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

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Rather than getting bogged down in a number crunching paralysis by analysis debate, let me ask a couple of simple, straight forward questions.
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So rather than talk football, you'd rather ask rhetorical questions and force your words into our mouths?
Ah, my friend studying history often provides valuable insight into future events.
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What's the record of BCS NC opponents who are universally disrespected leading up the matchup?
You may consider #2 stupid, to me it illustrates an alarming trend from the Buckeyes perspective.
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Right, since those horrific 00 & 01 buckeye squads have a lot of bearing on the current units, as did all those other games before Tressel's time :roll2:
 
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sandgk;1023445; said:
True - and all one need do is actually deduct the yards gained (accounting for extra distance / gains created by penalties) and the numbers can then line up correctly for regulation.

Given that, all one would have to deduct from LSU's tallies are 123 yards of Offensive output and 111 yards gained on the Tigers Defense.

These are dwarfed by the tallies from the SEC championship game. Which, if you want everything on a "level" playing field of a 12-game tally would toss an additional 343 yards off the totals given up their Defense, plus the 464 yards gained by their Offense against the Vols D.

Then it will be a simply matter to tally the points at regulation, either in the 12-game schedule, or better in my view, in their full season.

(The points deducted would be a total of 30 points by LSU's Offense, versus 38 given up by the Tigers D).

These changes for their full 13-game season, excluding overtime yards and points result in the following:

on D - 16.7 yards per point given up
on O - 12.05 yards per point gained.
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you did the work that i was too lazy to do... i owe you some rep when i can give it to you again...
 
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COTiger;1023545; said:
It hurts, but we blame it on Slick Nick. Hopefully we will be batting .500 on Jan 8th.

The board was kind of dead, so if nothing else my post livened things up a bit. :biggrin:
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It made me go look up some stuff on Stassen.

Did you know, since we are on the topic of historical trends, that LSU is 6-7 all time in the Sugar Bowl?

You guys also played a game in Havana Cuba in 1907 beating Havana U 56-0. I thought that was interesting.
 
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Jaxbuck;1023547; said:
It made me go look up some stuff on Stassen.

Did you know, since we are on the topic of historical trends, that LSU is 6-7 all time in the Sugar Bowl?

You guys also played a game in Havana Cuba in 1907 beating Havana U 56-0. I thought that was interesting.
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I was aware that we had played a game in Cuba, but I wasn't aware of our losing record in the Sugar Bowl.
 
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COTiger;1023525; said:
Ah, my friend studying history often provides valuable insight into future events. :biggrin:

You may consider #2 stupid, to me it illustrates an alarming trend from the Buckeyes perspective. :wink2:
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Gotcha...And trends...how about starting a new trend...at one point scUM was 10-2 against us...the last 6 we are 5-1...Trends are made to be broken...thats a lesson from history too:wink2: In Tressel we trust baby!!~!
 
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Nutriaitch;1023575; said:
I don't know why, but I thought OSU would have had more Bowl appearances than that.
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For many, many years the exclusive tie-in with the Rose Bowl (and selection rules for the same) meant that only a clear, untied Ohio State champion of the Big Ten would go to Pasadena. Tied and went there more recently than the co-champion, tough luck, the other team goes. Not going to the Rose Bowl there was no fall back bowl to go into - It was the Rose Bowl or nothing.
 
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Nutriaitch;1023575; said:
I don't know why, but I thought OSU would have had more Bowl appearances than that.
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The B10 had a lot of rules prohibiting Bowl play(no repeat to the Rose and no other Bowls but the Rose etc) for many years that cut down on it.

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Sandgk beat me to it.
 
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