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Buckeye in Blacksburg
Mark May gives tOSU praise
Surprise of the century, Mark May picks tOSU to win the National Championship according to the Sportscenter college football preview scenarios. In a speculated outcome of the 2006 season, May had the Buckeyes "blowing out" Michigan, and then beating USC in the NC game. Maybe he's not so biased after all.
Surprise of the century, Mark May picks tOSU to win the National Championship according to the Sportscenter college football preview scenarios. In a speculated outcome of the 2006 season, May had the Buckeyes "blowing out" Michigan, and then beating USC in the NC game. Maybe he's not so biased after all.
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Nate
I am Nate and I approved this message.
Not sure I like May picking us to win the NC but........
I'm actually surprised. I don't care what he thinks of us because I still think he's an idiot but I am surprised. I figured he'd always hate us after the butt stompings he received from us while he was in college.
I'm actually surprised. I don't care what he thinks of us because I still think he's an idiot but I am surprised. I figured he'd always hate us after the butt stompings he received from us while he was in college.
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Uhh, that was under a fictional playoff system.
They had OSU losing to Texas in the regular season meaning they wouldn't even make the title game.
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Buckeye86
I do not choose to discuss it
He probably picked us because Justin Zwick has a lot of starting experience and will be a real good quarterback for us this year.
Regardless of whether Mark May picked us or not he's still a dumbass who doesn't know anything and bases his predictions on one or two things that anybody could read in a local newspaper. He's worthless and I hope he reads something positive in the paper tomorrow morning about USC or Texas or Notre Dame and changes his mind.
Regardless of whether Mark May picked us or not he's still a dumbass who doesn't know anything and bases his predictions on one or two things that anybody could read in a local newspaper. He's worthless and I hope he reads something positive in the paper tomorrow morning about USC or Texas or Notre Dame and changes his mind.
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If it's convenient, he'll pick someone else too. Right now, he really pissed off Ohio State fans, who think it got personal, so he'll be managing that.
Don't mistake his picks for emotion, he's just trying to manage that paycheck!
There's a lot better analysts right here on BP that I would rather listen to.
Don't mistake his picks for emotion, he's just trying to manage that paycheck!
There's a lot better analysts right here on BP that I would rather listen to.
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MAY
I like the "forced to" arguements, but another could be that he got tired of being wrong ahaha.
:osu:
I like the "forced to" arguements, but another could be that he got tired of being wrong ahaha.
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Yeah, he was still trying to be clever and to not alienate USC fans. He's a wanker, plain and simple.
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Preseason rankings can cloud BCS
Should these polls count for who plays in the championship game?
By Jonathan Okanes
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
In 2004, Auburn began the season ranked 18th in the ESPN/USA Today preseason top 25 while USC was No. 1 and Oklahoma No. 2.
All three teams finished the regular season undefeated, and while the Tigers ultimately jumped all the way to No. 3, they couldn't overtake the Trojans or Sooners.
The Bowl Championship Series, which includes the USA Today poll (ESPN withdrew after the 2004 season) as part of its formula, put USC and Oklahoma in its title game and left Auburn and its fans wondering how a team without a loss could be prevented from playing for the national championship.
Could Cal be in for a similar fate this season?
It would be getting light years ahead of oneself to pencil in the Bears for an undefeated season at this point, but it does bring up one of the hot-button issues regarding the BCS: Should the USA Today poll eliminate its preseason rankings and wait until a certain percentage of the season has been played before releasing its first poll?
"It's an issue the BCS is very cognizant of," said Southeastern Conference assistant commissioner Charles Bloom, who also is a spokesman for the BCS. "I know that we have talked about it quite a bit. But what you'll find is that there is great promotional value in having a preseason poll. We're not in a position to tell USA Today that you have to eliminate your preseason rankings."
The BCS' formula is made up of three components -- the USA Today top 25, which is voted on by the coaches, the Harris Interactive Poll and six computer rankings.
Ohio State is ranked No. 1 in USA Today's preseason top 25 while Texas is No. 2. The Bears are ranked No. 12.
"If Ohio State and Texas win out, and Cal did also, it would be understandable for them to wonder what they have to do to get into the 1-2 game," Bloom said. "You hope the pollsters vote the way they feel each week."
