Ohio State Deserves to Lose to USC

Shapecity · Sep 12, 2008

The Buckeyes scheduling is worthy of more than just ridicule. LOS ANGELES – USC will pound Ohio State on Saturday – if there’s any justice in the oblong world of college football.

The Buckeyes deserve a good beat down based on their desire to be bullies. The two burning questions today are these: 1) Why did they even decide to play this home-and-home series? 2) Was Towson A&M unavailable?

Ohio State, a power year in and year out for years and years and years, opened this season by playing Youngstown State. OK, fine. Almost every big-time school schedules an uncontested layup, like Michigan picking on overmatched Appalachian State last season.

Then the Buckeyes lined up Ohio. Yes, The Ohio State University against An Ohio university. For the record, the Bobcats were selected to finish sixth in their division in the Mid-American Conference this year. Not the entire MAC, mind you, only their half of it.

The football gods, clearly disturbed by Ohio State’s lack of scheduling gumption, arranged for Ohio to take a lead into the fourth quarter of that game Saturday. Alas, the Big Ten cowards rallied for victory.

And now, after meeting the Trojans, the Buckeyes return home and to the comedic portion of their schedule by playing Troy, which we believe is a college but could be a middle school. Heck, it could be just one person.

Let’s be honest, Ohio State could go undefeated against Youngstown State, Ohio and Troy even if the Buckeyes wore nothing but Jim Tressel sweater vests during the games.

This type of scheduling isn’t worthy of just ridicule; it also should be subject to NCAA sanction.

We already can hear the excuses. Football schedules have to be put together so far in advance and, 32 years ago, when this lineup was assembled, Troy was coming off a break-through season. Yeah, right.

And Ohio? Why, the Bobcats were the only opponents available after the Cleveland Browns pulled out and the Cincinnati Bengals said no thanks. Please.

The simple reality is there’s no justification for a program like Ohio State playing three wildly inferior opponents in the same season. One is standard procedure. Two is even acceptable – occasionally. But three, never.

Yes, we know the Buckeyes recently have scheduled Texas and Washington and will play Miami and Cal in the future.

All of those games combined, however, don’t validate the fall of 2008, when Ohio State opened with three jokes and one giant.

Believe it, the Trojans will dot the Buckeyes on Saturday – if there’s anything right in the world.
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Source: OC Register

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