2014 Ohio State Buckeyes Football ScheduleFinal Record: 14-1, 8-0 (Big Ten) |
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| Date | Opponent | Time/TV | Tickets | |
| Saturday Aug. 30 |
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at Navy Midshipmen M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, MD |
Won 34-17 | |
| Saturday Sep. 6 |
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Virginia Tech Hokies Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
Lost 35-21 | |
| Saturday Sep. 13 |
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Kent State Golden Flashes Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
Won 66-0 | |
| Saturday Sep. 20 |
Open Date | |||
| Saturday Sep. 27 |
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Cincinnati Bearcats Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
Won 50-28 | |
| Saturday Oct. 4 |
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at Maryland Terrapins Byrd Stadium, College Park, MD |
Won 52-24 | |
| Saturday Oct. 11 |
Open Date | |||
| Saturday Oct. 18 |
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights (HC) Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
Won 56-17 | |
| Saturday Oct. 25 |
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at Penn State Nittany Lions Beaver Stadium, University Park, PA |
Won 31-24 (OT) | |
| Saturday Nov. 1 |
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Illinois Fighting Illini Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
Won 55-14 | |
| Saturday Nov. 8 |
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at Michigan State Spartans Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, MI |
Won 49-37 | |
| Saturday Nov. 15 |
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at Minnesota Golden Gophers TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN |
Won 31-24 | |
| Saturday Nov. 22 |
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Indiana Hoosiers Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
Won 42-27 | |
| Saturday Nov. 29 |
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Michigan Wolverines Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
Won 42-28 | |
| 2014 Big Ten Championship Game | ||||
| Saturday Dec. 6 |
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Wisconsin Badgers Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN |
Won 59-0 | |
| Playoff Semifinal - Allstate Sugar Bowl | ||||
| Thursday Jan. 1 |
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Alabama Crimson Tide Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, LA |
Won 42-35 | |
| College Football National Championship | ||||
| Monday Jan. 12 |
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Oregon Ducks AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX |
Won 42-20 | |
Ohio State Headlines
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John Coctosan
May 26, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Your site states Tulane is playing Georgia Tech & Wake in 2018.
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Brian Wilmer
May 26, 2016 at 3:27 pm
We had it listed in one section, but not the other. The copy has been updated – thanks for the heads-up.
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Joe
May 26, 2016 at 3:28 pm
Probably counts as a power five opponent since Tulane was at one time in the SEC.
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Jeff
May 26, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Actually Joe, it doesn’t. As the article mentions, the Buckeye’s already scheduled 2 other power 5 non-conference games in 2018, meaning 67% of their non-conference schedule will be against power 5 opponents. This percentage is higher than all SEC schools in 2018. I wouldn’t have expected you to pick up on that given the lack of education provided down in SEC country.
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Uga HATER!
May 26, 2016 at 9:46 pm
Jeff
Joe was wrong but why label all Southerns as stupid? Tim Cook, Auburn grad / Dr. James Andrews, LSU / John Grisham, Mississippi State & Ole Miss / Harper Lee, Alabama, William Faulkner, Ole Miss / Robert McNair, South Carolina / Jerry Jones, Arkansas ….just to name a few -
Title IX
May 27, 2016 at 8:28 am
What Jeff is trying to say is that every Southerner is stupid. That includes all African-American Southerners. Jeff is a racist, plain and simple.
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Jeremy
May 27, 2016 at 9:24 am
I’m willing to bet Joe was joking. It’s called sarcasm. Don’t be so sensitive Jeff.
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Phil
May 27, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Yeah pretty sure Joe was just poking fun at the Big Ten since they have a list of non-P5 conference schools that they count towards their Power 5 schedule requirement
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Joe
May 27, 2016 at 1:19 pm
See, Jeff, it’s called a joke.
Webster’s defines a joke as “something said or done to cause laughter.”
Everyone else got it.
It’s interesting that Jeff got so offended by that…
Well, at least his wife still likes me.
And his mother.
A lot.
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Jeremy
May 27, 2016 at 9:49 am
They are really desperate to justify this game and get people excited about it, aren’t they. “Tulane enhances… a non-conference schedule”, “Green Wave is part of a fine… conference”. The American is a fine conference, but Tulane finished last in the conference in 2015. They are grasping at straws mentioning that Houston beat Florida State. Yes they did, but what bearing does that have on Tulane? None. Ohio St has already scheduled 2 P5 games for that year with one on the road. I have no problem with them scheduling a team like Tulane. And I can’t stand Ohio St. It wasn’t an FCS team and it’s a school they’ve never played before. There’s your selling point. Why can’t the statement be, “Our 2018 schedule is complete. We’ve scheduled Tulane, whom we’ve never played before.” Or something like that. You don’t belittle Tulane, and you bring something new to the schedule. Let Tulane take the forefront on this and if you feel the need, make a simple statement. These P5 schools need to stop trying to oversell these match ups in an effort to not offend the smaller school. It’s obvious and perhaps a little offensive.
