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Oh8ch said:
Sorry, but I disagree.

Between Texas and UM my blood pressure never got above 120. If PSU and Illinois had played their roles I might agree. But just a bunch of scrimmage games on most Saturdays. Who wants to test drive a Lamorghini thru a school zone?

Now the next few weeks - that's a different story.
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Or maybe Ohio State really is that much better than everyone else.
 
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Oh8ch said:
Absolutely agree.

The 2002 team may have been the least deserving NC in history. If six plays had gone a different way that team ccould have finished .500. And any of you young pups who aren't familiar with how those games played out you owe it to yourselves to do some research.*

But those plays didn't go the other way and that was an incredible year.

*I refreshed my own memory so here is a brief recap:

Scored with 4 minutes left against Cincinnati to win by 4.
Scored the only TD of the second half in the 4th quarter to beat Wisconsin by 5.
Needed a Chris Gamble interception return (which could have been called for interference) to beat PSU BY 6.
If you aren't familiar with "Holy Buckeye" against Purdue why are you even here? That was a 4th and ball game call to win by 4.
Beat Illinois by 7 - in frickin OT.
Intercepted a pass in the endzone with one second left to beat UM by 5. And this after taking the lead with less than 5 minutes remaining.
And the tension in the Fiesta Bowl itself was beyond description. The McGahee injury, the Doss interception, the Dorsey funble, the Clarett strip, the holding on Gamble. Just a few of the plays that decided that game.
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Least deserving? Are you drunk? Great teams finish, which is was the 2002 team did every freaking week. They also beat three top ten teams, and i know that Purdue wasn't highly ranked in 2002, but that team was STACKED with talent. They had 9 guys drafted in 2004, which was the same amount as the freaking Miami Hurricanes, who, let's not forget, were riding a 31 game winning streak and were 12 point favorites in that Fiesta Bowl. It took some fucking AWFUL officiating for them to even make it to overtime against the Buckeyes.
 
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Zem said:
They just pulled the plug on OSU's comms. Malicious cheating, plain and simple. Their Harbaughitis infection continues to grow and further corrupt the program.
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It's not harbaughitis. That's giving that fucktard too much credit.

It's the institution. From aiding and abetting Harbaugh, to the rampant non-stop arrogance to their clown college importing Chinese super-fungii and falling foul of the feds, that whole place is rotten to its very core.
 
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Ryan Day Says Ohio State’s Fourth-Down Touchdown Play Call is One It Had Saved For Key Moment

Ryan Day said Ohio State's fourth-down touchdown to Jeremiah Smith was a play call it had banked for later in The Game, but felt then was the right time to unveil it.
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Ryan Day Says Ohio State’s Fourth-Down Touchdown Play Call is One It Had Saved For Key Moment​

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One of the biggest turning points of The Game on Saturday was Ohio State's 35-yard touchdown strike on 4th-and-5 when it trailed 6-3 in the first half.

The slant-and-go route run by Smith put his defender on skates and Ohio State in the lead after Michigan had taken early momentum on a field-goal drive and an interception that led to another field goal. Julian Sayin put the ball in a perfect spot.



On his weekly Buckeye Roundtable appearance with 97.1 the Fan, Day dove into his decision to go for it in that spot and shared some extra insight on the play call. It was one that Ohio State was keeping in its back pocket for a critical late-game moment, but Day felt then was the time to strike. It's hard to argue with the decision after a 27-9 Buckeye win to end their curse in The Game.

Day also discussed his offensive line's performance and did some more previewing of the Big Ten Championship Game vs. Indiana during the segment.
  • On the decision to go for it on 4th-and-5: "It was a play that I felt like we were gonna use later in the game in a spot like that, but we didn’t start the way we wanted to. ... I made my mind up that we were going to go for it on third down. ... We got the coverage that we expected. The corner was sitting at the sticks at five yards and Jeremiah ran a great route."
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Just sayin': I thought Hartline was supposed to be calling the plays.....:confused:
 
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