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How Will The Buckeyes Affect the B10 Race?

  • Got to thinking this week about the up-coming season, and our No-Champion, No Bowl sentence, and I started to wonder how we would effect the Big 10 race, the BTN, and the Championship game! Interesting isn't it, while we are part of the season games, we can't go to the final dance, but can make sure others don't!
    Michigan State, Nebraska,Indiana,Purdue, Penn State, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan all have to face the Buckeyes to get to the NC game. Minnesota, Iowa and Northwestern do not play us in 2012.

    Most Buckeye fans would get their jollies in knocking Wisconsin and scUM from the the Big Game. Also I got to wondering how the Big 10 Nertwork will handle Ohio State and the fact that we are "non-contenters" for the season.
    That should make for some odd conversation if Urban runs the table.

    2012 will be an intresting venue to say the least!

    Oh by the way- I looked up affect and effect and I think I got it right! When you "affect" something, you cause an "effect". If I am wrong..please all you English people out there correct me......ha ha.....

    This post was edited by Bigjimmie on 4/12/2012 at 8:54 AM

    Bigjimmie ●

  • The teams we don't play I don't think have a chance to make the game. So in essence our impact will be very little. If we win all our games we affect all teams equally.

    But I hope it comes down to scUM needing a win in last game to go to championship game and we knock them out of it.

    tedfitz10

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    12-0 Ohio State-ment! Untouchable!

    ForeverNuts

  • If we somehow run the table or clearly cement ourselves as the best team in the league, that will be one hell of a black cloud hanging over that conference championship game. How much could you really celebrate as the winning team in that case?

    Jackson2340

  • Nothing would make me happier than the worst possible matchup for the Big Ten Championship Game. Like Northwestern vs Illinois or something like that.

    I will be rooting like heck that the following teams do not make it: Michigan, Wisconsin, Penn State, Nebraska, and Purdue.

    purple_rein

  • No National Championship game for the B1G this year unless it's someone not on OSU's schedule.

    McCague

  • we will not influence the b10 participants as when done with us they will all have one loss. they will then fight it out between themselves for the second place championship. more interesting is if we are able to run the table we also make the bcs look second rate. we could win the associated press championship which would be interesting.

    drbob7401 ●

  • Bigjimmie said...

    Got to thinking this week about the up-coming season, and our No-Champion, No Bowl sentence, and I started to wonder how we would effect the Big 10 race, the BTN, and the Championship game! Interesting isn't it, while we are part of the season games, we can't go to the final dance, but can make sure others don't! Michigan State, Nebraska,Indiana,Purdue, Penn State, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan all have to face the Buckeyes to get to the NC game. Minnesota, Iowa and Northwestern do not play us in 2012.

    Most Buckeye fans would get their jollies in knocking Wisconsin and scUM from the the Big Game. Also I got to wondering how the Big 10 Nertwork will handle Ohio State and the fact that we are "non-contenters" for the season. That should make for some odd conversation if Urban runs the table.

    2012 will be an intresting venue to say the least!

    Oh by the way- I looked up affect and effect and I think I got it right! When you "affect" something, you cause an "effect". If I am wrong..please all you English people out there correct me......ha ha.....

    That is an interesting twist...every B1G team should be rooting for us this year in every conference game (providing it's not the game we play them) and Minnesota, Iowa and Northwestern should hope we go undefeated just so they are positioned higher.

    Then again, if Meatchicken or Wiscy were in our shoes, I wouldn't blindly root for them all the time, only when it was detrimental to tOSU's standing...

    That's my story and I'm sticking to it (but I've been wrong before)!

    afh_98

  • It is going to make for an intresting year...as I mentioned,,,the Big 10 Network handling of the OSU situation will be an "odd" situation for them...when they are talking about the "contenders" and the best teams etc... how will the Buckeyes be presented? Obviously for the other 11 teams, there is a big bowl game not being absorbed by OSU as pretty much in the past....how do teams that beat us, if they would happen to, .get the right credit for the win? In some ways the "off-season" sentence is a reprieve for Meyers.....if he wins he is supposed to, if he loses so what...he is waiting for 2013 right? ha ha..

    Bigjimmie ●

  • Our aim should be to be AP National Champions this year.

    SteveS78

  • SteveS78 said...

    Our aim should be to be AP National Champions this year.

    Agreed

    "Cappy"

    CapitalBuck

  • tedfitz10 said...

    The teams we don't play I don't think have a chance to make the game. So in essence our impact will be very little. If we win all our games we affect all teams equally.

    But I hope it comes down to scUM needing a win in last game to go to championship game and we knock them out of it.

    That would be great,but it would mean that scUM had a good season , so I hope our win is just one of many for them.Those cocky bast@R!s

    bucks66

  • all I want to hear is that "this is not really the big 10 championship game, because ohio state is undefeated in conference play".......I would also like to hear "this is not the real national championship game, because ohio state is sitting there at 12-0".......that will make me happy, a ap national championship would look great and piss the NCAA off

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    mrinder83

  • Lots of scenarios for sure.....to state the obvious. While I am not as giddy as some of you about our team's prospects for running the table, we will certainly poke a hole in a few team's hopes for winning the B1G. And no....no B1G team will play for the crystal this year. Barring injury, that will go to either USC or Bama, assuming Bama reloads as I expect them to.

    As for the BTN....I am hard pressed to understand why they would NOT want to feature the Buckeyes as often as possible this season. It is the team with the biggest ratings producing following for sure. Urban Meyer's assumption as the head coach is a story in and of itself. Even though we will not figure into the conf championship or post-season play, the BTN has bills to pay...and tOSU floats that boat. Heck I can see this board melting down if no cable carrier was showing the OSU vs. UAB game this year, LOL!

    This post was edited by Nutinpa on 4/13/2012 at 11:04 AM

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  • SteveS78 said...

    Our aim should be to be AP National Champions this year.

    Yes, and running the table with 12 blowouts just may do that. It would be well worth going undefeated just to see the reaction from the BCS and NCAA, along with ESPIN and the rest of the OSU haters. They look nice when they have to squirm. It suits them. I would wager the country would rally around us, especially if the BCS NC participants each had one loss.

    McCague

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    Nutinpa

  • Is this a year where we can lose the national championship for the following year? By this I mean if we have a subpar year, i.e. not as good as expected will it tarnish UM's reputation and we miss out on some important recruits we need for a run in 2013? Will a very good year in 2012 oil up our recruiting machine for some key national prospects?

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