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National Chaampionship Hopes

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1 Go Bucks said:
We need to win by 20-30 points per game to even get any recognition. Point Being: We need to blow out every team on the rest of the Schedule and Usc and or Texas have to lose.
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We don't need to blow every team out the rest of the way, but we definitely need to blow out the teams that we should and maybe crush michigan at the end to get in. We need to be #3 by the 9th week of the season. If we are we have a great chance to go to the Rose Bowl.
 
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I think that the computer models are such that we do need to put up some points. It will not be enough to squeak out 3-7 point wins. We need to beat the computer spreads so that our power rating goes up. All of the losses by our schedule, especially Iowa and Miami Ohio, really have hurt our strength of schedule ranking. The only way to compensate for that is to beat teams well enough to beat the spread.

That said, there will be many more losses in the current pack of top 10 teams.

1. Just keep winning.
2. Try to beat the computer spread so that you get human and computer roll poll increases.
3. Hope for a little luck. Luck is highly under-rated! And remember, Buckeyes, the harder you work, the luckier you get.

For the fans...just keep supporting the Bucks and be positive. The team needs that feedback from the fan base!
 
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Its a beauty contest from here on out fellas were gonna have to hammer people imo.

No pollster on the face of this earth will give OSU the benefit of the doubt over another 1 loss team if were pulling out 3 point wins every week.

In adittion to winning pretty its still going to take a lot of luck, SEC teams all have to 2 loss each other, UT has to win out and USC has to have 2 losses or one really bad one.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Not only is it stupid to think that USC and Texas need to lose twice for us to pass them, the Rose Bowl IS the NC game genius.
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You are funny when your drinking! I think you missed the whole point again Mr. Carver.

Golferdow01 said:
Lets see how many times we can make a new post while responding to the same previous one...
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Lets act like were in third grade again. DAMN IT! STOP ACTING SO GAY!
 
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First of all, this is all assuming OSU wins out, obviously. Our best shot at the NC game is to play against Texas. As previous post have pointed out, a 1 loss Texas team is better than a 1 loss OSU team. Texas probably won't lose twice, so lets just hope they are our opponent in the Rose Bowl.

Second, I would put big money on all other teams losing, except USC and Louisville. Those are the two to keep an eye on. If they lose, I gaurantee it will be to a worse opponent than the team that beat us (I know, this isn't brain surgery). Also, I gaurantee it will be later in the season than our loss (genius, right?). Both of those are in our favor.

Third, if Louisville wins out, I bet we jump them anyways. So, it really all just comes down to USC.

Fourth, AND THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT, all of this is null and void with our current offense. Taking off my Buckeye Blinders - there is no frigging way that we run the Big 10 with the offense that showed up yesterday.

But, that being said, if the Buckeyes win out, and USC loses a game, I like our chances.
 
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Yertle said:
Third, if Louisville wins out, I bet we jump them anyways.
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I don't know. I get the impression that the media has big ol' hard-ons for Louisville (I haven't actually SEEN the hard-ons). Louisville is the classic cinderalla team that the entire world would love to see take on a Goliath, like USC or Texas. Of course, the media is no longer in power in the BCS, so their opinion doesn't really matter. But who knows how coaches will vote? (For instance, Big Ten coaches may vote 10-1 Ohio State #5 and 10-1 Louisville #3 just because they can.)

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But, that being said, if the Buckeyes win out, and USC loses a game, I like our chances.
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I think you're probably right. Except, though, with this USC team, they may drop to #2 after a close loss to a high-ranked team. And even if they drop to #5 and Ohio State is #4, I can see them jumping Ohio State after they crush Alaska State Ice Queens, 30-0, and Ohio State squeeks by Illinois, 23-17.

What about this scenario: USC wins out, Ohio State wins out. Texas loses to a team they should easily beat (Baylor, maybe, or Nebraska, or whoever), but they win all the rest of their games. All other undefeated teams lose, and anyone else I haven't mentioned who's higher than Ohio State right now loses. Maybe all those teams have 2-3 losses or more. Basically, you got undefeated USC, you got 10-1 Texas (11-1 after Big XII championship), and you got 10-1 Ohio State. Would/should a 10-1 Ohio State team that lost to Texas get the championship game instead of 11-1 Texas that beat Ohio State, but lost to Crap-Hole U?
 
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I think that USC also needs to lose later rather than earlier, i.e. after we have had a chance to get closer than 8 spots from them. Does anyone really think that if USC loses this week at Oregon by say 6 points and we beat Iowa by 6 that they will fall below us in the polls. I do not.
 
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Zurp said:
Would/should a 10-1 Ohio State team that lost to Texas get the championship game instead of 11-1 Texas that beat Ohio State, but lost to Crap-Hole U?
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There is only one way that is going to happen, that is if the computer ratings place us better than we are now. And that is going to require Mr Tressel to put some more distance between the Buckeyes and their opponents than one touchdown.

We've shaken off the loss to Texas. Now we need to get incrementally better every week and dominate our opponents. That's our best chance.
 
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Steve19 said:
There is only one way that is going to happen, that is if the computer ratings place us better than we are now. And that is going to require Mr Tressel to put some more distance between the Buckeyes and their opponents than one touchdown.

We've shaken off the loss to Texas. Now we need to get incrementally better every week and dominate our opponents. That's our best chance.
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It seems as if in the past, a home loss has been treated a lot worse than a road loss, making it hard to jump over Texas for a road or neutral-site loss.

That all being said, if UT doesn't beat OU this year, they will not end up in the top two, nor should they. If we somehow drop to Texas Tech (if they can actually play vs. D-I competition that is) then we too will have lost at home to what could be at that time, a highly ranked team, albeit later in the season, allowing you to jump us. If we continue through our seemingly easy schedule, and remain undefeated as expected by many right now, we would play aggy at Pyle Field for the last regular season game, and if we were to lose that game, it would probably be too late for us to recover unless we still won the Big XII against some suprisingly undefeated north squad.

A loss in any one of those three games would allow tOSU to jump us, if you guys went through the Big Ten undefeated (IMO).

VaTech or FSU, Florida or LSU, Purdue and Louisville seem to be the other shots at undefeated seasons.

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