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Jeff
May 27, 2016 at 10:35 am
Title IX, thanks for speaking for me and clarifying what I was trying to say (since things are plain and simple to you, I want to clarify that I am being sarcastic). I would be really interested to hear more behind the logic as to how you took my comment and came up with racism. My original comment was a jab at SEC country in response the jab given to the Buckeyes. My jab stemmed from the lack of thought given by Joe in his comment around strength of schedule as a whole. The SEC has this internal bias that their schedule is far tougher than any other conference schedule. While I would agree that a SEC West schedule is generally tougher than say the Big Ten or Pac 12, I wouldn’t say it is by a significant margin. My reasoning is that the SEC non-conference schedule is an absolute joke. It would be difficult for a SEC team to enter their conference schedule with a record worse than 3-1 or 4-0 based on the lack of competition they face. For instance, in 2016 the SEC plays 56 non-conference games, of which only 15 of them (27%) are against power 5 schools and worse, 14 of them (25%) are against FCS opponents. Comparatively, the B10 plays 42 non-conference games in 2016 with 13 games against Power 5 schools (31%) and only 8 against FCS schools (19%). How do the rest of us truly know how good that 4-0 Mississippi State juggernaut is when their wins are against Southern Miss, UAB, South Alabama and UT Martin. I’m sorry if any of you SEC individuals were offended by my original comment, though it would be nice to see a little bit more thought coming from the majority of the pro-SEC commenters on these message boards.
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Joe
May 27, 2016 at 1:24 pm
No. The SEC doesn’t say their schedule is toughest. Phil Steele, ESPN, Fox Sports, and every other expert in the business of college football says the SEC schedule is the toughest.
I love these schedule arguments and how they leave out the most important piece… the fact that teams in the SEC will play more NFL level players (players that will be drafted by NFL teams) in their eight conference games, than teams in the Big Ten, or any other conference, will play on their whole schedule.
But I wouldn’t expect a guy like Jeff, who obviously is a racist, to understand that.
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Ryan
May 27, 2016 at 4:57 pm
ESPN and CBS have to say that the SEC is the toughest and use every flimsy argument that they can find to support it because they paid through the nose for the SEC’s tv rights and to try to get a return on their investment they need to perpetuate the “SEC is the best conference” myth. ESPN will use any opportunity they can to belittle the Big Ten because their tv rights are up for negotiation and ESPN is being cheap and doesn’t want to pay top dollar for the content.
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Day
May 27, 2016 at 7:19 pm
That’s funny, I always see ESPN bragging on Ubran Meyer & The Ohio State on how good they are & are going to be. ESPN is in it for the money & TV ratings, you may not know this but ESPN LOST money on the Bama vs Clemson game, why? Due to being two southern (east-coast) teams & knowing most of the mid-coast & west was not going to watch, they had to play around with the commercials at the end of the game to keep people intrigued. Once again an SEC basher who luvs to bring up the worst of college football picking on an SEC team in which he/she could careless about. Doubt his/her name is even Ryan.
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Kevin Kirkland
June 16, 2016 at 3:05 pm
Playing eleven P5 opponents in a single season (9 conference games plus two OOC games) puts Ohio State in somewhat elite company. The 2018 schedules for many schools is not complete, but I know that in 2016, only four of the 65 schools who make up the five P5 conferences (plus Notre Dame) will play eleven P5 schools. They are Stanford, Texas, Oregon, and Oregon. Stanford and Texas were the only two who did in 2015. Florida State did it in 2014
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Shep
August 25, 2015 at 2:45 pm
Too bad they couldn’t have rescheduled CMU for 2019, but that would’ve been quite the challenge going @ Wisconsin and @ OSU in the same year.
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GEG
August 25, 2015 at 7:59 pm
About time this game happens. Cincinnati should be part of the Big 12
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Bill
August 25, 2015 at 1:54 pm
another extremely weak opponent on the Buckeye schedule….i’m sure everyone is surprised.
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rworbs
August 25, 2015 at 6:28 pm
You seem to be terribly misinformed about Ohio St and their scheduling. The entire Big Ten will be playing nine conference games. In several of those season they will be playing 2 Power 5 opponents and in 2023 will also be playing 3–Texas, Notre Dame, and Boston College. I hardly call that weak.
