BCS National Championship Game: tOSU 24, LSU 38 (final)

[Geaux Tigers]

Did anyone else notice after the half when Ohio took the field the cheerleaders mispelled Ohio - OOHI.

But holy [censored] those were some giant flags. I think our cheerleaders had flag envy

[geauxtigs]

Just wanted to congratulate Ohio State and all their fans on a great season. OSU has a great team, coaches, and fans. Your team played great in the NC game for the most part and showed they were one of the top teams in the country. I was impressed on how OSU never gave up and fought until the final whistle. A class act in all respects. Chris Wells and Brian Hartline were awesome. I hope that all the OSU fans who came down to La./New Orleans enjoyed their stay, eventhough the game results didn't work out for you. We love our Tigers down here and wish you luck in the future. Geaux Tigers!!

[OWUBuckeye51]

I just figured out how to defend Glenn Dorsey...request LSU to scrimmage Auburn the week before you play the Bayou Bengals...

Did anyone else notice after the half when Ohio took the field the cheerleaders mispelled Ohio - OOHI. 

But holy [censored] those were some giant flags. I think our cheerleaders had flag envy :)

Geaux, I did notice that. I was praying the other 80,000 people didn't.

[Jean Lafitte]

I'm in my late 40s, and I've been a LSU fanatic for my entire life.

Since I was a small boy, I've always looked up to Ohio State's football program. I watched Coach Woody Hayes's Buckeyes quite often on TV back then, and, I've admired your football program since then.

LSU just got it's first win against Ohio State. This is a very humbling experience for me, personally, as a LSU fan. I feel great, great gratitude and pride to have witnessed this special moment. I don't know if God had anything to do with LSU getting this opportunity, but, I did thank Him anyway for this accomplishment.

I am filled with quiet pride today. For every one of you great, great Ohio State fans who offered your congratulations to my team, I want to thank you personally for being so gracious. It is a rare thing for any football opponent of Ohio State to be able to celebrate a win. I want you all to know that it is the magnitude of the greatness of your football program that makes this moment so very special for me.

My admiration for Woody Hayes and the Ohio State football program is undiminished.

Thanks to you all for being everything that college football teams and fans should be.

Good luck in your football future . . . and, I hope that you will be wishing LSU future football luck.

[mudbugnla]

Originally Posted by Jean Lafitte

I'm in my late 40s, and I've been a LSU fanatic for my entire life.

Since I was a small boy, I've always looked up to Ohio State's football program. I watched Coach Woody Hayes's Buckeyes quite often on TV back then, and, I've admired your football program since then.

LSU just got it's first win against Ohio State. This is a very humbling experience for me, personally, as a LSU fan. I feel great, great gratitude and pride to have witnessed this special moment. I don't know if God had anything to do with LSU getting this opportunity, but, I did thank Him anyway for this accomplishment.

I am filled with quiet pride today. For every one of you great, great Ohio State fans who offered your congratulations to my team, I want to thank you personally for being so gracious. It is a rare thing for any football opponent of Ohio State to be able to celebrate a win. I want you all to know that it is the magnitude of the greatness of your football program that makes this moment so very special for me.

My admiration for Woody Hayes and the Ohio State football program is undiminished.

Thanks to you all for being everything that college football teams and fans should be.

Good luck in your football future . . . and, I hope that you will be wishing LSU future football luck.

Agreed...

[mudball1]

Originally Posted by Lockup

I have three big hats off in this game.

1. Beanie: IMO he is the only one who showed up for all four quarters. Even when he did not get many yards he ran very hard I thought and the stiff arm that put the LSU guy on his butt was great.

2. OSU fans that made the trip. I am not sure I ever heard a break down in the dome but from what I saw and heard there look to be a hell of a lot more bucks fans there than anyone thought there would be. I did not hear the LSU fans being that much louder than us.

3. The team getting there in the first place. I know that sounds kind of wussy like but hey they were never suppose to be there to begin with.

I think Wells did great also, but Saine was awesome...and enough so that LSU noticed he was back in and took a time out to adjust. When the other team needs to adjust for an incoming player then you know who the threat is. The SEC 'speed' noticed Saine as being able to get downfield AND catch the ball. Too bad he wasn't utilized more.

[BengalsAndBucks]

Dont have the time or patience to read through this thread, so forgive me if this has been brought up, but...

Has any team in the history of college football ever before been punished for making it to the NC game twice in a row? This just baffles me. If we had declined the NC and won the Rose, or if we were 10-2 and got an at large to the Orange and beat VT, people would be talking about how well we played against an inferior team, we would be viewed as a good team. We make it to the NC game, supposedly signifying we are one of the two best teams in the country, and we get railed for losing to the best. We are actually being punished by the media and the fans for making it to the NC game. This truly blows my mind, hopefully someone can take it from SEC-speed and slow it down for my simple little Big Ten brain. Thanks.

[BengalsAndBucks]

Originally Posted by mudball1

I think Wells did great also, but Saine was awesome...and enough so that LSU noticed he was back in and took a time out to adjust. When the other team needs to adjust for an incoming player then you know who the threat is. The SEC 'speed' noticed Saine as being able to get downfield AND catch the ball. Too bad he wasn't utilized more.

Every time he came into the game he ran a wheel route, and every time he ran a wheel route Boeckman wouldn't even check down off him, it was either complete pass to Saine, incomplete pass to Saine, or sack. I wish they had used the Saine wheel route better as a distraction to open up underneath routes.

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by BengalsAndBucks

Dont have the time or patience to read through this thread, so forgive me if this has been brought up, but...

Has any team in the history of college football ever before been punished for making it to the NC game twice in a row? This just baffles me. If we had declined the NC and won the Rose, or if we were 10-2 and got an at large to the Orange and beat VT, people would be talking about how well we played against an inferior team, we would be viewed as a good team. We make it to the NC game, supposedly signifying we are one of the two best teams in the country, and we get railed for losing to the best. We are actually being punished by the media and the fans for making it to the NC game. This truly blows my mind, hopefully someone can take it from SEC-speed and slow it down for my simple little Big Ten brain. Thanks.

No actually I don't have an answer for you there.

FSU went 3 times in a row and won 1(98,99,00) because they played in a very weak ACC and did not get punished if they lost to their 2 traditional non-ACC rivals. The weakness of their conference and the fact their main rivals were down at the time never came up. ESPN ran many a show about who was the team of the 90's FSU or Nebraska.

Oklahoma played in back to back NC games, got killed worse than we did in both and even managed to make it to one of them after a blowout loss in the B12 CG. They followed that double dip up with BCS losses to Boise State and WVU with a nice fat NCAA infraction/scandal mixed in and they catch 1/10th of the hell we do.

No team is going to make a run of multiple NC's/NC appearances coming from a brutally tough league. Look back at all your recent consecutive NC appearance teams and you'll find a very good team that happened to come out of a conference that was down at the time.

We appear to be the only team who's path to those appearances has been so harshly critiqued. That said, we have brought it all on ourselves by losing. Winning said games shuts them all up.