Once again the Buckeyes show us just how overrated they really get at times. I love it when a team, which is overrated because of its popularity, loses to a lower ranked team with real talent, and a quarterback from Tyler, Texas!

” . . . For sure, the Buckeyes were perhaps the most-maligned No. 1 team in recent memory, with critics attacking them all season. Tressel gave his players a 10-minute DVD filled with insults hurled at them by television and radio announcers, hoping it would motivate his team. Instead, the Tigers ravaged the nation’s best defense and showed that maybe all those naysayers were right . . . “

There were several teams that probably deserved to be in the BCS Championship game, but because teams ahead of OSU lost, they Bucks backed their way into a buzz saw. Once again, another overrated Buckeye team got blown out when playing the SEC, the best football conference by the numbers. The problem with OSU is that they don’t play anyone all season, and then get drummed when they see a great team. That’s what happened last year in the BCS game against Florida, and that’s what happened this year.

The first four teams OSU played this year, where:

Youngstown
Akron
Washington
Northwestern

YAWN . . . Because of OSU popularity, they start high in the rankings. Rankings are simply popularity contests, so when they start high up in the rankings, they hamper more deserved teams, like LSU, USC, Georgia, West Virginia, Kansas, or Missouri from climbing the rankings.

Maybe, instead of kneeling on the ball with 1:12 left in the game, LSU “should have gone for six, because they couldn’t go for seven,” as Woody would say.

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