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9 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

I recall the PSU games more than Sparty. Michigan hammered PSU with ease during my years attending games but couldn’t offer the Buckeyes a challenge

 

I road-tripped to PSU as a freshman in 1994 to watch Ki-Jana Carter run up the score on a good OSU team right after PSU joined the conference. That sucked. After that “fluke,” PSU wasn't really on my radar until Pryor’s Buckeyes ran into a buzzsaw during the first nighttime whiteout I can remember. Since then those games have been nearly impossible to win on the road. 

 

I currently think of MSU as a bigger rival mostly because of Dantonio’s connection to OSU as defensive coordinator during the national championship run in 02. He runs that program similarly to the way Tressel ran the OSU program, which will always cut deep for OSU fans.  Losses in the conference championship in 13 and a terrible home loss in 15 (on my 40th birthday) sealed the OSU-MSU game as a bitter rivalry for me. 

 

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fair enough, I understand how Sparty has provided a challenge, I have no clue why PSU ever gets within 21 points of a good tOSU squad

 

 

 

 

Aside from the RichRod era, Michigan is something like 12-1 on PSU with 9 wins in a row in there

 

The media trumpets the Michigan rivalry for old times sake, just like it does the Leafs/Canadiens although they haven’t met in the playoffs since 1978

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Willyville Guy said:

 

I road-tripped to PSU as a freshman in 1994 to watch Ki-Jana Carter run up the score on a good OSU team right after PSU joined the conference. That sucked. After that “fluke,” PSU wasn't really on my radar until Pryor’s Buckeyes ran into a buzzsaw during the first nighttime whiteout I can remember. Since then those games have been nearly impossible to win on the road. 

 

I currently think of MSU as a bigger rival mostly because of Dantonio’s connection to OSU as defensive coordinator during the national championship run in 02. He runs that program similarly to the way Tressel ran the OSU program, which will always cut deep for OSU fans.  Losses in the conference championship in 13 and a terrible home loss in 15 (on my 40th birthday) sealed the OSU-MSU game as a bitter rivalry for me. 

 

And then there was ‘98

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4 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

And then there was ‘98

 

No doubt. 

 

I think that was the year Joey G set all the passing records that Haskins is about to break. 

 

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38 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Didn’t the Bills try to do a white out a few years ago vs the Pats? 

 

Not sure, but I think whiteouts during the day are kind of goofy and not nearly as effective as they are at night. 

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27 minutes ago, Willyville Guy said:

 

Not sure, but I think whiteouts during the day are kind of goofy and not nearly as effective as they are at night. 

Yep. Buckeyes need to try to score early and simmer down the locals

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42 minutes ago, row_33 said:

Penn State will win but find a way to lose two games and tOSU will go to the playoffs

 

I thought the same thing about OSU. It’s a big game so they will win, then they will go to like Purdue or something and lose. 

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38 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

I thought the same thing about OSU. It’s a big game so they will win, then they will go to like Purdue or something and lose. 

 

Penn State is nothing but always puts bats in the belfry of Ohio State

 

 

Please win Buckeyes and kill of the non-stop whining when Playoff time rolls around, please???

 

 

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2 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

Penn State is nothing but always puts bats in the belfry of Ohio State

 

 

Please win Buckeyes and kill of the non-stop whining when Playoff time rolls around, please???

 

 

If ND beats Stanford this weekend, they are basically in the playoff and makes it even harder for anyone to get in with one loss. The rest of their schedule is a breeze.

 

at this point I just can’t see OSU going undefeated. Their schedule is tough.

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18 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

If ND beats Stanford this weekend, they are basically in the playoff and makes it even harder for anyone to get in with one loss. The rest of their schedule is a breeze.

 

at this point I just can’t see OSU going undefeated. Their schedule is tough.

 

ND will fumble bumble stumble a shoulda-won away, it's hard to go undefeated even with a great team... get your one loss over with ASAP in the season

 

would be interesting to see if they give ND the edge over a one-loss SEC team like Bama or Georgia

 

I used to think ND would get in with ease by the committee, but I think the Irish appeal to a national base is not 1/3 of what it was 20 years ago...  could again be very wrong

 

 

 

 

Trojans at home won't be a pushover.

 

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Just now, row_33 said:

 

ND will fumble bumble stumble a shoulda-won away, it's hard to go undefeated even with a great team...

 

would be interesting to see if they give ND the edge over a one-loss SEC team like Bama or Georgia

 

I used to think ND would get in with ease by the committee, but I think the Irish appeal to a national base is not 1/3 of what it was 20 years ago...  could again be very wrong

 

 

 

 

Last time they got in (it was still the BCS) they got boat raced by Bama. What sucks is that was the year OSU went undefeated in urban’s 1st year but had a self-imposed bowl ban (thanks Gene) from the tressel situation. If they didn’t have the bowl ban they would have gotten in over Bama, who had one loss. And I guarantee OSU would have beaten that ND team. 

 

If there are 4 undefeated power 5 conference champs, ND won’t get it imo regardless of their record. Otherwise they probably will unless Bama is the team with the loss. 

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9 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Last time they got in (it was still the BCS) they got boat raced by Bama. What sucks is that was the year OSU went undefeated in urban’s 1st year but had a self-imposed bowl ban (thanks Gene) from the tressel situation. If they didn’t have the bowl ban they would have gotten in over Bama, who had one loss. And I guarantee OSU would have beaten that ND team. 

 

If there are 4 undefeated power 5 conference champs, ND won’t get it imo regardless of their record. Otherwise they probably will unless Bama is the team with the loss. 

 

years ago it would have been scandalous to think ND wouldn't get a free pass to the playoff if reasonably eligible,  but times may have changed.... have to wait and see.... nah, Irish are in the playoff if they run the table....

 

 

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