One coach voted for Alabama. Another tabbed TCU. Maybe the outliers know something everyone else doesn’t, or maybe they were just contrarians. But the other 62 voters placed Ohio State atop their ballots for the preseason Amway Coaches Poll. And absolutely no one in the entire Associated Press Top 25 voting panel disagreed.
Less than a week from kickoff of the 2015 season, the overwhelming favorite to win the national championship is last season’s national champion. Ask around — almost anybody, almost anywhere but within the walls of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center — Ohio State looks as formidable as any defending champion in a long while.