Quote:BIG 10 schedules are made nearly a decade in advance. You cannot fault tOSU for the woes of their OOC opponents. 


That's why the playoff matters. Hate on the BIG 10 all you want, but it is still a storied BCS conference, and going undefeated in two regular seasons, even if you played in the AAC (something Teddy B and Louisville couldn't even do for 1 season) is not the cake walk some of you make it out to be.


I'll admit the schedule wasn't especially difficult, but you can't downplay 24 in a row. Or else every school would have come close at least once.

 

Exactly! One other thing Big Ten haters ignore is the obvious fact that every team in every BCS conference schedules cupcakes the first four weeks. Florida played FCS teams two straight years (Jacksonville State and Georgia Southern). Nobody criticizes the Gators for that because they are in the SEC. People hate just to hate without a logical reason for it.

 

Something else people don't think about is the fact that we sometimes do play against very good OOC teams. Case in point: the home and home series with Texas. That, you probably remember, started the year Texas played for the national championshp, and we lost by only five points.

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