After winning the national championship a year ago by beating Alabama and Oregon in the first College Football Playoff, the Ohio State Buckeyes are starting the 2015 college football season just where they finished it—at the top of the Associated Press poll. With a pair of quarterbacks like Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett, that wasn’t a big surprise. However, the fact that they are on top and received all 61 of the first-place votes is a surprise. No team had ever been a unanimous choice in the first poll of the year, per SportsCenter. Ohio State is 1st unanimous preseason No. 1 in AP college football poll. Buckeyes got all 61 first-place votes. pic.twitter.com/pRI3YjmgUy — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 23, 2015 It is also the eighth time in Ohio State’s history that it has been at the top of the preseason poll. But that’s where the good news stops for Urban Meyer’s team. None of the previous Buckeye teams that started at the top of the poll finished there at the conclusion of the season…
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