Game Thread BCS National Championship Game: tOSU 24, LSU 38 (final)

[Pheasant]

I think we will evenly match all the lsu fans there.

match them at what?

 

[shetuck]

Kansas City Star: You make the call on this year's national champion

You make the call on this year?s national champion

NEW ORLEANS | Hold on. We?re about to enter some emotional territory here. We?re about to infuriate some of you and delight some of you and drive the rest of you batty. We are about to choose, once and for all, between Kansas and Missouri football.

Right now, Missouri fans are shouting: ?We beat Kansas.?

Right now, Kansas fans are shouting: ?We only had one loss and won a BCS bowl.?

Well, go ahead, make your case. Because this amazing college football season ? the most amazing college football season around these parts since, well, ever ? isn?t over yet. That?s how it goes with this crazy sport. Monday night, Ohio State and Louisiana State will play football here, but you know, I know, everybody knows that nothing will be settled there. Sure, it is called the ?BCS National Championship Game.? Funny what they can do with words. Dennis Kucinich calls himself the ?next president of the United States,? too.

Look: Ohio State has one loss, a bad one, at home to a four-loss Illinois team. LSU has two losses, one to Kentucky (a team that lost five of seven games during one stretch ? the Wildcats? two wins were over LSU and Vanderbilt) and at home to Arkansas (the Razorbacks were in the midst of such a bad season, their coach resigned under pressure three days later).

cont'd...

 

[Gatorubet]

A CASE FOR THE DEFENSE- NOLA.com

A CASE FOR THE DEFENSE

Ohio State defenders are a primary reason the Buckeyes have reached the BCS title game
Saturday, January 05, 2008 By Nakia Hogan

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Move over LSU, there might be a better defense at the Superdome
on Monday, the night the Tigers face Ohio State in the Allstate BCS national championship game.
For all the hoopla surrounding the Tigers' vaunted defense this season, Ohio State quietly has
gone about its business, turning in staunch performances while gaining a berth in the national
title game for the second straight year.

But the job isn't finished.

 

[Gatorubet]

Buckeyes DB on the ball regardless of his role - BCS Championship Game - NOLA.com

Buckeyes DB on the ball regardless of his role

by Nakia Hogan Friday January 04, 2008, 10:38 PM


In more ways than one, Malcolm Jenkins is a convert.
And guess what? He's OK with it.
As a high school standout in Piscataway, N.J., Jenkins was a big Miami fan. He rooted for players like the Hurricanes' Willis McGahee and Kellen Winslow.
And when a pass interference penalty on Miami gave Ohio State a first-and-goal from the 2 in the first overtime of the 2003 Fiesta Bowl that Ohio State eventually won, Jenkins was sick.
''I wasn't an Ohio State fan then,'' Jenkins said.
Things have changed.

 

[Gatorubet]

BATTLEFIELD, FIELD OF PLAY- NOLA.com

BATTLEFIELD, FIELD OF PLAY

Dissecting strategy of World War I, World War II gave former legendary Ohio State coach insight into how to formulate a plan of attack against foes through the years on gridiron

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Peter Finney

Thirty Decembers ago, I was in Columbus, Ohio, waiting to interview the football coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, word having come down through the chain of command that Woody Hayes would be happy to grant an audience.

In two weeks, Ohio State would be playing Alabama in the 1978 Sugar Bowl, better yet that Hayes would be coaching against Paul "Bear" Bryant for the first -- and only -- time.

Icy roads and sub-zero temperatures had canceled a recruiting trip. There was almost a foot of snow outside the North Facility, a mammoth, Spartan-looking Quonset hut where the football team lifted weights, bathed sore muscles in whirlpools, where, in Room 147, the head coach read, plotted, brooded, sulked and, in large measure, raised hell....

 

[Gatorubet]

Ohio hometown left mark on LSU coach Miles - New Orleans News - NOLA.com

Ohio hometown left mark on LSU coach Miles

by Ron Thibodeaux, Staff writer Saturday January 05, 2008, 9:35 PM


ELYRIA, OHIO -- In some ways, the Elyria story is a familiar one.
Like so many northern cities, this community has seen its fortunes rise and fall through
the decades with the vagaries of the industries it embraced. Today, in the wake of auto
plant closings and Big Steel's decline, Elyria is a shell of its former self, struggling to find
its footing in modern society and the 21st century economy.
It's a common story, but one that holds an uncommon significance.

Consider Elyria's contributions to life as we know it. This is the home of the padded
bicycle seat. The rubber heel. The colored golf ball.

And Les Miles.

 

[Nutriaitch]

And if you get a chance I would love to see what you could come up with for Penn St., you haven't thrown any new creations at us in awhile.

Here's a lil play on their "White Out". If anyone can find a better pic than this one, let me know and i'll fix it.

