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Game Thread BCS Championship Game, tOSU vs. Florida - Jan 8th

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OSUBasketballJunkie;693560; said:
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FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Half the tickets to the national championship game were sold before Ohio State even was headed there, much less Florida.
Luckily for fans, many of these tickets will touch more than one hand before they reach Glendale, Ariz. The catch: Their value often quadruples when they hit the market.
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MYTH: Bowl games are for the fans of the competing schools.
MYTH: There are no home teams in bowl games.

Bowl games are about making lots of tourist dollars, and the money and ticket opportunities are slanted in favor of SEC/PAC 10/Big 12 fans. If the Big 10 is going to supply teams to three or four of the biggest bowl games each year, and if those bowls are going to determine a National Champion (i.e. a play off series) then it only makes economic and athletic sense that we should get a piece of the action. Put a game in Chicago or Ann Arbor or Columbus.. and if SEC/PAC 10 fans don't want to travel, fuck 'em, pack the stands with Big 10 fans.

(and note that the 03 Fiesta Bowl was an abberation. The inability of U Miami to bring fans with them allowed OSU to get the fan edge. That won't be true with Florida)
 
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I'd agree with you if the game were held in a dome. Nobody wants a fucking mudbowl National Championship game.

As for this year's travel advantage. Distance from Gainesville, FL to Glendale, AZ is 2,040 miles. Distance from Columbus, OH to Glendale, AZ is 2,078 miles. Something tells me that the extra 38 miles isn't going to deter Buckeye fans as opposed to Florida fans from going to Arizona. No homefield advantage there, unless you count the massive alumni association that we have down there. That would give us the advantage right?
 
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keeponrisin;693474; said:
Not sure if it has been posted in the thread, but the Gator games are available online on this site:

http://www.planetgator.com

I have watched about 4 this evening. Nice to see what we are up against, especially sine my Saturday's are totally devoted to watching the Bucks.
The bs is cut out, so I would approximate 45 min - 1hr to watch each game. Nice site I must say.

See you in Glendale!
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lvbuckeye;694005; said:
watching the LSU game right now... based on what i'm seeing, i feel pretty good.
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Yeah, it's funny how Florida fans say our win over Texas wasn't very impressive because it was based mostly on two lucky turnovers (one near the goal line). Did they even watch their own LSU game? I'm only halfway through the second quarter of that replay, and already LSU has muffed a punt, which Florida recovered and turned into a touchdown, and LSU also fumbled at the UF 1 yard line on what otherwise would have been a sure score . . . While these sorts of lucky breaks are part of football, the mark of a truly great team is having these sorts of bounces not go your way and still winning. See OSU v. Michigan, 2006.

And now LSU has turned it over again. That's 3 in the first half. And it's easy to see how UF is so highly penalized. Lots of false starts, other mental-mistake sort of penalties.

Ha! LSU muffs the second half kick-off and recovers in their own endzone for a safety. That's 3 turnovers and a safety, most completely unforced. A fumbled snap, a muffed punt, a muffed kick-off. Not so impressive, Florida, not after I actually watch the game.

And now LSU gets a punt blocked. Unforced errors . . .
 
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lsu played about as poorly on offense that a team of that ability can play.

and LSU also fumbled at the UF 1 yard line on what otherwise would have been a sure score
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and it looked like the play before might have been a touchdown. the site's clip offered no replay, and i can't recall whether the replay during the game yielded sufficient evidence of the resulting call.
 
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OSU_Buckguy;694108; said:
lsu played about as poorly on offense that a team of that ability can play.

and it looked like the play before might have been a touchdown. the site's clip offered no replay, and i can't recall whether the replay during the game yielded sufficient evidence of the resulting call.
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Yeah, I agree, it looked like the Florida defender was between the LSU call barrier and the ground, potentially carrying him into the endzone. I don't know if the call was reviewed or not, but it looked questionable...

In any case, LSU made HUGE mistakes in that game, and many of them led directly to UF's scores. UF moved the ball fairly well at times, but so did LSU . . . then they would fumble, or throw a pick, or miss a FG, etc. I think they'll find the Smith-led Buckeyes to be a little less mistake-prone (as long as Datish remembers how to snap the ball . . . yikes).
 
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cincibuck;693655; said:
MYTH: There are no home teams in bowl games.
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Good stuff cincibuck, it looks like we should have the edge in this game.

Here is a quote from a FL paper from Gary Manton president of the Desert Gator Club in the Phoenix metro area.

?The last ticket broker I talked to said that Ohio State fans had bought 80 percent of his tickets and that Florida had 20, so whatever we can do to boost orange and blue at the stadium, we?re going to help.?

From a stub hub story:

?The Buckeyes, as the first team to confirm they were traveling to Glendale, have a 2-1 advantage on tickets from Stub Hub. Ohioans have purchased 31 percent of tickets at the online marketplace, compared with 14 percent purchased by fans in Florida.?


 
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BrianO;694176; said:
Good stuff cincibuck, it looks like we should have the edge in this game.

Here is a quote from a FL paper from Gary Manton president of the Desert Gator Club in the Phoenix metro area.

?The last ticket broker I talked to said that Ohio State fans had bought 80 percent of his tickets and that Florida had 20, so whatever we can do to boost orange and blue at the stadium, we?re going to help.?

From a stub hub story:

?The Buckeyes, as the first team to confirm they were traveling to Glendale, have a 2-1 advantage on tickets from Stub Hub. Ohioans have purchased 31 percent of tickets at the online marketplace, compared with 14 percent purchased by fans in Florida.?
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and by no means are all floridians gator fans. :wink2:
 
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Just watching the Las Vegas Bowl coverage (Yeah I'm bored) and Mark May said that Florida would be able to throw the ball on Ohio State.

I think that is about as clear a kiss of death for Florida short of having Corso say it (and he might have already too)......

just my .02....
 
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What a mojo relief it has been to see the ESPN talking schmucks not beat the "Greatest team of all time" "can't be beat, hand em the crystal" bullshit drum with Ohio State this year. Every time the champ is anointed well before the fact, it spells certain doom.

Tonights question: Can Florida generate enough offense against OSU?

Both Lou and Mark are certain that Florida can, that the whole season's been an abberation, filled with playmakers everywhere... that Tebow may even run right... bla bla bla...

Thank God. So long as Ohio State is not touted as the "Can't lose" shoe-in by the ESPN schmucks, I'm a happy guy.
 
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