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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If you’re not a baseball fan, here’s why the Aaron Judge story is so heavily promoted in CFB terms. 🧵
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The New York Yankees are a team with a lot of money that hasn’t actually done anything in over a decade, so their fans are desperate to celebrate something. (Texas)
Judge’s 61 home runs tie an AL record, but are way short of the MLB record. Still, people push league records as if they’re important out of a misguided sense of loyalty to the teams they play more. (The SEC)
Other people are salty that the people with more home runs in the past were cheating. The MLB heavily promoted the cheating, which brought them a massive amount of revenue and fan interest, but then feigned ignorance and moral outrage after it happened. (Pony Express)
Ithaca keeps their Liberty League title hopes alive, finishing conference play at 5-1. They now need RPI to lose a game – and the Engineers are currently in overtime with St. Lawrence. #D3FB
Defending #D3FB champions North Central clinched the CCIW title today with a win over WashU. When they won the national championship in 2019, they were an at-large team.
Tomorrow it's FCS Texas Southern's turn to play a team that Google doesn't know about. North American University appears to be a real school in suburban Houston. Founded as Texas Gulf Institute in 2007, decided to become Generic School Name University in 2013 + football this year
ESPN doesn't even show the game on their schedule; possibly because it's uncountable for NCAA, NAIA, or anything other than homecoming attendance (no surprises the 0-3 have the Stallions scheduled):
The NAU Stallions haven't been completely hopeless:
• Beat NAIA Louisiana College, 42-41
• Lost to FCS Lamar, 47-3
• Beat NJCAA juco Louisiana Community Christian, 30-14
• Body-bagged by D2 West Alabama, 80-0
• Were beating NJCAA juco Southern Shreveport Jags, 49-13...