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

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LSU notebook: 365-pound guard was one big baby

Sunday, January 6, 2008 3:48 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

NEW ORLEANS -- Herman Johnson gets a phone call every year from the obstetrician who delivered him.
"He calls and checks up on me and tells me if I still have the record in Louisiana," Johnson said. "I still have it."
The record is for biggest baby born in the state. Johnson weighed 15 pounds, 14 ounces when born in 1985. Yes, it was a Caesarian birth.
The story goes that the doctor told Johnson's mother that her baby would grow up to be an Louisiana State Tiger. That proved prophetic.
By the time Johnson reached kindergarten, he said he was not only bigger than his classmates but taller than the teacher as well.

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Buckeyes playing it humble

After '07 shock, OSU less cocky for title game


Associated Press January 6, 2008 NEW ORLEANS - Right up to the final game of last season, everyone considered Ohio State the best college football team in the land - including the Buckeyes.

My, how one game and one season have changed all that.

Just as they were a year ago, Ohio State is No. 1 and headed for the national championship game tomorrow night against LSU.

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Washington present, Laurinaitis the goon, kicker says he'll be back



NEW ORLEANS (AP) - What's brewing today with the Ohio State Buckeyes ... BUCKEYE BUZZ: Donald Washington remains a Buckeye, in case you were wondering.


You might remember that Washington, a starting CB, reportedly was suspended from the team in December along with backup CB Eugene Clifford for a vague "violation of team rules." Despite reports by two Columbus media outlets, a release issued by Ohio State only said Clifford had been suspended. There was no mention of Washington.

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Let's bring it home this time
County fans have high hopes for Buckeyes to take back national title
By SEAN GOLDEN
Sports Writer
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY - Troy Smith. Anthony Gonzalez. Ted Ginn Jr. These undoubtedly are names familiar to all Ohio State fans. They are the names among the talented cast of characters the Buckeyes lost from a team that went to the 2007 BCS National Championship game.

The fact that those athletes wouldn't be on the field this season for Ohio State led plenty of fans and prognosticators to call this a rebuilding year for the scarlet and gray. "I felt like it could've been a mediocre year," Lancaster resident Larry Sanford said. "It's a pleasant surprise. You're expecting an average year and you end up playing for a national championship."

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LSU's mobile QBs may make OSU ill
By Ralph D. Russo, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Article Last Updated: 01/06/2008 02:52:53 AM PST




NEW ORLEANS ? Most of the season, Ohio State smothered opposing offenses.

Led by All-America linebacker James Laurinaitis, and second-team All-Americans Vernon Gholston at defensive end and Malcolm Jenkins at cornerback, the Buckeyes ranked in the top three in the nation in just about every major statistical category.
There was, however, this one game against Illinois in November ...
In the Buckeyes' only loss, they allowed 260 yards rushing and four touchdown passes against the Illini's spread-option offense and didn't force a turnover. What does that have to do with the BCS national championship game on Monday night, when the top-ranked Buckeyes play No. 2 LSU?

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National championship will cement Buckeyes team's place in history


Dave Curtis | Sentinel Staff Writer January 6, 2008 COLUMBUS, Ohio - In 1890, an undergraduate named George Cole convinced the Ohio State administration that adding a football team to the school's extracurricular offerings would be a good idea. So started a 118-year growth of the Buckeyes from student-driven experiment to All-American-producing, championship-winning, millions-making enterprise.

And here, in 2008, Ohio State football might have discovered its golden age. Helped by a relatively new national-championship structure and led by a coach who wins more than any other in program history, the Buckeyes may be enjoying their greatest stretch of football.

"There's no doubt," said Jack Park, author of The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia. "This is as successful as an era as any the Buckeyes have ever had."

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Buckeyes must let go of last year?s rout

Motivation is one thing, but Ohio State can't dwell on loss

OPINION
By Tom Dienhart
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updated 9:11 p.m. ET, Sat., Jan. 5, 2008

Tom Dienhart

NEW ORLEANS - "Remember The Embarrassment."
That's the title I'm slapping on Ohio State's march here to play LSU in the BCS championship game on Monday night.
I haven't forgotten the Buckeyes' HORRID DEFEAT. I haven't forgotten their SHAME after the ABSOLUTE and THOROUGH FLOGGING they endured vs. Florida in the BCS title game this time last year in Arizona.

Forty-one to fourteen, people. And Ohio State was favored.
One word: woof.
In fact, there was a point in the Gators' THRASHING of the Buckeyes where I actually felt sorry for Ohio State. And I'm not an emotional guy.
And, from what we hear, Jim Tressel hasn't forgotten the MEGA-DOSE OF DOMINATION he was fed by Urban Meyer. And Tressel doesn't want his superstar-packed roster to forget, either.

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LSU's Les Miles loves to gamble. Ohio State's Jim Tressel plays it close to the sweater vest. Who's right? So far, both of them.
Different styles, same goal

By FRAN BLINEBURY
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

NEW ORLEANS ? The hat sits high on Les Miles' head, looking like it's a size too small, or maybe to contain all of the daring and clever ideas that spill out of his head.
The vest fits snug on Jim Tressel, almost a second skin that lets the TV cameras zoom in fast and close without any doubt at all about who's the man in charge.
Two sidelines. Two men. Two remarkably different coaching styles that sprang from the same blue-collar roots will be on display Monday night when No. 1 Ohio State meets No. 2 LSU in the BCS championship game at the Superdome.

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OSU vs. LSU

GO BUCKEYES, BEAT LSU!!!!!

 

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Lesser lights share stage on media day
Reserves, walk-ons enjoy exposure to instant celebrity
Sunday, January 6, 2008 7:10 AM
By Tom Reed


The Columbus Dispatch

NEAL C. LAURON Dispatch
Ohio State's Devon Lyons, a junior backup receiver, plays the part of reporter with teammate Brian Hartline during media day in the Louisiana Superdome.



NEW ORLEANS -- Seated in a folding chair and surrounded by fellow backups, Ohio State junior Kyle Ruhl enjoyed an unexpected moment of celebrity yesterday inside the Superdome.
Clad in his scarlet No. 15 jersey -- the same number as punter A.J. Trapasso -- Ruhl was approached by journalists Woody Paige and Bob Ryan, panelists from one of his favorite ESPN talk shows, Around the Horn.
Ruhl, a junior receiver, hasn't caught a pass in three seasons so he figured the television personalities weren't looking for strategic insight about the national championship game Monday.

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EarthCam Network - Bourbon Street Beat

Bourbon Street

 

[NastyDogg72]

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.

Thats the exact picture that I was trying to get off of their idiotic site. That's perfect, the only thing those dipshits know about nuts is how to put them in their mouth.

 

[Buckskin86]

Tress being interviewed by B10 network yesterday...

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[DaddyBigBucks]

Thats the exact picture that I was trying to get off of their idiotic site. ...

I think the picture would be better for our purposes if the first three 'letters' were cropped out.

 

[NastyDogg72]

No dammit, WE are the 12th Man