The Week 3 Coaches Poll is out, and the Big Ten is allowed back in. Here's where they landed:
• #10 Ohio State
• #13 Penn State
• #17 Wisconsin
• #19 Michigan
• #22 Minnesota
It's a weird result of a weird season. There are probably 0 voters that think Ohio State is the tenth best team in the country, but quite a few that think they're top 3 and quite a few that refused to rank them, leading to a #10 rank in aggregate.
The Coaches Poll has invited Big Ten Coaches Paul Chryst, Pat Fitzgerald, James Franklin, Scott Frost, Mike Locksley, and Mel Tucker back to vote bringing the number of ballots this week to 48.
Based on Ohio State's 741 points, it's plausible that 15 to 17 of the 48 Coaches Poll voters categorically did not vote for Big Ten teams this week.
The Coaches Poll does not release individual ballots midseason, but normalizing the Coaches Poll without these ~16 ballots, it might have looked like this for the Big Ten:
• #2 Ohio State
• #8 Penn State
• #12 Wisconsin
• #16 Michigan
• #20 Minnesota
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