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Polls - 2003

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3yardsandacloud

3yardsandacloud

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Looks like the Bucks are getting PLENTY of love in the pre-season polls. We are the only team to be rated in the top 3 of every poll I've listed. I know there's another poll out there that had the Bucks ranked at #5, but for the life of me I can't find it or remember what it is. Any other polls out there that I'm missing ... please add to the list.

2003 Pre-Season Rankings

Lindy's
1. Oklahoma
2. Miami
3. Ohio State
4. Michigan
5. Kansas State
6. Auburn
7. Texas
8. USC
9. Tennessee
10. Maryland
11. LSU
12. Pittsburgh
13. Georgia
14. Virginia Tech
15. Notre Dame
16. Purdue
17. Washington
18. Florida State
19. NC State
20. Colorado State
21. Virginia
22. Colorado
23. Arizona State
24. TCU
25. Alabama

CNN/SI - Early Top 25
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/2003/spring/spring_top25/
1 Ohio State Buckeyes
2 Oklahoma Sooners
3 Texas Longhorns
4 Miami Hurricanes
5 Virginia Tech Hokies
6 N.C. State Wolfpack
7 Auburn Tigers
8 Kansas State Wildcats
9 Michigan Wolverines
10 Washington Huskies
11 Georgia Bulldogs
12 Pittsburgh Panthers
13 Southern Cal Trojans
14 Florida State Seminoles
15 Maryland Terrapins
16 Virginia Cavaliers
18 Purdue Boilermakers
19 Arizona State Sun Devils
20 Oklahoma State Cowboys
21 LSU Tigers
22 Texas A&M Aggies
23 Wisconsin Badgers
24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
25 Missouri Tigers


Athlon
http://www.athlonsports.com/section_id/7/
No. 1 Oklahoma
No. 2 Miami
No. 3 Ohio State
No. 4 Kansas State
No. 5 Auburn
No. 6 USC
No. 7 Texas
No. 8 Georgia
No. 9 Pittsburgh
No. 10 Michigan
No. 11 NC State
No. 12 Washington
No. 13 Wisconsin
No. 14 Virginia Tech
No. 15 Florida State
No. 16 Oregon State
No. 17 Maryland
No. 18 LSU
No. 19 Purdue
No. 20 Florida
No. 21 Alabama
No. 22 Notre Dame
No. 23 Virginia
No. 24 Tennessee
No. 25 Missouri


College Football News
http://www.collegefootballnews.com/2003/Rankings/PreviewTop25.htm
1. Ohio State
2. Miami
3. Texas
4. Oklahoma
5. Auburn
6. Virginia Tech
7. USC
8. Pittsburgh
9. Kansas State
10. Maryland
11. Georgia
12. Tennessee
13. Wisconsin
14. LSU
15. North Carolina State
16. Michigan
17. Virginia
18. Oregon State
19. UCLA
20. Florida
21. Notre Dame
22. Alabama
23. Purdue
24. Missouri
25. Florida State


CBS Sportsline
http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/6343974
1. Oklahoma
2. Auburn
3. Ohio State
4. Kansas State
5. Miami
6. Virginia Tech
7. Georgia
8. Pittsburgh
9. Texas A&M
10. North Carolina State
11. Texas
12. Virginia
13. Washington
14. Arizona State
15. Michigan
16. Notre Dame
17. Southern California
18. Alabama
19. LSU
20. Penn State
21. Maryland
22. Florida State
23. Oklahoma State
24. Tennessee
25. Arkansas


ESPN - Ivan Maisel
http://espn.go.com/ncf/columns/maisel_ivan/1559503.html
No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners
No. 2 Miami Hurricanes
No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes
No. 4 Auburn Tigers
No. 5 Michigan Wolverines
No. 6 USC Trojans
No. 7 Texas Longhorns
No. 8 Virginia Cavaliers
No. 9 Virginia Tech Hokies
No. 10 Kansas State Wildcats
No. 11 Georgia Bulldogs
No. 12 Maryland Terrapins
No. 13 Arizona State Sun Devils
No. 14 Pittsburgh Panthers
No. 15 Florida State Seminoles
No. 16 NC State Wolfpack
No. 17 Purdue Boilermakers
No. 18 Washington Huskies
No. 19 Tennessee Volunteers
No. 20 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
No. 21 TCU Horned Frogs
No. 22 Texas A&M Aggies
No. 23 Iowa Hawkeyes
No. 24 Wisconsin Badgers
No. 25 Oklahoma State Cowboys


Football.com
http://www.football.com/college/top25_2003.shtml
1. Oklahoma
2. Ohio State
3. Miami, Fla.
4. Notre Dame
5. Michigan
6. Kansas State
7. Texas
8. Virginia Tech
9. Georgia
10. Pittsburgh
11. Florida
12. Washington
13. Florida State
14. Auburn
15. Colorado State
16. Penn State
17. Maryland
18. LSU
19. Tennessee
20. Oregon State
21. Virginia
22. Iowa
23. USC
24. Arkansas
25. N.C. State


