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2007 Preseason and Regular season Polls

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Buckeyes wear No. 1 tag as AP poll, season's first BCS standings put OSU on top

ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS - Ohio State was supposed to be in transition, replacing a Heisman Trophy winner, a couple first-round draft picks, and numerous key players from a team that played for a national championship last season. Now the rebuilt Buckeyes are No. 1 in the AP Top 25 and the Bowl Championship Series standings thanks to a string of surprising results over the last three weeks. The final unlikely events unfolded Saturday when the top two teams in the rankings - Louisiana State and California - both lost and the door to the top spot swung open for the unbeaten Buckeyes. "Our guys have done what they have needed to do to this point in the year, and we are pleased with that effort and progress, but not content," Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said yesterday. "With the most demanding part of our schedule remaining with five Big Ten conference games, there is a lot of work ahead of us. We've improved each week, but we understand that the only poll that counts is the last one."
 
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Lima

OSU gladly accepts rapid rankings climb

Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 10.15.2007

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? The element of surprise in Ohio State?s rapid rise to No 1 in the first Bowl Championship Series rankings and No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll was not confined to the fans.
It caught some of the Buckeyes? players by surprise too.
After OSU routed Kent State 48-3 on Saturday, cornerback Malcolm Jenkins said, ?I don?t think anybody really thought we would move up that fast.?
And that was before anyone knew just how far Ohio State would climb in the rankings after No. 1 LSU and No. 2 California both lost night games later on Saturday.

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MJ

Buckeyes back on top of BCS
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
10/15/2007




It took seven weeks for Ohio State to complete its rebuilding project. Not coincidentally, that's also how long it took the Buckeyes to climb from 11th to No. 1 in every major poll.


Including the BCS, the most important one of all.

Thanks to stunning upsets of LSU and Cal, Ohio State debuted at No. 1 in the first BCS poll, released yesterday. Even before the upsets, the Buckeyes had a chance to debut No. 2 based on the computers. The upsets of the top two teams left that a moot point.


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Dispatch

College football
Buckeyes start at the top
But players know what's really key: keep winning
Monday, October 15, 2007 3:52 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


Ohio State players and coaches reacted with a collective shrug yesterday to the news that the Buckeyes are ranked atop the season's first Bowl Championship Series standings. It means that if they win their final five games, they likely will play for the national title in January in New Orleans.
But the memory of last season's bitter title-game loss to Florida remains fresh.



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In crazy season, Buckeyes No. 1 in BCS, polls
By JON SPENCER
Gannett News Service

Just so you know, Ohio State and South Florida have never met on the football field, but the Buckeyes are 43-10-1 against the Big East, including 1-1 in the post-season. They beat Pitt in the 1984 Fiesta Bowl and lost to Syracuse in the 1992 Hall of Fame Bowl.
Consider it your BCS title game primer.
Who would have thunk it, the Buckeyes and Bulls playing for the national championship in New Orleans on Jan. 7? It's an illogical matchup, pitting a member of the maligned Big Ten against a school that wasn't even on the Division I map until 2001, but then this has been an illogical season.




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Detroit Free Press

IS OHIO STATE BEST? Sizing up the final six unbeaten college football teams

October 15, 2007
By Dave Curtis
The Orlando Sentinel
Bowl Championship Series utopia is for two teams, and only two teams, to stand alone at the season?s end. Yet on the ides of October, only six, the Golden (Half) Dozen, can make it to December perfect.
They come from six different states and conferences, and you probably couldn?t name five guys on any of them. So here?s a primer on the six, ranked from who we like least to our favorite.
 
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TS10HTW;959898; said:
If we win out and LSU wins out too...they may actually jump us in the polls, which is still not a bad thing, but we may be playing the Tigers for the NC:osu:
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The lone addendum I would add to this statement is that LSU in the NC depends on two things outside of their range:

1) USF
2) BC

Both of these teams, IMO, can run their conference table. I don't see a one-loss team jumping either of these two (along with tOSU) if they remain unbeaten.
 
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muffler dragon;959912; said:
The lone addendum I would add to this statement is that LSU in the NC depends on two things outside of their range:

1) USF
2) BC

Both of these teams, IMO, can run their conference table. I don't see a one-loss team jumping either of these two (along with tOSU) if they remain unbeaten.
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I really don't see USF or BC going undefeated-but even if they do, I could still see a 1-loss LSU (who ends up winning the SEC title game) leap frogging every body in the both polls just because there is so much SEC bias. :shake:

Particularly because the way last season ended with a 1-loss UF jumping ahead of an idle tsun in the BCS after a less than stellar SEC title game.(that third quarter was awful) But they still got in with Urban's media campaigning and I'm sure Les Myles will begin doing the same.:roll1:


I still feel we will still be around as long as we take of business.:osu:
 
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TS10HTW;959940; said:
I really don't see USF or BC going undefeated-but even if they do, I could still see a 1-loss LSU (who ends up winning the SEC title game) leap frogging every body in the both polls just because there is so much SEC bias. :shake:

Particularly because the way last season ended with a 1-loss UF jumping ahead of an idle tsun in the BCS after a less than stellar SEC title game.(that third quarter was awful) But they still got in with Urban's media campaigning and I'm sure Les Myles will begin doing the same.:roll1:


I still feel we will still be around as long as we take of business.:osu:
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Your second point is off... most coaches and media saw UF and scUM as equals before the SEC Championship game but after UF won they jumped scUM because most people did not want to see an OSU-UM rematch... obviously it was the right choice though.

EDIT: After rereading your response I think we are saying the same thing.
 
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Mellowed out Bucks, an article from the Bucyrus newspaper.
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Bucks don't have sense of accomplishment despite No. 1 ranking
By JON SPENCER
For The Advocate

Just so you know, Ohio State and South Florida have never met on the football field, but the Buckeyes are 43-10-1 against the Big East, including 1-1 in the postseason. They beat Pittsburgh in the 1984 Fiesta Bowl and lost to Syracuse in the 1992 Hall of Fame Bowl. Consider it your BCS title game primer.


Who would have thunk it, the Buckeyes and Bulls playing for the national championship in New Orleans on Jan. 7? It's an illogical matchup, pitting a member of the maligned Big Ten against a school that wasn't even on the Division I map until 2001, but this has been an illogical season.
Over the last three weekends we've seen, in order, A, five of the top 10 teams go down; B, supposedly invincible USC lose to a 41-point underdog; and, C, No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Cal get beat on the same day.
 
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