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

[WyoBuck]

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 would agree if this hadn't been #1 vs. #2. This, essentially is the National Championship. If there were a team on deck that were as big a game as scUM then I would have to say that you are right, but this is the biggest game that either of these two teams have ever played.

 

[Okinawa's#1Buck]

I just wanted to post with my newely purchased tOSU logo. What a proud day, first we beat SCum, then I get my first team logo. What a happy Buck Fan am I!!

 

[lvbuckeye]

i'm going against the grain of everyone here. obviously this game today was HUGE. obviously the Fiesta Bowl game against Miami was HUGE. however, i think that when viewed in hindsight, especially when we get further down the road, the most important game, and WIN, came 310 days after Tressel was introduced during halftime at Value City Arena. it set the tone for all the things that have since come...

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

i'm going against the grain of everyone here. obviously this game today was HUGE. obviously the Fiesta Bowl game against Miami was HUGE. however, i think that when viewed in hindsight, especially when we get further down the road, the most important game, and WIN, came 310 days after Tressel was introduced during halftime at Value City Arena. it set the tone for all the things that have since come...

i liken your opinion to the opinion that i hold: the fumble caused by laurinaitis versus texas was the most important play of the year.

had the outcome of the first michigan game instead been a loss, the program might not have developed the confidence necessary to escape from its reputation as being inferior to michigan. had there been no fumble caused by laurinaitis and no return by washington, the team might not have developed the confidence necessary to escape from its perception as being disabled by inexperience. we'll never know. certainly, one game does not define tressel and his team, and one play does not define a defensive squad. there is much preparation that does not simply vanish in the face of adversity.

 

[ScriptOhio]

I don't believe that this game was the "most important game that Ohio State has ever played"; the 2003 Fiesta Bowl and 1969 Rose Bowl (to name two) were definitely bigger. They were National Championship games. However, this might have been the "most important game ever played in Ohio Stadium":

National TV game that was hyped by everyone
Both teams undefeated (11-0)
#1 vs. #2 in all the polls
Winner is sole Big 10 Champion
Winner goes to National Championship game
Loser (probably) goes to the Rose Bowl
It was against Michigan
Ohio State won!!!