BCS Championship Game, tOSU vs. Florida - Jan 8th

[Pheasant]

I hate to bring this game up, but some things are bothering me. I watched this game in January. I seem to remember (other than the opening kickoff) a serious lack of passion and intensity by the scarlet and gray. They just didn't seem to be playing at game speed, they were reacting much slower than usual, and at times they looked lost. Having watched every game last season I am confident that the result of that game was an aberration.

With that being said, I've read so many articles and heard so many talking heads talking about tOSU being too slow on both sides of the ball, completely lacking in team speed etc. I understand that these experts are retarded for the most part, but do people actually believe that Florida won that game because they were faster? Are people actually that stupid? Or am I that stupid because I think tOSU was at least as fast as every other team in the nation- they simply played an uninspired game when it counted the most?

[methomps]

I think it was a little bit of both. I think Florida was faster on the lines (which is not to say that OSU was slow or that Florida was worlds faster or that their advantage was in any way related to them being from the South). I also think OSU wasn't mentally sharp.

[CCI]

Originally Posted by methomps

I think it was a little bit of both. I think Florida was faster on the lines (which is not to say that OSU was slow or that Florida was worlds faster or that their advantage was in any way related to them being from the South). I also think OSU wasn't mentally sharp.

agree and the lay off without playing a game didn't help much either

[Jaxbuck]

I still subscribe to the theory that when two teams of roughly equal talent play in a hypothetical 10 game set each team would win 1 game by blowout and the other 8 would be close. As an example, in 1996 FSU beat UF in a close regular season game then lost the Bowl game in a blowout.

Just an opinion but I think it has some merit.

[BuckeyeSoldier]

Not gonna name names but I have also heard directly from players mouths about drinking entire bottles of jack in the locker room at half-time of the scUM game..(without tressels knowledge of course) I doubt that behavior changed a whole lot over the next 40 days.

[OSU_Buckguy]

[Best Buckeye]

Oh God , let's revisit the agony upon me once again.

[BuckWrestler141]

I just watched the Curtis Terry play for the first time today. I was trying to remember wasn't Terry suspended the first few games of this season (or have i just lost my memory) for reasons not made public? I was reading some people on here try to explain it, but any way you look at it that was very dirty IMO. That to me wasn't much better then Reynolds, i'm amazed it wasn't a bigger deal in the media, they never miss a chance to take a shot at ohio st. and tis one would have been justified for once.