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Founder & Pres of the Flemming/Holtmann Fan Club
Yahoo Pickem Champ
Former Game Champion
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AuTX Buckeye
Founder & Pres of the Flemming/Holtmann Fan Club
Yahoo Pickem Champ
Former Game Champion
They are but they are more league agnostic than any of the national folks
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buckeyeintn
Legend
So he thinks that's what a major college quarterback is supposed to look like?
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
Checks link. Yep, checks out.
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DaBuckeyes
Hall of Fame
If you want to know why the Buckeyes are only ranked 6th then look no further than the king douche brent mcmurphy and the 11 voters who left them off the ballot because they didn't play.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-12-return-most-unusual-college-football-poll
Funny how the previous week he didn't have this same "opinion" when the SEC hadn't played yet.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-12-return-most-unusual-college-football-poll
Funny how the previous week he didn't have this same "opinion" when the SEC hadn't played yet.
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I can honestly deal with the "leave them off until they play" logic (semi-flawed as it is) more so than the nimrods who have OSU ranked outside the top 5.
Again, if you watched UGA this weekend and came away from it saying "I just watched one of the 5 best teams in America" then I don't know how to help you.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
YOU MAD? Imagine being so rattled by another team's ranking in a valueless poll that you drag out your hot take machine to drivel out 350 words about how unfair it is to your top-ranked team.
Folks, that is the state of the Clemson blogosphere.
Despite not even playing a game and not being scheduled to play for a month, Ohio State is already taking away first-place votes from Clemson football.
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You can’t drop teams that don’t play and it’s basically set up Ohio State and Penn State to start inside the top-7 to begin the season, play less games and have a greater opportunity to make the CFB Playoff- because the committee does look at the AP Poll, whether you believe it or not- with less of a challenge than these other programs.
When Ohio State plays its first game, Clemson could be 6-0. Do you how ridiculous it sounds that there are voters who are already placing the Buckeyes ahead of the Tigers without even seeing one ounce of the product on the field?
I'm not sure I can quantify the lack of self-awareness it takes for a Clemson fan to complain that another team's path to the playoff is too easy. So far, Clemson's extra challenging path to the playoff has included two wins against teams that are a combined 0-5 this year, including an FCS team that went .500 last year.
But more than any of that, if you're this angry about Ohio State "stealing" first-place votes from Clemson in a meaningless poll in September, I'm extremely here for your reaction to what happens in January.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Why the B1G got a key boost to its Playoff chances before it takes the field
Perception is reality in 2020.
The perception entering the 2020 season was that the SEC was the nation’s best conference. Why? The SEC had 7 teams ranked in the Associated Press preseason Top 25, 6 of which were ranked in the top 13. Reality is that there are conference-only schedules this year and that we won’t see Power 5 conferences truly face off with one another until the postseason.
Hence, the perception of the SEC is that it’ll essentially have an automatic Playoff berth. That’s reality.
The perception of the B1G heading into this bizarre 2020 season has been, well, a bit all over the place. Under normal circumstances, the conference would have been firmly established as the No. 2 conference with Ohio State, which was and is a legitimate contender to win it all.
But then opt-outs happened. Stars elected not to participate in whatever was in store. A postponed season didn’t just put the B1G’s perception on the back burner; it was taken off the stove entirely.
Now, however, perception has changed. At least it should have.
The latest key opt-in for the B1G was Rashod Bateman, who ironically enough, was the first big-time college star to initially pass on the 2020 COVID season. Bateman’s return followed in the footsteps of fellow preseason All-American receiver Rondale Moore, as well as Ohio State preseason All-Americans Wyatt Davis and Shaun Wade.
No, Micah Parsons isn’t coming back. That’s about the only thing that could have helped the B1G’s perception more.
And by “perception,” I mean “Playoff chances.”
In the same way the SEC wins the offseason battle on a seemingly yearly basis, the B1G needed to regain some momentum after those opt-outs. When the decision to have a fall season was actually official — and not just rumored by Mr. Large Boat — the B1G didn’t want to give off the vibe that it was a watered-down league lacking the All-Americans who would have played under normal circumstances. It couldn’t just be Justin Fields doing all the heavy lifting.
I say that not to slight the conference. Lord knows there’s star power well beyond Fields. Guys like Tanner Morgan, Pat Freiermuth, Cole Van Lanen and Paddy Fisher coveted national attention in the preseason, as well.
But in a year like this, the B1G’s winner can’t look like it faced a bunch of depleted squads.
It’s going to be difficult enough for the conference to pump out a 9-0 champion. Part of that is because of the obvious COVID contact tracing guidelines, and the other part of it is because it’s just not easy to go 9-0 in a Power 5 conference. Last year, Ohio State was the first Power 5 team to run the table with a 9-game conference schedule and then win a conference title en route to a Playoff berth. The expectation is that the Buckeyes will follow a similar path this year.
