Ohio State Stays At No. 4 in Coaches Poll After 49-6 Win Over Tulane

By 11W Staff on September 23, 2018 at 12:56 pm
Dre'Mont Jones
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Ohio State had little trouble with Tulane Saturday afternoon as the Buckeyes earned their ninth straight win by a 49-6 final.

The top four remained the same with Alabama at No. 1, Clemson at No. 2, Georgia at No. 3 and the Buckeyes at No. 4.

Ohio State now travels to Happy Valley this Saturday to take on Penn State, which stayed at No. 9 after a 63-24 win over Illinois on Friday. Elsewhere in the Big Ten, Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State all jumped in a positive direction.

The Badgers, who earned a gritty win at Iowa, jumped three spots to No. 13 while Michigan, which dismantled Nebraska, jumped six spots to No. 15. Michigan State is now No. 18, a five-spot jump, after a 35-21 win over Indiana.

The biggest jumper in the poll was Tom Herman's Texas Longhorns, who beat TCU by a 31-16 final. The Longhorns jumped 19 spots into the No. 22 spot while the Horned Frogs fell out of the top 25 completely. Other notable moves include Kentucky, which jumped nine spots into No. 17 after beating Mississippi State, and Virginia Tech, which fell 14 spots to No. 24 after a 49-35 loss to unranked Old Dominion.

 

USA Today Coaches Poll
RANK TEAM RECORD PTS 1st VOTES PREV CHANGE
1 ALABAMA 4-0 1597 61 1
2 CLEMSON 4-0 1497 2 2
3 GEORGIA 4-0 1473 3
4 OHIO STATE 4-0 1431 1 4
5 OKLAHOMA 4-0 1300 5
6 LOUISIANA STATE 4-0 1234 6
7 STANFORD 4-0 1206 7
8 NOTRE DAME 4-0 1135 8
9 PENN STATE 4-0 1108 9
10 AUBURN 3-1 997 11 +1
11 WASHINGTON 3-1 959 12 +1
12 WEST VIRGINIA 3-0 946 13 +1
13 WISCONSIN 3-1 776 16 +3
14 CENTRAL FLORIDA 3-0 705 18 +4
15 MICHIGAN 3-1 603 21 +6
16 MIAMI 3-1 554 20 +4
17 KENTUCKY 4-0 531 NR +9
18 MICHIGAN STATE 2-1 376 23 +5
19 MISSISSIPPI STATE 3-1 311 14 -5
20 OREGON 3-1 281 19 -1
21 OKLAHOMA STATE 3-1 199 15 -6
22 TEXAS 3-1 171 NR +19
23 DUKE 4-0 170 NR +4
24 VIRGINIA TECH 2-1 160 10 -14
25 BOISE STATE 2-1 145 24 -1
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