More Important Game? This weekend or OSU/Miami Championship game

[daddyphatsacs]

 

[Zurp]

It's all about the here and now.

Ohio State won the 2002 National Championship. It was incredible. One of the best moments of my life.

But that game has little to do with my mood in 2006. 2006 games are bigger to me in 2006. This year's Michigan game is bigger, in my opinion. Next year, it may not be so big to me.

Does that mean I'm getting taller? Or fatter?

 

[ant80]

This year's scUM game.

Because if they win it, it will give their program a lot of momentum. I don't want that to happen.

Maybe I am saying it in the heat of battle, but this would be a better question asked 10 years down the line.

 

[Okinawa's#1Buck]

In the end, if we would have lost to Miami I could have still looked at myself in the mirror the next morning. If we lose to SCum (best case scenario) I won?t get out of bed for a week. Other possibilities, my heart may explode or I might just rip my own eyeballs out. Seriously, I could not stomach losing this one.

 

[playultimate]

My head says 02
My heart says 06

This is the game to go, the game to prevent scUM from going, and the game period.

 

[mooktarr]

Any Mich game is more important . It is for the big ten most of the years. And they are meeechigan

 

[buckcrazy]

Has to be this game, this is THE GAME! This will go down as one of the monets where you ask "do you remember where you were when tOSU beat scUM for the national title?" That's what this game is for, NC. All other games are just a side note!

 

[Jagdaddy]

I voted for the 2002-03 NC game: 1. It broke a 34 year drought. 2. It completely validated Jim Tressel in the eyes of the Buckeye nation; 3. It started Miami's downward spiral.

That said, I still think the 2001 Michigan game was in many way Tressel's biggest win because it made everything that has followed possible. An OSU team whose coach had publicly emphasized the importance of the rivalry and in the eyes of many had guaranteed a win in Ann Arbor was limping along at 6-4. Some fans weren't sure about the new guy and might have preferred Glen Mason, and a loss to UM would have undermined the new regime's credibility, perhaps irreparably. Instead, the Bucks won in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1987, signed a monster recruiting class the following February, and ran the table the following year. A coaching star was born (at the D-IA level), and a program that will be dominant for the foreseeable future had jumped onto the right track.

 

[Okinawa's#1Buck]

I voted for the 2002-03 NC game: 1. That said, I still think the 2001 Michigan game was in many way Tressel's biggest win because it made everything that has followed possible. An OSU team whose coach had publicly emphasized the importance of the rivalry and in the eyes of many had guaranteed a win in Ann Arbor was limping along at 6-4. Some fans weren't sure about the new guy and might have preferred Glen Mason, and a loss to UM would have undermined the new regime's credibility, perhaps irreparably. Instead, the Bucks won in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1987, signed a monster recruiting class the following February, and ran the table the following year. A coaching star was born (at the D-IA level), and a program that will be dominant for the foreseeable future had jumped onto the right track.

Outstanding point on the 01 SCum game. After the promise (anyone else now realize how out of character that was for JT) it was important to get that win. It didn't hurt our recruting either.

 

[Okinawa's#1Buck]

Wow, I am amazed at the swing in votes for the 02 championship game.

 

[Thump]

Wow, I am amazed at the swing in votes for the 02 championship game.

Think about it, we play scUM every year.

We'd gone 33 years between championships. It's obvious to me that the title game was a much bigger game.

I am absolutely shocked at how many people have said this year's scUM game.

People have short memories.

 

[Dublin Buckeyes]

OSU/Miami for sure. Everyone I know said that, we'll see what someone can do with Coop's talent. Tressel came in and won. Then everyone said, We'll now we'll see what Tressel can do with his own recruits.

Well here we are 4 years later, and looking back, that game was key to todays recruiting and todays confidence. From perenial underachievers to year in year out challengers.

That game was huge for Tressels tenure, this game is for his recruits.

Hard question to answer, but '02 set up '06 and all of the future. So hard to argue that we for sure needed him for '02.

 

[Okinawa's#1Buck]

Think about it, we play scUM every year.

We'd gone 33 years between championships. It's obvious to me that the title game was a much bigger game.

I am absolutely shocked at how many people have said this year's scUM game.

People have short memories.

I agree with many of these points, but on the rare chance we somehow lose this one, I would likely be sick in the middle of my livingroom. It's not just the feeling of winning, it's the feeling of SCum fans losing. It's watching their dreams fade as we acheive what we win the Big 10 title, go to the NC having beat 2 #2's in a season.

 

[calibuck]

Points to DublinBuck for his perspective from Gatorland. However, not real sure that it matters to Buckeye fanatics (such as me) who really give a hoot what others think of us (recruits excepted of course).

National championships are listed in Buckeye lore, Michigan games are relived and replayed, again and again. Enough said.
:gobucks3: :gobucks4:

 

[Okinawa's#1Buck]

In the end it doesn't matter because we won the (insert f-bomb) both!!!!!!