I would rather protect the reputation of the school and confrenence. You think people say the Big 10 is weak right now, wait to see what they say if OSU goes and loses.
And what happens if they go out and kick ass ?
I would rather protect the reputation of the school and confrenence. You think people say the Big 10 is weak right now, wait to see what they say if OSU goes and loses.
I would rather protect the reputation of the school and confrenence. You think people say the Big 10 is weak right now, wait to see what they say if OSU goes and loses.
So you would rather NOT get there than have the opportunity to do great things in a Championship game .....
You cannot go into games thinking that you will lose, you will never do anything with that attitude.
You go into the locker room with 50 young men and tell them that you (as the coach) don't think they would do very good against an opponent and see how many happy men you have.
You would be thrown out of the locker room and never let back in.
Jimbo
I never said that they would lose. If you read my comment it was IF.
IF they make it we will see if Tressel has learned anything about having a 7 week layoff.
The 7 week layoff has nothing to do with Tressel ....
i would bet you on a mizzou - ou game. they had till the end AT norman. on a netural field and on a roll i will take the tigers
I don't want to see OU play Missouri again either, but I wouldn't call the Alamo Dome a neutral field either, the way OU travels.
I also need Missouri to lose as I have already bought the rope and tiger doll to hang outside the office of one of my employees on Monday
Like I said, NO ONE is sitting prettier than West Virginia. Here how it will get real interesting...IF Kansas comes back and BEATS Mizzou, going undefeated into the Big 12 Championship...Kansas will MORE than likely be ranked #1. NOW, if Oklahoma beats Kansas....I would have to say Oklahoma deserves to be #2 over Ohio State by virtue of beating the #1 team in the country.
Scary how much weight this Mizzou vs. Kansas game has on everyone EXCEPT West Virginia.
Salsa,
Lots of teams have beat the #1 and # 2 teams this year .....
Also Oklahoma was ranked #10 in the BCS coming into the week, I don't see them passing All those teams to be #1-2
Now that Mizzou has beat Kansas ...
Do they have enough to be emotionally high 2 weeks in a row ?
Can they beat Oklahoma ?
Looks like this week the BCS will look like this :
WV
Mizzou
OSU
Then WHO ???
LSU , Arizona State ????
LSU lost ..... when OSU lost they dropped all the way to 7th.
How far will LSU fall ?
Jimbo
Ohio State's ONLY hope is that Mizzou loses to Oklahoma.....if that does not happen, it will be Mizzou and West Virginia....2 teams that NO ONE...including th experts thought would be there....cool.....I like it.....:up
I too will be rooting right along with you dantheman, but not for the reasons you may think.
Yes a Mizzou win will help the Buckeyes, but Coach Pinkel finally has it going in the right direction down there, just as some thought he might be gone if the team didn't do better.
Coach Pinkel was up here at Toledo for several years after leaving Washington...
So that make Coach Meyer (Bowling Green, Ohio) and Coach Pinckel (Toledo) both coached in the MAC and moved on to better and bigger programs. :up
After watching both the OU/OKSt game and the Mizzou/KU game, I feel like OU will beat Mizzou in the Big12 CG. The Sooners are on a roll right now and KU (exposed as just a mediocre team now) gave Mizzou a pretty good game.
I think tOSU is in after next week. If I were a Bucknut, I'd go online and try to snag some of those reserved LSU and KU MNC tickets! :up
Coaches Poll is out:
1: WVU (37) 1467
2: Mizzu (17) 1454
3: tOSU (6) 1383
4: Georgia 1232
5: Kansas 1161
5: VT 1161
7:LSU 1134
8 OU 1126
9: USC 1073
10: Hawaii 958
14: Illinois 674 (only mentioning this since if tOSU makes the NC game, Illinois should be elig for the rose bowl)
Remember, its not just the ranking that matters, its also the margin!
Ok, I think those are right....but HOW does Ohio State get 1st place votes? IF ANYTHING, they should have been split between Mizzou and West Virginia....