To address the potential negative effect of including a preseason poll, in 2005 the BCS introduced the Harris Interactive Poll, which doesn't have preseason rankings. The Harris poll was brought on board after The Associated Press pulled out of the BCS because of the controversy surrounding Auburn and Cal's omission from the Rose Bowl after the 2004 season. The Harris poll, which is comprised of former coaches, players and administrators, as well as media members, doesn't release rankings until four weeks into the season.
Some would like to see the USA Today poll do the same, which would leave the BCS completely free of the effects of preseason rankings. That would leave only preseason publications such as Street & Smith's and Athlon to forecast the season before it begins.
And how do periodicals such as Street & Smith's or Lindy's put together their rankings? Each publication is different, but most rely on a panel of writers across the country to break down each conference before magazine staff members pick the order.
Street and Smith's was the only major college football publication to pick Cal instead of USC to win the Pac-10, and ranked the Bears No. 6 in its preseason poll (USC No. 7).
"We get input from all of our writers who do all of the major conferences and have them send us their top 25 and their suggestions," Street and Smith's managing editor Scott Smith said. "We give that a lot of consideration and then break all ties here. The guy who does the Pac-10 preview for us is awfully high on Cal this year. Sometimes we go out on a limb, but we don't feel like this is going out on a limb. We've made a lot more wilder picks than this."
At Athlon, a group of seven editors and fact-checkers take their writers' conference recommendations and put them up on a big board in a conference room. They then start nominating teams to be ranked, starting at No. 1.
Athlon ranked Cal No. 8 and USC No. 3. Senior editor Mitchell Light said while a team's current roster obviously is the most important criteria, reputation and past performance can factor into the rankings.
"There is a benefit of a doubt that plays into it," Light said. "I think USC right now is No. 1 on that list. They were able to replace one Heisman Trophy winner (Carson Palmer) with another (Matt Leinart). Cal is starting to earn the benefit of the doubt, too."
Preseason rankings can cloud BCS
Should these polls count for who plays in the championship game?
By Jonathan Okanes
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
In 2004, Auburn began the season ranked 18th in the ESPN/USA Today preseason top 25 while USC was No. 1 and Oklahoma No. 2.
All three teams finished the regular season undefeated, and while the Tigers ultimately jumped all the way to No. 3, they couldn't overtake the Trojans or Sooners.
The Bowl Championship Series, which includes the USA Today poll (ESPN withdrew after the 2004 season) as part of its formula, put USC and Oklahoma in its title game and left Auburn and its fans wondering how a team without a loss could be prevented from playing for the national championship.
Could Cal be in for a similar fate this season?
It would be getting light years ahead of oneself to pencil in the Bears for an undefeated season at this point, but it does bring up one of the hot-button issues regarding the BCS: Should the USA Today poll eliminate its preseason rankings and wait until a certain percentage of the season has been played before releasing its first poll?
"It's an issue the BCS is very cognizant of," said Southeastern Conference assistant commissioner Charles Bloom, who also is a spokesman for the BCS. "I know that we have talked about it quite a bit. But what you'll find is that there is great promotional value in having a preseason poll. We're not in a position to tell USA Today that you have to eliminate your preseason rankings."
The BCS' formula is made up of three components -- the USA Today top 25, which is voted on by the coaches, the Harris Interactive Poll and six computer rankings.
Ohio State is ranked No. 1 in USA Today's preseason top 25 while Texas is No. 2. The Bears are ranked No. 12.
"If Ohio State and Texas win out, and Cal did also, it would be understandable for them to wonder what they have to do to get into the 1-2 game," Bloom said. "You hope the pollsters vote the way they feel each week."
To address the potential negative effect of including a preseason poll, in 2005 the BCS introduced the Harris Interactive Poll, which doesn't have preseason rankings. The Harris poll was brought on board after The Associated Press pulled out of the BCS because of the controversy surrounding Auburn and Cal's omission from the Rose Bowl after the 2004 season. The Harris poll, which is comprised of former coaches, players and administrators, as well as media members, doesn't release rankings until four weeks into the season.
Some would like to see the USA Today poll do the same, which would leave the BCS completely free of the effects of preseason rankings. That would leave only preseason publications such as Street & Smith's and Athlon to forecast the season before it begins.
And how do periodicals such as Street & Smith's or Lindy's put together their rankings? Each publication is different, but most rely on a panel of writers across the country to break down each conference before magazine staff members pick the order.
Street and Smith's was the only major college football publication to pick Cal instead of USC to win the Pac-10, and ranked the Bears No. 6 in its preseason poll (USC No. 7).
