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Florida State's schedule is garbage. They played 1 quality team and destroyed them. They have yet to look bad against anyone with the possible exception of the first half against BC.
Ohio State will likely play an as good or better SOS. They, however, have played more bad quarters of football and when they had a chance to really lay it on Wisky, they went ultra-conservative in the 4th (plus, Hyde was just coming back and he was dog tired in the 4th -- as opposed to yesterday).
The bottom line is that FSU wailed Clemson and OSU played 2 bad quarters against nFw and Iowa. And FSU really hasn't played many bad quarters. They've been great all year. I think that's the core of it. There's also a "timing" issue. For example, OSU played Wisky early. If they played Wisky next week, Wisky would have been 9-1 with asterisk loss and ranked in the top 15 or better. Wisky will finish in the top 15, possibly top 10, but OSU didn't get the marquee value of that ranking. In contrast, FSU played Maryland when they were 4-0 and received tons of brownie points for wiping out what we know is a bad team. Same deal with Miami.
There are plenty of explanations. OSU has missed lots of games from Braxton Miller, Carlos Hyde and Bradley Roby. Roby, in particular, hurt against Buffalo and then against Iowa from his horseshit ejection. And yesterday the LB injuries were tough. Very thin position. And Mewhort was in and out which may have explained why they didn't run the ball as well as they should have.
If FSU plays 3 games without Winston....eh, I wonder what happens.
But, that didn't happen. I've always said that OSU needs 2 of the 3 teams in front of them to lose (some, lol, insist that 1-loss team goes ahead of OSU--we know that's idiocy). One team has. FSU will not. So it's down to Alabama-Auburn and Alabama-SC/Mizzou. Alabama, incidentally, played like garbage last night, not that anyone cares about that.
So, Ohio State is playing for a trip to Pasadena either way and a chance to win 26 straight. I could contrast that with what M is playing for, but that comparison is unrelated it makes almost no sense.
Ohio State will likely play an as good or better SOS. They, however, have played more bad quarters of football and when they had a chance to really lay it on Wisky, they went ultra-conservative in the 4th (plus, Hyde was just coming back and he was dog tired in the 4th -- as opposed to yesterday).
The bottom line is that FSU wailed Clemson and OSU played 2 bad quarters against nFw and Iowa. And FSU really hasn't played many bad quarters. They've been great all year. I think that's the core of it. There's also a "timing" issue. For example, OSU played Wisky early. If they played Wisky next week, Wisky would have been 9-1 with asterisk loss and ranked in the top 15 or better. Wisky will finish in the top 15, possibly top 10, but OSU didn't get the marquee value of that ranking. In contrast, FSU played Maryland when they were 4-0 and received tons of brownie points for wiping out what we know is a bad team. Same deal with Miami.
There are plenty of explanations. OSU has missed lots of games from Braxton Miller, Carlos Hyde and Bradley Roby. Roby, in particular, hurt against Buffalo and then against Iowa from his horseshit ejection. And yesterday the LB injuries were tough. Very thin position. And Mewhort was in and out which may have explained why they didn't run the ball as well as they should have.
If FSU plays 3 games without Winston....eh, I wonder what happens.
But, that didn't happen. I've always said that OSU needs 2 of the 3 teams in front of them to lose (some, lol, insist that 1-loss team goes ahead of OSU--we know that's idiocy). One team has. FSU will not. So it's down to Alabama-Auburn and Alabama-SC/Mizzou. Alabama, incidentally, played like garbage last night, not that anyone cares about that.
So, Ohio State is playing for a trip to Pasadena either way and a chance to win 26 straight. I could contrast that with what M is playing for, but that comparison is unrelated it makes almost no sense.
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