Ohio State Ranked Second in Preseason AP Top 25 Poll

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State will start the 2022 season ranked No. 2 within the Related Press ballot, because the group launched its preseason ballot on Monday. The Buckeyes’ inclusion within the preliminary ballot continues a variety of spectacular streaks.

Ohio State has appeared within the AP preseason ballot for 34 consecutive years, which is the longest lively streak of any program within the nation. Oklahoma is second at 23 years. The streak, which started in 1989, consists of 13 appearances within the top-five of the ballot.

The Buckeyes additionally tied Penn State for the longest ballot run in AP historical past. The Nittany Lions appeared in each preseason ballot from 1968 via 2002. On Monday, Ohio State’s handed Nebraska (1970-2002) for the second-longest streak.

Because the AP preseason ballot was launched in 1950, Ohio State has appeared 69 of 73 occasions – probably the most of any program within the nation. The one years it was not included was 1966, 1967, 1979 and 1988.

Complete Appearances in AP Preseason Ballot
1. Ohio State – 69
2. Oklahoma – 64
3. USC – 61
4. Notre Dame – 59
5. Alabama – 56

The Buckeyes have now been ranked in at the very least one AP ballot for the fifty fifth consecutive season, which is by far the longest lively streak within the nation and the longest in AP ballot historical past. No different staff at present has a stretch longer than 26 consecutive years.

AP Ballot Season Look Streak
1. Ohio State – 55 (1968-2022)
2. Georgia and Wisconsin – 26 (1997-2022)
4. Oregon – 25 (1998-2022)
5. Oklahoma – 24 (1999-2022)

In more moderen historical past, Ohio State has begun the season ranked throughout the high 5 9 of the final 10 years (the one exception was 2016 when it got here in at No. 6). Between the 2013-22 seasons, Ohio State has earned rankings of No. 2, 5, 1, 6, 2, 5, 5, 2, 4 and a pair of, respectively. Relationship again to 2012, it’s been ranked for 163 consecutive polls by which it’s been eligible. That ranks because the fifth-longest streak in ballot historical past.

No college has appeared in additional polls – or a bigger proportion of them – than Ohio State.

 Complete Appearances within the AP Ballot
1. Ohio State – 950 (79.1 p.c)
2. Michigan – 887 (73.9 p.c)
3. Oklahoma – 877 (73.0 p.c)
4. Notre Dame – 849 (70.7 p.c)
5. Alabama – 841 (70.0 p.c)

High 5 Matchup to Start the Season
Whereas the Buckeyes examine in at No. 2 to start out the season, Ohio State’s opponent within the season-opener – Notre Dame – is No. 5. Will probably be simply the tenth time that the Buckeyes have opened a season in opposition to a ranked opponent and the primary time it has featured a pair of top-five groups. Solely twice as Ohio State’s season opener pitted the Buckeyes in opposition to a top-10 ranked staff: in 1986 vs. fifth-ranked Alabama on the Kickoff Traditional in East Rutherford, N.J. and is 1978 when sixth-ranked Ohio State took on fifth-ranked Penn State.

Ohio State Single Sport Tickets
Single sport tickets for a terrific slate of 2022 Ohio State house soccer video games will be bought on-line at http://go.osu.edu/fbtix.

Ohio State’s house schedule this fall consists of three video games in opposition to groups that seem in as we speak’s AP preseason ballot: No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 8 Michigan and No. 18 Wisconsin.