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BigTen Media Days - OSU #2, Hawk Preseason D POY

3yardsandacloud

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The Big Ten Conference announced today that Michigan has been chosen as the pre-season football favorite in a vote by media members attending the Conference's media day. The Big Ten announces only the top three teams in its pre-season poll, as Ohio State placed second and Iowa was selected third. The attending media also honored Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton as the Pre-Season Offensive Player of the Year and OSU linebacker A.J. Hawk as the Pre-Season Defensive Player of the Year.

Congratulations AJ!

Big Ten Media Days
 
I didn't see where OSU only had 1 first place vote on that link. I think you are talking about the independent media poll that is on the news links at Bucknuts. I personally have a lot more faith in the opposing coaches opinion than in the media. I would be interested in seeing the coaches poll stats if y'all come up with em somewhere.
 
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OilerBuck said:
I didn't see where OSU only had 1 first place vote on that link. I think you are talking about the independent media poll that is on the news links at Bucknuts. I personally have a lot more faith in the opposing coaches opinion than in the media. I would be interested in seeing the coaches poll stats if y'all come up with em somewhere.
I was talking about the media poll. I haven't seen anything about a coaches poll. I think the link at the top of this thread refers to the media poll as well.
 
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Here's the voting breakdown from the Columbus Dispatch/1460TheFan. The first link is from the official BigTen web site. Both links are listed on the front page here at BuckeyePlanet.

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The BigTen Media Days run 2 more days. I believe the coaches generally make their picks in that timeframe.

The results listed from the Chicago Sun Times must NOT be the information/poll the BigTen is using. This poll shows Wisconsin 3rd, while the BigTen lists Iowa 3rd in their report. Make of it what you will.
 
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zincfinger said:
OSU got only one first place vote (compared to something like 10 for Michigan), and I think a couple of people picked OSU to finish 3rd or worse.
Assuming that the media poll gave 11 points for 1st down to 1 point for 11th (and the total # of points in the poll seems to support that), that'd be correct.

11 2nd-place votes would be 110 points. More to the point, 10 2nd-place and 1 1st-place vote would be 111, and we have only 103. Therefore, either we got 1 1st, 9 2nds, and 1 10th place vote....or, more likely, at least 2 people put us 3rd or lower.

On the other hand, Michigan clearly has 10 1sts and 1 2nd...and on the other end, Indiana has 10 last-place votes and 1 next-to-last.
 
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