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No need for excuses. Just admit it, your liking of UM was all a big mistake and you now realize you are a real Buckeye!  

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Slow down there, chief.

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Slow down there, chief.

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You were just lucky WIsky didnt have a QB.

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I'm reasonably sure the state of ohio takes football just as serious as Alabama does. If it wasn't for college football Ohio wouldn't have anything going for itself!  

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Ummm.... Missouri won it's bowl game. And with a sick quarterback.

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It's still a popularity contest. That's the reason TCU (and Baylor) was left out and OSU brought in. Popularity and brand recognition. OSU is awesome this year, but anybody wants to say they're simply better than TCU is blowing smoke. We don't know who's better, unless they settle it on the field. A 4-team field is still far too subject to the popularity contest, and that fact was exposed badly in the first year of the "playoff." FSU got in the playoffs, but they were by far the weakest of the top 5 teams. The selection committee said they were going to pick the best teams regardless of record, but FSU got in solely because of being undefeated, even though they had a whole bunch of garbage wins against garbage teams that they almost lost anyway. Despite the predictions of the boosters, FSU was blown out. TCU belonged, and the popularity selection of the four teams gypped TCU and every college football fan that wants to see a real champion on the field.

Here's a notion for the popularity contest: TCU beat four top-10 teams (at the time) this year, with their only loss being by a field goal to another top-5 team. OSU will have played three top-10 teams, and their only loss is to a team that did not win their conference, was not/is not ranked, by two touchdowns. If OSU wins a squeaker against Oregon, give me a reason to say TCU should not be ranked #1 in the final AP poll.
TCUs conference was asked to give the committee a conference champion, which they refused to do. Baylor beat TCU right? So, Baylor had a gripe. But since they would not send a conference champion, the committee eliminated that conference from the playoff.  
I do agree that there needs to be 8 teams, but on the other hand.....most teams who won their bowl game had fun celebrating and that will continue for a while. Meanwhile, Oregon and OSU has to go back to work right away. 15 games a year is a ton and for a student athlete, it is really hard. I only played soccer in college, but back then we did not have study groups and personal tutors and to be honest almost flunked out of school. Back then the profs did not like athletes and did not like them cutting their classes to play a game. Some of that has changed, but it is still hard for the student athlete and that should come first. But, since it is about money now.....8 teams is just around the corner.

I hate the four team playoff less than the BCS, but it's still a popularity contest, and it is not adequate to settle the championship question for reals. 8 teams is the minimum to settle it fairly, and 12 would be better (top 4 get a bye). More than 16 is too many, but 4 is definitely too few. TCU got hosed. (I am not a TCU fan, but I sure as heck wouldn't want to play them. )

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I think OSU cares a lot more about the rivalry than Michigan does, to the point they'll root against ANYONE Michigan plays, even when it degrades the Big10...which is 80 kinds of retarded. My uncle who's a die-hard OSU nut told me once that OSU fans hate Michigan more than they love OSU, which I believe is often true - and kind of pathetic. As a Michigan fan, I don't root for OSU often, but I respect them and love when they do well on the national stage.

But, I also know that a lot of fans of OOC teams that come to Columbus talk about how cool the fans are to them and how chill everyone is, so there's two kind of fans here IMHO...rivalry zealots (the douches) and the normal OSU fans...who are pretty cool.
Wow I had forgotten that, funny how you remembered. So, who is it that never forgot it? Gee, seems I remember seeing the sour grapes show on how UM got cheated out of going to the rose bowl one year by the big ten and how OSU went instead...wow the hatred still over that, you could hear it in the voices of all the UM alum and fans during the show.

And, like very big school with a top notch program, there's a disproportionate number of OSU fans who think they're the best team that's ever taken the field, even if there's no real evidence or record to substantiate that.

  They've never forgot that game in 1902 when we beat them 86-0

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Tressell Ball got us a National Championship


 

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  Easy, just cut out the pushover games for the major conferences - no more playing Mt. Holy Cross School for Girls, Bama and OSU...start your season with conference play, 1 OOC conference game like Texas or USC...whatever.

Every FBS conference sends its conference champion to the tourney....then the top Independent team (by record), and 4 other at-larges by conference record. No popularity contest, no rankings, no BS. All settled on the field, just like the NCAAB. Also will work to even out the conferences and stop this push towards 3 or 4 super conferences.

16 game tourney, 8 bowls to set up the bracket, presto.

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