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CFN's 2005 OSU Analysis

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A wonderful site with great insight. The sick part is they do that for all 119 1-A College Football teams and has the most insight into college football than any other place you can find. Also one of those rare sights that actually predicted that Ohio State would beat Miami in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl.

Just to throw the link up for people to this wonderful website if you have not visited yet... http://www.collegefootballnews.com

But where did you get this review? They haven't posted the Ohio State Review on the front page yet?
 
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I'm glad that someone is seeing Iowa as the key game. Texas is surely a big one but a pre-conference night game against a heavy hitter is more glitz and glamour than it is substance. Iowa kicked the shit out of us last year and I'm sure it will not be forgotten. Besides that, although I don't see us losing to Texas, a loss in the second game of the year does not take anyone out of national championship contention. When you get to the fourth game, things are starting to get dicey if you get tagged with a L.
 
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Buckeyestyle45 said:
I'm glad that someone is seeing Iowa as the key game. Texas is surely a big one but a pre-conference night game against a heavy hitter is more glitz and glamour than it is substance. Iowa kicked the shit out of us last year and I'm sure it will not be forgotten. Besides that, although I don't see us losing to Texas, a loss in the second game of the year does not take anyone out of national championship contention. When you get to the fourth game, things are starting to get dicey if you get tagged with a L.
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That was a great article. I am heading to the website now to see if the Texas article is there. Also nonconfrence game against a tough opponent will only hurt you if more than one team goes undefeated. Win the big ten and tOSU is fine. Same goes for Texas, win the big 12 and the rest will take care of itself. For god sakes though, don't lose late in the year.

Best line of the article

"On the other hand, Justin Zwick is too conservative needing to have 'don't think, just throw' tattooed on his wrist"
 
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High Lonesome said:
For god sakes though, don't lose late in the year.
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This is BY FAR my least favorite thing about college football. The timing of your losses seems to be more important than to whom you lost. Since HL brought this up, I'll use Texas as an example: if UT wins all of their games, then loses in the Big XII title game to a tough one or two-loss team, Texas has no chance to play for the national championship. However, if Texas loses to a tough Ohio State team in Week 2, then wins all the rest of the games, they have enough time to move up in the rankings. Their NC hopes aren't dead.

The exception, of course, is Oklahoma a couple years ago, when they dropped to #3 in both rankings after losing to K-State. 1-loss OK dropped behind 1-loss USC and 1-loss LSU. USC and LSU lost earlier in the season, and were therefore ranked higher than OK. OK's biggest mistake was losing the last game, not the first. Of course, with the computers and other magic numbers, OK was BCS#1, and got to play for the national championship.

Or, us Buckeye fans remember 1998: OSU lost to some crappy team up north pretty late in the season, while FSU lost early in the season. Hence, FSU, not OSU, is ranked high enough to play for NC.

It's by far my least-favorite thing about college football, and why I have an interest in the computer rankings - they don't take timing into account for their rankings.
 
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Zurp said:
This is BY FAR my least favorite thing about college football. The timing of your losses seems to be more important than to whom you lost.
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Yup, though I'd say that this being an Ohio State football forum; you're preachin' to the choir. Every one of us were reminded of this, repeatedly, under John Cooper. I remember Coop sitting in the chair on Jay Leno after the Sugar Bowl victory over A&M and pleading his case for a true national championship tournament.

OSU is probably the modern poster child for the "don't lose late" motto. We saw 5 Big-10 titles, 5 Rose Bowl appearances, and 4 possible national championships vanish in November. :(

I would put the '93, '95, '96 and '98 teams up against any team in the country, anytime ... anyplace.
 
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Dryden said:
you're preachin' to the choir.
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yeah.. I think I just needed to vent..

Dryden said:
I would put the '93, '95, '96 and '98 teams up against any team in the country, anytime ... anyplace.
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In the case of '93, '95, '96 - are they still coached by Cooper? Maybe you should take Michigan out of "any team in the country."
 
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Zurp said:
In the case of '93, '95, '96 - are they still coached by Cooper? Maybe you should take Michigan out of "any team in the country."
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I figured it was implied that Michigan isn't part of the country? The only reason the state exists is to be a protective buffer for us from Canada.

Don't know about Coop with the '93 and '95 teams, but he has got to be the coach for '96. Without the lovable loser tag and the southern drawl, that Rose Bowl win over #1 ranked ASU just wouldn't have been as sweet.
 
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for us EA NCAA football nuts look for the ratings to very accurately reflect this report, with the talk about the linebackers i wouldn't be surprised to see something along the lines of 99-96-94-93-87........i do not know if EA gleans info from CFN, but i remember in '03 CFN had all of our units rated extremely high, and we were all even slightly surprised by it, but those ratings translated to the game, we were all pleasantly surprised with Gamble, Jenkins, the OL, and others.........i would expect the same this year with Holmes, Ginn, LB's, maybe the RB's might even surprise us.........both CFN and EA have always given the Bucks love

***Feeling very clairvoyant at the moment since i was talking up NC in '05 during October of '04 during our 3 game skid***
 
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"I figured it was implied that Michigan isn't part of the country? The only reason the state exists is to be a protective buffer for us from Canada."
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n) Abbr. MI or Mich:
A Dumping ground. A state that exists for the purpose in which Canada pays them to take care of their trash and Ohio gives their leftovers for free.
Example: "When Tress & Co. complete their recruiting in Ohio, Michigan swoops in to take the rest not wanted and worthy of a REAL university."
 
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Piney,
Just look at some other team's review and in the address bar substitute ohiostate for the other team's name...this is iowa's preview which is posted..change iowa to ohio state and u get it!

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Big_Ten/2005_Previews/Iowa_Preview.htm


Piney said:
A wonderful site with great insight. The sick part is they do that for all 119 1-A College Football teams and has the most insight into college football than any other place you can find. Also one of those rare sights that actually predicted that Ohio State would beat Miami in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl.

Just to throw the link up for people to this wonderful website if you have not visited yet... http://www.collegefootballnews.com

But where did you get this review? They haven't posted the Ohio State Review on the front page yet?
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