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OscarSierraUniform
August 25, 2015 at 2:03 pm
We’re trying to copy the SEC’s way of thinking. However, it’s considered a D-1 opponent as opposed to the numerous D-1AA opponents who fill out the SEC’s non-conference slate. Ever since we beat LSU in Columbus, no SEC team is willing to come North. Only LSU (Lambeau in 2 years) and Alabama a couple years ago who traveled to Penn State have the nads to travel North.
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Kevin Kelley
August 25, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Georgia agreed to play a home-and-home with Ohio State, but it was scrapped when the B1G announced they were changing to a nine-game schedule.
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AC
August 26, 2015 at 11:24 am
Arkansas played at Rutgers in 2013 and they’re schedule to play at Michigan in 2018.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 26, 2015 at 11:47 am
Yes Arkansas did and they LOST, both games against Rutgers.
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K Cole
August 25, 2015 at 10:25 pm
And OSU looked to schedule UGA for future games when the PAC 12 head to head was canceled and UGA AD respectfully declined. The SEC won’t play the blue bloods of the Big Ten with a home and home. They lose and they know they’ll lose. The biggest stadiums in the country are in the B1G. This isn’t about tickets sales. Money is to be had. They just don’t want to lay it on the line. OSU has played TX, USC, Miami, VT and Oklahoma next year for home and homes over the past decade. No SEC program that has done that.
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Day
August 26, 2015 at 6:38 am
What are you talking about? The Ohio State backed out of the Georgia game cause they did not want to play a PAC-12 & SEC opponent in the same year because of the PAC-12/BIG partnership. There is no truth behind the comment “They lose and they know they’ll lose”, Alabama beat Penn St twice. There will be future SEC vs BIG but right now the SEC is scheduling ACC, PAC-12 & BIG-12 games.
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schoup
August 26, 2015 at 8:58 am
SEC is scared to play Home and home series outside of the south. It’s a fact. Just look at their schedules the last 10 years and in the future. Please don’t mention Bama they are the king of cowards. The ygit their 2sses beat in 2 back to back seres in the early 2000’s..lost 4 games OOC in a row and have never scheduled a home and hoe series since. Penn State was scheduled before their @ss whippings.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 26, 2015 at 10:09 am
Day please look up the last time an SEC program played Ohio State and won in Columbus or Ann Arbor. They are the blue bloods of the B1G. Did you read the link I provided? UGA wants none of Urban Mayer. Moreover do your research and look up the SEC win loss records outside of the south during the BCS era. Abysmal. The teams with wins were Arkansas playing A&M and Kentucky over Miami OH. During BCS era Vandy played the most games outside of south during NCS. SEC want nothing to do with home and home against Big Ten. Those are the facts.
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AC
August 26, 2015 at 11:23 am
Arkansas and Kentucky the only two with wins outside the south? Never mind LSU has wins at Arizona, Arizona State, and Washington. Georgia also won at Arizona State and Alabama at Penn State and those are just the ones off the top of my head. There probably aren’t too many more, but don’t go on about facts when yours aren’t even accurate.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 26, 2015 at 11:32 am
Arkansas and Kentucky had the most wins for the SEC for OOC outside of the south. You know what I meant but way to cherry pick and ignore the rest of what I posted. The SEC OOC is terrible. Neutral site BS and OOC games against FCS teams in November. Worst of the Power 5 conferences.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 26, 2015 at 11:40 am
And let’s also disclose UGAs loss at Colorado, the worst PAC 12 program and UT losing to Cal. How about Vandy losing to Northwestern? Mizzou losing to Indiana last year? Again, name a SEC program that has played USC, Miami, TX, VT and OU? Hell, OSU played a Phillip Rivers lead NC State team with a home and home. Coast to coast! OSU plays anyone, well except the SEC because they don’t like home and homes. They like their games in Arlington and Atlanta.
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Day
August 26, 2015 at 3:38 pm
Your facts are a little misguided. I luv Michigan but they have not been a blue blood of the BIG in a long time, btw Michigan has a home n home with Arkansas in the future so there goes those facts plus you will see more SEC vs BIG home n home as well. So basically your link says Georgia wants none of Urban Meyer but in 2012 when The Ohio State canceled the game with Georgia, does that mean Buckeyes wanted none of the Dawgs? Seems like a balancing act to me.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 26, 2015 at 4:14 pm
You don’t stop being a blue blood because you haven’t been successful. Tennessee is an SEC blue blood and haven’t been successful since the early 2000’s. UM is a blue blood. Always will be.
