Preseason AP Poll Has Oklahoma State Tied for No. 34, One Voter Has OSU No. 20

STILLWATER – The Associated Press is a diminishing poll, as are really all polls except for the CFP Rankings, which won’t debut until the second half of the season. With newspapers going out of business and the web and social media grabbing more traction, there are less members of the Associated Press. I did not recognize a lot of the names of the voters on the AP Poll. The poll had Ohio State No. 1 and Oregon No. 2 just like the USA Today Coach’s Poll. Oklahoma State, also like the USA Today poll was in the votes received. 

The Cowboys would be tied for No. 34 if you extended the poll to include the teams that received votes. Oklahoma State had eight points along with Vanderbilt. 

Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News, one of the top college football writers among all writers working for newspapers had Oklahoma State No. 25 in his vote. Also voting the Pokes at No. 25 was Jamal St. Cyr of WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla. Then Dylan Sinn of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette had the Cowboys at No. 20 in his top 25 vote. That accounted for the eight points that Oklahoma State had.

Big 12 teams in the poll included Texas Tech at No. 12, BYU was tied with Southern Cal at No. 14, Utah was No. 21, Houston was No. 23. Ahead of Oklahoma State in votes received were Arizona with 32 points and TCU with 11 points. 

Here is the complete poll: