Game Two: Texas 25, Ohio State 22 (final)

[jwinslow]

buckeyeboy, we were 8-4. Any idea who the first loss was? We have no business talking trash about last year. We can be very excited for this year, but our team underachieved and embarrassed us at the beginning of the big10 season. Their team pulled out all but one game. By your logic our 2002 and 2003 team should be mocked for their tight games with poor schools.

[High Lonesome]

Originally Posted by Oneshot

YOU have GOT to be kidding.

We, as Buckeyes, have more appreciation for "a win is a win" than any other team in the freakin' country. We know that close wins aren't lucky; close wins are WINS. Stop making an ass out of yourself and making BP look bad.

thank god for reason...I thought that I was taking crazy pills for a second

[Burk98]

I would agree with Longhorn on a win is a win and a nice year. Great in my opinion is perfection. One past trend that we can say for sure is going to take place and another front running Heisman QB comes to the Shoe. I believe you may want to get up to Columbus early and get your worms some guns because this is prime Hawk territory.

[High Lonesome]

Originally Posted by Burk98

I would agree with Longhorn on a win is a win and a nice year. Great in my opinion is perfection. One past trend that we can say for sure is going to take place and another front running Heisman QB comes to the Shoe. I believe you may want to get up to Columbus early and get your worms some guns because this is prime Hawk territory.

perfection is past great, to me, but that is just semantics, oh and if there is one thing we don't have a shortage of down here, it's guns

[buckeyeboy]

Originally Posted by ohiostate=life

Well said buckeyeboy.

Glad to see someone sees my point.

Originally Posted by Oneshot

Stop making an ass out of yourself and making BP look bad.

Classy. So calling people names for having an opinion doesn't make BP look bad?

Originally Posted by BuckeyeFROMscUM

buckeyeboy, we were 8-4. Any idea who the first loss was? We have no business talking trash about last year. We can be very excited for this year, but our team underachieved and embarrassed us at the beginning of the big10 season. Their team pulled out all but one game. By your logic our 2002 and 2003 team should be mocked for their tight games with poor schools.

If you look at my previous posts, I never claimed that we had a good season last year, so your pointing out that we were 8-4 is irrelevant. My original points were that they had a good, but not a great, season last year and they lost their two best players so they are worse off for this year.

Originally Posted by Burk98

I would agree with Longhorn on a win is a win and a nice year. Great in my opinion is perfection.

Again, this is exactly what I said previously -- they had a good season last year, but in light of the fact that they again lost to OU, and squeaked by a couple of teams that were less than good, they didn't have a great season.

Sooner or later Texas fans (if they haven't already) will get sick and tired of losing to OU (2-5 under Mack Brown); even though losing only one game is a good season, the fact that they did lose one game will start to get old. Living through the Cooper era taught me that--no matter how much we all loved winning the Rose Bowl against Arizona State in 1997, I'll admit I wasn't happy with that season b/c we had the talent to win it all, but yet again we lost to scUM.

[AKAKBUCK]

Glad to see someone sees my point.

They saw your point.... Followed by, "However"

Classy. So calling people names for having an opinion doesn't make BP look bad?

Ever heard of a bad opinion? And no one called you a name... they characterized your behavior as making an ass out of yourself. Evidently the constructive criticism is lost here. Maybe you are not being an ass... maybe you are an ass. But don't take it personally... I'm just wondering to myself.

If you look at my previous posts, I never claimed that we had a good season last year, so your pointing out that we were 8-4 is irrelevant. My original points were that they had a good, but not a great, season last year and they lost their two best players so they are worse off for this year.

Speaking of missing points... ever heard of, "Those who live in glass houses?"

Again, this is exactly what I said previously -- they had a good season last year, but in light of the fact that they again lost to OU, and squeaked by a couple of teams that were less than good, they didn't have a great season.

You were trashing them, don't be all, "they had a good season" now... now I only went back a couple pages... but that's the first I've seen this.

[gregorylee]

Originally Posted by buckeyeboy

Glad to see someone sees my point.


Classy. So calling people names for having an opinion doesn't make BP look bad?


If you look at my previous posts, I never claimed that we had a good season last year, so your pointing out that we were 8-4 is irrelevant. My original points were that they had a good, but not a great, season last year and they lost their two best players so they are worse off for this year.


Again, this is exactly what I said previously -- they had a good season last year, but in light of the fact that they again lost to OU, and squeaked by a couple of teams that were less than good, they didn't have a great season.

Sooner or later Texas fans (if they haven't already) will get sick and tired of losing to OU (2-5 under Mack Brown); even though losing only one game is a good season, the fact that they did lose one game will start to get old. Living through the Cooper era taught me that--no matter how much we all loved winning the Rose Bowl against Arizona State in 1997, I'll admit I wasn't happy with that season b/c we had the talent to win it all, but yet again we lost to scUM.

His point was, I think, that A. It is not polite in any terms to just trash a team who's representatives have come here and be nothing but polite and respectful (especially when you have no good basis).
B. You are relatively new here, you may be being misinterpreted, but no one would know as we don't know your posting style.
C. Your post reeks of another forum on the net that no one (not a single person here) wants this fine site to become (even sort of resemble would be a bad thing).

If you are going to slam a team, you might try and do it with factual support, and has been stated... maybe not use as a basis the same things that the Bucks have been getting slammed for the past 3 years.

[MililaniBuckeye]

Getting back to the real topic (Texas at Ohio State for a football game), this is going to be the biggest home OOC game in 28 years. The last time we had such an all-time-great team come to our stadium for a first-ever meeting was Oklahoma in 1977. That game turned out to be a classic (although we came out on the short end of the stick on a last-second FG). I've had my eye on this game from the time they first scheduled it 4-5 years ago...

[gregorylee]

Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye

Getting back to the real topic (Texas at Ohio State for a football game), this is going to be the biggest home OOC game in 28 years. The last time we had such an all-time-great team come to our stadium for a first-ever meeting was Oklahoma in 1977. That game turned out to be a classic (although we came out on the short end of the stick on a last-second FG). I've had my eye on this game from the time they first scheduled it 4-5 years ago...

Oh, there is no doubt, but Mili... How many of the big programs are there left that tOSU hasn't played? This is definitely the biggest since ND in 95. I wonder though if the ticket will be as tough/expensive, there isn't the same love hate relationship with Texas as there is with the domers. Either way, left teste would be gladly donated for tickets to this contest.

[MililaniBuckeye]

Originally Posted by gregorylee

Oh, there is no doubt, but Mili... How many of the big programs are there left that tOSU hasn't played? This is definitely the biggest since ND in 95. I wonder though if the ticket will be as tough/expensive, there isn't the same love hate relationship with Texas as there is with the domers. Either way, left teste would be gladly donated for tickets to this contest.

We had already played Notre Dame twice in the '30s when we played them in '95, so I don't think the game is as big as this. Texas is the last all-time Top-10 team that we have never played. Here are the all-time Top-10 teams (other than us) and our records against them:

1. Michigan 38-57-6
2. Notre Dame 2-2
3. Texas (never met)
4. Oklahoma 1-1
5. Alabama 0-3
6. Ohio State
7. Nebraska 2-0
8. Tennessee 0-1
9. Southern California 9-11-1
10. Penn State 10-10

[High Lonesome]

Originally Posted by gregorylee

Oh, there is no doubt, but Mili... How many of the big programs are there left that tOSU hasn't played? This is definitely the biggest since ND in 95. I wonder though if the ticket will be as tough/expensive, there isn't the same love hate relationship with Texas as there is with the domers. Either way, left teste would be gladly donated for tickets to this contest.

I would doubt that it is as tough as a ND ticket given the location(and tOSU's apparent distaste for all things gold and blue). I love that Texas has never played mich or tOSU and gets two in back to back years, It's good for college football and its good for the schools. When this game was agreed to 5/6 years ago they couldn't have dreamed for this scenario, two top 5 teams with national championship implications, rosebowl champs vs. a vastly improved and highly regarded buckeye team.

[BuckeyeNation27]

Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye

We had already played Notre Dame twice in the '30s when we played them in '95, so I don't think the game is as big as this. Texas is the last all-time Top-10 team that we have never played. Here are the all-time Top-10 teams (other than us) and our records against them:

1. Michigan 38-57-6
2. Notre Dame 2-2
3. Texas (never met)
4. Oklahoma 1-1
5. Alabama 0-3
6. Ohio State
7. Nebraska 2-0
8. Tennessee 0-1
9. Southern California 9-11-1
10. Penn State 10-10

according to this list we will go from having 1 winning record to 3 winning records after this year

[High Lonesome]

Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye

We had already played Notre Dame twice in the '30s when we played them in '95, so I don't think the game is as big as this. Texas is the last all-time Top-10 team that we have never played. Here are the all-time Top-10 teams (other than us) and our records against them:

1. Michigan 38-57-6
2. Notre Dame 2-2
3. Texas (never met)
4. Oklahoma 1-1
5. Alabama 0-3
6. Ohio State
7. Nebraska 2-0
8. Tennessee 0-1
9. Southern California 9-11-1
10. Penn State 10-10

what a list! this is a little off topic, but I am very glad that these teams have not tried to "fit in" with alll the new styles in football like the oregons of the world. They all have great classic looks with simple uniforms.(sc is the only one that has changed, but even that is slight.) That reads like a list of my favorite uniforms in football.

on a similar note, you know it is the offseason when people bring up uniforms

[AKAKBUCK]

Originally Posted by High Lonesome

When this game was agreed to 5/6 years ago they couldn't have dreamed for this scenario, two top 5 teams with national championship implications, rosebowl champs vs. a vastly improved and highly regarded buckeye team.

That's always the fun part.

I think they were REALLY hoping for this type of scenario... but they don't always work out.

Kind of like Ohio State the last couple years... I think they were hoping that Washington would be much better than they were... on the other hand, I don't think anyone thought that Washington State would be such a good team... anyway... its fun... I'm glad its working out. Especially now with I-AA schools counthing toward bowl records... I'm worried we'll see even less of this kind of thing.

[High Lonesome]

Originally Posted by AKAKBUCK

That's always the fun part.

I think they were REALLY hoping for this type of scenario... but they don't always work out.

Kind of like Ohio State the last couple years... I think they were hoping that Washington would be much better than they were... on the other hand, I don't think anyone thought that Washington State would be such a good team... anyway... its fun... I'm glad its working out. Especially now with I-AA schools counthing toward bowl records... I'm worried we'll see even less of this kind of thing.

agreed the 1AA thing is a joke, and as much as i hate to say it...it would not suprise me at all if Texas was one of the teams that did something stupid like that. I hoping to get a yearly game with arkansas going again. that game was one of the great rivalries of the swc that got crapped on by the big 12.