Oklahoma State ranked No. 14 in coaches poll

The 2013 football coaches poll was released on Thursday and Oklahoma State is ranked inside the top 20 to open the season for the third straight time.

Here’s a look at the last six years worth of preseason rankings (where they ended in parentheses)

2008: 52 (14)
2009: 11 (25)
2010: 39 (10)
2011: 8 (3)
2012: 19 (29)
2013: 14 (?)

The Cowboys are the highest ranked Big 12 team — Texas is No. 15, OU is No. 16, and TCU is No. 20.

So basically the coaches are saying the same thing as the media did a few weeks ago: we have no idea.

The top 10 is a collection of SEC teams, probably just sorted randomly after Alabama by SIDs across the country.

After Bama at No. 1 you have Georgia at No. 5, A&M at No. 6, South Carolina at No. 7, and Florida at No. 8. Then LSU at No. 13 — so all told six SEC teams listed before the first Big 12 team (OSU). Here’s the full poll.

What’s interesting to me, and a good thing for the Cowboys, is that OSU is clearing a lot of hurdles up front. We all know that releasing a poll on August 1 is about as silly as it gets but you start seeing real consequences when teams just sit where they were voted in the preseason even if they’re winning 1-point games all year.

Remember, the coaches poll makes up 1/3 of the BCS fomula — hopefully that’s something we’re complaining talking about in December.

Also, third highest preseason ranking ever for OSU.

Looks like 14th is the third-highest preseason coaches poll ranking for #okstate, trailing eighth in 2011 and 11th in 2009.

— Kelly Hines (@KellyHinesTW) August 1, 2013

And this, wow!

So there's that RT @zach_barnett: Oklahoma State at No. 14, that's the lowest starting point for the Big 12 in the history of the conference

— RJ Young (@RJ_Young) August 1, 2013