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Buckeyes Open at No. 5, Behind No. 4 Wisconsin in Initial 2018 AP Poll

by Tony Gerdeman
J.K. Dobbins Ohio State Football Buckeyes

As expected, the Alabama Crimson Tide have opened up at No. 1 in the initial 2018 Top 25 college football poll, followed by No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Georgia.

Five Big Ten teams are ranked in the initial poll, and perhaps surprisingly the Ohio State Buckeyes are not the top-ranked team in the conference.

While OSU opens at No. 5, it is the Wisconsin Badgers one spot ahead of them who take the top spot among B1G teams.

The difference between the two teams is the one first-place vote for the Badgers.

Penn State is the third Big Ten team in the top 10 at No. 10, with Michigan State at No. 11, and Michigan at No. 14. Northwestern and Iowa are among the teams also receiving votes.

You can see the entire poll and first-place votes listed below.

1
Alabama (42)
SEC
Record: 13-1
PV Rank

1

Points

1,505

2
Clemson (18)
ACC
Record: 12-2
4
1,476
3
Georgia
SEC
Record: 13-2
2
1,350
4
Wisconsin (1)
Big Ten
Record: 13-1
7
1,271
5
Ohio State
Big Ten
Record: 12-2
5
1,256
6
Washington
Pac-12
Record: 10-3
16
1,215
7
Oklahoma
Big 12
Record: 12-2
3
1,173
8
Miami (FL)
ACC
Record: 10-3
13
1,027
9
Auburn
SEC
Record: 10-4
10
1,013
10
Penn State
Big Ten
Record: 11-2
8
1,012
11
Michigan State
Big Ten
Record: 10-3
15
877
12
Notre Dame
Division I FBS Independents
Record: 10-3
11
804
13
Stanford
Pac-12
Record: 9-5
20
778
14
Michigan
Big Ten
Record: 8-5
–
773
15
USC
Pac-12
Record: 11-3
12
543
16
TCU
Big 12
Record: 11-3
9
533
17
West Virginia
Big 12
Record: 7-6
–
511
18
Mississippi State
SEC
Record: 9-4
19
450
19
Florida State
ACC
Record: 7-6
–
384
20
Virginia Tech
ACC
Record: 9-4
24
351
21
UCF
The American
Record: 13-0
6
312
22
Boise State
Mountain West
Record: 11-3
22
292
23
Texas
Big 12
Record: 7-6
–
216
24
Oregon
Pac-12
Record: 7-6
–
148
25
LSU
SEC
Record: 9-4
18
106

Others receiving votes: South Carolina 96, Florida 68, Utah 60, Oklahoma St. 51, FAU 38, Arizona 28, NC State 22, Texas A&M 21, Boston College 18, Northwestern 13, Kansas St. 10, Iowa St. 8, Houston 6, Memphis 3, Troy 2, Iowa 2, Kentucky 1, Arkansas St. 1, Fresno St. 1.

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2 Responses

  1. AP poll means nothing. A fans curiosity. Has as much validity as my five year old son making up a poll as far as the importance to football goes. The real question should be “Why do we still have this” and “Why are journalists trying so desperately to hold on to their own sense of self importance through an archaic device that has went the way of the wagon wheel?”

    No disrespect to the profession itself. To those who practice with integrity there is no higher calling for some. But some of these dirt bags who have a vote in these polls should be clubbed like a baby seal.

  2. If Alabama was playing TCU in week 3, there is no doubt that TCU would have moved up 10 spots to #6.

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