The game's not yet over, but...
Hail Florida. The better team tonight seems clearly poised to win, big.
Damn shame, that, but it is what it is, and my prior words on the matter can be considered to have been eaten.
[wik] Velociman's comments cut to the quick:
There are two types of collegiate football played in America, Neck.1) Southeastern Conference Football, and
2) that weasily dandified transvestite version they play everywhere else. Most notably, apparently, there in your beloved Rust Belt.
The game's now over, and the result is no longer quite as shocking. Ohio State, after a decent start, got pounded like the new guy at the prison. Beat like a rented mule.
While (V-Man's purple prose notwithstanding) it says not a damned thing about the superiority of the SEC compared to anyone, Florida was without a doubt the baddest team on the field tonight.
[alsø wik] Buckethead update: I was going to write a post about this, but Patton's quote from Velociman preempts me. I was talking to my mom after the game, and I told her that as disappointed as I was with the loss the thing that bothered me most was that now the SEC bigots will never shut up. "I know," said she. My personal theory is that someone kidnapped the Buckeyes, and replaced them with the Cleveland Browns.
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Ohio State and Michigan both
Ohio State and Michigan both got exposed by a lot of speed and some good coaching.
I'll take my crow doused in
I'll take my crow doused in chili garlic sauce, please.
I subscribe to Patton's theory. Sure looked like the Browns....
Ken - the Browns theory was
Ken - the Browns theory was me. I will update to make that more clear.
Sorry, Buckethead. By the by,
Sorry, Buckethead. By the by, you should hear the idiocy on the radio and read it in the papers surrounding the Browns. One editorial page(!) editor said this morning the Browns are a public trust, and Randy Lerner should just by gum put down his metric-football team and come fix the Browns pronto! One of our afternoon sports-yakkers is often on the same topic (Lerner bought Aston Villa in the Premier League, see).
And all I can think is, good grief, weren't there plenty of times when we wished to hell Art Modell would buy a soccer team and let the football people run the Browns?
The heart of the "coaching
The heart of the "coaching failure" on Tressel's part (for which he will be rightly forgiven) was two-fold:
He largely abandoned the running game, which was working because OSU's front line was doing its job well.
He chickened out on the supposed speed of Florida's receivers, and gave them all the 10 and 15 yard gains they could eat.
As I said initially, this doesn't prove anything like a general SEC superiority, only a tactically better managed campaign last night by Florida. Any SEC bigots can listen to me sincerely compliment Florida's performance in that one game, then they can kiss my ass.