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What’s the matter with Kansas? Week 3

What’s the matter with Kansas? is the Disappointment Zone’s weekly report on the voting of the 65 media members who cast ballots in the AP Top 25 College Football Poll.

Close readers will notice that last week’s edition of WTMWK? was labeled the Week 3 edition. Not so close readers will notice that this week’s edition is also labeled Week 3. Why’s that? It’s because of the stupid preseason polls, which the AP publishes and which represent the beginning of these strange voting exercises even though the season has not yet begun. So this is the fourth week the AP has published its Top 25 but only the third week of the season. In an effort to erase the preseason polls out of existence we are now going by the weeks of the season rather than the weeks of the AP poll. Consider this Week 3 redux.

Thanks in large part to an impressive second half performance against Washington this past Saturday the Ohio State Football Buckeyes received a nice bump in the AP Top 25, climbing from #10 to #8, overcoming both Wisconsin and keeping pace with a rising Penn State. OSU is now the highest ranked Big Ten team in the nation. (1) And to whom does OSU owe this great honor?