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Preseason and Regular Season Polls (2015)

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Ohio State opens No. 1 in college football's preseason Amway Coaches Poll

Entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...e-no-1-preseason-amway-coaches-poll/30854217/

The entire poll: http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/

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Buckeyes near-unanimous No. 1 in another poll

The Football Writers Association of America, in conjunction with the National Football Foundation and as had previously been confirmed, released its preseason Super 16 poll, with the Buckeyes easily grabbing the No. 1 ranking of 40 voters. 38 of those voters had OSU No. 1 on their ballots.

The lone non-OSU holdouts were Dave Jones of the PA Media group and former Dartmouth linebacker and 2007 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Reggie Williams. The former had TCU at No. 1, while the latter put Alabama in the top spot. Both Jones and Williams, though, had the Buckeyes at No. 2.

Entire article and poll: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/13/buckeyes-near-unanimous-no-1-in-another-poll/

http://www.footballfoundation.org/Portals/7/Super 16 Poll Individual Votes (Preseason)_08.13.15.pdf
 
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The Predictalator has run the upcoming season simulation 50,000 times, and the Bucks do it again.

http://predictionmachine.com/college-football-experts-bcs-bowl-picks-2015

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This year, only Ohio State is a clear Power 5 conference favorite. The Buckeyes lead all FBS teams with more than 11 projected wins (assuming JT Barrett is the starter in simulations, but it does not matter much who plays at QB of the options). After that, it gets really fuzzy. Clemson is the next most likely Power 5 conference champion, but the Tigers are only ranked 15th in our Power Rankings and they lose 2.5 games on average in what is clearly the weakest of the Power 5 Conferences. Unless a fluky team lucks out and goes undefeated (especially if that is Virginia Tech with a Week 1 win over the best team in the country), the ACC will likely be on the outside looking in for this year's CFP.

That leaves the Big 12 (shut out last year), SEC, Pac-12 and Notre Dame as the likely suppliers of the other three playoff participants (as good as Michigan State is, only one Big Ten team is likely to get into the CFP). Look at the standings, power rankings and win totals below and you will see the situation we are dealing with this year.Alabama, Georgia, Baylor, Oregon and UCLA all have power rankings and win totals in line with the CFP discussion. Unfortunately, they also all play on the road or neutral sites against teams that are about as good (with #8 Georgia and #9 Oregon facing those issues in their respective Conference Championship Games). Alabama, #2 in our power rankings is an underdog at #5 Auburn. #3 Baylor is an underdog at #4 TCU and #10 UCLAtravels across town to play #6 USC. That leaves us with a College Football Playoff that includes Ohio State, TCU, Auburn and USC, but does not include the second (Alabama) or third (Baylor) best teams in the country due to schedules and locations.

In the CFP, Ohio State wins a semifinal matchup against Auburn, 33-30, and TCU bests USC, 35-34. In the College Football National Championship, Ohio State is the victor over TCU, 34-27.

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AP Poll is out.

http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll

Ohio State becomes the first team in AP history to be a unanimous preseason #1. 2009 Florida and 2013 Alabama were both two votes short.

Story here:

http://collegefootball.ap.org/article/unanimous-choice-ohio-state-no-1-ap-preseason-top-25

Ohio State is the first unanimous preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.

The defending national champion Buckeyes received all 61 first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings released Sunday.

TCU is No. 2, followed by Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State.

The Buckeyes won the first College Football Playoff championship last season and are trying to become the 12th team to win consecutive AP titles since the poll began in 1936.

Preseason rankings date back to 1950. Since then no team had received more than 97 percent of the first-place votes in a preseason poll.

In 2013, Alabama, which had won two straight championships, received 58 of 60 first-place votes and defending champion Florida did the same in 2009. Neither finished the season No. 1.

The rest of this year's preseason top 10 is Auburn, Oregon, Southern California, Georgia and Florida State.
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