Who cares how they do it? It’s tied up now!
You know, I don’t even care. It’s just Ivylad will mope if they lose. I guess I’m a Buckeye-in-law.
sadly the refs apparently don’t care
I live in the campus area. I’m at home. I’m several blocks from campus, so I don’t get crowds of people turning over cars where I am. During game days themselves, there’s usually a lot of peace here, because everyone’s gone to campus. But I’ve just heard my first drunken, game-maddened holler of the evening.
Oh, joy.
there’s some Bo ball. 21-28
Well, that was one of the best national championship games I’ve seen in a while.
Yeah, great game. Would love to see a rematch. Too bad Michigan couldn’t keep from getting a personal foul on that incomplete 3rd and 15 pass.
Couldn’t ask for a better game, really.
Well fought. Michigan chopped down a considerable lead. The last minute drive just didn’t quite, uh, drive far enough. 42-39 is nothing to be ashamed of.
So no whining. Bo wouldn’t like whining.
This is the only game I’ve watched all year. Gotta say, I couldn’t turn it off. Excellent game.
Now, if the jerk contingent among the Buckeye fans will forget to be jerkish…oh please, oh please, oh please!!!
GT
I watched the Minnesota/Iowa game beforehand. Good comedy, no plot, poor choreography, but it ended OK. 
Floyd of Rosedale comes home.
The Michigan/Ohio State game was some good ball, although both Bo and Woody must’ve been turning about 8,500 rpm in their graves (or would be, if Bo was there yet) at all of the passing and the almost total lack of pass coverage. I mean, who expects the total offense for both teams to be 600 yards in the first half?
So, will it be Fiesta or Rose for Ohio State?
Yeah, in at least 11 months.
Yes, I recalled after posting that last year’s game was fantastic. Which is funny, seeing how I’m a Titans fan.
I must say, that was a helluva game. The Wolverines gave a good run, and it was quite nerve-wracking there for awhile.
Good game, wolfman. May I get you a beer?
I never really felt that the game was as close as the final score indicated… I dunno, at no point after OSU went up by 14 the first time did I really get the feeling that Michigan was going to win (even when they pulled within 4 there). It just seemed that it took a couple of fluke turnovers to even get back that close, and I didn’t have a ton of doubt that OSU would get it done when it mattered.
It was definitely a good game, though. It might have been nice with a little more defense - this game easily could have been in the 50s with no OT if Henne hadn’t missed some really open throws and Smith did a little better with his shotgun snaps.
Don’t really want to see a rematch, but mostly because I want to see if someone like Arkansas can manage to slow down the OSU offense at all (independent of OSU killing itself).
Michigan falls to 3. USC moves up from 4 to 2 leapfrogging Florida.
I don’t think there shoud be a rematch because first of all that isn’t really fair to OSU. Why sould they have to prove themselves again against Michigan. #2 I don’t thin Michigan is the second best team in the country. If ( a big if) USC beats ND and UCLA then their resume is much stronger than Michigan’s OK Michigan’s loss is better, buta loss to Oregon State in Corvallis is not horrible. USC’s victories will be against Cal, Arkansas, Nebraska, Notre Dame. Arkansas may be champs of the SEC and Nebraska of the Big 12. Michigan has beaten ND and Wisconsin. Their our of conference schedule just doesn’t compare.
I watched most of the game, coming in after the score was already 14-7. Thought it was okay, Michigan never felt like they threatened to win the game, and frankly both defenses looked very suspect. I’d not watch this again as a national championship game. I do hope that Florida and USC, if they don’t lose any further games, would end up playing OSU and Michigan and see how that turns out. Florida still has to play FSU and Arkansas. USC has to play at least Notre Dame. I don’t know who OSU and Michigan have left on their schedule, if anyone.
No. No. No. This is The Big One. Once this game has been played, their regular season is over.
I thought the Iron Bowl was (as usual) much more compelling.
The OSU/UM game never felt close, and reminded me of about 30 offense-heavy WAC games I’ve watched on Thursday nights. A defensive showing by either team would have made it a good game.
I tend to agree. A high-scoring game, though exciting, never hits me as a classic.
Man, Troy Smith is a cyborg or something. I’m glad that’s the last time I’ll be seeing him in Scarlet. There’s nothing you can do against a quarterback when he plays like that. He throws so quick that the pressure can’t get there in time. Michigan was trying to figure it out too, but there was no answer. On one early play (perhaps OSU’s first TD), the corners tried to bump the receivers, but they ran a pick and Smith hit one of them wide open in the end zone. Later they tried to zone up, but one of them just broke off his route and sat in a little soft spot right in front of the end zone. The only thing our defense could do was pray for Smith to make errant throws and random fumbles. And then he did, but it still wasn’t enough.
Were the Penn State and Illinois defenses actually able to slow him earlier in the year, or was he just lacking focus in those games? I can’t see any way to defend an offense when it’s executed like that.
Going by today’s BCS rankings, there seem to be only four contenders left in the bunch: Michigan, USC, Florida and Arkansas. USC seems to be in control here. If they win out, they’ll jump Michigan.
Mundane Trivia Note: Michigan once played at Hawaii after the Ohio State game. I can’t remember which year this was…sometime in the late 90s.