If their votes in the final regular-season coaches poll were an indication, there were only two Big Ten team leaders of the five who took part who saw Penn State among the top four in the country along with Ohio State.
Ironically, those two were OSU coach Urban Meyer, who voted his 11-1 Buckeyes No. 2 and 11-2 Penn State No. 4, and PSU coach James Franklin, who put his team -- the only one to beat the Buckeyes this year and the winner of the Big Ten title game over Wisconsin – at No. 3 and OSU No.