Scioto

Why? Ohio State isn’t forgotten to Joe. He’s a graduate. Remember, he was a grad transfer. I don’t know if Ricks is an LSU grad. Probably half the fan base wanted him over Haskins and those are the ones still claiming. In Joe’s own words, deeds, and actions he’s a Tiger and Buckeye (my ordering was intentional).

In that interview, it was notable what Joe said and didn’t say. After saying he still claims Ohio State in addition to LSU, he said he still stays in contact with coach Day (his OSU OC/QB coach), coach Dennis (his OSU QB QC coach, and coach Marotti (his OSU S&C coach). Notably, no mention of Urban who made the choice for Haskins.

End of the day, it was win-win for both schools. But for Gerry Hodges, we would have played you in the Superdome in Jan 2020 and that would have been a hell of a game.

That’s basically Saban in 1999. Played Kent State. DB coach at Kent State and Ohio State, then some other places up north. Then Toledo HC, Browns DC, then Michigan St HC, then LSU HC b

Neither team plays there, except Stanford back in the day if it won the old PAC 8, so you are ignorant.

Mike Riley was a disaster for them. Pelini wasn’t awful. He was 9-3 Pelini. Funny thing is, at exactly 67 games, Harbaugh has the same record at Michigan as Pelini had at Nebraska, 46-19. I just think Pelini’s scheme, like Harbaugh’s, has passed him by in this era of college football.

Frost is a good coach, but Nebraska will never get back to 1990s or even 1970s/1980s Nebraska. End of Prop 48 really hurt their recruiting, as well as how college football has changed since then. Leaving the Big 12 also hurt their recruiting, plus it’s just damn hard to recruit kids to Lincoln. Although there are a billion reasons annually why the move to the Big Ten was the right decision for the university, the athletic department is 2x 3x richer than it was, and they don’t have to deal with Texas dictating terms, the Big Ten move hurt them on the field.

In a normal season it's very hard to replace that much talent from what may have been the best college football team ever (or at least in the discussion), let alone a Heisman Trophy winning QB and both coordinators. Now, throw COVID into it, no Spring practice, no normal Summer session, interrupted Fall camp. However, Leach and Mississippi State had the same 2020 factors, but that's a solid team that brought back a lot from last year and added Leach.

When is the rest of the SEC going to stop with this bullshite SEC SEC SEC mantra and start demanding answers? Why does Alabama open up against Mizzou? It's going to get interesting, however. This will be the first year in the Saban era when Alabama plays more than 3 straight P5 teams, and they won't have byes or chickenshit Saturdays before playing LSU, Auburn, or Georgia (but the only team in my lifetime more overrated than UGA is TAM).

I agree the SEC is the best football conference, and most years by a wide margin. Just look at NFL draft numbers. With all that talent in your backyards, however, an argument could be made that the SEC should be much better than it is.

There is the occasional season when the Big Ten can challenge for supremacy, such as 2014.

One thing about this strange season, with the SEC not starting until next weekend and the Big Ten for not another month, I’ve watched a lot more ACC and Big 12 than I would normally. There’s a lot of bad football played in those conferences. I’d take Purdue or Indiana or Missouri or Kentucky over most teams in those conferences except for the few obvious ones.

This season is ....... well, it’s 2020. What else can be said. In most years, the top and bottom of the two conferences are usually comparable. It’s the wide middle of good teams where the SEC sets itself apart. And you are assuming every SEC team gets in its 10 games this year.

But the SEC always plays 8 conf games until 2020. And the argument every year prior to 2020 was “an 8 game SEC schedule is too hard, we have to schedule the chickenshit Saturday slate of games.” You can’t argue both ways. Would it make you feel better if Ohio State adopted an SEC and Clemson tradition, went rogue, and scheduled The Citadel for 10/17?

Targeted Green 13 times last night, 3 catches. Denzel Ward had a great game and had a lot to do with that. But there was one beautiful throw that Ward made a good play on, but Green should have caught it. Just a perfect throw. The TD pass to Uzomah was also a perfect toss. A noodle arm can’t make those throws.

A QB doesn’t escape several times like Burrow did last night without being athletic. The TD run against the Chargers is athleticism.

McElroy’s takes are usually solid and I like him, but this is not up to snuff.

Great game from Burrow. That O line, however, especially the right side. Pathetic. Awful. Can’t establish the run if the line is always getting blown up. Shows how good Burrow is with the game he had and multiple defenders in his face all game long. The hits though have me worried that Joe won’t finish this season.

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers I guess.