Texas vs. tOSU Series

[MyMamaTastesFunny]

I've been thinking about the games we had with you over the last two years.

I sure wish we could play again next year. The year-long build-up helped get me through the boring off-season.

I believe Texas "won" the series, even though the teams split the games.

Why?

Because ultimately, the Texas win was more meaningful. Texas went to Columbus and beat a much better team than OSU beat in Austin. Winning in Columbus at night against your powerful team prepared Texas for their final challenge against USC. I still contend that OSU was better than USC last year, and that the win was harder, since your defense was so stout.

Because you throttled a less-than-great team in Austin, it may have begun to create an air of complacency that finally caught up with you in Glendale. Quite simply, we sucked last year, and were highly overrated. You exposed a weak secondary. Hell, BAYLOR scored over 30 on us.

To sum up, Texas made more of their win, because the win was so hard. Ohio State handled a mediocre Texas team easily in the rematch, and the result was to create an air of overconfidence.

I sure wish we could play at least every other year.

Good luck in 07.

 

[Brutus1]

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

So you "won" the series because you sucked? Makes perfect sense. We won the NC this year because we sucked that night.

 

[osugrad21]

Not surprising you seem to leave out the QB turmoil for tOSU in Game 1...

 

[buckeyeboy]

To sum up, Texas made more of their win, because the win was so hard. Ohio State handled a mediocre Texas team easily in the rematch, and the result was to create an air of overconfidence.

This logic is ridiculous--when looking at who "won" the series between two teams, we suddenly are supposed to look at how the teams played the rest of their games? Instead, why not look at the games themselves? The way I see it, we won the series (if there is such a thing) for a number of reasons:

-In our win, we crushed you guys by 17 points, whereas in your win you won by 3 points
-In your win, you needed huge second half mistakes by our players to win (our TE dropping a wide open pass and a missed field goal late in the game), whereas in our win you guys never led and only scored 7 points b/c of a BS roughing the passer call
-In our win, it was a bigger game (1 vs. 2 game), whereas your win, while being quite significant, did not have that kind of hype

Much more could be said here, but I think these points more than prove that you're wrong.

 

[MyMamaTastesFunny]

So you "won" the series because you sucked? Makes perfect sense. We won the NC this year because we sucked that night.

We won the series because we beat a better team, and used that win to catapult ourselves to a national championship. You weren't able to maximaze your win, because you never learned to play at the highest level, since your competition wasn't as good.

 

[buckeyeboy]

We won the series because we beat a better team, and used that win to catapult ourselves to a national championship. You weren't able to maximaze your win, because you never learned to play at the highest level, since your competition wasn't as good.

Again, you fail to explain why looking at what a team did the rest of the season, rather than the more logical view of looking at the games between the two teams themselves, is the proper frame of reference in answering this question. It seems to me that you are doing so simply because that is the only way you can argue that UT won the series. Look at the games themselves, fella: we won by 17 in a game in which you never had the lead, and you won by 3 in a back and forth game that we squandered. Winner? tOSU. Deal with it.

 

[Mike80]

We won the series because we beat a better team, and used that win to catapult ourselves to a national championship. You weren't able to maximaze your win, because you never learned to play at the highest level, since your competition wasn't as good.

Are you sure you watch college football??

Teams from previous years aren't really comparable - just look at the mess ESPN gets into each and every year that they try to annoint a team as the best ever.

You needed VY to bail your ass out AND for Ohio State to make every mistake they possibly could in the 2nd half to win by 3. Ohio State took it to you the next year and beat you by 17. Gee I see why you think you won the series...

 

[OSUsushichic]

I thought only Cooper thought a tie was a win.

 

[CookyPuss]

I thought only Cooper thought a tie was a win.

Bingo. 1-1, split series. End of discussion.

 

[jwinslow]

First of all, the series has nothing to do with what happens afterwards. OSU pummeled ND twice in a row in the mid-90s. That didn't change when OSU failed to 'capitalize' on that season with a title.

OSU dominated Texas this year. Rationalize it all you want, but our defense was a bit overrated as well.

If we're in the business of making weak excuses, I'd say a QB carousel was a pretty large flaw last year as well. Troy was a shell of his future self on 09/10/06... heck he was still that mediocre the next week vs lousy SDSU.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

We won the series because we beat a better team, and used that win to catapult ourselves to a national championship. You weren't able to maximaze your win, because you never learned to play at the highest level, since your competition wasn't as good.

Wow, you came here just to say that although we split the series a game each, and Ohio State outscored Texas 46-32 in those games, Texas "won the series" because Texas won their national title game and we lost ours. Put the bong down.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

We won the series because we beat a better team, and used that win to catapult ourselves to a national championship. You weren't able to maximaze your win, because you never learned to play at the highest level, since your competition wasn't as good.

Oh that's why we lost to Florida...because Texas sucked. I thought it was bad defensive coaching and offensive line play combined with some bad luck with the TG injury. Now I get it.

 

[MyMamaTastesFunny]

First of all, the series has nothing to do with what happens afterwards. OSU pummeled ND twice in a row in the mid-90s. That didn't change when OSU failed to 'capitalize' on that season with a title.

OSU dominated Texas this year. Rationalize it all you want, but our defense was a bit overrated as well.

If we're in the business of making weak excuses, I'd say a QB carousel was a pretty large flaw last year as well. Troy was a shell of his future self on 09/10/06... heck he was still that mediocre the next week vs lousy SDSU.

Perhaps I haven't expressed my views well enough. The series does have everything to do with what the teams did afterwards. The first Texas/OSU will be remembered as a classic, with the winner winning the NC. The second game will be remembered for what it was. A one-sided win between two teams that went on to have mediocre seasons.

By the way, at least you had Troy Smith for half the game. We had a freshman QB in his second start for the entire game.

 

[MyMamaTastesFunny]

Wow, you came here just to say that although we split the series a game each, and Ohio State outscored Texas 46-32 in those games, Texas "won the series" because Texas won their national title game and we lost ours. Put the bong down.

Well, they don't call us the "Bonghorns" for nothing.