BP Poll - Week 4

[BuckeyeInTheBoro]

Was that 3-2 win really that much worse than our 26-14 win over Ohio, especially when we were trailing 14-12 going into the fourth?

Looking at it that way I probably screwed up by putting OSU at 12 and Auburn at 15. What can I say, I'm a homer. Truth be told, I wasn't that impressed with Auburn and had them at 10 in week two's poll and 11th in week three. Dropping 11->15 after a loss isn't that bad was the thinking, but you are right... they should probably still be ahead of OSU. I probably shouldn't be accounting for Beanie coming back in my ranking of OSU, but that's exactly what I'm doing.

That said, it's early in the season and both Auburn and OSU will have at least two chances at teams I currently have ranked above them. It will work itself out pretty quickly I think.

 

[BuckeyeInTheBoro]

I'm surprised to see Wisconsin and Penn State ahead of us in this poll. I know the "experts" have it that way, but I'm not convinced we're not still better than those teams.

Neither of them has played anything close to a road game at USC. If we played their schedules to date, we'd be undefeated, too.

...and we'd expect to be ranked highly. I think they can expect that too. While "potential" has to come into it some I try to rank teams mostly based on what they've done on the field. They're (PSt and Wiscy) not struggling to beat inferior teams... we are (were?) They probably would have gotten killed by USC too, but we don't really know that. I'd be surprised if they only scored 3 points on USC.

Using a similar argument, USC is no longer my number one. Four weeks into the season and they've played two teams. One is awful and the other is... well... improving. I think they might be the best team in the country, but they're going to have to prove it to me on the field. Also, if OSU turns out to be a top 5 team, USC will move up.

 

[FWBuckeye]

This should be quite fun to fill out this week after all of the upsets.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Lots of upsets this week ... but most of the losers probably still stay ahead of Ohio State. The Buckeyes should move past Wisconsin, and maybe one of the bye week teams (BYU, Texas Tech).

Alabama is for real ... after four very winnable games (Kentucky, Mississippi, at Tennessee, Arkansas State), it looks like the showdown with LSU (November 8th) might be the game of the year in the SEC ... but could Auburn spoil the Tide's season in the Iron Bowl?

And Texas is quietly putting themselves in position for another title run, if they can survive the next three weeks (at Colorado, at Oklahoma, Missouri).

Thank God that we can finally bury the fraud that was Illinois - good riddance to another one-year wonder ... now Penn State will assume that role in 2008.

 

[BB73]

And Texas is quietly putting themselves in position for another title run, if they can survive the next three weeks (at Colorado, at Oklahoma, Missouri).

Colt McCoy looks very good this year. And the "at Oklahoma" is in Dallas at the 50-50 fan split in the Red River Shootout (screw the PC change to "Rivalry"), so it's not really back-to-back road games against top5 teams for Texas.

The Big 12 will probably now have 3 top-5 teams.

 

[FWBuckeye]

McCoy definitely looks great and has improved tremendously over last season, but I'm not sold on Texas yet. This upcoming stretch will tell us a lot about that team. I could still see Oklahoma beating them handily, but it's college football. Anything can happen.

 

[brodybuck21]

week 5 sent

 

[MD Buckeye]

Week 5 sent

 

[LordJeffBuck]

I'll be posting the Week 5 results later this afternoon, so you still have a couple of hours to send in your ballots - I have received 14 so far this week....

 

[JXC]

Sent.

LBJ, I wouldn't write off Illinois so quickly. They've lost to two of the top 6 or 7 teams...and neither game was at home. They may not be the best team in the country, but they could still very likely be a top 25 team and very dangerous.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Sent.

LBJ, I wouldn't write off Illinois so quickly. They've lost to two of the top 6 or 7 teams...and neither game was at home.

And they beat Louisiana-Lafayette by 3 points, and they gave up 21 points to Eastern Illinois, and both of those games were at home. Let's see how they do in the Big House this week....

 

[JXC]

And they beat Louisiana-Lafayette by 3 points, and they gave up 21 points to Eastern Illinois, and both of those games were at home. Let's see how they do in the Big House this week....

I think their Louisinana-Lafayette win is still better than a win against Michigan.

I like Juice Williams. No they don't have a good defesne, but Williams is a scary player, and i'm no worried about finals scores early in the year that much. Teams adjust and get better.

 

[ScarletStorms]

I think at this point in time that it would be appropriate to support our big ten brothers. Illinois has shown strengths in each of their losses and I would argue that they have played better than us so far this year. We should all be proud of Michigan State, Penn State, and Illinois because ultimately winning isn't fun if it isn't competitive and a stronger conference will have us more prepared to face OOC opponents. Loyalty is supposed to be one of the midwest's better defining characteristics and it doesn't have to only apply to our team, especially while our conference is being routinely undermined in the national media.