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Game Thread Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

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http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9639803

Texas moves to No. 2 just before facing 1 Ohio State


Sep. 5, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports

As if Ohio State at Texas wasn't already a big enough game, now it's No. 1 vs. No. 2.

The Longhorns moved up one spot to No. 2 in the Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, right behind the top-ranked Buckeyes.

The two powerhouses will square off in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, a much-anticipated rematch of last year's 25-22 victory by Texas in Columbus, Ohio.

It'll be the first time since 1996 that the top two teams in the AP poll will meet in a regular-season game. That year, No. 2 Florida State beat No. 1 Florida 24-21 in mid-November. The Gators and Seminoles met in a rematch in the Sugar Bowl about a month and a half later, and Florida won 52-20 to earn its only national championship.

Southern California moved up three spots to No. 3 in this week's first regular-season media poll, and Notre Dame slipped two places to No. 4 after a 14-10 victory at Georgia Tech. The Fighting Irish share the fourth spot with Auburn.

Ohio State received 39 first-place votes and 1,568 points in the poll after opening its season with a 35-12 win over Northern Illinois. Texas, which began its season with a 56-7 win over North Texas, received seven first-place votes and 1,453 points.

Southern California and Auburn each received three first-place votes; Notre Dame got eight; and No. 6 West Virginia had five. The rest of the Top 10 is Florida, LSU, Florida State -- up two spots after a 13-10 win over Miami on Monday night -- and Michigan.

No. 11 Tennessee made the biggest jump, rising 12 spots after a 35-18 victory over California. Cal, which had its best preseason ranking in more than 50 years, fell from No. 9 to No. 22 after the meltdown in Knoxville.

Miami slipped five spots to No. 17.

Last year's meeting between Texas and Ohio State was the first between the two storied programs. The Longhorns' comeback victory, led by Vince Young, allowed them to clear a major hurdle on the way to their first outright national title since 1969.

That was also the year Texas was last involved in a No. 1 vs. No. 2 regular-season matchup. Texas beat Arkansas in 1969 in one of the most famous games in that rivalry.

The Longhorns are 4-0 in No. 1 against No. 2 games, the latest coming last season when they beat USC in the Rose Bowl for the national title as the second-ranked team.

Ohio State is 2-0 in 1-2 games, the last coming in the 2002 Fiesta Bowl. The No. 2 Buckeyes beat top-ranked Miami in that game to win their last national title.

There were no new teams in the Top 25. The only ranked teams to lose on the opening weekend were Cal and Miami.

Georgia came in at No. 12, followed by Louisville, Iowa, Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Miami, Clemson, Penn State and Oregon. The 19th-ranked Nittany Lions play at Notre Dame in Saturday's other marquee game.

The final five in the rankings were Nebraska, Cal, TCU, Texas Tech and Arizona State.
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I listened to Tressel's Tuesday luncheon on 1460AM this afternoon while driving to lunch, and caught JT admitting that he has Texas #1 on his ballot for the coaches poll. Reading and hearing these interviews from Mack Brown, it sounds as though Mack is voting Ohio State #1 on his ballots?
 
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Dryden said:
I listened to Tressel's Tuesday luncheon on 1460AM this afternoon while driving to lunch, and caught JT admitting that he has Texas #1 on his ballot for the coaches poll. Reading and hearing these interviews from Mack Brown, it sounds as though Mack is voting Ohio State #1 on his ballots?
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I think that coaches can get into a no-win situation when it comes to "showing their hands" on their rankings. If Tressel picked Ohio State #1, then that can become bulletin board material for Texas. If Tressel picked Texas #1, he's saying to his own players that he doesn't believe that the Buckeyes are the best team. Doing one thing pumps up the opposition. Doing the other can deflate your own team.
 
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I think you're overanalyzing that quite a bit, zurp.

UT is hosting #1 OSU, nearly everyone is voting for Ohio State. Tressel also giving his home team the nod is not going to make a huge difference to me. If they're going to ride the disrespect train, it will be there with or without the sweatervest.

Likewise, why can't Tressel voting UT #1 until someone (OSU) beats them fire up his own team?
 
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To clarify, here's the quote from JT:

"So our improvement is going to have to be dramatic, but you'd like to think that after a game what it is, so we'll have an opportunity to go down and face a team that's very good, everyone knows that, the defending champions, I've got them ranked number one on our ballot because I think they deserve that. I think they deserve that top to bottom. I think they deserve that from a program standpoint, I think they deserve that from a special teams standpoint, from an offensive and a defensive standpoint."

The full transcript is here: http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?p=597725
 
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Since we are all excited about the game, do any of you coming to Austin have any last minute questions about the town or things to do or getting around?

There was a section on this board earlier that did have questions and answers. Is it gone?
 
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Dryden said:
To clarify, here's the quote from JT:

"So our improvement is going to have to be dramatic, but you'd like to think that after a game what it is, so we'll have an opportunity to go down and face a team that's very good, everyone knows that, the defending champions, I've got them ranked number one on our ballot because I think they deserve that. I think they deserve that top to bottom. I think they deserve that from a program standpoint, I think they deserve that from a special teams standpoint, from an offensive and a defensive standpoint."

The full transcript is here: http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?p=597725
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hard to argue with that.
 
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