Why is Ohio St a unanimous #1?

[townhallsavoy 2]

If we're going to be analyzing the top eight of the BCS and determine who should be in the title game, why the heck is Ohio St getting a free pass? If we're going to criticize Hawaii and Kansas about their strength of schedule, why not do the same for the other teams? USC beat two winning teams. Hawaii only beat Washington. Kansas didn't beat one team in the current top 25 (although they blew out almost everybody they played.)

Oklahoma, LSU, Georgia, and I'd even say Virginia Tech all have more impressive victories than Ohio St.

Ohio St has beaten Michigan - don't forget that Michigan lost to Appalachian St. Michigan got blown out by Oregon. Michigan got beat by Wisconsin. And speaking of the Ohio St-Michigan game, anybody else notice how craptastic Ohio St looked? Michigan's offense was flat. Ohio St's offense had one big touchdown run. That was about it.

So what makes Ohio St the consensus #1?

[Grider 1]

They play in the big 10. Their OoC schedule was pathetic, some say worse than Hawaii's OoC schedule.

The only reason they are getting in is because they get the media free pass from the Big 10.

[BZ770 2]

If we're going to be analyzing the top eight of the BCS and determine who should be in the title game, why the heck is Ohio St getting a free pass? If we're going to criticize Hawaii and Kansas about their strength of schedule, why not do the same for the other teams? USC beat two winning teams. Hawaii only beat Washington. Kansas didn't beat one team in the current top 25 (although they blew out almost everybody they played.)

Oklahoma, LSU, Georgia, and I'd even say Virginia Tech all have more impressive victories than Ohio St.

Ohio St has beaten Michigan - don't forget that Michigan lost to Appalachian St. Michigan got blown out by Oregon. Michigan got beat by Wisconsin. And speaking of the Ohio St-Michigan game, anybody else notice how craptastic Ohio St looked? Michigan's offense was flat. Ohio St's offense had one big touchdown run. That was about it.

So what makes Ohio St the consensus #1?

Big 10 teams always get the vote from all the networks. ie Kirk Herbstreit and etal...

[townhallsavoy 2]

They play in the big 10. Their OoC schedule was pathetic, some say worse than Hawaii's OoC schedule.

The only reason they are getting in is because they get the media free pass from the Big 10.

If we're going to be analyzing the top eight of the BCS and determine who should be in the title game, why the heck is Ohio St getting a free pass? If we're going to criticize Hawaii and Kansas about their strength of schedule, why not do the same for the other teams? USC beat two winning teams. Hawaii only beat Washington. Kansas didn't beat one team in the current top 25 (although they blew out almost everybody they played.)

Oklahoma, LSU, Georgia, and I'd even say Virginia Tech all have more impressive victories than Ohio St.

Ohio St has beaten Michigan - don't forget that Michigan lost to Appalachian St. Michigan got blown out by Oregon. Michigan got beat by Wisconsin. And speaking of the Ohio St-Michigan game, anybody else notice how craptastic Ohio St looked? Michigan's offense was flat. Ohio St's offense had one big touchdown run. That was about it.

So what makes Ohio St the consensus #1?

Big 10 teams always get the vote from all the networks. ie Kirk Herbstreit and etal...

So nothing objective? No real reasons?

[TitanTiger 20,499]

They play in a major conference and are one of only two teams from a BCS conference with one loss. And for all the toughness of the other's schedules, they laid some major league eggs: Georgia losing to 6-6 South Carolina. LSU losing to two unranked teams. Va Tech getting blasted 48-7 by LSU. Oklahoma lost to a 6-6 Colorado team. Ohio State's only loss was to a 9-3 Illinois team. And aside from Michigan State and Michigan, they pounded all the team's they beat pretty good. The closest margin of victory was 16 pts.

[DKW 86 7,431]

Big 10 and TV ratings cash.

Signed the NCAA

[WarEagle007 1]

They aren't a unanimous #1, LSU has 11 #1 votes in both of the polls...

