tOSU's BCS Bowl possibilities

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

If OSU makes a BCS Bowl, personally - if it's not the Title game or Rose - I'd like the Orange Bowl. Haven't been in over 30 years. I guess Orange Bowl reps were in the stands as OSU played NU. Hope the liked what they saw.

 

[generaladm]

If OSU makes a BCS Bowl, personally - if it's not the Title game or Rose - I'd like the Orange Bowl. Haven't been in over 30 years. I guess Orange Bowl reps were in the stands as OSU played NU. Hope the liked what they saw.

Seeing Buckeye fans fill over half of a visiting stadium, and the team put on a dominating performance with two of the most exciting offensive players in the country; I don't know how they couldn't be impressed.

 

[MUBuck]

If State Penn and Michigan State lose, then our computer ratings will suffer.

Sparty just has PSU left, and PSU only has Indiana before that game. If Sparty beats PSU, we win the B10 (head-to-head with Sparty), thus Rose Bowl bid. If PSU beats Sparty, we hope for an at-large bid. I don't think the computer ratings are anything to worry about at this point.

Of course, we should learn a valuable lesson from PSU and not worry about the system failing us until our season is over.

 

[BB73]

DDN

Wow - does Rusty Miller actually get paid to write totally inaccurate articles like that?

He's way off on tOSU's Rose Bowl possibilities. He says "Don't count on the Buckeyes getting a sniff of the Rose Bowl (at least if the opponent is USC), unless almost every other team in the top 15 loses at least once more." I guess he fails to realize that 10-2 tOSU gets an automatic Rose Bowl bid if MSU beats PSU, based on the head-to-head tiebreaker.

He's wrong in projecting Florida to the Capital One Bowl - if they lose the SEC Title Game, they'll still get a BCS at-large bid, most likely the Sugar Bowl.

And he doesn't mention how Oregon State going to the Rose Bowl is the main factor in a 10-2 tOSU team NOT getting a BCS at-large bid, since the only way the Big 10 doesn't get 2 BCS bids is if the Pac 10 gets two, or if both Utah and Boise State get selected. Instead he says "Should six or eight upsets take place, the Buckeyes could join Penn State in the BCS picture." That's completely off base, only 1 loss for Oregon State is needed in his scenario where tOSU and PSU both win out.

Other than that, the brief article was worth reading. :tongue2:

 

[Tlangs]

Let's hope that they don't select two Non-BCS teams. Both ranked ahead of us in BCS and they don't play each other. so they can win out.
One of them lose... we are in (Orange or Fiesta).

I just don't see two non BCS teams getting picked. Maybe its the scarlet glasses but with the Orange Bowl having the last "at large" pick, and their rep going to the nortwestern game where we filled half the stadium in 30 degree weather...i like our chances.

 

[buxfan4life]

If OSU makes a BCS Bowl, personally - if it's not the Title game or Rose - I'd like the Orange Bowl. Haven't been in over 30 years. I guess Orange Bowl reps were in the stands as OSU played NU. Hope the liked what they saw.

This would be my choice also, since I live in South Florida!!

 

[IronBuckI]

Cowherd just predicted a Boise St.- Ohio State Fiesta Bowl. I can't say as though that would upset me too much. We still keep the string of BCS Bowl games alive, and Boise St. is definitely a team that we can beat.

The Orange Bowl vs. Va Tech, or FSU would be pretty sweet too.

 

[BB73]

Cowherd just predicted a Boise St.- Ohio State Fiesta Bowl.

He's an idiot. The Fiesta Bowl gets the first at-large choice after the replacement picks, and probably a replacement pick for a Big 12 team in the Title game. And if it's the second replacement pick, they can block the Sugar Bowl from selecting a Big 12 team as the first replacement pick.

If anybody doesn't think that the Fiesta Bowl is going to take a Big 12 team, probably Texas or Oklahoma, with their first choice, they're either kidding themselves, have no understanding of the BCS Bowl selection process, or are just saying stuff to get attention and stir the pot.

