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[ScarletArrow]

No No No

Considering JT is 3 and 1 - I like our chances for the foreseeable future.

 

[strohs]

In my own very traditionalist sense of things, THE Game is the reason why I dont even want to see a big 10 championship game.
Sure it would be nice, but then tOSU-scUM would no longer be the last game of the season.
I see the logic in moving it, since the pollsters are idiots.
But I would be sick if it ever happened.

 

[gost8]

You don't move The Game just because you want to minimize the effect of a loss. You know the best way to do that? Don't fricking lose. Besides, if we can't beat Michigan, I personally don't think we don't deserve to be national champs.

More true sentences have never been spoken, but Mili... fricking??? Toning down the language or what? :)

Cinci, look at it this way.... since scUM is usually in the top ten when we play them, a win against them early in the season could just as easily be forgotten by the pollsters by the end of the season. Beating them at the end is always a boost for us.

 

[OH10]

I think it's a great idea to move the game. In fact, why don't we just quit using Michigan as the rivalry game overall. We could miss them two years in a row someday. That would really help us go undefeated and compete for a national championship game - that is the rationale for moving the game right?

You don't beat Michigan, you shouldn't win the National Title. There it is in Black and White. Just like if Texas doesn't beat Oklahoma (and they never do), they shouldn't win the NC. Moving the game doesn't change this - so I see no reason to dilute the greatest rivalry in all of sports for a moot point.

 

[cincibuck]

Sometimes you say things just to check yourself out.

The responses I'm reading confirm much of what I feel. I love the major hype the game has. I love the fact that Sunday morning of Michigan week at our house starts out with the drums beating out the cadence for the ramp entry followed by Buckeye Battlecry as loud as I can play it before Kathy threatens legal action, that I will spend the week flipping back and forth between optimism and paranoia...

but I also see that we pay a penalty for doing it that way... as some of you have pointed out the fault is not with having The Game last, it's with the poll voters who equate a loss to North Carolina in week three to a loss to Michigan in week 12... and you CAN win a national championship with one loss... you just can't do it if that loss is the last game of the regular season.

I guess I'm still pissed about the 96 - 7 season and that we were never even considered as a possible choice for National Champs despite having played a tougher schedule than Miami while winning as many games.

One thing though, (and this should be a separate thread) if the conference decides to join the parade to a conference playoff game then there is no way on earth I want to see us play Michigan on the last week of the schedule year in and year out. I don't think anyone in Ann Arbor would want that either.

 

[gost8]

and you CAN win a national championship with one loss... you just can't do it if that loss is the last game of the regular season.

I guess I'm still pissed about the 96 - 7 season and that we were never even considered as a possible choice for National Champs despite having played a tougher schedule than Miami while winning as many games.

I have always thought that it was stupid to have a system where the date of your loss plays into whether the team is deemed worthy of a NC game. I mean a team can lose one of its early games against a unranked opponent at the beginning of the year, win out and find themselves playing for the NC. But if that same team rolls all year then plays a big rivalry game against a top five team and lose and they're out. (Unless you are Oklahoma, where you can lose to Kansas State in your conference championship game and still go.)