Preseason and Regular Season Polls (2015)

[MililaniBuckeye]

The maneuvering of SEC teams is blatant. Utah loses, so my vote goes to LSU? It would be nice to see which coaches voted for them...

I wanna wring Joe Tessitore's neck. He gives Galloway a ton of shit for having us at #1 in his playoff bracket and says LSU is his #1. Fine. But then he starts mentioning Alabama, and when Galloway asked him point blank if Tessitore would have them in his top 4, Tessitore skirted the issue and then mentioned Alabama and Stanford pass the eye test better than Ohio State. You know, the Alabama and Stanford teams that have losses. Fuck Tessitore...

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Nevermind, I found out who.....Jon Wilner

http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll-voter/jon-wilner

He has Alabama with one loss #1, he has Florida at #5 with a loss and OSU 6th. He has 2 loss Michigan ahead of undefeated TCU and Iowa....wtf. How do these people have votes?

Holy shit. This fucktard also has Utah, who just got ape-fucked by unranked USC, ahead of TCU and Iowa.

 

[ExpatAkronite]

A lot of these guys with AP votes are columnists (as opposed to beat writers). They drive their readership by being controversial. They're as much a journalist as Bill O'Reilly. Sure they're part of the sports/news department but it really isn't their job to be objective (rather it is their job to rile up internet message boards).

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

A lot of these guys with AP votes are columnists (as opposed to beat writers). They drive their readership by being controversial. They're as much a journalist as Bill O'Reilly. Sure they're part of the sports/news department but it really isn't their job to be objective (rather it is their job to rile up internet message boards).

 

[Woody1968]

Looks like you can add Wilner to that list.

Wilner is a complete idiot. I'm surprised he doesn't have Stanford #1.

 

[Mike80]

Wilner is a complete idiot. I'm surprised he doesn't have Stanford #1.

Give him a couple weeks.....

 

[bigdog3300]

Memphis - undefeated with a convincing win over Ole Miss at home
Alabama - already lost with a convincing loss against Ole Miss

Yet one gets playoff pub and the other is lucky to make it into the Top 15. On top of that, Memphis won @ BGSU, which not for nothing is 6-2, has an elite offense and is undefeated on the road in the B1G!

If they go undefeated, which would include wins @ Houston and @ Temple....you can't keep them out of the playoff. With Lynch at QB they are Boise State reincarnated this year.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Memphis - convincing win over Ole Miss at home
Alabama - convincing loss against Ole Miss at home

edited for you

 

[Mariotwins]

they are Boise State reincarnated this year.

You are right the committee should def keep them out.

 

[cincibuck]

How is Miss St ahead of Northwestern? I could have sworn only one of them has a win vs a top 10 team

Because Mississippi State beat Northwestern 62 -13 in their game last year.

Oh wait, that was Northwestern STATE. In the 2013 Gator Bowl Northwestern won 34 - 20.

 

[cincibuck]

The AP poll is made up of 61 Americans. You just have to accept that a certain percentage of them will be fucking imbeciles.

Quick, name five Americans who believe in creationism as a scientifically proven theory:
Jon Wilner, Ross Delenger, Laura Keeley, Brett McMurphy, John Adams.

 

[BuckTwenty]

8 weeks complete, 24 teams duking it out for the 4 CFP spots

Unbeatens (listed by AP ranking):
Ohio State
Baylor
Clemson
LSU
TCU
Michigan State
Iowa
Oklahoma State
Memphis
Houston
Toledo
Temple


1-Loss Teams (listed by AP ranking):
Alabama
Stanford
Notre Dame
Florida
Utah
Oklahoma
Florida State
Duke
Pittsburgh
-----------------
North Carolina
Navy
(other 1-loss teams but are basically "Out" with their only loss: Marshall, Appalachian State)


2-Loss Teams (still in play, due to "forgivable loss" ):
m*ch*g*n

Teams dropped this week -- Texas A&M, Cal, Western Kentucky, Georgia Southern



Games this week that could pare this list down (Vegas predicted "upsets" and close calls in parenthesis):
#3 Clemson @ NC State
West Virginia @ #5 TCU
#8 Stanford @ Washington State
#9 Notre Dame @ #21 Temple
Georgia @ #11 Florida (Florida only favored by 3)
#12 Oklahoma State @ Texas Tech (Okie St only favored by 3)
#15 m*ch*g*n @ Minnesota
Vanderbilt @ #18 Houston
North Carolina @ #23 Pittsburgh (UNC favored by 3)

 

[Dryden]

#3 Clemson @ NC State
West Virginia @ #5 TCU
#8 Stanford @ Washington State
#9 Notre Dame @ #21 Temple
Georgia @ #11 Florida (Florida only favored by 3)
#12 Oklahoma State @ Texas Tech (Okie St only favored by 3)
#15 m*ch*g*n @ Minnesota
Vanderbilt @ #18 Houston
North Carolina @ #23 Pittsburgh (UNC favored by 3)

After an appetizer of games so craptastic Ohio State at Rutgers was nationally televised on ABC, the main course this week is Notre Dame at Temple. For desert next week, we get Minnesota at Ohio State.

Conference expansion is awesome!!!

 

[BuckTwenty]

After an appetizer of games so craptastic Ohio State at Rutgers was nationally televised on ABC, the main course this week is Notre Dame at Temple. For desert next week, we get Minnesota at Ohio State.

Conference expansion is awesome!!!

Unfortunately, this past week and this week have craptastic slates. The week after that one has some doozies though...

#4 LSU @ #7 Alabama
#5 TCU @ #12 Oklahoma State
#17 Florida State @ #3 Clemson
#9 Notre Dame @ #23 Pittsburgh

:popcorn:

 

[TooTall]

I wasn't expecting much out of this past weekend, and ended up with two 4OT games, a Utah curbstomping, blocked kick 6 in GT-FSU, and Ohio State shining in primetime. Not too shabby.