Let's be honest, the SEC owns The Ohio State University. The ownership is so clear I'm officially awarding the pretentious 'The' that Ohio State likes to place in front of their school to the SEC. From now on it's The SEC. I'd encourage everyone to join me in this. And if you ever see anyone referring to Ohio State as The Ohio State University, please be so kind as to point out that The SEC owns them.
In the wake of the second annual Ohio State beat down, several of you have already written to me suggesting that Ohio State is the Buffalo Bills of college football. That's far too generous to Ohio State. The Bills had to win their way to the Super Bowl. Granted they lost once they got to the big game, but they beat several decent playoff teams to get there. All Ohio State had to do to make the BCS title game was have the good fortune to play a regular season in the Big Ten.
This win brings into stark relief the reason the Big Ten doesn't favor a college football playoff. It's because they know their teams wouldn't be nearly as competitive if the games were played on the field instead of inside computer databases.
Don't give me any more of the excrement-filled talk from Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney about why a playoff doesn't make sense for college football. It makes perfect sense for college football, and anyone with a pulse knows it. What it doesn't make sense for is the Big Ten. Because their teams are always overrated and never justify the media-fellating they receive all season long.
Nine consecutive losses to the SEC is way past a trend folks, it's a way of life. Basically Ohio State is the SEC's bitch, and there's nothing they can do about it.
On to the BCS title shellacking and the things that most jumped out at me about the game.
1. Florida coach Urban Meyer is a guest analyst. I'm sure he doesn't realize he's holding the microphone with his huge national championship ring. That's probably just a coincidence.
2. I'm not going to lie, the most interesting over/under in the game tonight is number of "you can't see me" gestures we're going to get from LSU. I'm thinking the number has to be at least 10.
3. My wife comes into the room, sees Ohio State take the field and says, "I hate Ohio State. Their fans are so smug and mean. They're like the Georgia of the SEC." (My wife also hates Georgia, an emotion we don't share since I like Georgia fans. In defense of Georgia, Ohio State would have lost a minimum of three games if they'd played eight in the SEC.)
4. LSU's quarterbacks have been preparing for the game against Ohio State by playing video games. My favorite part of the entire article? "So when Flynn, LSU's fifth-year senior starter, sits down to play, he's got an extensive selection of plays from which to choose, compared with Perrilloux, the No. 2 quarterback whom Crowton usually limits to about 10 plays per game."
5. Ten plays per game? Ryan Perriloux has been at LSU for three years now. He's a redshirt sophomore and he can't even play a video game with more than 10 plays? This means he's learned an average of two plays a semester. Seriously, two plays a semester. That's unbelievable. Especially when you consider that one of Perrilloux's 10 plays on the video game involves dodging federal investigators.
6. Also, did UT's defensive staff recognize this limitation when Perrilloux started the SEC Championship Game? If so, this means they were effectively playing Tecmo Super Bowl only with 10 play options to defend instead of eight. And we still lost. Awesome.
7. Slowhio scores the first 10 points of the game. I have to admit I was sort of rooting for Ohio State to go up 14-0 just to see how Les Miles reacted on the sideline.