Regardless of semantics, the SEC won’t play a legit blue blood in OOC with a home and home. Arkansas scheduling UM is misleading as well. Arkansas can’t beat Rutgers. When Bama, LSU, AU, UF, and UT schedule home and homes with Big Ten blue bloods I’ll be less judgmental on their historical dodging of playing in the north.
Moreover, yes OSU canceled the home and home with UT and UGA because of the Big Ten PAC 12 agreement but that was canceled in 2012 because the PAC 12 decided to go to a 9 game conference schedule. Since then UGA has declined to play OSU for future OOC match ups. Instead OSU has scheduled OU, TCU, TX, ND AND BC.
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Day
August 26, 2015 at 4:53 pm
What does it matter if Arkansas can’t beat Rutgers right now? Michigan can’t beat Rutgers either, you don’t know how Arkansas is going to look in three years so no, it’s not misleading. So basically cause the SEC won’t schedule a home n home with the only two blue blood teams in the BIG it dodging the north, ok.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 26, 2015 at 5:45 pm
The point being made is that of the SEC teams that do, none of them have any hopes of winning their divisions let alone the SEC. When did Arkansas win the SEC last? How about Vandy who played Northwestern home and home? No one cares that these scrub programs are playing OOC because they’re not winning the SEC and certainly aren’t national title contenders.
The point is, of the programs that have a shot they all play neutral site games. Meanwhile programs like OSU who just won a title are going to play VT in Blacksburg. They play at Oklahoma next year. The SEC programs that do travel north are doing it for a payout and not protective of a potential title run. When Bama, LSU, AU, UF, schedule home and homes for OOC then it’ll be a level playing field. Until then, they continue to manipulate their schedules to put a team in position for the playoff while the Big Ten, PAC 12 and Big 12 are playing home and homes. I mean seriously USC played at BC and Oregon traveled to Virginia. You’ll never see Bama play at USC or AU play at Oregon. That’s why Bama has a neutral site game against USC in Arlington.
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Day
August 26, 2015 at 6:51 pm
Not sure if you have not looked up the schedules but the SEC has home n home games with PAC-12, BIG-12, ACC as well. Of course the teams that travel north or anywhere are playing for payout, why would teams play for free? I just find it ironic that you blast the SEC for such a “terrible OOC” meanwhile OSU plays, Hawaii, Florida Atlantic, Army, UNLV, N.lllinois, W.Mich, Bowling Green & Tulsa. Looks almost like an SEC OOC schedule to me. Yes, OSU is playing some great home n home & the big dogs of the SEC are playing more neutral sites but who really cares, last time I checked the SEC had neutral site games with Wisconsin, Michigan. Also neutral games are played by all conferences, PAC-12, BIG-12, BIG & ACC. The SEC is not the only one playing in them, just ask Wisconsin, how many have they been in? Plus Ole Miss & Auburn have home n homes with California, so yes the SEC is traveling off to the West. The game between USC & Bama is a money maker & big win for both teams & conferences, that’s why it is being played in Arlington.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 26, 2015 at 7:54 pm
Ohio State 2015 and 2016 OOC Matchups:
@VT, Hawaii, NIU, Western Michigan, Bowling Green, Tulsa, @Oklahoma
I’ll go with the SEC programs that have legit chances of winning a national title, whom have won one in the last 10 years and look at their two year OOC schedule. (I’ll throw in UGA too since they’re always expected to do something)
Bama: Wisconsin, MTSU, ULM, Charleston Southern, USC, WKU, Kent State, UT Chattanooga. (USC toughest opponent)
AU: Louisville, Jackson State, SJSU, Idaho, Clemson, Arkansas State, ULM, Alabama A&M (Clemson toughest opponent)
LSU: McNeese State, @Syracuse, Eastern Michigan, WKU, Wisconsin @ Lambeau, Jackson State, Southern Miss, South Alabama (Wisconsin toughest opponent)
UF: NMSU, East Carolina, FAU, FSU, UMass, North Texas, @ FSU. (FSU toughest opponent)
UGA: ULM, Southern, Georgia Southern, GT, UNC, Nicholls State, U of Louisiana. (GT toughest opponent)
LSU playing Wisconsin in Lambeau is the first time this will ever have happened. And go ahead and tell me that of these 5 SEC OOC schedules that they’re better than OSU’s when they’re playing at VT this year and at Norman Oklahoma next year, both at the start of their seasons. OSU plays a Mountain West program, MAC schools and Tulsa who is an AAC school. Meanwhile, the SEC has the worst FBS conference in the Sun Belt, and a bunch of FCS cupcakes. So, yeah when OSU has historically played home and homes against anyone and the SEC is playing BS cupcake OOC they’re going to get called out. LSU is the only program that of the 5 that is playing a legit game outside of their backyard, and I’ll give credit where credit is due and say good for them. But don’t think for a minute that they did this without being forced, because with the playoff they have to raise their OOC resume. OSU two consecutive years away OOC against very good programs. Not even comparable. We agree to disagree.