[townhallsavoy 2]

They play in a major conference and are one of only two teams from a BCS conference with one loss. And for all the toughness of the other's schedules, they laid some major league eggs: Georgia losing to 6-6 South Carolina. LSU losing to two unranked teams. Va Tech getting blasted 48-7 by LSU. Oklahoma lost to a 6-6 Colorado team. Ohio State's only loss was to a 9-3 Illinois team. And aside from Michigan State and Michigan, they pounded all the team's they beat pretty good. The closest margin of victory was 16 pts.

Their loss is respectable, but I hate to compare losses instead of wins.

I think nitpicking each team is pointless. There's not going to be any team that has a for sure reason to be #1 or #2. Maybe Ohio St is the closest to having a good resume. This year definitely proves that we need a playoff system.

[TexasTiger 12,962]

Just another opportunity to demonstrate SEC dominance.

[townhallsavoy 2]

They aren't a unanimous #1, LSU has 11 #1 votes in both of the polls...

And there's another argument in itself. Why the heck does LSU have 11 #1 votes? They have two losses. There is a team with zero losses. Two teams with 1 loss. LSU barely beat Alabama; they lost to Kentucky; and they lost to Arkansas. They only beat Tennessee by one touchdown.

Rankings and the bowl games get me fired up every year. They're ridiculously skewed. You aren't going to have a definite reason to put any of these teams ahead of each other. If the BCS comes out with Ohio St #1 and Oklahoma #2, there's no good argument that proves LSU should be ahead of either of them. PLAYOFF.

Just another opportunity to demonstrate SEC dominance.

Yeah and once again, do you root for LSU to win for the SEC dominance aspect? Or root for them to lose because the better they do, the better they recruit?

[PChamp119 96]

Where was this argument last week?

The answer: OSU has only 1 loss. They weren't in until every team outside of Hawaii and Kansas lost a second game. And those two teams aren't in because of... BINGO... their schedule. A major conference champion with only 1 loss... that is why. No one wants to see OSU in the Title Game, but they feel obligated based on their schedule and being the champ of a BCS conference.

[TitanTiger 20,499]

This is actually a good point. OSU wasn't getting preferential treatment. They were ranked 3rd behind a one loss Big East team and a one loss Big 12 team (that is anything but a traditional power). Had those teams won, they go to the Rose Bowl...no BCS title game for them. It's only because of the deficiencies of the other major teams around them that they are on top almost by default.

[AUartlady 19]

They play in a major conference and are one of only two teams from a BCS conference with one loss. And for all the toughness of the other's schedules, they laid some major league eggs: Georgia losing to 6-6 South Carolina. LSU losing to two unranked teams. Va Tech getting blasted 48-7 by LSU. Oklahoma lost to a 6-6 Colorado team. Ohio State's only loss was to a 9-3 Illinois team. And aside from Michigan State and Michigan, they pounded all the team's they beat pretty good. The closest margin of victory was 16 pts.

Kentucky was ranked when they beat LSU.

[eibua12 81]

Because no one wanted to see VaTech Play LSU so Harris and Coaches polls have them ranked way too low.

[rebdawg 5]

Ohio State is from a conference that graduates 73% of the sports media in the nation. The Big 10 (11) is a BCS conference and they were the champ. The real question is why is the Big 10 (11) a BCS conference. Aside from Ohio State thug-lead Carret team there has not been a genuinly good team from that conference in 30 years. That includes the '98 Michigan team which would have lost by 50 points to Nebraska had they had the nads to tell the Pose Bowl sorry and went to the Orange Bowl to take their medicine.

[TexasTiger 12,962]

Just another opportunity to demonstrate SEC dominance.

Yeah and once again, do you root for LSU to win for the SEC dominance aspect? Or root for them to lose because the better they do, the better they recruit?

Regardless of whom I root for, I expect LSU to win.

[SLAG-91 1,483]

Their loss is respectable, but I hate to compare losses instead of wins.

That's about what it came down to this year...in a season where everybody seemed hell-bent on stomping on their collective weiners down the stretch, Ohio State did it the least often and to a "better" team.

If LSU beats Ohio State, we'll have our first 2-loss national champion in 47 years and the first 2-loss team EVER to be voted MNC winner after the bowl game.