Some BCS facts for your SEC friends

[muffler dragon]

Fun facts regarding the OSU-UW game:

ESPN - Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Washington Huskies Preview, September 15 2007 - NCAA College Football

No. 10 Ohio State will bring the nation's top-ranked defense into Husky Stadium, which is expected to be sold out for the first time in four years. Against the Buckeyes, who have lost just once in the last 22 games, Huskies fan will find out just how far resurgent Washington has come.
"This is huge," Washington senior linebacker Dan Howell said of the Buckeyes' first trip to Seattle since 1994. "You're getting the best coming to your stadium. This opportunity doesn't come by very often."

Blogging the Buckeyes: Live from Seattle: Washington Archives

The folks out here are expecting their largest crowd in four years, more than 72,000, with the upsurge as much based on the OSU fans who are showing up as it is renewed interest in the Huskies.
As for the atmosphere, it?s sort of a discount version of what was going on at Austin last year when the Buckeyes played at Texas for the first time in history. Thoughts about the pending game are similar, too.

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Give the Huskies crowd credit, they're still loud. The gathering is the third-largest in Husky Stadium history: 74,927 (capacity is 72,500).

 

[muffler dragon]

they were loud as shit for the Buckeyes, until the game was essentially over at 17-7... then the loudness died big time. they were loud as shit for USC for the entire game because that game went down to the wire. loud as shit is loud as shit; the only difference is the duration of said loud as shitness...

LOL!!!

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

loud as shit is loud as shit; the only difference is the duration of said loud as shitness...

That should be: "duration of said loudness of shit". Get your shitness together... :tongue2:

 

[Bluegras Buck-i]

SEC in Bowls

I have read ad nasuem how great the SEC is and how they are dominating the bowls. Their record is 7-2. I admit the SEC is a solid conference with many great teams but most of the media and ALL SEC continue to think no one can touch SEC football. I think SEC annually gets some easy/favorable match-ups.

Let's see:

UGA (home field advantage) beats a JV sized team that belongs in the Hawaii Bowl vs East Carolina.

AL (home field advantage in LA) holds on and beats a 6-6 CU team. Big deal.

FL (massive home field ad) loses to Mich. That is embarrasing.

SEC East Champ UT holds on to beat (Big 10 #4/5) UW by 4. Respectable win.

UK (massive home field ad) barely beats FSU less 35 players

Auburn needs OT to beat Underachiever U

Miss St (with some quality SEC wins) barely beats a nobody in UCF.


I'll give them credit for pulling out the W's but I am not that impressed.

Let's see an SEC team take on USC every year in Bowls and see how it affects their bowl record. Just look at how USC blew out Auburn and Ark the last few years in the regular season.

We know the SEC and Big 10 have been about even in the BSC era in bowl games and those games were in SEC country.

 

[Gatorubet]

Definitely. And from what I could tell from last night's Sugar Bowl, the Dome is not that loud.

Since I was at last night's Sugar bowl too, I'm wondering what there was to be loud about?

 

[DCBuckeye07]

No, he quoted your post in his reply. You post said (parts bolded for emphasis): "I'll agree, we play in places as tough as they come in the nation. Unfortunately the UofW faithful didnt get up as much as they usually do for that game.". I assume by "we" you meant "Ohio State" and by "that game" you meant "our game".

Jeeeesus, say one thing NOT 100 percent pro-buckeyes and see what happens. I got it, sorry.

 

[sandgk]

I have read ad nasuem how great the SEC is and how they are dominating the bowls. Their record is 7-2.

6-2.

I admit the SEC is a solid conference with many great teams but most of the media and ALL SEC continue to think no one can touch SEC football. I think SEC annually gets some easy/favorable match-ups.

Often that is true - but then again all the conferences typically get a couple of games in which they should be clearly favored.

Let's see:

UGA (home field advantage) beats a JV sized team that belongs in the Hawaii Bowl vs East Carolina.

Agreed that was a mismatch.

AL (home field advantage in LA) holds on and beats a 6-6 CU team. Big deal.