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Day
August 27, 2015 at 8:16 am
I understand where you’re coming from & due respect your opinion but please note that all conferences are being forced to schedule better games since the playoffs have arrived. Games are now being scheduled 10-15 yrs in advance not even knowing how well certain teams will be in future. My point is this, OSU is doing the same thing that some SEC teams do. They are scheduling one P5 in Va.tech then they have Hawaii, N.lll & W.Michigan, 2016 it is P5 Oklahoma, Bowling Green & Tusla or I guess you could call them cupcakes? Creampuffs? Let’s just say guaranteed wins.Yes, it looks like OSU is scheduling better games in the future then a lot of other teams but it is 8. 9., 10 yrs down the road, by then we may have 4 super conferences with 16 teams in each, who knows. You will also see other teams do the same thing but right you have a nice little schedule in the future, congras!
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Ally Manning
September 12, 2016 at 6:28 am
The big ten is just as good as the sec and nobody wants to admit it. The buckeyes will play anyone anywhere.
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Billy
August 26, 2015 at 1:43 am
And Georgia cancelled a series with Oregon. And Texas A&M and Kansas St did the same.
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Randy
August 26, 2015 at 11:59 pm
Kodiak…you’re wasting your time with Day. No amount of rational discourse and presentation of legitimate data will allow him to remove his blinders. It’s not his fault he can’t see outside of his (SEC) bubble.
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Harvey
August 27, 2015 at 5:14 pm
Is it possible to be a college football fan and respect both the B1G and the S.E.C.? The B1G play nine conference games, a possible tenth, another P5 and no more games against FCSers. The S.E.C. play eight games in the deepest conference, a possible ninth, usually a major non conference rival, and sometimes a major P5 in some neutral site venue. If equivalent programs from each conference played each other home and home, they would probably split, and both would prefer safer and more lucrative games at home or in neutral venues.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 27, 2015 at 6:09 pm
Is it possible? Yes. Is it likely? No. There are two programs from the SEC who have historically traveled for OOC, UT and LSU. The rest of the conference doesn’t do it. Many college football fans like myself who are not fans of schools in the SEC pay particular attention to this when SEC fans pound their chest and yell to the masses that they’re the best in college football. Is this really a true statement? How do we know when the SEC only plays themselves, doesn’t schedule home and home games by their top teams and play Sun Belt and FCS programs for OOC? The SEC has multiple narratives from the coaches of the programs and from the fans. When they win they point to the weekly battle tested programs. When they lose they complain it’s because they’re conference is so tough. They complain that teams like Ohio State don’t play anyone which is completely and absolutely absurd. OSU played the perceived best of the SEC and beat them. Even then there are continued excuses from fans and Nick Saban himself makes excuses. If you’re old enough to remember, the Big Ten conference was the best during the 90’s from top to bottom and you didn’t hear the narrative that northern football was better than the south. It was never about that until the SEC started being successful during the BCS era. Never in the history of college football had a conference supplied a national champion 7 years in a row. How is that possible? Play only yourselves, don’t leave the south or your state for OOC and get most of your bowl games at home. We know the BCS was flawed after what happened last year. Had the BCS been used last year we would have watched FSU play Alabama. One can only hope that with the playoffs here and potentially expanded to 6 or 8 that the sport will be more level and fair across all power 5 conferences.
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Billy
August 28, 2015 at 4:46 pm
Sometimes it’s hard to allow yourself to look at the “whole” picture, but if you can look at the data of an entire conference (not just one team or year) you will see that the SEC has every year since the beginning of the BSC era had the weakest non-conference slate (each and every year). In fact, if you look at what is stacking up for next year (2016) the SEC will continue to hold this low honor. There is no question the SEC has had some outstanding teams, but to state the entire lot as outstanding teams and to think the SEC is playing a “tough” schedule is very naïve. College Football in today’s world is about MONEY, and apparently the SEC has a system in place that leads their masses into spending/donating/you name it, dollars to their institutions in BIG numbers. If the fans of the SEC are happy with the product they’re getting, so be it, enjoy it, but don’t tell the world how impressed we should be with you, truly it’s not that great.
