Transient Buckeye Intro: It's the least wonderful time of the year. No, I'm not talking about college football season. College football season is fantastic (at least theoretically--for a lot of Big Ten fanbases, that "theoretically" is doing some very heavy lifting). However, since it's an election year, that means that every single one of the ever-increasing number of commercial breaks we have to watch during the games feels like it's filled with wall-to-wall political advertisements. The term "race to the bottom" has never felt more appropriate, given some of the offerings I've observed this season. I'd offer a few examples, but I just got out of bed, and I hate the taste of vomit first thing in the morning.
But today, our collective pain is also going to be our gain. Could there possibly be a more appropriate time of year for a Power Poll on U.S. Presidents? I think not. And who better to lead us on a tour of some of the Presidents of all time than BRT, the longtime curator of this very feature? No one, obviously. Welcome back to the Power Polls, BRT! The podium is yours.
Though I’ve stepped back from running the Power Poll this year (HUGE thanks to Transient Buckeye for taking on one of the most beloved features of this site in all its iterations), you know I couldn’t abandon it completely. So I’m happy to be back as a guest author, this time with a topic we’ve surprisingly never touched (I think): US Presidents.
As someone who makes US history their business, I’m happy to wade into these waters. As we know, though there have been some great ones, there have also been some real lemons. Many have been pretty mid. (God, what I wouldn’t give for a mid president right now.) This is useful for the Big Ten, because this season it seems to be full of mid and lemon teams, with only a couple of claimants for anything more than that. So, plenty of material to work with!
I will temper expectations in advance that this is a Power Poll ranking football teams, not ranking presidents. So you may find some pretty mid presidents in the upper echelons of this poll through no achievement of their own, and vice versa. I’m preferencing larger narrative similarities rather than just matching rankings.
Who won’t you find on this list? The current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I hate Iowa, Michigan, Ohio State, etc. with an appropriate passion, but honestly, none of them deserve comparison to that showcase of Cluster B disorders and shameless corruption. But hey, that builds a little suspense, right? Just where will Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan turn up? I guess you’ll have to read to find out.
#1 Ohio State (6-1, 4-0) - George Washington
Last Week: 1 High: 1 Low: 2 First Place Votes: 10 Last Place Votes: 0
OSU is known for a rather quaint tattoo scandal, Sad Pizza, a current head coach with tragic facial hair coloring proclivities, and winning a whole bunch of football games.
George Washington is known for being the first-ever POTUS, performing pretty well under pressure during a whole-ass war against the British, enslaving people, and being pretty damn prescient about the effects of political parties on the American political system.
Why OSU is George Dubs: I mean, it sucks that OSU is always up there in the list of Greatest of All Time when we’re talking football, but unfortunately, they are. And after beating Indiana, who appears likely to be the only serious test the conference will offer this year, they’re still at the top. Washington, though possessed of some serious moral shortcomings, is still usually rated near the top of presidential rankings, and it’s for more than nostalgia’s sake. His foresight, restraint, and desire to serve the country and make the damn thing work keep him perennially high in the polls.
(Guess what? A lot of people who didn’t play skool are going to go vote. So you absolutely should too.)
#2 UCLA (7-0, 5-0) - Lyndon Baines Johnson
Last Week: 2 High: 1 Low: 3 FPV: 1 LPV: 0
UCLA is known for an eye-catching color scheme, having one of the coolest and most legendary stadiums in college football but never coming close to filling it, forcing announcers to explain what a “bruin” is during every single game, and looking pretty good at football this year after looking really bad at it last year.
Lyndon Baines Johnson is known for that photo of him being sworn in on Air Force One next to Jackie Kennedy, naming his dogs Him and Her (and holding them by their ears, yikes), the Daisy ad, Vietnam, declaring War on Poverty, a recorded phone conversation with his tailor about the need for ample breathing room for his “bunghole” and dong (this is real, and you can google it, though I suggest Incognito Mode), and having a surprisingly solid record on Civil Rights given that he was a white man from Texas.
