WOOO! BRING IT!Evidently, the only BCS game in which the higher ranked team is an underdog features your favorite team as said underdog. All of the big boys have the Buckeyes at 5½ point dogs to the elephant slayer and his team.
Of course, 4 of the last 5 underdogs have won the BCS Championship game and the Vest knows a thing or two about slaying giants (11½ dogs), so it will be interesting to see how much, if any, that moves over the next month.
What do you think? Close game, Tigers by double-digits?
The long bowl layoff could allow Lawrence Wilson to see action against the Tigers as he continues to heal from the leg injury suffered against Youngstown State in the opener. A final decision on Wilson will likely be made game week.
How are Beanie's injuries? Tressel said he should be ready to rock:
"He's playing, he's practicing, he was running over people the other day."
Some coaching quickies:
- Defensive coordinator Jim Heacock won the Broyles award after all. I thought it would go to Missouri's Christensen, but props to Heacock on this one. Gordon points out that Heacock should have won it last season (winners picked before bowl outcome and all), but late is better than never. Heacock is the first Buckeye assistant to nab the award.
- The Cornfather, Tom Osborne, has given capo Bo Pelini his blessing to return to the LSU sideline to coach the Tigers in the championship game. Et tu Bo?
- Les Miles' contract extension has been put on hold until after the BCS Championship. Not that this changes anything, but you know it will give false hope to Michigan fans everywhere. Why? Because the Wolverines may be back to courting Ferentz.
Comments
I think we matchup a lot better with LSU. It will be a power versus power for most of the game. If the Buckeyes can keep it close or gain a 10 point or so lead in the second half we should be able to shut down LSU's offense...
Three words: White Running Back.
Surely they love that down in Dixie.
Well, Flynn will be healthy by then, so they'll start him which means precious little use of the QB option. I like that. Our defense will stifle them pretty well, which means if we just play a good game of Tressel-Ball we can handle them. Besides, our QB is not the pea-brain that Erik Ainge is. No one seems to be talking about how lucky LSU is to have gotten past Fat Phil and the boys. If they couldn't put away Auburn, Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, or Tennecheat, why would you be confident they could beat the number one team in the country? If I was Tiger Nation, I'd be concerned about this game.
If it isn'k Kirk Ferentz, I look for Missouri coach Gary Pinkel to become the front-runner for the job up north.
I don't care how far the spread is as long as the Buckeyes are down. My bookie has got to be tired of me calling him on this one...
ferentz is just about the worst decision they could make.
aside from hiring moeller again
Which team has Beanie Wells?
Check out the poll results. I just saw a pig fly by my office window.
If anyone's interested in reading some of my rambling thoughts, I just posted a long blog entry on MySpace regarding college football, the BCS, and Ohio State. Check it out at:
http://blog.myspace.com/index....
Geezzz nice work Joe, proves an educated man can distort and twist logic just enough to misguide the average simple minded Buckeye fan into thinking their Bowl disasters actually taste great and are easier to swallow after all. LOL get ready for dose of reality like that special deja vu feeling once again like your last nightmare version of Disaster in the Desert Part II when Gator Bait turns into Ti-Gah Bait!!!
I want Lawrence Wilson healthy
I'm curious to see whether Lawrence plays. I can't imagine he'd be very productive, or productive enough to burn a potential injury redshirt season. Considering they'll probably lose Gholston this year, I'd save Lawrence for '08. He'll want to play, but I'd dance with the girl that brought you.
I agree that LSU is the best matchup for which Ohio State could have hoped. LSU will largely come straight at Ohio State. The Bucks will (I hope) be motivated to put that SEC speed nonsense to bed. I also firmly believe Les Miles needs frequent medication and a weekend pass program to keep him in balance. He's a nut.
I do not for the life of me understand m*ch*g*n's fascination with Kirk Ferentz. Why is a program like that having trouble attracting top-line coaching talent? For years, we've all heard that m*ch*g*n is one of the top three or four jobs in the country, and this is all their fans can expect? Wow. I don't know if such a situation means that the program is down, but I wonder now if m*ch*g*n's reputation isn't in line for a serious rethinking.
Banjo Picker, Disaster in the Desert Part II? Strange, I thought this Championship game was in New Orleans. Oh, I get it, I guess all of Louisiana is barren in regards to common sense and logic. I’m tired of hearing how the SEC is sooooo much better than everyone else. Fact: The Big Ten, within the last 5 years, holds a winning record in head to head match-ups against the SEC. Fact: The Big Ten held a winning record of 2-1 against the SEC last year. Fact: Cal, who did horrible in the Pac Ten, blasted Tennessee (your SEC runner-up) in the mouth.
When your schools have the balls to come up and play us on our turf, away from your home-field advantage, then you can talk some smack.
Banjo Picker, nice to see you reading some intelligent commentary. However, it seems unlikely that you will reciprocate anytime soon. But fear not, if you hang around here long enough, you might eventually graduate from juvenile phrases like "Ti-gah". There is hope!
Wil, don't be so hard on him. LSU did have enough courage to come up here and face us back in 1988. The result: OHIO STATE 36 LOUISIANA STATE 33. It might not seem so bad unless you consider that 1988's version of the Buckeyes was the worst OSU team in the last 30 years. LSU that season was 8-4 and played in the Hall of Fame Bowl. OSU was 4-6-1 in JHC's first season. I guess the crowd at the 'Shoe must have been too much for Mike Archer and the boys.
Maybe thats why they won't come back.....rather avoid us until bowl season....then go 1-2 against us (Big Ten), and then talk about how much better they are than us. My money says if they lose the national championship but beat Michigan and Wisconsin, all we'll hear about is how they still went 2-1 overall. They're like bad politicians, they just talk up the few good things they do and try to brush the bad things under the rug.