It was the only one I could find that has the fans in white, and a pic of the team, or a PSU logo, or something to give it away that it's Penn St.

 

[schwab]

Sorry, forgot to quote. I NEED this shirt!!!!!

Knock yourself out....

Smack Apparel

EDIT: While I don't see that specific shirt on the site, you will find plenty to keep you occupied.

 

[ray6072]

I thought this was an interesting article on Flynn and Perilloux's preparation for the NCG. I bet it won't be to long before all colleges are employing some form of this.

LSU quarterbacks use video game to prepare for BCS national championship game - NCAA Football - Yahoo! Sports

 

[WaitingforKickoff]

[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=f8KOKPm_JdA"]YouTube - BCS Championship: Ohio State Arrival (1/2/08)[/ame]

 

[WaitingforKickoff]

[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=dv5_A1ooFXk"]YouTube - BCS Championship: OSU Practice (1/4/08)[/ame]
[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=UlXvpqD-85M"]YouTube - BCS Championship: OSU Media Day (1/5/08) pt. 1[/ame]
[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=U0Od9Z9AsR4"]YouTube - BCS Championship: OSU Media Day (1/5/08) pt. 2[/ame]

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Bob Hunter commentary: Quick minds just as vital as quick feet in title game

Sunday, January 6, 2008 4:03 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

NEW ORLEANS -- Every big sporting event comes with a few compelling themes, and reporters chew and chew on them the way a dog gnaws a steak bone.
One of the bones at the national championship game is the perceived speed difference between Ohio State and Louisiana State, and it has been getting a good gnawing by the media mongrels sniffing around. In the past few days, I've heard the question posed about 50 ways.
In most of them, LSU's speed edge is cited as if it were one of the fundamental laws of the universe, as if its existence were established by Copernicus hundreds of years ago and it's the job of modern scientists to decide what the gap means. Presumably, it was shown in last year's national championship game and in Ohio State's 0-8 bowl record against Southeastern Conference teams, but the focus on it seems a little bizarre.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

It pays to be the underdog
History could be on Buckeyes' side; favorites have won only three of nine games
Sunday, January 6, 2008 4:00 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Chris Russell Dispatch
Ohio State's Cie Grant pressures Miami's Ken Dorsey on the game's final play as the Buckeyes pulled the upset for the 2002 title.



NEW ORLEANS -- For Ohio State fans anxious about their team's chances of beating Louisiana State in the national championship game Monday night, never fear.
Underdog is here.
Of the previous nine title games of the Bowl Championship Series, six were won by the underdog. Two memorable examples involved the Buckeyes, when they beat the University of Miami as a 12-point underdog in 2002, and when they lost last year to Florida by 27 points despite being favored by 7 1/2 .
This year, although the Buckeyes were No. 1 in the final BCS standings, the No. 2 Tigers are four-point favorites.
It doesn't make sense to LSU coach Les Miles, who said, "I can tell you this, in a game like this one, you tell me who the underdog is, the No. 1-ranked team in the nation or the No. 2-ranked team in the nation?"

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

BCS title game | OSU fans at Rickenbacker
Flying Air Buckeye

Sunday, January 6, 2008 3:53 AM
By Marla Matzer Rose


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

ERIC ALBRECHT Dispatch photos
An inflatable Brutus makes for a cheerful gate agent as Sue Stutz of Dublin heads to her plane at Rickenbacker Airport. Stutz was among 1,100 championship-bound passengers who flew out of the normally quiet airport yesterday.

Raylene Hammond, 7, left, and her 21-month-old brother, Keagan, listen to the Ohio State fight song playing on Keagan's Brutus slippers as they wait for their family's flight.



Chants of "O-H! I-O!" rang out. Cameras clicked, and bean bags thunked as a game of corn hole was played by OSU fans awash in a sea of scarlet and gray.
The Saturday before the big game was very different from the typical silence at Rickenbacker Airport, which has been without regular passenger service since Hooters Air left two years ago.
Despite the added flights to New Orleans for Monday's national championship game against Louisiana State, operations went smoothly overall at both Rickenbacker and Port Columbus.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

LSU: A spicy mix
Speed, power, dash of boldness shaped Tigers' season
Sunday, January 6, 2008 3:49 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

NEW ORLEANS -- Like the unique state they represent, the Louisiana State Tigers are an unusual blend of ingredients.
Trying to pin down a hard-and-fast identity is an exercise in futility.
The Tigers are fast. They're big. They're resilient. They're opportunistic.
They're also sloppy and inconsistent.
They have a running back, Jacob Hester, a throwback who would have fit in beautifully in a Woody Hayes offense at Ohio State, though his receiving skills might have been wasted.
They have a 5-foot-5, 159-pound receiver/kick returner, Trindon Holliday, who runs 40 yards in 4.27 seconds.
They have a 6-foot-7, 365-pound guard, Herman Johnson.

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