I think you could argue this was a fair match of well-balanced teams, both came in 6-6.

FL (massive home field ad) loses to Mich. That is embarrasing.

Embarrassing as in unranked Michigan beat ranked Florida - attribute this to the bolstering of SEC teams worth. I think this says much more about the drive that TSUN had to play well in Carr's swansong as head coach than anything else. On it's face a favorable match-up for the SEC though.

SEC East Champ UT holds on to beat (Big 10 #4/5) UW by 4. Respectable win.

As I had it before #3 SEC vs. #4 Big 10, and Wisconsin nearly took them.

UK (massive home field ad) barely beats FSU less 35 players

This was the most surprising game in as much as the 'Noles came in with such severe self-inflicted disadvantages.

Auburn needs OT to beat Underachiever U

Bet that was news to Clemson - this is one where the SEC was outranked on paper. Perhaps there is a conference with worse hype for the middle of it's pack than the SEC has for theirs?

Miss St (with some quality SEC wins) barely beats a nobody in UCF.

True enough, and this was another mismatch in the making (with Miss. St. favored), but then again they had been a very up and down team - all year.

I'll give them credit for pulling out the W's but I am not that impressed.

Well, they did only lose one they were clearly favored to win, all the other wins were predicted. Guess we should give them credit for that.

Let's see an SEC team take on USC every year in Bowls and see how it affects their bowl record. Just look at how USC blew out Auburn and Ark the last few years in the regular season.

While it would be intriguing at any other time to have 'SC go up against a top SEC team (vs. UGA this year would have been very good) we cannot let the Trojans do all the heavy lifting for College Football. Luckily we don't have to do so.

We know the SEC and Big 10 have been about even in the BSC era in bowl games and those games were in SEC country.

Well, there was this one time in Arizona .....

 

[muffler dragon]

Jeeeesus, say one thing NOT 100 percent pro-buckeyes and see what happens. I got it, sorry.

[sarcasm]Yeah. That's it.[/sarcasm]

 

[LSUTyga73]

And then you proceeded to get beat at home by an unranked Arkansas team that just got their asses handed to them by Missouri.

How is that relevant to anything? I expected more out of you

Another thing:
And then you proceeded to get beat at home by an unranked Illinois team that just got their asses handed to them by USC.

 

[Pheasant]

How is that relevant to anything? I expected more out of you

Another thing:
And then you proceeded to get beat at home by an unranked Illinois team that just got their asses handed to them by USC.

logic has been abandoned at this point...move along...nothing to see here.

 

[jwinslow]

logic has been abandoned at this point...move along...nothing to see here.

Yep, at 4:11. Tyga's post was a pretty civil response to a flame (& erroneous at that) on LSU's OOC schedule. Arkansas has nothing to do with that.

 

[Pheasant]

Or at 4:11. Tyga's post was a pretty civil response to a flame (& erroneous at that) on LSU's OOC schedule. Arkansas has nothing to do with that.

I wasn't saying that about her...I was saying that about us...I saw Mili's initial post.

 

[jwinslow]

Silly cat, misrepresenting my post-edit quote

 

[BB73]

Do you believe that LSU will have an advantage over the Buckeyes on account of crowd noise in the Dome? Do you think this year's OSU team might have played in a few venues that were as loud if not louder than what they will face in the Dome?

Because of the indoor effect, I'm expecting the Superdome to be most difficult environment the Buckeyes have faced recently in terms of crowd noise. When tOSU is on offense, it will be louder than last year's dome in Glendale since the crowd will be 2-to-1 LSU (Glendale was mostly Buckeyes).

I thought Penn State was louder than Husky Stadium, which was similar to Iowa's crowd last year; they were all louder than Texas.

Penn State's crowd noise was close to the 'Shoe for The Game last year, but PSU's crowd didn't last past the second quarter.

 

[GeauxTigers99]

On the topic of crowd noise, have any of you guys been to Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night?? and if so, what did you think?? how do you think it compares to the 'Shoe??