The Polls (AP, Coaches, & CFP, etc.)

[Onebuckfan]

We’ve lost to Iowa Purdue and barely won many conference games.What more can we do to help our brethen ..hire Lovie Smith? The rest of the conference needs to step it up instead of us dumbing down.

 

[SadSouthernBuck]

Buckeyes drop 1 in the AP to 10. Jumped by LSU and UCF.

https://collegefootball.ap.org/poll

 

[dragurd]

UCF I get. I just don't know what LSU playing Rice or Florida playing their body bag game did to make them jump up so high?

 

[Buck I in Mich]

I imagine it would take a 7-1 Big 10 bowl record against other power 5 teams to change the perception.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

I stopped reading after

Beat *ichigan

 

[dragurd]

I imagine it would take a 7-1 Big 10 bowl record against other power 5 teams to change the perception.

I won't unless it happens for years. The SEC West was the greastest ever then lost a bunch of bowl games and the SEC West was the greatest ever again the next year

 

[ZEKE103]

How in the world is a 2 loss LSU, who got shut out at home no less, ahead of us? lol. Oh wait I know, SEC lovefest.

 

[buckeyebri]

No sense getting upset...beat Xichigan, win the BIG Championship and see what happens...

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

As I said earlier, since the mid-90s, Florida, Tennessee, Auburn, Alabama, LSU, and Georgia have competed for the National Championship under whatever system was in place. Twice, including last year, two SEC teams faced each other in that game.

Now, I would not expect this board to give any props the hated SEC for anything. But to say that Bama is viewed by the football world as the sole SEC power program, is simply untrue. When making a statement about how the football world sees the SEC, the opinion of Gator or Buckeye fans is entirely irrelevant. Of greater import is how the non-SEC and non-B1G fans view the strength of the conferences. And if you poll them, the SEC would be seen as stronger. Which can hurt tOSU, no matter the underlying truth of the opinion. Which was, I think, Ord's point.

You’re lying to yourself if you think this conference superiority bull shit goes back to the 90s.

 

[Gatorubet]

You’re lying to yourself if you think this conference superiority bull shit goes back to the 90s.

It started about January of 2007. But the point remains, almost half of the SEC has played for the MNC since the mid 90s. But the larger point is..

The Game is here.

 

[BayBuck]

It started about January of 2007. But the point remains, almost half of the SEC has played for the MNC since the mid 90s. But the larger point is..

The Game is here.

Lol, sure. "Almost half the SEC" meaning 5 teams and Georgia. Fyi, Iowa and Wiscy have been relevant since the 90s too, who cares. Nobody threw out the conference card, you just saw a chance to play it yourself, and it looks like... that. S-E-C!

 

[Arch2H]

Top 10 on Tues. night it will be UCF replacing WV, nothing else.

 

[SadSouthernBuck]

Top 10 on Tues. night it will be UCF replacing WV, nothing else.

I don't know. They could jump ND to No. 2 over Clemson due to beating a common opponent by a larger margin on a neutral field. They could jump Wash. St. over LSU.

 

[BuckeyeBiz]

I’m good with UCF jumping us in the polls. Winning a prime time game on a slow day gave UCF a boost with the pollsters. Don’t honestly know who would win in a head to head. Maybe dropping in the polls gives Urban one more (he’s got lots of material to work with) edge to fire up the team. What a weird year being 10-1 and barely cracking the top 10.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Top 10 on Tues. night it will be UCF replacing WV, nothing else.

I'm sure somebody will post about it and I'll see it maybe Wednesday or Thursday.