Why Urbane UCLA Gets Ranchy/Raunchy LBJ: I think it’s best to focus on the element of surprise here. Last season, UCLA was a mess. Remember that? They started 0-3, which led to DeShaun Foster getting canned, and after a Skipper Bounce, ended the season 3-9. It was not good, and both of their fans no doubt suffered. Fast forward to this year, and UCLA is one of the hottest teams in football after hiring a hotshot coach named Bob. Likewise, LBJ walked into a bit of a mess, inheriting the presidency under less-than-ideal circumstances. If we look at his domestic policy, LBJ was a surprising success, enacting some impressive laws guaranteeing voting rights and social safety nets that lasted until 2025. And a president who thought eliminating poverty was a desirable goal? Amazing! Surprising! However, if we look at his foreign policy… well, Bob better hope that this analogy stays pretty limited. So far, so good.
(If you’ve found recent politics as uncomfortable as “riding a wire fence,” maybe you ought to go vote. Or tell your tailor to leave some extra room in the crotch. Or both.)
#3 Northwestern (6-1, 3-1) - Theodore Roosevelt
Last Week: 5 High: 2 Low: 4 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Northwestern is known for liking the finer things, having a young coach hired under duress that actually seems to be working out pretty well, formerly being absolute shit at football, and getting a new stadium built this year (you may have heard about this - it’s NFL-style, I think.)
Theodore Roosevelt also liked the finer things, but felt kind of conflicted about it and so advocated for football to be played so soft, rich young men like himself would have some strenuous action in their lives; started National Parks, kind of for the same reason; and took the Rough Riders to Cuba, once again kind of for the same reason.
Northwestern gets a Roosevelt because honestly, I thought they’d like each other. Rich, privileged people acting as though they’re some underdog story? Made for each other.
(“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.” I think Teddy, who said that, would like you to vote.)
#4 Indiana (7-1, 4-1) - James K. Polk
Last Week: 3 High: 2 Low: 18 FPV: 0 LPV: 1
Indiana is known for being great for an extremely short duration, an antisocial coach, acquiring a large and annoying fanbase in a very short amount of time, losing a whole bunch of football games before recently winning quite a lot of them.
James K. Polk is known for being America’s only mulleted president (to date, but we dare to dream about what could one day be), saddling the US with the cancer that is the state of Texas, expanding US territory by a lot, some very romantic last words (“I love you, Sarah, for all eternity, I love you”), and for actually keeping a campaign promise (he promised to only run for one term, and he did.)
Why Indiana is Our Mulleted King: Polk did a lot in a very short amount of time. He set some lofty goals, and he achieved them. I think that Curt Cignetti would really admire this about James K. Polk, as it's similar to his scorched earth approach to Indiana football. Polk usually ends up in the top quarter of presidents largely due to the fact that he accomplished so many of his presidential goals in such a short period of time. The caveat, of course, is that his goals ultimately caused a lot of trouble: the Mexican-American war, the continuation of genocide against Native Americans, the resulting free state-slave state controversies that eventually led to the Civil War, and, as previously mentioned, all of us having to deal with Texas on a daily basis. And as any Purdue fan will tell you, Indiana’s rise to greatness has come with plenty of unpleasantness for those caught in its wake.
Worth noting, Polk left office and died like three months later of cholera. It was the shortest post-presidency career of any president before or since. Is there an analogy waiting here for post-Fernando Indiana?
(Don’t be polk-y about it - make your voting plan now!)
#5 (!) Wisconsin (5-2, 3-1) - Chester A. Arthur
Last Week: 9 High: 4 Low: 7 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Wisconsin is known for cheese, badgers, formerly being good at football, then having a lot of quarterbacks get injured, and now being kind of good at football again maybe?
Chester A. Arthur is known for… I mean, to the average person, he’s probably not known for anything. He became president when James Garfield was assassinated, and ended up doing some Civil Service Reform, which was pretty unexpected because he had risen to prominence and wealth by benefitting directly from cronyism under the Conklin political machine.
Wisconsin is Chester A. Arthur because I have written seventeen of these and it is so late and I am so tired. Something about life moving pretty fast: one day, you wake up and you’re president and attacking the system that made you; or one day, you wake up and beat #16 USC and possibly don’t suck at football anymore.
(Please vote. Chester A. Arthur’s amazing sideburns would want you to.)
