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This week’s edition of the Top 25 is the “which teams scare el Kaiser the most in a hypothetical BCS Title (or Rose Bowl) Game.” If they’re ranked higher than OSU, I’m genuinely frightened to play them at the end of the season.
First off, Oregon is terrifying. I have had this discussion before with fellow football fans and I don’t think I’ve talked to many (if any) that think Ohio State can hang with Oregon. I think our offense would be able to put up points and I think our defense could land some body blows, but the Oregon offense never lets up, never gets away from its game plan and just does what it came to do — run, run and run some more.
Alabama is a team that Ohio State is set up to beat — a straight ahead, pro-style smash mouth football team. They don’t look invincible, but they look pretty dang good.
But those are the only two teams I would worry that they would lay the wood to Ohio State. I’m not saying the Buckeyes would beat the rest of the top ten, but I like our chances.
This week some of the top teams were exposed as first class. Clemson struggled for a half against a feisty, but ultimately not really great Boston College, Georgia went down at home, Baylor looked human and Texas A&M looked very beatable against a young Ole Miss team. Texas A&M is the only other team that scares me, because I think Johnny Manziel would keep them in the game, but that defense is too porous to make me too nervous.
Stanford disappointed, Oklahoma got a Texas-sized whupping (which I know had to be cathartic for Texas fans) and Michigan. Goodness gracious Michigan. That was, I just don’t know. I don’t have words.
Actually, I do. This is what I said two weeks ago:
Speaking of “maybe not good teams”, Michigan fans better be worried. By the simple transitive property (which I think went out of fashion a few years ago, but bear with me), you have Michigan team that struggled mightily to beat a UConn team that got manhandled by Buffalo, 41-12. That was the same Buffalo team that Ohio State manhandled 40-20. If you take those three outcomes, carry the three and solve for X, you realize that Michigan could be in for a lot of pain come November 30th.
Forget November 30th. The pain started early. October 12th, to be exact.
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