Well, in 2018 and 2019 Ohio St instead of the MAC game- agreed to a home and home with TCU...
What's so comical about this is 2 years ago when the Ohio St President said that TCU played the Little Sisters of the Poor.
The OSU president never said that TCU was a Little Sister of the Poor. He said that TCU played against the Little Sisters of the Poor. Which was not that far off the truth.
that is what I said......
Ohio St President said that TCU played the Little Sisters of the Poor
I thought he said Boise played the Little Sisters of the Poor. Not TCU.
Here is what Gordon Gee actually said:
Ohio State president Gordon Gee didn't feel that way two years ago. He angered TCU supporters that fall when he said that neither the Horned Frogs nor Boise State -- who were both undefeated at the time -- deserved to play for the BCS national championship.
"Well, I don't know enough about the X's and O's of college football," Gee said at the time. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day.
"So I think until a university runs through that gauntlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame."
http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...ome-series
(10-02-2012 04:52 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]Well, in 2018 and 2019 Ohio St instead of the MAC game- agreed to a home and home with TCU...
Have 3 other non conference games to schedule a MAC team. I don't think this would be taking the place of a MAC game, they traditionally play at least big name program. Have Virginia Tech, North Carolina and Oklahoma on the schedule from 2014-17. They had Tennessee and Georgia on the schedule for 2018-21 but when the B1G-Pac 12 scheduling alliance was announced these series were canceled. There are rumors the Georgia series may be revisited not that this alliance has been scratched
he was president of Vanderbilt which isn't exactly a SEC powerhouse in football
My guess is that Ohio State's will be switching from one big name opponent and three one and dones (or close to it) to either 2 big name opponents or 1 big opponent and 1 at least mid-tier one. I suspect 7 home games will still be a must though (and honestly hope the first game of the year is as easy as can be arranged; with no scrimmages, I think college football first games should be for working out the kinks).
(10-02-2012 04:52 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]Well, in 2018 and 2019 Ohio St instead of the MAC game- agreed to a home and home with TCU...
What's so comical about this is 2 years ago when the Ohio St President said that TCU played the Little Sisters of the Poor.
(10-02-2012 04:57 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: [ -> ]The OSU president never said that TCU was a Little Sister of the Poor. He said that TCU played against the Little Sisters of the Poor. Which was not that far off the truth.
(10-02-2012 05:02 PM)stever20 Wrote: [ -> ]that is what I said......
Ohio St President said that TCU played the Little Sisters of the Poor
I fail to see the humor. He said a true statement about the bulk of TCU's opponents that year. What's that have to do with TCU playing OSU OOC six years from now?
Ohio State has admitted that they're one of the little sisters of the poor, CB...
(10-03-2012 08:38 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: [ -> ]Ohio State has admitted that they're one of the little sisters of the poor, CB...
I'm not exactly an OSU fan, but that's a bit of a stretch.
Gee's statement was true at the time. TCU ended that season without a single regular-season game played against an opponent that was ranked in the final AP poll. According to
teamrankings.com, during the regular season TCU played 1 opponent in the top-30 (#23 Utah), 4 opponents ranked between 30-60, 2 opponents between 60-95, and 5 of their opponents were either in D-1AA or among the worst 25 in D-1A.
OSU's schedule was
much more difficult, as was every other team in competition for a BCS bowl other than Boise. That strength of schedule number doesn't even count the D-1AA opponent that Boise played (OSU didn't play any D-1AA teams that year).
Not saying that OSU was a better team, just that they faced a tougher schedule. And to be completely fair to TCU, OSU didn't win any of those games against that harder schedule. The NCAA saw to that.
(10-03-2012 10:57 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: [ -> ] (10-03-2012 08:38 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: [ -> ]Ohio State has admitted that they're one of the little sisters of the poor, CB...
I'm not exactly an OSU fan, but that's a bit of a stretch.
Gee's statement was true at the time. TCU ended that season without a single regular-season game played against an opponent that was ranked in the final AP poll. According to teamrankings.com, during the regular season TCU played 1 opponent in the top-30 (#23 Utah), 4 opponents ranked between 30-60, 2 opponents between 60-95, and 5 of their opponents were either in D-1AA or among the worst 25 in D-1A.
OSU's schedule was much more difficult, as was every other team in competition for a BCS bowl other than Boise. That strength of schedule number doesn't even count the D-1AA opponent that Boise played (OSU didn't play any D-1AA teams that year).
Not saying that OSU was a better team, just that they faced a tougher schedule. And to be completely fair to TCU, OSU didn't win any of those games against that harder schedule. The NCAA saw to that.
I know the statement was true at the time. But it was made it poor taste, and he's got to expect it to get thrown back in his face. Human nature and all, you know...
OSU AD Gene Smith quoted today saying that starting in 2018 the goal is to ONLY play BCS teams in their OOC schedule.
(10-03-2012 01:55 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote: [ -> ]OSU AD Gene Smith quoted today saying that starting in 2018 the goal is to ONLY play BCS teams in their OOC schedule.
2019 OSU OOC schedule: Vandy, Duke, North Western
(10-03-2012 02:04 PM)ConanX Wrote: [ -> ] (10-03-2012 01:55 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote: [ -> ]OSU AD Gene Smith quoted today saying that starting in 2018 the goal is to ONLY play BCS teams in their OOC schedule.
2019 OSU OOC schedule: Vandy, Duke, North Western
um...Northwestern is in the same conference. ;-) but I get your point
Also they already have @TCU scheduled for 2019.
OSU is likely going to have 1-2 buy in game vs AQ team/s every season now...otherwise they are only going to have 6 home games and I know that is not happening.
Must be nice to get a home and home. UC did deal that will end up 5-6 games at OSU and 1 game in Cincinnati.