#6 Nebraska (5-2,2-2) - Gerald Ford
Last Week: 8 High: 5 Low: 11 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Nebraska is (still) known for losing winnable games by one score or less, winning FIVE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS about a hundred years ago, and being absolutely cursed AF.
Gerald Ford is known for playing football at Michigan, unwisely pardoning Richard Nixon a month after he resigned which pissed everyone except for Richard Nixon off, and being the only president who was never elected by the American people (he was chosen to be Nixon’s Vice President after the elected VP - Spiro Agnew - resigned for tax evasion, and then became president when Nixon resigned - he was never on a presidential ballot before becoming president. This is a good fact to know if you play pub trivia.)
The Ford-Nebraska Connection: In spite of his strong association with the state of Michigan and specifically the University of, Ford was actually born in Omaha, making him the only Nebraska-born president. His birth name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr. Unfortunately, LLK Sr. was an abusive a-hole. His mother divorced him, moved to Michigan, and eventually married Gerald Ford, Sr. While Ford was not a particularly excellent president, he was universally thought to be a Nice Guy. And what better fit for Nebraska is there than a nice Nebraskan who didn’t ultimately get very many big wins?
(“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” Or, it could start to be, if all of us voted.)
#7 Minnesota (5-2, 3-1) - Grover Cleveland
Last Week: 10 High: 5 Low: 14 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Minnesota is known for an intense water-based branding campaign in spite of having famously ground-based rodents as a mascot, losing a few stupid games each year, randomly winning a game or two you didn’t think they would each year, and being a part of the Quadrangle of Hate.
Grover Cleveland is known for having a name that would be ruined for him sixty years after his death by a Muppet (I know this phrasing sounds like he was killed by a Muppet, and for that reason, I’m leaving it), being the first Democrat to be elected President following the Civil War, getting elected to non-consecutive presidential terms, being not the first and not the last president to be accused of gross sexual misconduct, and parlaying said sexual misconduct into a sound bite en route to the White House (“Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?” “Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!”)
Minnesota gets the (admittedly dubious honor of) Grover Cleveland: Typing this up, I realized it was a little meaner to Minnesota than it needed to be, because Cleveland was kind of an asshole. I didn’t add it to the above summary, but he ALSO married his bestie’s daughter - he was 49, she was 21, and that’s gross! But when I chose this, I was focused on how Cleveland pulled off the improbable political revival by being elected to the presidency again after getting voted out after his first term. I see similarities in how Minnesota fell from grace and got absolutely boatraced (appropriately enough) by Purdue, only to follow it up with a win over #15 Iowa. You can never completely count out Peej.
(One time, not enough people voted and a sex offender who failed to be re-elected after his first term was brought back to the Oval Office for an encore performance. Maybe this has happened more than one time, idk. Anyway, make sure you vote.)
#8 Iowa (5-2, 2-2) - George H.W. Bush
Last Week: 4 High: 4 Low: 15 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Iowa is known for a conservative, predictable style of play that has predictable solid-but-not-spectacular results and fails to excite people, and creating a beneficiary of nepotism that was not backed by inborn talent.
Bush I is known for a conservative, predictable style of governing that had predictable solid-but-not-spectacular results and failed to excite people, and creating a beneficiary of nepotism that was not backed by inborn talent. Also for vomiting on the Prime Minister of Japan.
Ferentz I and Bush I deserve each other for reasons I assume are clear enough based on those descriptions. And what do you know? Bush lost in Minnesota too. Hey-oh!
(Read My Lips: Get Your Butt to the Polls)
#9 USC (6-2, 3-2) - Ronald Reagan
Last Week: 6 High: 7 Low: 12 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
USC is known for… you know, they’ve been part of the conference for a few years now, and I really don’t know much about USC. Pete Carroll skipping to the NFL to avoid sanctions? Having no actual fans? Being located in LA? Who knows? Oh well, literally no USC fans will ever read this.
Ronald Reagan is known for (oh boy) fronting the New Right, amnesty for undocumented immigrants and a pathway to citizenship, the horrors of the AIDS crisis, being the first divorced president, Star Wars, nominating the first woman to SCOTUS, giving a great soundbite, and co-starring in a movie with a chimp named Bonzo.
