Quote by McFly800:
hey i'm happy you finally beat a good opponent...SEC is still the best conference in college football and you know it...was a great game tonight... but Arkansas beat themselves...and if Auburn wins it will be 5 championships for the SEC in a row...pretty impressive...
Well at this point I feel like I'm beating a dead horse but.... we "FINALLY" beat a good opponent?
Do I need to remind you we beat Oregon last year in the Rose Bowl? You know the Oregon that is in the national championship this year? Not to mention our BCS wins over Notre Dame and Kansas State. Although it has been a while Miami in the 2002 championship was a VERY good team. We also beat Texas in the regular season a few years ago. Did we choke against the SEC teams in the big games (until this year)? Yes. But so what? Lots of conferences/teams lose to the SEC lately.
Look, if you want to argue that certain years OSU is overrated, I will not deny it. If you want to say OSU plays weak opponents then you need to realize we schedule our games YEARS in advance for most of the non-conference big games. We played Texas two years and USC two years. To argue the SEC plays better opponents is probably true but only because the SEC has been a strong conference for the past few years, arguably the best. They STILL play super weak non-conference games so ragging on OSU because the Big-10 sucks (with the exception of Wisconsin) isn't really their fault.
As for the Sugar Bowl did Arkansas make a bunch of mistakes? Yes. But between (IMO) the bad safety call plus the super-conservative second half play by the Bucks, not even to mention the BLOCKED PUNT at the end of the game, OSU tried to give back the game to Arkansas. Thankfully our defense, you know the one that had our 3rd string safety and cornerback playing, won the game for us. That is what OSU football is normally about, bend but not break defense who wears you down and wins. Ultimately you can say Arkansas had a bad day, but so did OSU and we still won.
The problem is you are trying to argue two points. One the SEC is a great conference. If you asked me a few years ago I might have said they were a bit overrated. Now I have no problem admitting they are the conference to beat in college football right now.
The second point is that OSU sucks, is overrated or something along those lines.... Calling OSU's opponents weak is really just a cop out because you don't like OSU. With few exceptions MOST teams have a few weak opponents. If you are going to insult Ohio State, at least do it for what they deserve. This year they have shown they are NOT an overrated team, and they have proven they can beat a QUALITY SEC team.