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

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Which is the more important game in tOSU history?

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I voted for this weekends game

I feel that there is more on the line.

I think the winner of this game will go on to win the National Championship
The winner of this game wins the Big 10 Outright
The winner of this game will determine if Tressel owns the keys to M*ch*gan's gates or if the competition is more on par
The winner of this game will determine a Heisman trophy.
The winner of this game will show the country who the #1 team in the land is.

And..... It's being played AT THE SHOE!!!
 
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I voted the 2002 NC game for a few reasons:

1 - While Jim Tressel started a year earlier that game ushered in a new era of Ohio State football... all future Tressel teams will be compared to that team (until he wins another NC, which very well may be this year)
2 - It started the downward spiral of Teh "U"
3 - If OSU would have lost that game where would they be now? Would the fans have rebelled even more than they did against Tressel in 2004 (pre-scUM game)? Many would probably be calling Tressel Cooper II for not being able to finish the deal. Instead Tressel is building the OSU empire on that game and will hopefully become even more glorious this year after another whipping of the skunk bears.
 
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This one, and this is why: I certainly loved the 2002 season, and it will go down as one of the greatest seasons we ever had. But, we had SO many great teams in the 1990's that were championship contenders until the dUMb game. Once we lost one or two of those, it was almost obvious that the same thing was going to keep happening, regardless of the talent disparity between the two teams. The same thing is on the verge of happening here, in reverse. dUMb can use the excuse that they haven't been all that great since Tressel took over, and that this is their year to really prove what they can do. If JT wins this week, and takes it all away from Michigan, then we could be looking at the beginning of a long, long domination in the series [not winning every year, of course,l but 2/3, 3/4, etc.], because JT will be around for a long time (hopefully) and the 90's were a perfect example of how difficult it is to get back on the winning side of a rivalry once you lose a few.
 
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Bucklion;662287; said:
we had SO many great teams in the 1990's that were championship contenders until the dUMb game. Once we lost one or two of those, it was almost obvious that the same thing was going to keep happening, regardless of the talent disparity between the two teams. The same thing is on the verge of happening here, in reverse. dUMb can use the excuse that they haven't been all that great since Tressel took over, and that this is their year to really prove what they can do. If JT wins this week, and takes it all away from Michigan, then we could be looking at the beginning of a long, long domination in the series [not winning every year, of course,l but 2/3, 3/4, etc.], .
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Great points.
 
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jimotis4heisman;662132; said:
historically i vote the 68 game over and over and over any game...
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It figures that you would say the 1969 Rose Bowl (1968 season); since Jim Otis played in it and actually scored Ohio State's 1st touchdown!!!

Trivia: How many touchdowns did Jim Otis score in the 1968 Michigan game?

The 1969 Rose Bowl was a great win; however I'll go with the 2003 Fiesta Bowl since it (ended the long and painful drought as it) had been 34 years since we won a National Championship.
 
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ScriptOhio;662428; said:
It figures that you would say the 1969 Rose Bowl (1968 season); since Jim Otis played in it and actually scored Ohio State's 1st touchdown!!!

Trivia: How many touchdowns did Jim Otis score in the 1968 Michigan game?
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The same number that's in jimotis4heisman's posting name. :biggrin:
 
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BB73;662506; said:
The same number that's in jimotis4heisman's posting name. :biggrin:
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Correct, Jim Otis scored 4 touchdowns.

The final score was: Ohio State 50 - Michigan 14

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After the game, Coach Woody Hayes said it was ?[t]he best victory we ever had?. This is a good football team, and we played a good football team.? He continued by remarking ?All of our kids played real good football. What happened before is that the offense would have a good day and the defense would stutter around some? Then, another game, it would be the other way around. We said that if they ever put it together? both played well the same day? we would have something. This was it.?

http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/OSUvsMichigan/1968game.htm
 
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hanging half a hundred on the boys up north made the rivalry what is today. ushered in the bo era, made it an all out war from a tough hard fought game to a thing of legend. the hostility and passion stems from that game. dont get me wrong it was a big game, but not what it became after that november day/
 
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