Why USC Deserves Ronald Reagan: There is, of course, the obvious Hollywood/SoCal association here. There are eighteen of these, sometimes you have to take the low-hanging fruit. But there’s also another similarity: Reagan is regularly idolized by certain segments of the political spectrum, hailed as a genius and one of the greatest presidents ever. His actual record is much spottier: while Reagan was incredible in front of a crowd, his actual policies were often less successful - some recognized as failures at the time, and others recognized as such once their longer-term effects became apparent. For USC, the comparison is too clear: often the beneficiary of lofty rankings and high expectations, when you actually watch a USC game, you don’t walk away feeling overly impressed with what you just saw.
(“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Ignoring the source of that quote and his role in creating the environment that has made it damn close to fulfillment, let’s agree that it’s essentially a valid statement, and get our butts to the polls.)
#10 Illinois (4-3, 2-2) - Harry S Truman
Last Week: 14 High: 6 Low: 13 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Illinois is known for… it depends on who you ask. Around here, it’s mostly for regularly ruining Thump’s life. For others, it’s for being a regularly mid-tier and sometimes low-tier Big Ten football team.
Harry S Truman is known for becoming president after the death of the longest-serving president who more-or-less solidly steered the country though the Great Depression and World War II, using nuclear weapons, holding up a newspaper that announced (incorrectly) his defeat by Thomas Dewey in 1948, and being voted “Looks Like He’d Be the Nicest Grandpa” by my 10th grade Government class. (*)
Illinois and Truman deserve each other because both have a misleading “s” in their name (Truman’s parents couldn’t decide whether to honor Grandpa Shipp or Grandpa Solomon, so just gave him the initial S for a middle name). Also because we thought Illinois was going to be a complete dud this year, but they just beat Oregon. We’ll see if that’s actually impressive by the end of the season, but for now, it’s a bit of a “Truman Defeats Dewey” moment.
(Just call me Joe S. Voter or Jane S. Voter)
(*) Harding looked like the meanest grandpa, if you’re curious.
#11 Oregon (4-3, 2-2) - Andrew Johnson
Last Week: 7 High: 6 Low: 14 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Oregon is known for eye-searing uniforms, enjoying the patronage of a bajillionaire donor, a whimsical mascot, having a coach with extremely questionable taste in tattoos, having a pretty bad but well-paid backup quarterback, and thinking they deserve a lot of respect when in fact they do not.
Andrew Johnson is known for being a trash bag of a human and of a president, being taught to read by his wife (very cool of her tbh, though it made it possible for him to become president because that was once a requirement of US Presidents), following up America’s greatest president by being one of its worst, and going on an ego trip that made guilty Southerners bend the knee to him and then forgiving them basically everything because he was racist AF.
Oregon gets Andrew Johnson: I mean, it’s mostly because they both kind of suck but absolutely think very highly of themselves. I have no idea what AJ’s sartorial sense was like (though he was a tailor as a young man), so I’m just going to assume it sucked like Oregon’s does.
(If you vote, Dan Lanning will tattoo your face on his torso, maybe.)
#12 Michigan (4-3, 1-3) - John F. Kennedy
Last Week: 12 High: 8 Low: 17 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
I know, you thought I was going to give Michigan lying, cheating Richard Nixon, didn’t you? I aim to keep the suspense high in this very long Power Poll.
Michigan is known for… god, where to begin. Lying, cheating, Connor Stallions, Harbaaaaaaaugh, having one of the most entitled fanbases in college football, a very bizarre affair that ended badly and got the head coach canned at a very inopportune moment, having a $10 million quarterback bought by a rich a-hole for his wife, and currently, being pretty bad at football.
JFK is known for being the first Catholic president, being rather young when elected and sometimes having this confused for being hot, PT-109, heavy Boston accent, Bay of Pigs fiasco, “Ich bin ein Berliner!” getting sung to and probably other things from Marilyn Monroe, and being assassinated.
Ask not why Michigan gets JFK, but why JFK gets Michigan: I think on the surface that JFK and Michigan football have a lot in common, in that they’re both kind of glamorous name-brands. Not everyone has heard of John Tyler, but EVERYONE has heard of JFK. Likewise, even the casual Wal-Mart shopper college football fan knows that Michigan is about football. JFK’s aura came about through wealth, decent looks, a glamorous wife, not being elderly, and dying in an extremely tragic and newsworthy way. Michigan’s aura came about through occasional achievement, but also extreme notoriety in recent years. Is this year’s downturn a (not) tragic death of a once-promising football program? Well, we can only hope so.
