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2008 Preseason and Regular season Polls

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BuckeyeMan;1298529; said:
The first edition of the BCS standings.
1. Texas
2. Alabama
3. Penn State
4. Oklahoma
5. USC
6. Oklahoma State
7. Georgia
8. Texas Tech
9. OHIO STATE
10. Florida
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Had the AP been removed from the BCS mix in 2006, you'd of played Michigan. Any time it is tweaked someone loses and someone gains. That is why you have to win 'em all. Everything else is bitching about something over which you have no control.
 
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Dispatch

OSU faces uphill climb
No. 9 spot in first BCS ratings makes title shot unlikely
Monday, October 20, 2008 5:15 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
After Ohio State's 35-3 loss to Southern California five weeks ago, experts virtually wrote off the Buckeyes' chances for a return visit to the BCS championship game. With the release of the first Bowl Championship Series standings yesterday, that view looks to be well-founded.
Ohio State ranks ninth, barely ahead of Florida. How daunting would it be for the Buckeyes to leapfrog six teams and earn a third-straight spot in the title game? Well, consider that in the 10-year history of the BCS standings, only one team that made it to the championship game was ranked lower than sixth in the first BCS rankings. Louisiana State was 12th in 2003 and went on to win the BCS title.
Ohio State was sixth the first week of the BCS standings in 2002, the year it won the national title. The Buckeyes were No. 1 in the first standings the past two years.
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Dispatch

October 19, 2008

Not such a huge hill?

The first BCS standings came out, and I'm doing this so quickly that I don't have a link yet to the standings, all FOX has on its web site is the story.
Ohio State is ninth, so technically, it needs seven losses among the eight teams ahead of it in the standings, right?
At first glance, that doesn't seem so tough to figure. Last year, the Buckeyes were seventh in the BCS standings with three weeks left in the college-football season, and all six teams ahead of them lost.
So if they can get six losses in three weeks, why can't they hope for seven losses in seven weeks?
Obviously, they need to beat No. 3 Penn State next week. That's one.
They can count on at least two of the four Big 12 schools losing, as so many of them still play each other...No. 8 Texas Tech, for example, still must play No. 6 Oklahoma State, No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 1 Texas. Texas and Okie State will play. Okie State and Oklahoma will play.
So that's at least three of the seven losses OSU needs. LSU could be a spoiler, as they still must play No. 7 Georgia and No. 2 Alabama. Heck, if it wins those games, LSU could still end up in the title game....
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I'm sorry but I just think the boys from Lubbock are overrated. I know they can put up numbers but if they would go up against a team with a pretty good running game and good defense I think they lose. I admit they have some very good players but they are very beatable by the right teams.
 
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I'm not sure how OSU has such a good number. They've got more or less 2 quality wins (Michigan State and Wisconsin), and 1 'quality loss'. The computers don't consider the margin of victory, though, which helps quite a bit.

Still, I wouldn't think that 1 shitty loss for Florida would bury them so thoroughly.
 
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TheIronColonel;1299718; said:
I'm not sure how OSU has such a good number. They've got more or less 2 quality wins (Michigan State and Wisconsin), and 1 'quality loss'. The computers don't consider the margin of victory, though, which helps quite a bit.

Still, I wouldn't think that 1 [censored]ty loss for Florida would bury them so thoroughly.
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The win over Minnesota is helping tOSU more in the computers than the win over Wiscy.
 
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