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No. 6 Ohio State paces Big Ten in latest AP poll
Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor via Big Ten Network

Ohio State continues to pace the Big Ten in the latest AP poll, released Sunday. The Buckeyes, fresh off downing Indiana in its Big Ten opener, remain No. 6, while Maryland, which debuted in the poll last week, and Michigan State drop out of the poll.

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More like academic’s.

Committed to Georgia

Wonderful. On the day I have to go see a neurosurgeon to schedule surgery. Been nice knowin' ya fellas!

STUDENT FOOTBALL SEASON TICKET SALES DOWN BY MORE THAN 6,500

Ohio State is getting sacked in student football ticket sales this season.

Whether due to financial reasons, a preferred game day experience or a move from paper to digital tickets, a Lantern analysis of Ohio State football season ticket sales data shows that more than 6,500 fewer season student ticket packages were sold for the 2019 season than in 2018.

The drop reflects a broader trend within the program, with a 4.3-percent decline in nonstudent season ticket packages for Ohio Stadium. Fewer fans are attending sporting events in general in the United States, with the NFL at its lowest attendance in 2018 since 2010, and the MLB at its lowest since 2003, according to attendance data from both leagues.

Diana Sabau, deputy director of Ohio State Athletics, attributes the decrease to the tickets’ change in medium and the lack of a certain game on the schedule.

“[Students] have asked us for probably a year to two years that, ‘How can we not wait in line to pick up our tickets when we get back to school?” Sabau said. “I think having a mobile ticket achieved that. I think that, for whatever reason, that combination and not having Michigan at home give us a little bit larger decline.”

After selling 28,392 total student ticket packages in 2018, sales have dropped to 21,716 for the 2019 campaign. That’s a decline of nearly 24 percent.

It’s the fewest the athletic department’s ticket office has sold in at least a decade, and the only time since 2011 fewer than 25,000 packages have been sold.

In 2011, sales likely dropped due to the team’s quality. Multiple key Ohio State players were suspended due to NCAA violations, an interim head coach took over after the resignation of former head coach Jim Tressel, and the team responded by going 6-7 with a Gator Bowl loss.

Even then, the ticket office sold 22,804 packages.

While the athletics department feels that the switch to mobile tickets may cause a temporary dip in sales, Nick Signore, a third-year in accounting, said he actually finds the new mobile method more convenient.

Signore purchased a package in 2018, but said he didn’t in 2019 because most of the games during 2018 were blowouts that weren’t worth the cost of a season package. He said buying single-game tickets is cost-effective, and easier now since the release of the Ohio State student ticket exchange app TicketBay in January.

Many of his friends didn’t purchase season tickets either.

“[My friends] said that they’d rather tailgate before the game than actually go to the game and I’m kind of with them,” Signore said. “I have more fun tailgating before the game, and I can just watch it on TV, than actually going to the football game.”

Students have the option of purchasing one of four season ticket packages prior to the season.

North and South Block “O” packages, which place the rowdiest students together directly behind the north or south end zones, cost $272 in 2019. A full season in the student reserve section, which places students just outside the Block “O” sections on either end, cost $252. Purchasing a season ticket package in the Student Reserve section exclusively for conference games costs $144.

The athletics department collects feedback from students in Block “O” on how to improve the stadium environment following every season, Sabau said. Block “O” members were given a special entrance to improve “ease of access.”

“[We’ve] tried to plus up that experience for that group,” Sabau said. “Now we need to look at it collectively.”

The Lantern made several attempts to contact Block “O,” but did not receive a response.

University renovations removed 2,164 seats from Ohio Stadium ahead of 2019. However, this did not affect the number of tickets available to students.

Student population on the Columbus campus has risen every year from 2009 to 2018, with the exception of a dip from 56,867 in 2011 to 56,387 in 2012. It hit 61,170 in 2018. Data from 2019 is not yet available.

There’s likely more students to buy tickets, and the same amount available, but despite that and the fact that Ohio State plays three nationally ranked Big Ten opponents at home, student ticket sales are at their lowest since at least the mid-2000s.

“Historically, football has always been a printed ticket, and if they still want a printed ticket, they can certainly have one,” Sabau said. “We were just trying to make a mobile ticketing concept easier for our students.”

Despite the decrease in season ticket sales, Ohio Stadium announced an attendance of 104,089 fans at its Week 2 game against Cincinnati Saturday.

Perhaps more students and fans alike are switching to single-game ticket options.

Entire article: https://www.thelantern.com/2019/09/ohio-state-student-football-ticket-sales-down-by-more-than-6500/

This has been a trend for the last 4 years in the alumni seat selection process. They tell you where you stand in the "pecking order". Significant numbers of alumni are deciding to not buy tickets or just dying off. I've moved up several hundred spots each of the last 4 years.

Excellent article....

The 2015 Buckeyes Would Beat About 148 Of The 150 Teams In The "Greatest College Football Teams Of All Time" Rankings

So in honor of college football's 150th anniversary, ESPN decided to make a list of the 150 greatest teams in college football history. I'm not here to knock on the idea. It's pretty cool and it was fun to read. But I am here to knock on the fact that this list absolutely blows. Or at least it needs a name change.

A panel of 150 voters was created ranging from former coaches like Frank Beamer and Bob Stoops to football experts like Paul Finebaum and Condoleezza Rice. Then they included a bunch of media members too. And I can't fault them all because any time you make rankings, especially of 150 very successful teams, there's going to be dissension. That's not the point of this. The point of this is that this rankings are not realistic AT ALL. Let's be clear: they called this the "greatest teams of all time", meaning the best teams ranked in order.

Am I crazy in thinking that an average team in today's day and age -- let's say this year's Wisconsin team -- beats Knute Rockne's "Four Horsemen" Notre Dame team by a million?



