buckeyemania11 said:

Yep. They aren't the worst team ever but I don't get how anyone pretends like they are some real annual national player.

They have more 4+ loss seasons this century than 10+ win seasons. They are a B level program that sometimes can break into B+/A- territory but also can fall into C territory.

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scUM is truly the Auburn of the North – a second-tier program with a redneck fanbase and a long history of cheating.

I wish it was at least an afternoon game, part of the game should be under the lights. Either way, start drinking the pickle juice (or whatever method is used these days) and count on a time that disadvantages us the most. All I can say is at least we'll know early so we can prepare. Just really feel it's a disservice to not have this be a night game, but whatever let's just go out and whip their asses.

ORD_Buckeye said:

Good God will it be hilarious if they yank the job from him after he resigned from tsun. Hopefully, Cokie McCokeface will get Dad to chime in.

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Ono is gonna start showing up outside of board members houses decked out in MAGA gear blasting Kid Rock songs on a juke box.

Good God will it be hilarious if they yank the job from him after he resigned from tsun. Hopefully, Cokie McCokeface will get Dad to chime in.

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cincibuck said:

perhaps because Sparty, Purdue, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were often good teams through the 50s and 60s. Then came the 70s and 8os when when the conference became the Big Two. Now it will come down to the Bucks and a Penn State team that isn’t on our schedule because they got tired of losing.

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This just isn't true. You admit that in previous years, someone filled the gap, but now with more teams in the B1G, you don't think someone would step up and fill in? You don't think if Michigan got hammered the way they should, that the recruits that normally go there would end up at Sparty, Iowa, Wisconsin?

The argument that CFB or the B1G NEEDS a certain school to be good is just utter nonsense. If Ohio State vanished overnight, the B1G would be just fine. CFB would be just fine. No one school is big enough to be "too big to fail". Hell, Bama was hot garbage for decades and the sport somehow still existed.

JCOSU86 said:

Southerners have gotten special treatment since the very founding of this country. So why does it surprise anyone that the SEC expects it?

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Them acting like they deserve special treatment after last year is hilarious.

yea SMU got dunked on and so did Indiana to a lesser extent.

But Tennessee got absolutely destroyed by Ohio State. Texas barely skimmed by Arizona State and then lost to Ohio State and UGA lost their first game to Notre Dame.

The way they act you'd think they had dominant performances in the playoff and had like 3/4 in the Final 4. The SEC didn't exactly dominate in 2023 either.

There is going to be some real cope, NIL and the transfer portal have completely evened the playing field and shifted the power chokehold away from the SEC, they will never admit this and just keep shouting "BUT PAST SUCCESS!"

NFBuck said:

They never reached "A-" territory without cheating. They were a regional program living off a reputation decades old, then they cheated. Then they got caught. Guess what they'll be now...

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They are barely above Michigan State since 2000, if you take away the cheating years they are basically even.

shetuck said:

maybe i’m missing something in the picture, but are are the conferences’ tv contracts tied somehow to ncaa membership?

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You may have hit the target. I believe the tv contracts were signed by individual conferences. The ncaa

BuckeyeNation27 said:

CFB and the B1G survived just fine while Michigan was poo poo garbage for 20 years. And that was without USC and Oregon.

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perhaps because Sparty, Purdue, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were often good teams through the 50s and 60s. Then came the 70s and 8os when when the conference became the Big Two. Now it will come down to the Bucks and a Penn State team that isn’t on our schedule because they got tired of losing.

JohnnyCockfight said:

Sad but true. And I really like McClain too and still think he has upside. He had a blunder in the field yesterday leading to the Royals' first run (because the ball slowly tipped off his glove into the outfield) on a grounder that would have been an easy double play for most MLB infielders to end the inning. Gets Hunter's pitch count and ERA up.

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dude scored from 1B on a groundball to 2B. lol reds