College Football Wire
http://www.collegefootballwire.com/top25.html
1. Washington
2. Oklahoma
3. Ohio St
4. Kansas St
5. Tennesse
6. Virginia Tech
7. Auburn
8. Michigan
9. Florida
10. Miami
11. North Carolina St
12. Texas
13. Arkansas
14. USC
15. Virginia
16. Florida St
17. Wisconsin
18. Texas A&M
19. LSU
20. Oregon
21. Ole' Miss
22. Georgia
23. Iowa
24. Oregon St
25. Colorado St


Football Digest
1. Oklahoma
2. Ohio State
3. Texas
4. Miami
5. Michigan
6. Auburn
7. Virginia Tech
8. Pittsburgh
9. Kansas State
10. USC
11. Maryland
12. Washington State
13. Virginia
14. Georgia
15. North Carolina State
16. TCU
17. Colorado State
18. Tennessee
19. Florida State
20. Notre Dame
21. Alabama
22. Arizona State
23. Penn State
24. Toledo
25. Boise State


The Sporting News
1. Auburn
2. Ohio State
3. Oklahoma
4. Michigan
5. Miami
6. Southern Cal
7. Kansas State
8. Texas
9. Washington
10. Virginia
11. Georgia
12. Purdue
13. LSU
14. Florida State
15. Virginia Tech
16. Tennessee
17. Maryland
18. Colorado State
19. Pittsburgh
20. Notre Dame
21. Fresno State
22. Oklahoma State
23. NC State
24. TCU
25. Wisconsin


Phil Steele
1. Ohio St
2. Oklahoma
3. Texas
4. Michigan
5. Pittsburgh
6. Virginia Tech
7. Miami, Fl
8. Tennessee
9. Washington
10. USC
11. LSU
12. Nebraska
13. Florida St
14. Kansas St
15. Auburn
16. NC State
17. Georgia
18. Maryland
19. Notre Dame
20. Purdue
21. Wisconsin
22. Mississippi
23. Arkansas
24. Penn St
25. TCU


Below is another list I ran across on the web, some interesting picks. I'm personally insulted that #6 & #7 are listed ahead of #8.

The Pigskin Post presents the top 50 coaches ever to walk the sidelines.
This countdown includes all Division 1 coaches who were head coaches for at least 10 seasons.
No. 50 ... Frank Broyles - Arkansas
No. 49 ... Harold "Tubby" Raymond - Delaware
No. 48 ... Bill Snyder - Kansas State
No. 47 ... Dana X. Bible - Texas A&M, Nebraska, Texas
No. 46 ... Jess Neely - Clemson, Rice
No. 45 ... Bill McCartney - Colorado
No. 44 ... Hayden Fry - Iowa
No. 43 ... Duffy Daugherty - Michigan State
No. 42 ... Frank Kush - Arizona State
No. 41 ... Gilmore Dobie - Washington
No. 40 ... Johnny Majors - Iowa State, Pitt, Tennessee
No. 39 ... Phillip Fulmer - Tennessee
No. 38 ... "Jake" Gaither - Florida A&M
No. 37 ... Dan Devine - Arizona St., Missouri, Notre Dame
No. 36 ... John William Heisman - Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech
No. 35 ... LaVell Edwards - BYU
No. 34 ... Bernie Bierman - Tulane, Minnesota
No. 33 ... Dan McGugin - Vanderbilt
No. 32 ... Bennie Owen - Oklahoma
No. 31 ... Johnny Vaught - Ole Miss
No. 30 ... Wallace Wade - Alabama, Duke
No. 29 ... Jock Sutherland - Pittsburgh, Lafayette
No. 28 ... Floyd (Ben) Schwartzwalder - Syracuse
No. 27 ... Vince Dooley - Georgia
No. 26 ... Bob Zuppke - Illinois
No. 25 ... Steve Spurrier - Florida
No. 24 ... Bob Devaney - Nebraska, Wyoming
No. 23 ... Howard Jones - USC
No. 22 ... Amos Alonzo Stagg - Chicago
No. 21 ... Bo Schembechler - Michigan
No. 20 ... Bobby Dodd - Georgia Tech
No. 19 ... Ara Parseghian - Miami (OH), Northwestern, Notre Dame
No. 18 ... Don James - Washington
No. 17 ... Lou Holtz - Arkansas, Notre Dame, South Carolina
No. 16 ... Barry Switzer - Oklahoma
No. 15 ... Darrell Royal - Texas
No. 14 ... Bob Neyland - Tennessee
No. 13 ... Tom Osborne - Nebraska
No. 12 ... John McKay - Southern Cal
No. 11 ... Glen "Pop" Warner - Pittsburgh, Stanford
No. 10 ... Eddie Robinson - Grambling
No. 9 ... Earl "Red" Blaik - Dartmouth, Army
No. 8 ... Woody Hayes - Ohio State
No. 7 ... Bobby Bowden - Florida State
No. 6 ... Fielding Yost - Michigan
No. 5 ... Bud Wilkinson - Oklahoma
No. 4 ... Joe Paterno - Penn State
No. 3 ... Frank Leahy - Notre Dame
No. 2 ... Knute Rockne - Notre Dame
No. 1 ... Bear Bryant - Kentucky, Texas A&M, Alabama (It's rollin baby, it's rollin!)
 