(What can you do for your country? Vote.)
#13 Washington (4-3, 1-3) - William Henry Harrison
Last Week: 11 High: 7 Low: 14 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Washington is known for seeming like they could be good, and then not being good; having a Very Good Boy as a mascot; having a stadium that is accessible by boat; and having a coach who sounds like a 19th-century guy.
William Henry Harrison is known for being a 19th century guy, having the nickname “Old Tippecanoe,” getting an entire episode of Parks and Recreation named after him (this is probably his peak achievement, IMO), and dying after 31 days in office due to toxic masculinity beliefs that made him skip wearing a coat and/or divine retribution for making people stand through a two-hour speech outlining Whig policy hopes and dreams.
WashingtonU and Harrison Too: Every fall it seems, we are treated to the idea that Washington could be decent this year. Then football starts and it turns out, they really aren’t. I suppose they had one great year, in 2023, but then that coach left to go do the Lord’s work of making Alabama kind of mid. William Henry Harrison also had that one great year where he engaged in the Great American Pastime of needlessly killing Native Americans, and he made it his whole personality/nickname for the rest of his life. I’m sure there were those who thought he’d be a great president and were really excited for his administration, but they were doubtless disappointed when he died before doing literally anything except talking for way too long.
(At least you don’t have to vote for the Harrison/Tyler ticket this year, but there are probably some folks on your ballot who are at least that terrible. You should vote, but maybe not for them.)
#14 Purdue (3-4, 2-2) - Herbert Hoover
Last Week: 13 High: 9 Low: 14 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Purdue is known for trains, astronauts, and occasionally pulling massive upsets while not otherwise being especially good at football overall.
Herbert Hoover is known for being president when the Great Depression happened. This is only the third-worst thing to happen to him in his life though. He was orphaned in childhood, and he also spent most of his childhood in Iowa, which are #1 and #2, respectively.
Purdoover: Unfortunately for Hoover, the ol’ Great Depression was a bit of a career-defining thing, but before that he was known as The Great Humanitarian for his aid work in post WWI - Europe and was a geologist who was part of the first class of Stanford University. He also married a very intelligent and independent woman, and I always think that speaks well of a man. Nevertheless, once you’ve failed to respond adequately to the biggest economic emergency in a nation’s history, it’s pretty hard to bounce back from that. And once you’ve been [redacted], it’s hard to completely get over that too.
(“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.” The thing to do next is vote.)
#15 Rutgers (2-5, 1-3) - Franklin Pierce
Last Week: 17 High: 11 Low: 17 FPV: 0 LPV: 0
Rutgers is known for losing to UMass to kick off the season, firing the canon, and a long recent history of being very, very, very bad at football. So bad.
Franklin Pierce is known for being A MESS. Go ahead and check out his pic on Wikipedia, and you’ll see that’s not the hair of a man who has his shit together. As sectional tensions worsened, Pierce failed at every turn to calm them, eventually angering his own party so much that they refused to renominate him for the presidency. He was an alcoholic who eventually died of cirrhosis. His marriage was unhappy, as he and his wife were one of the least well-matched couples in history (opposite politically, she was a temperance advocate and he a party boy, and she LOATHED politics and being a political wife and prayed that her husband would lose the presidential election, she was fanatically religious and he was…not). The Pierces admittedly endured some hardships, including the deaths of all three of their children - the final one of whom was killed in a train crash in front of his parents’ eyes, which (understandably) sent Jane into a depression from which she never recovered.
Why does Rutgers get Frankie P? When you think “messy failure,” you think Rutgers, it’s as simple as that. But they do have this going for them - in the battle for the bottom, they did beat Maryland, and they close the season with Michigan State. They may be an abject failure, but somehow, Pierce is not the worst US President, and Rutgers is not the worst Big Ten team.
