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

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Buckeyes given many gifts on road to championship game

Many variables have fallen into place across the college football landscape to put OSU in a position to be the top team in nation.

By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer

Tuesday, December 25, 2007
While you Ohio State fans have the thank-you cards out, you might want to address some to these players, who made plays that helped knock off some teams that fell short of the BCS championship game, putting the Buckeyes atop the rankings and in the big game Jan. 7 in New Orleans.
Emanuel Cook


? Sophomore free safety,
South Carolina
? South Carolina 16, Georgia 12 (Sept. 8)
Georgia seemed to finally find momentum with a seven-point deficit when Mikey Henderson returned a punt 32 yards to the South Carolina 47-yard line with 6:06 left in the game. The Bulldogs drove easily to the 11 before facing a third-and-15 play from the 16.



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Gannet News Service: Ohio State takes fast track to BCS title game


Ohio State takes fast track to BCS title game

Dec. 25, 2007

By Jon Spencer
Gannett News Service
[email protected]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- With only two seniors among its full-time starters and eight of last year's players lost to the NFL draft, even the biggest Buckeye nut would have to agree that the junior-driven Ohio State football team has arrived early to the party.

If you trust the scouting services, there was some serious doubt that the 2005 recruiting class -- which produced 10 current starters -- would be the backbone of a national championship-caliber team, at least not this soon.

Only junior offensive tackle Alex Boone rated five stars from Rivals.com. The other four prominent members of the '05 class -- juniors James Laurinaitis, Brian Robiskie and Malcolm Jenkins and third-year sophomore Brian Hartline -- were three-star recruits, while secondary starters and third-year sophomores Anderson Russell and cornerback Donald Washington earned only two stars.
Yet here are the 11-1 Buckeyes, having replaced 13 of last year's starters, ranked No. 1 and back in the BCS title game for the second year in a row. They'll take on 11-2 LSU in the Louisiana Superdome on Jan. 7.


"I won't say we had a chip on our shoulder, but we were overlooked as a recruiting class here," said Laurinaitis, a two-time consensus All-American and Ohio State's first Butkus Award honoree since childhood idol Andy Katzenmoyer won it 10 years ago.
"I think a lot of guys really wanted to prove themselves," Laurinaitis said. "When we first got to camp we really stuck together. As that friendship continued to grow, guys were making plays and we knew we could do something special.
"That speaks to the job our coaches do recruiting-wise. They recruit good football players and guys who are leaders first, and don't pay attention much to the ratings. A lot of the players getting recruited are on the same level talent-wise, but there's little intangibles that I think the coaches here at Ohio State find."


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Best Buckeye;1038629; said:
It's not the amount of stars on a man but the number of stars IN a man.
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Now I agree with this. LSU does not land many 5 star blue chip recuits. The bulk of LSU's classes consist of 3 and 4 star players. Good strength training, conditioning and coaching and the desire on the player's part can make most of these men NFL talent.
 
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sluTiger;1038632; said:
Now I agree with this. LSU does not land many 5 star blue chip recuits. The bulk of LSU's classes consist of 3 and 4 star players. Good strength training, conditioning and coaching and the desire on the player's part can make most of these men NFL talent.
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The question is...Which coach from what classes? You've had more whore coaches through that school than Bourbon street has whores.
 
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Dispatch

Ohio State football
There's some history between OSU, LSU
Two meetings in late '80s were packed with action
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 3:10 AM
By Tim May and Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Jeff Hinckley | Dispatch
LSU's Karl Dunbar, right, pursues OSU's Greg Frey, whose 20-yard TD pass produced a 36-33 win for the Buckeyes in 1988.

Ohio State vs. LSU

1987: BIG UPSET BLOCKED

  • The setup</EM>
    Visiting Ohio State was 2-0 and ranked No. 7. Host LSU was 3-0 and ranked No. 4 in the first season under 34-year-old coach Mike Archer.
  • The skinny</EM>
    LSU appeared to be slowly taking control of what had been a defensive battle through three quarters. But quarterback Tommy Hodson threw two interceptions to Greg Rogan in the final two minutes.
    The second of those, with 27 seconds left, allowed the Buckeyes to try a 47-yard field goal to win it. But Karl Dunbar blocked Matt Frantz's try as time expired.
  • The impact</EM>
    OSU gained no momentum. After losing three straight Big Ten games in November, OSU announced coach Earle Bruce would be fired at season's end. The Buckeyes did rally on his behalf to win at Michigan. The Tigers went on to a 10-1-1 season, their first 10-win season in 26 years, and were ranked No. 5 in the final poll.
1988: CRAZY COMEBACK

  • The setup</EM>
    Unranked Ohio State was 1-1, coming off a 42-10 pasting by Pittsburgh. LSU was 2-0 and ranked No. 7.
    ? The skinny
    LSU led 33-20 with 4:29 to play. OSU scored, and Hodson threw incomplete on third down to stop the clock with 1:38 left, giving the Buckeyes a chance.
    Bobby Olive's 30-yard punt return set up OSU at the LSU 38. Greg Frey threw a 20-yard TD pass to Olive for the win with 38 seconds left.
  • The impact</EM>
    Coach John Cooper's first OSU squad promptly lost its next three games and went on to a 4-6-1 record. However, the confounding loss would prove typical for Archer, who resigned two years later with a 27-18-1 mark.

History buffs want to look at Ohio State's 0-8 bowl record vs. Southeastern Conference teams -- especially the lopsided loss to Florida last season -- and declare the Buckeyes don't have a chance against Louisiana State in the national championship game Jan. 7.
"It doesn't matter what's happened in the past," former Ohio State coach Earle Bruce said. "That's what people don't seem to understand. What matters is what happens now, how you play now. It's not about what's gone on before."
But for argument's sake, say it did matter. In that case, Ohio State would be sitting strong in this matchup.

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Rolling the dice: Miles the Gambler vs. 'Mr. Conservative' Tressel
By Jon Spencer
Gannett News Service

Jim Tressel's idea of gambling is wearing a paisley tie under his sweater vest or melting chocolate chips over his cream of wheat. Les Miles' idea of gambling is ... woo, where do we start?

With the successful fake field goal against South Carolina? Where the holder took the snap and, in his crouched position, casually flipped a no-look pass over his shoulder to the kicker as he wheeled to the end zone?
With the last-second touchdown pass against Auburn, knowing a higher-percentage field goal would have won it and that time would have run out on a tipped incompletion?
With the 5-for-5 success rate on fourth down against Florida? Urban Meyer, the Florida coach who thoroughly out-witted Tressel in last season's national championship game, has this mad scientist aura about him. But Miles, whose LSU Tigers will oppose Tressel's Ohio State Buckeyes for the BCS title, is the one who devises his game plans in a cuckoo's nest.

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Tressel knows you play game on the field



COLUMBUS (AP) -- Ohio State will be playing in its third national championship game in the past six seasons when it takes on LSU Jan. 7 in New Orleans. So what, coach Jim Tressel said.

"So do we get any points for that?" he joked. "Do we get a two-point start because of that?" There's no advantage to being in the national spotlight so often -- unless you win. Despite a glorious tradition -- 118 seasons, 798 wins, seven Heisman Trophy winners and a building full of trophies -- the Buckeyes have fallen short of doing even better through the years because they have come up empty in bowl games.

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BuckeyeNation27;1038831; said:
about as off base as your posts in this thread... Oh Well...
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my post have only meant to say that talent between these teams are even. OSU has nothing personnel wise that LSU has not seen in the SEC, vice versa. Anyone can win the game and LSU probably has the advantage because it is a home game.
 
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