Going to Kent State you get used to having your football program overlooked (mostely deserved). I don't care I love my Golden Flashes. And besides which playing for Kent can be excellent prep for the NFL. Our QB Cribbs would never have gotten as rattled as Dorsey did during the Fiesta Bowl. He's pretty used to getting hit. My personal opinion is that he'll make some noise when he goes pro.
 
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9/14/ rankings

What do you think do we drop or remain at #3.
I'm not sure.. don't really care. winning takes of the polls but I am curious to what you guys think and why.

My guess is we stay the same. But if scUM keeps whippin on ND and USC puts up big numbers on Hawaii they could move to #3 and #4 push us down to #5. Unlikely, yes but the voters have'nt out much confidence in tOSU in the past. The media just seems to be waiting for us to implode.

(edit for spelling)
 
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I thought about this, and couldn't make up my mind. I can see us staying, I can see us dropping 1, I can see dropping 2.

Ultimately I decided I just don't care. If we keep scraping wins out, we'll *probably* be 1 or 2 in the end.

If scUM keeps winning pretty, then us beating them in the end will go a long way.
 
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As long as they continue to win the rankings will all work out in the end, just like last year.

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I guess I could look it up, however it would take forever... what is our current rank in the two polls?

I'm on vacation (have been for over a week now) and just got the stinkin' dial-up to work on a borrowed laptop.

Hey C-dog, We're down in FL, and drove through Jacksonville (I think that is the city you currently live in)... very nice city!! With all the rivers and the bay, that is a great downtown!! The traffic was dense, and my wife about killed me as I weaved in and out of cars going much faster than the traffic (we just bought her a new car, and took it down for the vacation, so I've been having fun with it while I can drive it :wink2: ).

At any rate, I just about had a heart attack during the NCSU game... when Holmes fumbled the ball in the fourth on that punt, I told my wife to hang on because things are about to get dicey (sp?), and sure enough it got dicey...

I checked into B-nuts yeasterday and things seemed normal (I anticipated the computerbucks of the world comming out of the wood work screaming that the sky was falling) to my surprise...

I'll be on the road heading back to C-town this weekend, so I'll miss the game, Hopefully this one will not be close.

Oh, and for the record, I didn't wear my usual OSU gear for SDSU or NCSU games... put the blame on the bucks on me, I'll wear my stuff on Sat. on the ride up, so hopefully things will be secure much earlier than those two :wink2:

Go Bucks!!

Oh, and everything is good down here, you wouldn't even know there was a huricane if the news didn't keep talking about it... the weather has been great (and surprisingly the golf as well), the beach is fun (except the wind the last two days), and the seafood is very good!!
 
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Could we be?

After the outcome of the games yesterday we should move up to #3 in both polls. This change alone could put us at only .95 behind USC in the BCS standings. Once you figure in the computers and SOS you never no. One down two to go.
 
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Buckskin, the coaches poll has us at #4...haven't seen the AP one yet (neither CNNSI.com nor ESPN.com had the new AP poll up just a few seconds ago).

We just need to win out, and with the rankings of our two remaining opponents (#10 Purdue and #5 Michigan), we'll be just fine.
 
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Mili

The AP has us at #4

Here is ESPN's take on the BCS

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?page=/bcsroad/1109

Could Ohio State jump USC in the BCS Standings if the Trojans remain No. 2 in the polls?
There is a chance. Obviously, the Buckeyes would need to reach No. 3 in the polls to give themselves the best shot to make this happen. That means they need LSU to either lose or play poorly, so they can climb over the Tigers in both polls. If OSU can reach No. 3, it would have a one-point deficit to USC in average poll ranking that would need to be overcome through the other elements of the BCS formula. About half of that would probably be made up through schedule strength alone, meaning that the Buckeyes could close the deal by having a computer average that is nearly a point better than that of the Trojans. It is not likely that either team will finish with much of a quality-win bonus, but USC could get enough of a boost from Washington State (if the Cougars win out) to make this scenario more difficult for OSU to accomplish.

Unlike Ohio State, LSU's schedule and computer rankings are not strong enough to help it leapfrog USC from No. 3 in the polls. The Tigers need to reach No. 2 in both
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