As much as I enjoy it, I am a little bored of watching the Big Televen Champion get blown out in the BCS Title game and the Rose Bowl. Can we start to put more emphasis on strength of schedule and encourage the pollsters to stop dead horsing the Big Televen? I understand getting blown out in the Rose Bowl is a tradition and I am willing to meet them half way. Give them the Rose Bowl and let them rock paper scissors their way to a conference championship and leave the title games for those that deserve it.
Big Televen Exposed (Again)
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It bugs me how they are able to back into these bowl games every year. If no one had to play a conference championship game, then Ohio State would have played in the Rose Bowl and Illinois could have gone to a bowl where they could have actually competed.
Its no wonder the Big 10 is so against a playoff system. Every year they can sit around while other teams are still playing and then just get given two BCS games.
Its no wonder the Big 10 is so against a playoff system. Every year they can sit around while other teams are still playing and then just get given two BCS games.
How do you explain the Fiesta Bowl? Was that the Big12 getting exposed? Cap1 bowl? Was that the Big 10 exposing the SEC? It was 1 game.
When Kansas was still undefeated the national media was complaining about their soft schedule. Can someone explain to me how tOSU's was any better and we don't hear a peep about it. I guess they just assume the Big10 is tough because it always is, right?
That is a great point! I just can't believe that Missouri was penalized for playing in a conference championship! They beat KU...lose the conference title game...KU gets a better bowl? KU did themselves proud...but it isn't right!
STOOPS and his B10 connections...just kidding. Man...I bet there are a lot of whispers around that program about what they should do different in December!
Ok, I've explained this before. They didn't back into anything! they played 12 games just like everyone else did, their schedule just happens to end 2 weeks before everyone else's but they still played just as many games as everyone else. If they had lost their last game just like all the other teams in contention did in their last game they wouldn't be in that game. They were 11-1, they earned the right to be there. Yes it sucks they have got blown out 2 years in a row now but who else do you think would have played a closer game against LSU? Kansas? No way and Mizzou should have been in a BCS game not KU. Hawaii was unbeaten and got killed, USC, VT, Georgia, and OU all had 2 losses and half of them got beat in their bowl games.
You put in a playoff system and I liked USC and Mizzou's chances. But with the current system in place OSU earned the right to be there. It's not perfect but all it would have taken is for a couple games to have a different outcome in the last week and OSU would not have been in the title game.
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Boy, that would be something. He consistently wins the big 10. Consistently beats their arch-rival. Routinely goes the BCS and has played in 3 of 10 (?) national championship games.
That would be quite the move to kick him to the curb simply because "he's only won one national championship"
Wouldn't put it past tOSU however.
BTW, isn't Gene Smith, formerly of ISU, the AD there? I'd say Tressel is safe.
Boy, that would be something. He consistently wins the big 10. Consistently beats their arch-rival. Routinely goes the BCS and has played in 3 of 10 (?) national championship games.
That would be quite the move to kick him to the curb simply because "he's only won one national championship"
Wouldn't put it past tOSU however.
BTW, isn't Gene Smith, formerly of ISU, the AD there? I'd say Tressel is safe.
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I guess people forgot that he won a national title back in 2003 (2002 season I guess.) huh? I'd take a coach that got my team to the national title game 3 times in the past 6 years and is 73-15 since he took the job in 2001 and also has won 4 conference titles in 7 years. I love it how people here can rip on other schools when I'd do anything to take that kind of success here at ISU.
I guess people forgot that he won a national title back in 2003 (2002 season I guess.) huh? I'd take a coach that got my team to the national title game 3 times in the past 6 years and is 73-15 since he took the job in 2001 and also has won 4 conference titles in 7 years. I love it how people here can rip on other schools when I'd do anything to take that kind of success here at ISU.
Thats true, but would Ohio State have played last night if the season ended on November 17th like it did for them? I understand that the other teams in contention for the NC should have won their conference championships, but do you feel confident that Ohio State could have beaten another Big 10 team if they would have played again? What if they would of played Wisconsin, Illinois, or Michigan one more time?
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Im not ripping on them. I give them alot of credit to be where they are regardless of loss. I wonder how ISU would have done against either team. =)
Im not ripping on them. I give them alot of credit to be where they are regardless of loss. I wonder how ISU would have done against either team. =)
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I know they did - however I also watched the game and it took one of the worst PI calls EVER in OT for them to win it. They might have the trophy - but in my book they're 0-3.
Nobody is going to discredit OSU and the program they have. But when you walk around with the arrogance of their fanbase and everyone of their athletes constantly doing the "THE Ohio State University"... Plus if you've ever been there and have to listen to that damn "O H" "I O" chant incessently.
Well, there's going to be some animosity.
If you're going to present yourself as something really special - well you really better be.
(you being OSU, not you) :wink:
That being said - no way they should realistically be even considering firing Tressel. But again, they might just be that arrogant....
I know they did - however I also watched the game and it took one of the worst PI calls EVER in OT for them to win it. They might have the trophy - but in my book they're 0-3.
Nobody is going to discredit OSU and the program they have. But when you walk around with the arrogance of their fanbase and everyone of their athletes constantly doing the "THE Ohio State University"... Plus if you've ever been there and have to listen to that damn "O H" "I O" chant incessently.
Well, there's going to be some animosity.
If you're going to present yourself as something really special - well you really better be.
(you being OSU, not you) :wink:
That being said - no way they should realistically be even considering firing Tressel. But again, they might just be that arrogant....
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The Big XII wasn't exposed - Oklahoma and Stoops were exposed. Ever since he won the title earlier in the decade he's done absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, Texas won a NC in 2006 and KU won their BCS game this year, and although it wasn't a BCS game, Mizzou ran Arkansas into the ground in the Cotton Bowl. It's Oklahoma that's giving the Big XII a bad name, not the entire conference being exposed. And seriously - besides Michigan hanging on to beat Florida this year, what has the Big 10 done in recent memory?
Everyone else in the title picture played 13 games. That's the point. If the BCS was decided after everyone played 12 games then tOSU wouldn't be there.
