Miami Hurricanes vs 0hio State Buckeyes

Miami isn't in the SEC. And Ohio State hardly gets their @ss raped at bowl games- 2 games is not enough to establish that pattern.

Besides, people vastly overestimate the importance of a team's record against a particular conference. It is irrelevant.

OSU gets skunked in every big game they play in recent years, whether it's in the regular season or in a bowl game and whether it's against an SEC team, a PAC-10 (which is still owned by the MWC) team, a Big 12 team, or even a Big 10 team. The Vest just can't "coach 'em up" when all the marbles are on the line after his team benefited from some calls that went their way and changed the outcome of that one national championship that they won.

I have been a Miami fan since the early 80's and I don't see them winning this weekend, especially on the road in front of like 105,000 fans.

Ohio State 35, Miami 20

Corso wrote:

OSU gets skunked in every big game they play in recent years, whether it's in the regular season or in a bowl game and whether it's against an SEC team, a PAC-10 (which is still owned by the MWC) team, a Big 12 team, or even a Big 10 team.

Uhh... there's so much wrong with this post I'm not sure where to start.

Care to take us back through "every big game" OSU has had in recent years... cuz I'm thinking 6 Big 10 titles in a row (which, yes, includes Wisconsin - drubbed Miami, Penn St - beat LSU, and Iowa - beat G. Tech), Rose Bowl domination of Oregon, near miss against cheatin' USC in '09, splitting with Texas in '06-'07, when Texas was in the top 2 or 3, and on and on....

Skunked in every big game? Please.

This year's Heisman winner, Terrell Pryor, is going to throw for 3 TD's and run for another.

Final Score - OSU 31, Miami 17.

Sorry

With the Miami Hurricanes as double-digit underdogs, watch out. The 'Canes have had to dig themselves out of a Coker-led descent into mediocrity before taking their rightful place amongst the Ohio States and USC's and Alabamas--college football's elite for the past decade. This game has UPSET written all over it.

Just like Nebraska learned in 1984, being a double-digit underdog only makes these speedy 'Canes even faster. This game is going to come down to a winning Miami field goal (Bosher's the best) or return (look up Travis Benjamin). Either way, Ohio State has never seen defensive speed, especially with an outside rush, as Miami's.

All About the U wrote:

Either way, Ohio State has never seen defensive speed, especially with an outside rush, as Miami's.

I think anyone can look fast against Florida A&M!!!!

OldManRunner wrote:

All About the U wrote:

Either way, Ohio State has never seen defensive speed, especially with an outside rush, as Miami's.

I think anyone can look fast against Florida A&M!!!!

OSU can't handle that speed and if Pryor is forced to pass all day, game over with Coach Vest scratching his head again. Revenge!

Coach Vest is funny but the rest of this is insane.

I'm going with 38-17.

Prior forced to pass,bad decision by miami, passes for 240 yds and runs for 80.

This thread sounds a lot like a radio sports talk show - a lot of bluster and nonsense with few actual facts.

This is a decent analysis of Ohio State over the last 5 years - the #4 program behind USC, Florida, and Texas.

http://cfn.scout.com/2/995892.html

OSU will solidly beat Miami. Its too bad this site doesn't require registered ids so the fools saying otherwise can be called out.

Miami fans still whining about "the call" are pathetic.

Even if you make the leap to say that it was a bad call, to be so upset you still must ignore bad calls that went the other way at the end of regulation, and one other little thing.

Miami got the ball to the 1 with a first down. First and goal at the one for what was at pre-game talked about as college football's greatest ever team, and they were stopped cold. If you can't score from there in 4 tries in that situation, you don't deserve to win, regardless of any officiating questions.

This weekend Miami's offensive line won't hold up well enough for them to win, but it should be a good game.

Ohio State wins by at least 10. Cameron Heyward will wreak major havoc. Tressel opens up the playbook slightly (we have to hold back for Wisconsin/PSU), but it is more than enough.

Go Canes wrote:

Miami Hurricanes will exact revenge against Ohio State this Saturday. It's been 8 years since "the call". The call that robbed Miami from winning their 2nd consecutive National Championship and gave Coach sweater-vest his fraudulant win. Miami will manhandle the Buckeyes: 28-6.

Screw the CANES and screw U.

AND LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH YOU FLAMING HOMO.

FRAUDULENT.

Unlike those moronic, idiot, losers stuck in cleveland, I am sure Miami won't make a big deal about Lebron standing on the Ohio State sidelines cheering on the Buckeyes.

Cleveland's baseball team sucks, their football team sucks, and now their basketball team will suck more.

At least in a couple years they will have a first class casino where they can lose all of their money!!!

Beat us on the field we'll respect you. Beat us on a BS call and you get no love here. Sorry OSU fans it was the type of garbage call that had to be reviewed over and over to make Porter feel justified. Besides if it were the wrong call would he admit it? Hell no! And neither would the other officials.

Beat us Saturday, we'll respect that but your championship earned you the name LUCKEYES by people who don't even care about the U.

Canes will get their revenge tomorrow!!!

you sir are a moron and will get embarassed in front of the entire nation. prepare to go back to mediocrity.

Go Canes wrote:

Beat us on the field we'll respect you. Beat us on a BS call and you get no love here. Sorry OSU fans it was the type of garbage call that had to be reviewed over and over to make Porter feel justified. Besides if it were the wrong call would he admit it? Hell no! And neither would the other officials.

Beat us Saturday, we'll respect that but your championship earned you the name LUCKEYES by people who don't even care about the U.

Canes will get their revenge tomorrow!!!

Don't you understand that if there were replay in 2002-03, it never would've gotten to that point? Buckeyes win in regulation, holding the vaunted Miami offense to 14 points. How can you all honestly say it was Porter's call that decided the game? The game was decided in regulation; it took a bad call on the Gamble reception (err... reception called incomplete) that allowed the game to continue longer than it should've.

And it WAS on the field, if you remember. Ask McGahee if he respects the Buckeyes. Or Andre Johnson. Or Winslow. Or Dorsey. Or Vilma. God, with all those studs, how can the 'Canes only score 14? I guess the Buckeyes had something to do with it.

Just like they will tomorrow. You'll get no revenge with an inferior team. Buckeyes by 14, and there IS replay, so don't bother coming up with another middle-school "AH the refs hosed us" excuse - especially when applied selectively. Lame.

When you replay any football play you will see things that the naked eye could never have detected, for example, the slight touch of the hand on the face mask. And every official would probably call offensive holding on every play if they saw it in slow motion. But football is played at real speed, and referees have to make calls at real speed, and not, after the game is decided, upon reflection, have a second thought. And that is all Terry Porter did. He had second thoughts after the fact.

The point though, is that both teams knew that play was for the ball game. You don't call a tickey tack holding call unless it is explicit and blatant because that takes the game out of the players hands, and that is something an official should never do. Whatever contact occurred, Gamble had a reasonable opportunity to make a play on the ball and he didn't. His failure to catch the pass was due to an errant throw and not any contact between him and Sharpe.

Finally, and this is critical, if Porter felt the holding occured before the pass was thrown, that flag should have come out sooner and not later. You see something that is a foul, and you throw the flag, and decide exactly the penalty later. If the holding occured 2 secs before the ball hit the ground, he waited 5 sec to throw the flag. Terrible call.