(How to stop a train wreck: vote)
#16 Penn State (3-4, 0-4) - Rutherford B. Hayes
Last Week: 15 High: 12 Low: 18 FPV: 0 LPV: 1
Penn State is known for previously being the third-best Big Ten team behind Ohio State and Michigan (I guess), consistently winning 9-11 games per season for the past decade with the occasional lemon season thrown in there, firing the coach that had frequently won said 9-11 game seasons. I guess those are the main things right now.
Rutherford B. Hayes is known for being elected through some back-room bargains with big consequences, being kind of a hottie when he was young, not serving alcohol at the White House, and being an all-around “first-rate, second-rate man” according to historian Allen Guelzo.
How did PSU get such a lackluster president? Well, by being rather lackluster themselves. Hayes’ major historical significance is that his election came in exchange for the US withdrawing federal troops from the former Confederate states. This occupation had been ongoing more or less since the end of the Civil War to enforce some of the civil rights gains made possible by the Union victory, since the South could not be trusted to honor these rights without oversight. But ten years on, the Republican Party was less interested in the rights of freedpeople and more interested in making sure they retained the White House, so they traded freedpeople’s rights for Rutherford B. Hayes. As you may suspect, this was a pretty bad bargain - Hayes was a lackluster president, and Black Americans in the South saw their rights violently taken away and inequality made the law.
While it’s not as bad as what was done to Black Southerners, Penn State fans have to be wondering at least a little bit about what kind of bargain they’ve gotten in the Franklin-Campbell trade.
(Don’t trade your vote in for a few extra minutes of free time in your day next Tuesday - it’s a bad bargain.)
#17 Michigan State (2-6, 0-5) - John Tyler
Last Week: 16 High: 10 Low: 18 FPV: 0 LPV: 2
Michigan State is famous for firing a guy for unbecoming conduct, then hiring a guy who had been fired from his last place for a different kind of unbecoming conduct; a kick-ass mascot, and this year, having everyone on their roster on the injury list at the exact same time.
John Tyler is famous for being the first VP to become president through the death of a president (I love that of all the possible administrations on here, somehow the only one fully represented is Harrison-Tyler); most of his cabinet resigning because he immediately sucked so badly, and getting kicked out of his own political party, again because he sucked so badly. Also, he had fifteen kids and he had a grandson who died in 2025, 235 years after John Tyler was born, which is wild.
John L. Smith Tyler and Michigan State: MSU was once good at football, but not anymore, and they can’t seem to catch a break. They’ve hired a guy with baggage (though also allegedly with some very wealthy donors), caught the injury bug big-time, and don’t seem poised to make a breakthrough this season. If this goes on much longer, they may have to resign from the Big Ten and start their own party conference— the Michigan State Conference. (*)
(*) True story, after the Whigs expelled him and he lost all political capital, Tyler briefly tried to mount a campaign as the head of what he called the “Tyler Party.” It failed spectacularly.
(Nothing witty here, because both John Tyler and MSU are kind of boring and sad - but voting will make you forget all about these two losers.)
#18 Maryland (2-5, 0-5) - James Buchanan
Last Week: 18 High: 13 Low: 18 FPV: 0 LPV: 7
Maryland is known for previously being weirdly unbeatable in September, being very beatable in October and November, the Chessie, weird uniforms, Old Bay, and not firing Mike Locksley for a very long time.
James Buchanan is known for being a bachelor president, very possibly being our first gay president, going to war with Utah, being a total do-nothing who watched the country slide into Civil War without doing much to stop it, and gleefully yelling “BYEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!” as he sprinted away from Washington after Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. (*)
Maryland’s Ignominious Pairing: I often joke that the only person who is truly a fan of the present timeline is James Buchanan because now he might not be auto-ranked the worst president on every ranking poll that comes out. That’s nice for him! The fact remains though that he was a pretty bad president, and the most damning thing about it was that he just… didn’t try to do anything to stop the Civil War. The few big actions he took in his presidency were ones that seemed best-designed to inflame the situation and blatantly favored enslavers. I don’t suppose Maryland is really as bad as all of that, but they’re certainly hanging around the bottom of our poll for obvious reasons this season. (There was also a really good comparison here to doing nothing about the head coaching situation, but since I started writing this, Maryland seems to have acted. Buchanan would never.)
(*) Apocryphal, but plausible.
(Run, run, run - to your assigned polling place!)
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