Jonathon Taylor would run for 1,000 yards on them. In the first half. So if you want to go by "special seasons" then it's fine to put the 1945 Army Black Knights at 58, but don't call it the "Greatest Teams of All Time" rankings. If we're talking greatest teams of all time, I'm talking talent. I'm talking The U in 2001, USC in 2004, Texas in 2005, and a combination of Alabama and Clemson teams from recent years. Line them up against any of these greatest Army teams and they win by triple digits.

But honestly, I probably wouldn't have blogged this just to say that. I get that it's an argument of talent and different time periods that you just can't compare. But the reason I had to blog is that this panel of 150 voters chose multiple teams that didn't win championships, and they left the greatest team of all-time off their list: the 2015 Ohio State Buckeyes.



Nope, not that one. Not the one that won the championship. The NEXT one. The team that choked to Michigan State. The most talented team of all time. I would pay an infinite amount of dollars to watch the 2015 Ohio State Buckeyes play the 94th ranked 1888 Yale Bulldogs. 5 Buckeyes were drafted in the 1st round. 11 were selected in the first 102 picks. And 12 names were called overall. This team was DIRTY.

Here's just a couple of the absolute dawgs on that roster:

Joey Bosa - Defensive End (#3 Overall Pick)



Ezekiel Elliott - Running Back (#4 Overall Pick)



Michael Thomas - Wide Receiver (47th Overall Pick)



Darren Lee - Linebacker (20th Overall Pick)



Vonn Bell - Safety (61st overall pick)



Taylor Decker - Offensive Lineman (16th overall pick)



Eli Apple - Cornerback (10th Overall Pick)



And then you can toss in Braxton Miller, Josh Perry, Cardale Jones, JT Barrett, Adolphus Washington, Nick Vannett, Billy Price, Pat Elflein, Raekwon McMillan, Gareon Conley, and Jalin Marshall. HOLY SHIT that team was absolutely loaded. Oh, and we had Urban Meyer.

This team would go down as perhaps the greatest of ALL-TIME if it weren't for that god damn Michigan State kicker.



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Entire article: https://www.barstoolsports.com/bars...mpaign=organic_social_twitter_BarstoolTweetss

Re: This team would go down as perhaps the greatest of ALL-TIME if it weren't for that god damn Michigan State kicker.

anybody re seeding???

Big Ten Power Rankings: Dave Wannstedt’s post-Week 2 list
BTN.com staff via Big Ten Network

There's a new No. 1 and a reshuffled top 5 in BTN analyst Dave Wannstedt's latest Big Ten Power Rankings. The new top team: Ohio State, followed by Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, the No. 1 in each of the first two installments.

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Jaxbuck said:

Ha

"It's 282-8 boys, no big deal. Wait until we get to hit.."

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DaddyBigBucks said:

Wiscy in 2014

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BTN to Premiere The B1G Story Tomorrow Night
BTN Communications via Big Ten Network

Tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET, BTN will debut the first episode of The B1G Story, a documentary style program produced by the Emmy-nominated BTN Originals team. Throughout the year, The B1G Story will provide a contemporary look at compelling Big Ten stories of both past and present. Episode one, The B1G Story: Matt Millen, will take a closer look at a topic many Big Ten fans are familiar with. Millen, BTN’s lead football game analyst, was diagnosed with Amyloidosis in 2017 and subsequently underwent a lifesaving heart transplant in December of 2018. Amyloidosis had a drastic impact on Millen’s day-to-day

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Antoine Winfield Jr., three first-time winners claim Week 2 Big Ten honors
Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor via Big Ten Network

The Big Ten office released its Week 2 superlative winners Monday morning, and three of the four names are first-time honorees. Antoine Winfield Jr., the lone repeat winner of the group, claimed his second career defensive honor for his game-ending interception in Minnesota's double-overtime win at Fresno State.

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No. 21 Maryland debuts in latest AP Poll
BTN.com staff via Big Ten Network

There are seven Big Ten teams ranked in the latest AP poll, released Sunday afternoon, for the third straight week. This week, however, the seventh team is a new one, as Maryland, fresh off a second consecutive rout, this time a 63-20 win over Syracuse, debuts at No. 21.

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Watch Big Ten teams celebrate Week 2 wins
BTN.com staff via Big Ten Network

Eleven Big Ten teams were victorious in Week 2, including Iowa winning the first conference game of the season, and here's a glimpse into how each celebrated its win.

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BayBuck said:

Of course, the one poster who did say Davis was... CCI. I'm not saying, just saying.

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I’m no meteorologist but I suspect someone’s got 6 to 8 inches in their forecast for tonight.

BTN Announces 2019-20 Big Ten Men and Women’s Basketball Television Schedule
BTN Communications via Big Ten Network

BTN today announced its 2019-20 television schedule for men’s and women’s basketball, with nearly 200 total games across the entire season. BTN will air at least 133 men’s basketball games, including 75 conference games and 10 Big Ten Tournament games, as well as at least 64 women’s basketball games, including four ACC-Big Ten Challenge matchups alongside 12 conference tournament games. Men’s nonconference play begins with a doubleheader on Tuesday, Nov. 5, when Juwan Howard and Fred Hoiberg make their respective Big Ten coaching debuts as Michigan faces off against Appalachian State and Nebraska takes on UC-Riverside. The men’s schedule also

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Marshall Plumlee, former Duke standout and NBA player, is now a U.S. Army Ranger

Plumlee was a member of the ROTC during his time at Duke

Things may not have exactly panned out for Marshall Plumlee from a basketball standpoint, but he's finding success in a different career path. Late last month, the former Duke big man graduated from Army Ranger school. He is now a member of the elite U.S. Army Rangers.

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