"We get input from all of our writers who do all of the major conferences and have them send us their top 25 and their suggestions," Street and Smith's managing editor Scott Smith said. "We give that a lot of consideration and then break all ties here. The guy who does the Pac-10 preview for us is awfully high on Cal this year. Sometimes we go out on a limb, but we don't feel like this is going out on a limb. We've made a lot more wilder picks than this."
At Athlon, a group of seven editors and fact-checkers take their writers' conference recommendations and put them up on a big board in a conference room. They then start nominating teams to be ranked, starting at No. 1.
Athlon ranked Cal No. 8 and USC No. 3. Senior editor Mitchell Light said while a team's current roster obviously is the most important criteria, reputation and past performance can factor into the rankings.
"There is a benefit of a doubt that plays into it," Light said. "I think USC right now is No. 1 on that list. They were able to replace one Heisman Trophy winner (Carson Palmer) with another (Matt Leinart). Cal is starting to earn the benefit of the doubt, too."
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This season, pay attention to Troy – not USC, the quarterback of a Big Ten powerhouse
By Mick McGrane
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 28, 2006
In the days leading up to his team's visit to Ohio State last season, then-San Diego State coach Tom Craft nearly popped a button on his polo shirt while lavishing admiration on the Buckeyes' defense.
“In my 29 years of coaching, this is one of the best, if not the best, defense I've ever seen,” Craft said.
The assessment, though far from venturesome, proved agonizingly accurate.
Following a screen pass that receiver Brett Swain turned into an 80-yard touchdown on the game's first play from scrimmage, SDSU crossed its 30-yard line three times. The Aztecs finished with three first downs, fewest in school history. They had 31 total yards in the second half.
In 2006, however, defense might be a deficiency in Columbus, where the Buckeyes open the season as the No. 1-ranked team in the nation for the first time since 1998.
With nine defensive starters having packed their bags for the professional ranks, the concern is that a lack of maturity might morph into mediocrity.
As if it mattered.
For all the apprehension about Ohio State's defense, the real question is whether anyone can apprehend the Buckeyes offense, which could be frightening.
A group that rolled up a staggering 617 yards of total offense against Notre Dame in last season's Fiesta Bowl returns eight starters, not the least of them quarterback Troy Smith. Smith skewered the Irish for 408 yards of offense.
“That,” Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis said in the aftermath, “was my biggest fear going into the game.”
That fear is still very much a factor. After sitting out the season opener last year because of an NCAA violation, Smith atoned for any transgressions by completing 63 percent of his passes for 2,282 yards and 16 touchdowns. His performance has earned him preseason All-America selection and Heisman Trophy consideration on the heels of a season in which he was intercepted only four times while also rushing for 611 yards and four touchdowns.
Add to the mix a running back (Antonio Pittman) who rushed for more than 1,300 yards last season, a sizzling-fast wide receiver (Ted Ginn Jr.) who is arguably the best punt returner in the nation and an offensive line as deep and talented as any in the country, and the Buckeyes boast boundless potential.
“We have a lot of playmakers,” Smith said. “We just have to work on getting all of them the ball.”
Yet in a year in which anointing any team No. 1 would seem more coin flip than consensus, it shouldn't take long to find out whether Ohio State is to be deemed bully or braggart. In what surely will be billed the “Game of the Year” – undoubtedly the first of many – the Buckeyes will be forced to two-step with defending national champion Texas in Austin just one week into the season.
Texas was one of only two teams to beat Ohio State (Penn State was the other) a year ago, an outcome that prompted more than a bit of passion on the part of Buckeyes fans who railed against coach Jim Tressel for alternating Smith with backup quarterback Justin Zwick.
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That debate is unlikely to surface again in Columbus, but it well might in Austin, where Longhorns coach Mack Brown again finds himself the man in the middle now that Vince Young has moved on to the Tennessee Titans. Brown, who has been down this road before, deftly dealing with the Chris Simms-Major Applewhite debate of years past, must weigh the worth of redshirt freshman Colt McCoy vs. true freshman Jevan Snead. Brown is expected to name a starter today. Whether Texas can pool its talent in time to beat Ohio State is debatable. So is whether either team can beat Notre Dame, which arguably features the best quarterback in the college game in senior Brady Quinn.
A magnet for the inane early-season Heisman hype, Quinn threw for nearly 4,000 yards and 32 touchdowns last season against four interceptions.