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Kodiak Bucks
August 28, 2015 at 10:06 pm
Bob Stoops called it like it is 2 years ago before he beat Bama. The bottom half of the SEC is not good and to continue to hear SEC fans brag about how great their conference is absurd. 5 SEC programs have won a BCS title. 3 of them have their last and only other title from the 1950’s. Bama and Florida are the two with titles within a decade of the BCS and Florida won their first national title in 1996. SEC fans don’t like hearing the facts though, it makes their numerous narratives look ridiculous. UT is the only blue blood in the SEC that has been pretty bad since the mid 2000’s. The Mississippi schools, UK, South Carolina, Vandy, Arkansas are not title contenders. They’re average to below average football programs. When was the last time these schools won the SEC let alone their division? Mizzou a mid pack Big 12 program came in and dominated the SEC east in their 2nd and 3rd year. Ole Miss was last relevant in the 1960’s. These teams at literally half of the SEC. If UGA wasn’t so talented they could be added to the list too but every year they’re expected to finally win. All this being said, the SEC has some great teams but so do other conferences who actually leave their backyard for OOC.
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Day
January 13, 2015 at 11:06 am
Congratulations to The Ohio State & Big Ten for bouncing back. Buckeyes dominated when they needed it the most & it shows Urban Meyer is great for a reason & why Buckeyes hired him. Enjoy your trophy!
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Rob Hill
January 13, 2015 at 11:38 am
Two comments: Firstly, Congratulations Ohio State you deserve this great win. Secondly, I would imagine that Florida State is grateful they didn’t have to play you.
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Herandos
January 13, 2015 at 3:25 pm
But the official sanctioned NCAA Champion is North Dakota State.
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Buckeyes
January 14, 2015 at 9:39 am
So when is the last time, in college football history, a team went out and beat the #1 team and then next week, beat the #2 team?
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Bri
September 26, 2015 at 1:17 am
When is the last time that a team played all 3 top Heisman finalist in consecutive weeks? And all 3 players played on teams that were favored? And then limit all 3 players? And then beat all 3 teams?!!! Go Bucks!
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austin
January 14, 2015 at 10:23 am
we won 3 bowl games with are 3rd string qb so peeps its not luck its skill
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austin
January 14, 2015 at 10:25 am
so all those that say its not skill it luck what ever I have a 12 gage
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Dave
January 15, 2015 at 10:09 am
Congratulations Austin!
Are you currently learning the English language? Your written comments were a bit disjointed.
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Clemons
January 14, 2015 at 1:19 pm
Let’s just put this luck thing behind us ok. It’s legit it happened ohio state buckeyes are national champions. Ya’ll just wished your team were in this position. The playoffs were coming sooner or later just deal with it. Obviously we deserved it because we just beat the #1 and #2 team in the nation………it the nation……..let that simmer for a little bit………..IN THE NATION!!!!!!! ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!
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Billy
January 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Congrats to the Buckeyes! As well, congrats to the Big Ten for having their Champion win the National Championship. With The Ohio State winning the National Championship I think this is a good time to point out it was the Buckeyes that won and not the Big Ten. As were the times Alabama won or Auburn did, it was those individual schools winning and not the SEC. I know many believe the SEC, and in particular the SEC West, is “so” strong, but my belief there are many within the SEC that are riding the coat tails of their Big Brothers. There is a lot of parity in College Football and truly just a few elite programs (sorry), and yet some schools wisely hide behind their Conference’s “power” teams and try to appear to be a “power”. I think the SEC schools and conference itself, do the best job of hiding their weaknesses.
The SEC NC Schedule again continues to be a joke in this coming 2015 and they continue to be allowed to be “rewarded” for their bad behavior. This may not be a scientific approach to measuring the 2015 NC schedules, but try to absorb this; When measuring all 64 of the “Power Five” Conference Schools for this coming 2015 season the SEC has nine (9) of the nineteen (19) weakest non-conference schedules. The measurement tool is simple; Award team – 3 points for each NC Power Five opponent scheduled, 2 points for each scheduled FBS opponent, 1 point for each away game (regardless of the opponents level), .5 (half) point for neutral site game of greater than 125 miles distance, 0 points for any FSC opponent and then divide that total by the total number of non conference games. A score less than 2.0 shows a real weakness in a non-conference schedule. Both Kentucky and Missouri scored the lowest with scores of only 1.25. Auburn, Ole’ Miss, Mississippi State and Texas A&M came in tied at tenth with scores of 1.75.
