You will see it listed in media reports etc, as #29 if you are 29th in points. Fairly common actually. So it is entirely accurate to say your team is ranked #29 when it has the 29th most points in the AP poll.
Those "media reports" are wrong. As far as the poll is concerned, if you're not in the top 25, you're not ranked. Period. The "other receiving votes" category is essentially a list of runners-up.
I'll go with Situation saying Marshall was more valued than Ohio, but Marshall simply was not ranked. It's incorrect.
I just explained it to you. Its not a list of runners up. Its a list of points accrued in descending order, until no more are there. The teams are ranked in that order. The Top 25 is a highlighted group, yes, but its only logical to keep that going and any team that ever finished or is in that group, #26 through #X that gets 1 point, does in fact tae pride in that and is included in many media reports, tweets etc.
While we are not ranked in the top 25, it is absolutely true that we are ranked, via the points we received in said poll, and based on the actual way the points ranking system works, most points to least.
And yes,the same is true when Ohio appears in them as well.