“If he wins the Heisman Trophy,” said Weis, “that probably means we'll be playing for the national championship.”
It also means they'll probably be playing Ohio State.
“I told them there has never been a team in the history of the Ohio State University program that has gone into the season ranked No. 1 and come out No. 1,” Athletic Director Gene Smith said after the Buckeyes were endorsed by The Associated Press as the top team in the land.
“How do you distinguish yourself or differentiate yourself from all the teams that have made great history here? You start out No. 1 and end up No. 1.”
This season, pay attention to Troy – not USC, the quarterback of a Big Ten powerhouse
By Mick McGrane
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 28, 2006
In the days leading up to his team's visit to Ohio State last season, then-San Diego State coach Tom Craft nearly popped a button on his polo shirt while lavishing admiration on the Buckeyes' defense.
“In my 29 years of coaching, this is one of the best, if not the best, defense I've ever seen,” Craft said.
The assessment, though far from venturesome, proved agonizingly accurate.
Following a screen pass that receiver Brett Swain turned into an 80-yard touchdown on the game's first play from scrimmage, SDSU crossed its 30-yard line three times. The Aztecs finished with three first downs, fewest in school history. They had 31 total yards in the second half.
In 2006, however, defense might be a deficiency in Columbus, where the Buckeyes open the season as the No. 1-ranked team in the nation for the first time since 1998.
With nine defensive starters having packed their bags for the professional ranks, the concern is that a lack of maturity might morph into mediocrity.
As if it mattered.
For all the apprehension about Ohio State's defense, the real question is whether anyone can apprehend the Buckeyes offense, which could be frightening.
A group that rolled up a staggering 617 yards of total offense against Notre Dame in last season's Fiesta Bowl returns eight starters, not the least of them quarterback Troy Smith. Smith skewered the Irish for 408 yards of offense.
“That,” Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis said in the aftermath, “was my biggest fear going into the game.”
That fear is still very much a factor. After sitting out the season opener last year because of an NCAA violation, Smith atoned for any transgressions by completing 63 percent of his passes for 2,282 yards and 16 touchdowns. His performance has earned him preseason All-America selection and Heisman Trophy consideration on the heels of a season in which he was intercepted only four times while also rushing for 611 yards and four touchdowns.
Add to the mix a running back (Antonio Pittman) who rushed for more than 1,300 yards last season, a sizzling-fast wide receiver (Ted Ginn Jr.) who is arguably the best punt returner in the nation and an offensive line as deep and talented as any in the country, and the Buckeyes boast boundless potential.
“We have a lot of playmakers,” Smith said. “We just have to work on getting all of them the ball.”
Yet in a year in which anointing any team No. 1 would seem more coin flip than consensus, it shouldn't take long to find out whether Ohio State is to be deemed bully or braggart. In what surely will be billed the “Game of the Year” – undoubtedly the first of many – the Buckeyes will be forced to two-step with defending national champion Texas in Austin just one week into the season.
Texas was one of only two teams to beat Ohio State (Penn State was the other) a year ago, an outcome that prompted more than a bit of passion on the part of Buckeyes fans who railed against coach Jim Tressel for alternating Smith with backup quarterback Justin Zwick.
That debate is unlikely to surface again in Columbus, but it well might in Austin, where Longhorns coach Mack Brown again finds himself the man in the middle now that Vince Young has moved on to the Tennessee Titans. Brown, who has been down this road before, deftly dealing with the Chris Simms-Major Applewhite debate of years past, must weigh the worth of redshirt freshman Colt McCoy vs. true freshman Jevan Snead. Brown is expected to name a starter today. Whether Texas can pool its talent in time to beat Ohio State is debatable. So is whether either team can beat Notre Dame, which arguably features the best quarterback in the college game in senior Brady Quinn.
A magnet for the inane early-season Heisman hype, Quinn threw for nearly 4,000 yards and 32 touchdowns last season against four interceptions.
“If he wins the Heisman Trophy,” said Weis, “that probably means we'll be playing for the national championship.”
It also means they'll probably be playing Ohio State.
“I told them there has never been a team in the history of the Ohio State University program that has gone into the season ranked No. 1 and come out No. 1,” Athletic Director Gene Smith said after the Buckeyes were endorsed by The Associated Press as the top team in the land.
“How do you distinguish yourself or differentiate yourself from all the teams that have made great history here? You start out No. 1 and end up No. 1.”
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