As for the results of the other four Power Five Conferences: ACC’s lowest was North Carolina in third position with a score of 1.63; The Big 12’s lowest were the four schools of Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and West Virginia coming in with scores of 1.67 that positioned them in a fourth place tie; The Pac 12 as well had their lowest scores being 1.67 with both Arizona and Washington tallying that total; and as for The Big Ten every school scored 2.00 or higher.
Only 19 schools scored less then the 2.0 Mendoza Line and again nine (9) of them were from the SEC. On the other end, fourteen (14) schools scored 2.5 or higher without a single SEC school being in that category. The two single highest scoring non-conference schedules were those of Stanford and Texas, both with 3.00 scores.
Look forward to comments and further questions. This scoring system measures the known facts. Whether a team is “ranked” higher or not is not used, this is just a simple fact base measurement.
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Niki Dougherty
July 30, 2015 at 7:31 pm
Enough said it is skill w/3rd string QB unheard of!!!! Were bout to do it again!!!!
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Rodger Salkil
August 27, 2016 at 5:38 pm
Get it right people. They are the 2014 national champions, not 2015. You go by regular season, not the year the game was played. It has to be that way or else you will skip a year in the list of champions.
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Kevin Kelley
August 28, 2016 at 6:19 pm
They won the “2015 College Football Playoff National Championship.” The year is even on their jerseys (see the photo). But most people know that it was for the 2014 season.
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Day
August 9, 2016 at 11:40 am
This is a cute article, I would’ve kept out A&M vs UTSA since this is their 1st ever meeting.
Hail Southern!
August 9, 2016 at 6:19 pm
If you watched the 2014 Georgia Southern @ Georgia Tech game or better yet, if you attended the game, then you would know the ACC referees took the game out of the players hands with a terrible reversal of an ON THE FIELD call (requires indisputable evidence…it’s still being disputed). Georgia Southern was the better team that day and still has the more dynamic roster. Thank you Paul Johnson and the Tech AD for not being scared (UGAg) and rescheduling the Eagles…GS won’t leave it in question this go around. It would be great for the state if GS and Tech continued to schedule a game (maybe a H&H once Paulson Stadium is expanded to 30k) every other year. Athletically, as of late, the two schools are closer to peers than big brother-little brother.
Kevin Kelley
August 9, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Georgia has played Georgia Southern six times since 1992, Georgia Tech only once. I don’t think Georgia is scared of GS.
Hail Southern!
August 10, 2016 at 5:09 pm
Interesting that 5 of those 6 times were when Georgia Southern had 63 scholarships. The 6th game was a carry over from GS’s FCS days and Georgia elected to move the game from 2016 to 2015 probably because they didn’t want an additional year of FBS recruiting for GS. Georgia was gifted that win last year and every dawg fan knows it. For both parties, it is understood that Georgia no longer wants any part in scheduling GS and frankly that’s fine by me.
Atlanta_Mafia
August 11, 2016 at 10:23 am
Don’t worry Kevin Kelly, that’s just GS non-sense talk. They told GSU that they’d never beat GS – but in the just the second meeting (last year) GSU gave them their worst defeat in the history of Paulson High School County Stadium, The glory days of GS are behind them. The newsflash to GS is that they are the #4 team in the state of Georgia and they think that they are #1.
William Satterwhite
August 11, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Georgia Tech got up big in that game and then let up and allowed Georgia Southern back in, the Eagles were far from the better team that day.
H
August 11, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Georgia Southern’s coach was on his way out and focused on a million dollar salary…way to go. How’d that bowl game work out for the mighty Panthers? Let’s compare some numbers for a minute…17-53 (129th in FBS) vs. 375-200-10 (14th in FBS)…0 D1 National Championships vs. 6 D1 National Championships (most all-time)…0 D1 Conference Titles vs. 11 D1 Conference Titles. WHEW! I can certainly understand why a Panther fan (those exist?) would cling like hell to that win against Georgia Southern! Run along now, let us men get back to it.
Atlanta_Mafia
August 12, 2016 at 7:11 pm
GS has never beat UGA – GS has never beat GT – GS is 50/50 against GSU.
So your excuse is that GS got pounded at home by GSU cause your coach was dreaming about a real job? Really? That’s all it took for the mighty Beagles to lose at home? A coach’s daydream? All that tripe that GS spews about GSU and you got pounded in just the second effing year by a five year old football team? Fact is that Richt got fired because he almost lost to GS so that should tell you about how little respect there is for the GS product. So maybe GS needs to realize that they may start to fall behind KSU or Mercer. You guys have such an incredible false sense of entitlement from all those Pee-Wee league trophies. Probably ought to go on back to FCS Pee-Wee league! How about that Capt GAyTAy?
