if Ohio State can take down USC, it's going to be very hot.
No Maclin, Daniels or Coffman. Zooky better pull this one off
Juice throws for 437 yds, 3 picks, and IU loses by 10........
Wow. Once again the over rated VT is ranked within the Top 10. And as in years past they will get destroyed by several "lesser" teams in the ACC. There coaching is a joke and there team is not getting the "hard" look that any team in the B-10 gets.
Because according to ESECPN sports analysists: Beamerball is > Tresselball
Except that the Vest has a better record in less time than Beemer. Which is really really sad.