The good news for a team like Ohio State is that with Wade and Davis opting back in, this will still be mostly the same squad that was preseason No. 2. Why is that significant? Because preseason perception told us that at full strength, the Buckeyes were better than every SEC team. That means even if someone like Penn State or Wisconsin beats Ohio State, there won’t be a perception that they faced a Buckeye squad that lost multiple All-Americans before the season even started.
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The B1G is sitting in this odd position where it’s trying not to be an afterthought. It needs star power. It needs to earn a national audience. Moore and Bateman are worth the price of admission on any given day, while Wade and Davis might not jump off the screen, but they certainly give Ohio State a better chance of showing on a weekly basis that the B1G’s top team is Playoff-worthy.
After months of shooting itself in the foot, the perception of the B1G is finally turning back in the right direction.
Four preseason All-Americans deserve credit for that.
Entire article: https://saturdaytradition.com/big-t...Yrf3RPZsjIkwMiOrKiD15lCpHZ7kw1uCRk0ijXcA4Mph0
Perception is reality in 2020.
The perception entering the 2020 season was that the SEC was the nation’s best conference. Why? The SEC had 7 teams ranked in the Associated Press preseason Top 25, 6 of which were ranked in the top 13. Reality is that there are conference-only schedules this year and that we won’t see Power 5 conferences truly face off with one another until the postseason.
Hence, the perception of the SEC is that it’ll essentially have an automatic Playoff berth. That’s reality.
The perception of the B1G heading into this bizarre 2020 season has been, well, a bit all over the place. Under normal circumstances, the conference would have been firmly established as the No. 2 conference with Ohio State, which was and is a legitimate contender to win it all.
But then opt-outs happened. Stars elected not to participate in whatever was in store. A postponed season didn’t just put the B1G’s perception on the back burner; it was taken off the stove entirely.
Now, however, perception has changed. At least it should have.
The latest key opt-in for the B1G was Rashod Bateman, who ironically enough, was the first big-time college star to initially pass on the 2020 COVID season. Bateman’s return followed in the footsteps of fellow preseason All-American receiver Rondale Moore, as well as Ohio State preseason All-Americans Wyatt Davis and Shaun Wade.
No, Micah Parsons isn’t coming back. That’s about the only thing that could have helped the B1G’s perception more.
And by “perception,” I mean “Playoff chances.”
In the same way the SEC wins the offseason battle on a seemingly yearly basis, the B1G needed to regain some momentum after those opt-outs. When the decision to have a fall season was actually official — and not just rumored by Mr. Large Boat — the B1G didn’t want to give off the vibe that it was a watered-down league lacking the All-Americans who would have played under normal circumstances. It couldn’t just be Justin Fields doing all the heavy lifting.
I say that not to slight the conference. Lord knows there’s star power well beyond Fields. Guys like Tanner Morgan, Pat Freiermuth, Cole Van Lanen and Paddy Fisher coveted national attention in the preseason, as well.
But in a year like this, the B1G’s winner can’t look like it faced a bunch of depleted squads.
It’s going to be difficult enough for the conference to pump out a 9-0 champion. Part of that is because of the obvious COVID contact tracing guidelines, and the other part of it is because it’s just not easy to go 9-0 in a Power 5 conference. Last year, Ohio State was the first Power 5 team to run the table with a 9-game conference schedule and then win a conference title en route to a Playoff berth. The expectation is that the Buckeyes will follow a similar path this year.
The good news for a team like Ohio State is that with Wade and Davis opting back in, this will still be mostly the same squad that was preseason No. 2. Why is that significant? Because preseason perception told us that at full strength, the Buckeyes were better than every SEC team. That means even if someone like Penn State or Wisconsin beats Ohio State, there won’t be a perception that they faced a Buckeye squad that lost multiple All-Americans before the season even started.
.
.
.
The B1G is sitting in this odd position where it’s trying not to be an afterthought. It needs star power. It needs to earn a national audience. Moore and Bateman are worth the price of admission on any given day, while Wade and Davis might not jump off the screen, but they certainly give Ohio State a better chance of showing on a weekly basis that the B1G’s top team is Playoff-worthy.
After months of shooting itself in the foot, the perception of the B1G is finally turning back in the right direction.
Four preseason All-Americans deserve credit for that.
Entire article: https://saturdaytradition.com/big-t...Yrf3RPZsjIkwMiOrKiD15lCpHZ7kw1uCRk0ijXcA4Mph0
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
A lot of things about this college football season have been moved around -- the biggest being schedules and start dates for each conference. The College Football playoff semifinals are still set for Jan. 1 with the National Championship set for Jan. 11, but we’ll have to wait a little bit longer to get those elusive first set of rankings.
CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN Thursday that its initial rankings have been pushed back from Nov. 17 to Nov. 24 in order to accommodate the changes — specifically the Big Ten and Pac-12's decisions to kickoff their respective seasons in late October and early November. The final set of rankings are set to be released on Dec. 20 -- one day after most conferences will play their league title game. In total, four sets of rankings will be released -- the fewest in the history of the event since it began in 2014.
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