Hail Southern!
August 13, 2016 at 1:11 pm
The Real GSU has played UGA and GT once with equal scholarships. Do you understand that having 22 less scholarships is a disadvantage? Once the playing field was made even, the Real GSU lost by a combined 10 points in their first outings with 85 scholarships. Again, I appreciate GT rescheduling the Real GSU unlike UGAg (I bet you’re a UGAg fan before a GAy St fan). Do you understand that when a head coach does not prep their team for a game that the team is unprepared? Big concepts here. Do you have any facts or just opinions? Richt was on the hot seat at the start of that season and the season before that…try to keep up. The fact that you recognize KSU and Mercer says a lot about where you view GAy St. Pee-Wee trophies…you’re talking about Division 1 National Championships. Do you understand that prior to the College Football Playoff, the FCS Playoff was the highest form of a college football playoff in existence? Oh but computers picking two teams worked out every time. The Real GSU should go back to FCS? You mean the Real GSU with the 18-7 FBS record (.720)? How about GAy St with the 7-30 FBS record (.189). This is too easy man, c’mon. (A) Why would GAy St field a football team and (B) why would ANYONE be a fan???? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!
stoopnagle
August 26, 2016 at 4:03 pm
Southern has never beaten Georgia and never will.
Matt Rigby
August 9, 2016 at 9:20 pm
what about the Brigham Young-Utah State game or the Notre Dame-Navy game?
David
August 9, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Neither BYU nor USU are a Power 5. And Notre Dame and Navy aren’t in the same state.
Adam
August 10, 2016 at 11:47 am
Matt probably meant to say the BYU-Utah game. Utah is a P5, but BYU is not. The summary would read something like this:
Utah-Brigham Young
When: Saturday, Sept. 10, 5:30pm MT
Where: Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, UT
All-Time Series Leader: Utah, 58-34-4 (62.5%)
Last-Five: Utah, 5-0 (100%)
Utah has dominated its little brother, BYU, over the last 13 meetings (10-3, 77%). And they will certainly do so again this fall.
Bill
August 10, 2016 at 3:27 pm
how would BYU qualify as a “Big” brother?
C
August 11, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Bill, Utah would be the big brother
Mark S
August 11, 2016 at 3:43 pm
Someone asked that on Twitter, FBSchedules replied “BYU generally considered P5 so not included.”
Matt
August 11, 2016 at 4:54 pm
BYU fits the P5 requirement for scheduling for most if not all conferences. The SEC looks at BYU as a P5…last time I checked the SEC is the premier program in College Football.
Bill
August 10, 2016 at 3:32 pm
good article ….but i would say Georgia Southern has a much better chance of beating Georgia Tech than many of the games you have ranked as more likely. I don’t think very many people would be surprised is Georgia Southern wins that game.
KF Baxter
August 11, 2016 at 3:25 pm
Utah had to be invited to a conference to be considered P5. BYU did it on their own.
Wade
August 12, 2016 at 7:54 am
BYU is considered by some to be a P5 “for scheduling purposes.” But we’re not actually a P5, since we don’t belong to a P5 conference. That’s why it’s so important for us to get into the Big XII…the fate and viability of our football program rests on it. If we don’t get in and become an actual P5, our future looks no better than that of New Mexico State.
Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 1:49 pm
By that thinking, Toledo would also be considered a Power 5 Power Team, since it can beat 1/2 or more of teams from Power 5 Conferences…
zerome4sooners
August 12, 2016 at 8:23 am
Little brother = going on every web site possible to talk about how Utah should really be a big brother
Sean
August 15, 2016 at 3:04 pm
I think ECU is NC State’s big brother when it comes to football.
Mike
August 22, 2016 at 8:28 pm
ECU has not only won 3 out of 5, but 9 out of the last 15.
Go Pirates! Argh!
Rob
August 20, 2016 at 8:39 am
TEMPLE!!!!
scotta@genesyspackaging.com
August 22, 2016 at 3:39 pm
What about Penn State vs Pitt this year?
bwburke94
August 26, 2016 at 10:49 pm
Pitt is P5.
Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 2:00 pm
PSU is B1G/Power 5 also
Craig
August 23, 2016 at 1:11 am
I don’t think many Ohio State fans see any MAC schools as “little brother.” The only school that would make sense to have that designation would be U of Cincinnati.
Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 1:56 pm
Toledo, Ohio and BGSU, Ohio are both vastly better than Cincinnati, Ohio !!! As is Ohio Bobcats