AP Top 25: Where is Ohio State football on Nathan Baird’s Week 12 ballot? College rankings

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Related Press High 25 ballot will assist body Ohio State soccer’s common season finale towards Michigan in two weeks.

In eight of the earlier 12 conferences between the rivals as top-five groups, Ohio State has been the higher-ranked group. That features final season’s sport in Ann Arbor, when No. 5 Michigan upset the No. 2 Buckeyes 42-27.

Is there any probability the Wolverines may move OSU, both when the up to date ballot is launched right this moment, or after subsequent week’s video games? It appears unlikely, for a number of causes.

• Ohio State acquired 15 No. 1 votes as not too long ago as two weeks in the past (earlier than Georgia beat Tennessee and scarfed up all however one in all them). Michigan has not acquired a No. 1 vote all season. It was as excessive as No. 2 on solely 10 ballots final week.

• Michigan wanted Illinois to maintain successful and make a possible win subsequent week extra helpful. As a substitute, the Illini misplaced to unranked Michigan State and Purdue, each at house. A house win over Illinois now received’t transfer the needle as a lot.

• The metrics love each of those groups, however they love OSU extra. Soccer Outsiders, ESPN’s SP+, CFB Graphs’ EPA — all of them give the Buckeyes a good edge within the rankings. Some voters (hopefully) take note of these issues.

• Ohio State’s huge slip-up was the 21-7 wind fiasco at Northwestern. Even a slim victory at Maryland — which remains to be a six-win group, keep in mind — would possible not be sufficient to erase the polling distance between the groups.

I nonetheless have OSU over Michigan on my poll. Right here’s the remainder of it this week:

NATHAN BAIRD’S WEEK 12 AP TOP 25 BALLOT

1 Georgia (10-0)

2 Ohio State (10-0)

3 Michigan (10-0)

4 TCU (10-0)

5 Tennessee (9-1)

6 LSU (8-2)

7 Alabama (8-2)

8 Clemson (9-1)

9 Utah (8-2)

10 USC (9-1)

11 Penn State (8-2)

12 North Carolina (9-1)

13 Washington (8-2)

14 Oregon (8-2)

15 Kansas State (7-3)

16 UCLA (8-2)

17 Ole Miss (8-2)

18 Notre Dame (7-3)

19 N.C. State (7-3)

20 Florida State (7-3)

21 UCF (8-2)

22 Tulane (8-2)

23 Oklahoma State (7-3)

24 Cincinnati (8-2)

25 Texas (6-4)

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