 

[notfadeaway]

I just hope we beat Illinois and scum...after that who cares who we play as long as we compete and have a shot to win the bowl game

 

[Zander42]

Wow - does Rusty Miller actually get paid to write totally inaccurate articles like that?

...snip...

Rusty Miller is proving himself to be one of the biggest sports writing idiots in the business. Maybe he's auditioning for Mark May's job. He wrote something a couple of weeks ago that was way off as well. The bad thing about the AP writers, they don't post their email addresses with their stories. Kind of like drive-by posters if you ask me. I looked for his email and couldn't find it.

I think all of the negative press about tOSU actually helps us, at least we're a story. Like they say in show business, there is no 'bad press'. The bowl games are definitely show business.

-z

 

[jlb1705]

We would need a lot of assistance, after this weekend. If State Penn and Michigan State lose, then our computer ratings will suffer. Note that we dropped in the computer ratings despite the accomplishments at Northwestern.

Realistically, Boise State and Utah play patsies, except for the Utah and BYU game, which could go the other way.

I don't like our chances.

If MSU and Penn State both lose Ohio State wins the Big Ten outright (assuming they win out). The computers can say whatever they want.

I guess I'm the only one on here rooting big time for Penn State to spit the bit against IU? That one thing alone would make Ohio State a lock for the BCS if they take care of their own business. I know it's not all that likely, but neither was it all that likely that all of the 8-10 things that needed to happen last year to get OSU into the championship game were going to happen. It's worth paying attention to at the very least.

 

[IronBuckI]

He's an idiot. The Fiesta Bowl gets the first at-large choice after the replacement picks, and probably a replacement pick for a Big 12 team in the Title game. And if it's the second replacement pick, they can block the Sugar Bowl from selecting a Big 12 team as the first replacement pick.

If anybody doesn't think that the Fiesta Bowl is giong to take a Big 12 team, probably Texas or Oklahoma, with their firat choice, they're either kidding themselves, have no understanding of the BCS Bowl selection process, or are just saying stuff to get attention and stir the pot.

Further proof of his idiocy is his reasoning for the Fiesta Bowl not taking Oklahoma. His excuse? "Oklahoma has been there too many times recently. They're tired of the Fiesta and the Fiesta is tired of them." He must have forgotten that we've been to Arizona 4 times in the last six years.

 

[BB73]

Here's a well-reasoned artictle with bowl projections from SI's Stewart Mandel. It assumes Florida and Texas Tech in the Title game, and Penn State-USC in the Rose Bowl. After that, he has the Fiesta Bowl selecting Texas and tOSU, with Alabama and Utah in the Sugar. The Orange gets the ACC winner and gets the last choice, which in this scenario is the Big East winner.

Once again, a 10-2 tOSU is likely to get either a Fiesta or Sugar Bowl bid as long as the Rose Bowl isn't PSU-Oregon State. Because then the Fiesta would select USC to play a Big 12 team, and the other at large bids would go to the Big 12, the SEC, and either Utah or Boise State, as long as at least 1 of them automatically qualifies.

SI.com/stewart_mandel/11/10/bowl-projections

Bowl Projections

- The Fiesta Bowl will select 11-1 Texas to replace Texas Tech and, with the first at-large choice, take 10-2 Ohio State as the Longhorns' opponent.
- The Sugar Bowl will take 12-1 Alabama to replace Florida and, with the second at-large choice, select 12-0 Utah over the Big East champ (which I'm projecting to be 10-3 Cincinnati).
- USC will win out while Oregon State will stumble once, sending the Trojans to the Rose Bowl where they will meet Big Ten champ Penn State.

Cont'd ...

 

[holybuckeye33]

Seeing Buckeye fans fill over half of a visiting stadium, and the team put on a dominating performance with two of the most exciting offensive players in the country; I don't know how they couldn't be impressed.

I don't think it will matter how impressed they were. There is no way I can see the Fiesta and the Sugar passing on the Bucks if we win out.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

If anybody doesn't think that the Fiesta Bowl is going to take a Big 12 team, probably Texas or Oklahoma, with their firat choice, they're either kidding themselves, have no understanding of the BCS Bowl selection process, or are just saying stuff to get attention and stir the pot.

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