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2008 Buckeye Football Season

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Sdgobucks;1320886; said:
We both have 2 losses, so they should get the nod being that we got smoked the last 2 years by SEC teams.
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That's sort of what I was trying to say. I certainly wasn't arguing for OSU to be ranked ahead of Georgia.

My sole argument is: The BCS does not allow 3 SEC teams. Easy.
 
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Motherfuck that noise. Because we play good to great fucking teams and lose, we deserve to be penalized? Bullshit. Who, exactly, has fucking Utah played or beat in the last two years to clearly put them ahead of us? Georgia? Thought so. It's a fucking beauty pageant. Fuck the polls. They can eat a bag of dicks.
 
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And, quite frankly, the snubs are deserved. Penn State is very much not a top 5 team and they beat us at home. We expected a national championship run, but it turns out that we didn't have the personnel or the plan to achieve it.

If we win out, including our bowl, we'll end up Big Ten champs and ranked somewhere in the top 10. It's not an achievement most people here will think very much of, but it's one that many people would be delighted with for their team.

I'm a glass half-full kind of guy. I like our chances to do better next year.
 
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Buckeye89Fan;1320781; said:
The biggest joke is Georgia moving past Ohio State after beating Kentucky 42-38.... The same Kentucky team that lost 65-3 to Florida... Makes sense right? Really won't make any difference, Florida and Alabama are almost locked into BCS bowl games and Georgia will be on the outside looking in.
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The level of respect with voters in the AP and coaches polls is actually higher for tOSU than Georgia.
Georgia moved past the Buckeyes in the BCS solely on the weight of the unbiased computer ratings. Those do not factor in the margin of victory.
BCS computers rated a 2 loss Georgia as the 7th best team, even above an undefeated Boise State, 2 loss Oklahoma State and Ohio State and even one loss Penn State and USC).
In the human polls there is a higher level of respect for tOSU as they are ranked above Georgia : AP #10 vs. 13; USA Today #10 vs. 12; and even the ESPNU #11 vs. #12.
 
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Steve19;1320910; said:
And, quite frankly, the snubs are deserved. Penn State is very much not a top 5 team and they beat us at home. We expected a national championship run, but it turns out that we didn't have the personnel or the plan to achieve it.

If we win out, including our bowl, we'll end up Big Ten champs and ranked somewhere in the top 10. It's not an achievement most people here will think very much of, but it's one that many people would be delighted with for their team.

I'm a glass half-full kind of guy. I like our chances to do better next year.
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Interesting that both USC and PSU laid eggs the week after playing us against some not-so-good teams.
 
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tibor75;1321539; said:
Since when does "this year" mean "the last 10 years"
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That's not what I was getting at. The point of the link was to prove that the Big Ten will hold their own in the bowl games, and my examples would come directly from that thread.

If the Big Ten peels off several bowl wins this holiday season, then you could hardly still claim zero quality wins. In other words, the season ain't over.
 
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Blade
Article published Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Back in business: OSU 2 wins from fourth straight Big Ten crown
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
COLUMBUS - Sitting in a motor coach chugging its way across town on an otherwise dreary Saturday night - that seems like kind of an odd place to have your dreams of a fourth straight Big Ten championship suddenly pull a Lazarus job. But that's just what happened as the Ohio State Buckeyes, several hours removed from another ceremonial pounding of Northwestern, learned that Iowa had stunned previously unbeaten Penn State with a last-second winning field goal. That meant the Big Ten title, given up for dead here two weeks ago when the Buckeyes lost to Penn State, was amazingly back in play. The Buckeyes (8-2) had completed their postgame commitments after whacking Northwestern 45-10, bused to the airport in Chicago, taken a charter flight back home, and were making the bus ride to the Woody Hayes Center on campus when cell phone chatter informed them of Penn State's demise. Iowa's upset win means Ohio State, Penn State (9-1) and Michigan State (9-2) all have just one loss in the conference, with two weeks left in the season. The scenarios are many, and the bowl rewards for the Big Ten's top three are hidden in a sealed mayonnaise jar on Funk's front porch, since Wagnalls wants no part of the BCS mess. But what is clear is that Ohio State, which won the conference championship outright the past two years and shared it with Penn State in 2005, needs to win this Saturday at Illinois and then close out the season with a victory at home over rival Michigan to claim a 33rd Big Ten championship. Only Michigan (42) has more. Saturday's results made Ohio State coach Jim Tressel's words from last week seem prophetic, since he cautioned against any letdown despite the fact the goal of reaching a third straight national title game had essentially vaporized, and the Buckeyes' Big Ten championship chances looked dismal. "Who knows what can happen," Tressel said. "There's been a lot that's happened in the first few weeks of November and into the course of December over the last few football seasons." Tressel said at the time that the Buckeyes were still stinging after a 13-6 loss to Penn State at home on the last Saturday in October.
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schwab;1321852; said:
That's not what I was getting at. The point of the link was to prove that the Big Ten will hold their own in the bowl games, and my examples would come directly from that thread.

If the Big Ten peels off several bowl wins this holiday season, then you could hardly still claim zero quality wins. In other words, the season ain't over.
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Well said...lots of ball to be played...
 
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