Who is going to play in the BCS bowl vs Ohio

[Lohman446]

Michigan is a much better team than FL, even if they didnt get tested as much as FL did. OSUs defense will rip the snot out of FLs impotent offense, and their offense wont have too much trouble against FLs defense even if Smith forgets how to play football before the game.

OSU- 38
FL- 20

I think your being generous to Tressel not trying to prove how good MI is by burying Florida. Making the rivarly even bigger.

[__Phoenix__]

If Tressel wants to be a douche... OSU 49 - FL 24

FL won't be able to play pass protection well against OSU for 2 main resons:

1) OSU runs the football hardcore when they need to pound it. Everyone thought OSU would come out gunning against MSU's hellacious run defense. WRONG... they ran all over the #1 run defense liek it was just sumthin' else to do.

This will cause FL to only have 1 free safety and bring up the other one for run support hurting any cover 2 scheme. Basically leaving them with a zone cover 3 or a cover 4 (man-man). Cover 4 against Ginn Jr or Gonzalez is just laughable and good quaterback can pick apart a cover 3 zone with good timing and sufficient protection. FL's only chance is to blitz the snot outta OSU's line and disrupt timing.

2) Because they will have to dedicate more run support to stopping the OSU ground attack, this leaves fewer free safties and corners for pass support. Most teams though can get away with one saftey helping the poor DB/WR matchups. News Flash: You now have 1 free safety to help with 2 (possibly 3) mismatches thanks to Ginn Jr and Gonzalez being freaking amazing. Not to mention Troy smith routinely hits up 3 or 4 different reciever for TDs every game in addition to 2 more for general purpose yardage.

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Florida in is a situation where they have to do 3 things to win:
a) Contain Troy Smith with one or even two QB spies
b) Keep enough guys in the box to stiffle the run
c) Cover 2 of the best recievers from the best QB in NCAA who routinely hits 5-6 different recievers

Florida can only do 2 outta 3 of these... they simply don't have the man power on defense to cover all of OSU's threats. Remember OSU vs Texas 2 years ago? It's kind of like that except Troy Smith throws the ball 800 X's better than Vince Young.

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I'm not being a Fanboi or hating on a different college... just stating the facts. I personally believe FL's only hope is to just plain outscore OSU's offense versus OSU's #1 defense. They will have to contain smith and cover recievers leaving OSU to a succesfull ground attack, this will limit OSU's long ball and high scoring capablity and allow a FL Offense to try and outscore OSU. This will also eat alot of time and the FL offense will need to be flawless and efficient.

The game will be decided by FL's offensive efficiency and OSU's defensive effort. OSU will score one way or another garunteed. The only way OSU loses this game is lack of discipline through penalties, turnovers, and mental mistakes.

[Lohman446]

FL won't be able to play pass protection well against OSU for 2 main resons:

1) OSU runs the football hardcore when they need to pound it. Everyone thought OSU would come out gunning against MSU's hellacious run defense. WRONG... they ran all over the #1 run defense liek it was just sumthin' else to do.

This will cause FL to only have 1 free safety and bring up the other one for run support hurting any cover 2 scheme. Basically leaving them with a zone cover 3 or a cover 4 (man-man). Cover 4 against Ginn Jr or Gonzalez is just laughable and good quaterback can pick apart a cover 3 zone with good timing and sufficient protection. FL's only chance is to blitz the snot outta OSU's line and disrupt timing.

2) Because they will have to dedicate more run support to stopping the OSU ground attack, this leaves fewer free safties and corners for pass support. Most teams though can get away with one saftey helping the poor DB/WR matchups. News Flash: You now have 1 free safety to help with 2 (possibly 3) mismatches thanks to Ginn Jr and Gonzalez being freaking amazing. Not to mention Troy smith routinely hits up 3 or 4 different reciever for TDs every game in addition to 2 more for general purpose yardage.

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Florida in is a situation where they have to do 3 things to win:
a) Contain Troy Smith with one or even two QB spies
b) Keep enough guys in the box to stiffle the run
c) Cover 2 of the best recievers from the best QB in NCAA who routinely hits 5-6 different recievers

Florida can only do 2 outta 3 of these... they simply don't have the man power on defense to cover all of OSU's threats. Remember OSU vs Texas 2 years ago? It's kind of like that except Troy Smith throws the ball 800 X's better than Vince Young.

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I'm not being a Fanboi or hating on a different college... just stating the facts. I personally believe FL's only hope is to just plain outscore OSU's offense while facing the #1 defense. The only way OSU loses this game is lack of discipline through penalties, turnovers, and mental mistakes.

Add one more

Mentally OSU has had there eye on the prize since the start of the season. No hiccups, they have been expecting to go, and gone through the hype of two MAJOR games.

[__Phoenix__]

JOKE TIME!!!!!

So Bo Schembechler gets to heaven and the Lord is waiting for him.

God: Hello Bo. In your time on earth, you did alot of great things. You helped many young kids with thier development, brought joy to communities, you were honest, you led by example, and you genuinly cared for both your opponents as well as freinds. You put everyone else first and lived a very fruitfull life.
Bo: Thank you Lord... So that means I'm in? :)
God: Yes Bo! We've even got a special place all picked out for you!

[God reveals a very large mansion painted blue with gold trim. There are michigan flags flying off the small towers and a goal post and scoreboard showing replays of Bo's best wins in the gardens. However, in a distance behind the mansion, Bo notices a HUGE CASTLE. The castle was painted scarlet and grey and had OSU flags flying fom it's huge towers. Even off inthe distance, it dwarfed Bo's large mansion]

Bo: Wow God, thank you so much! But I have to ask... why does Woody Hayes have a Castle and I only have a Mansion? My record against him was better
God: [laughs lovingly] Silly Bo, that's not Woody's home up here... That's Mine!

[ntn4502]

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[Lohman446]

"My guys were disappointed at first, but they eventually understood," said Michigan coach Lloyd Carr. "We had our chance against Ohio State and we blew it, and I guess a rematch would be boring. But can you blame us for thinking we had a chance? Sure, Troy Smith is easily the best player ever, and that defense, well, quite frankly, I'd be afraid for our guys' safety if we had to go up against that defense again, but our fans are rabidly single-minded and a lot of them have poll votes."

"I wish Bo Schembechler had lived to see this," Carr added. "He had a vote in the poll, you know."

LOL

[MANN]

Looks like an SEC beatdown,

hmmmmm

What I am going to see as funny, is when OSU blows out FSU, Michigan destroys SC, and LSU gets there butts kicked. Then lets see the rankings :)

I would have loved to see FSU vs ND - FSU might have this "great" defense (yeh right) but they could never survive a shootout - SC, OSU, Michigan, and even ND (who have there own problems) would decimate FSU, and I am going to laugh when it happens.

Lets see the polls after the bowl games :) and see how the "great SEC" does?

hmmmmmm

Anyone who thinks that the SEC appearance in this bowl game will me anything morer than an inhumane beating of a red-headed step child is fooling themselves.

hmmmmmm

Come to think of it, its going to be a great bowl season

QFT

Well it looks like they are running the last min of the clock out. Any final words before your predictions are completely false

[Altimas]

MANN You just made my day.