"WAY-TOO-EARLY" PREDICTIONS. WE LOVE IT.

I will call him fat, shady and shitty.

Those are great questions Orson.

I have no idea who’s going to score in that game. Usually when you have two boring teams, it comes down to mistakes and turnovers. Although, without Mike Nugent, OSU’s points should now be cut in half!

I think in the end it will come down to who is the worse coach, as it usually does in games like this (hence my ‘race to the bottom’ comment earlier).

There is no doubt in my mind that Mack Brown is worse than Jim Tressel. And as we all know, he is only one point better than Llyod Carr, if that.

Great last point. Hell, forget about the midgame admissions, how about just some kind of admission period at any time? As a West Coast guy, I had to hear 97% of the commentators talk about OU and why they were going to beat USC last year.

“It’s amazing how similar these two teams are,” said Kirk Herbstreit. “Same defensive scheme, same offensive scheme, bla blah blah.”

Being a big believer in scheme being the big determiner of games (all other things being equal), this was distressing to hear. I went on record with such guys as Bruce Feldman and Pete Thamil of the New York Times that USC was going to win 35-7 because of the same arguments I have put out here before on this site. Afterwards, they were both in awe of my prediction (which went into enough detail to as to predict Peterson’s yardage and at which point White would throw his interceptions—NOT trying to toot my horn, merely just illustrate). And yet, it still hasn’t sunk in for them. They still write about the same shit that they hear from the coaches—speed, execution, technique, etc….it just gets old.

Of course, very few of the commentators went back and looked at what they said and admitted that they had merely been talking out of their ass. And guess what? Here it is almost June. That magazines are coming out. And STILL no one gets it. I read the Sporting News SEC preview last night and there is very little mention of the possible impact of Meyer’s scheme on the SEC. Everyone is getting ready to drink the Kool Aid again, in other words. Meyer is even ranked fourth among coaches in the SEC, behind that neanderthal Fulmer. That’s just crazy.

It’s very frustrating for me, as you can tell.

And another thing.

I am getting tired of commentators saying that Meyer’s spread offense may not do well in the SEC because of those ‘speedy defensive players’ that he’ll have to face. So, he picks Tennesse over UF.

Look. Let’s get one thing straight. Notre Dame is slower than my grandma and they beat Tennessee silly. One of the great crutches of commentators is the cliche ‘speed speed speed’. Speed is definitely great. But speed without purpose is Tennesse. This year, Florida will have speed AND purpose, and that’s why they will kill the Vols.

I don’t know if Ohio State has the best linebacker corps in the nation or not, but CFN and others got a lot of mileage out of calling Oklahoma’s line last year ‘the best in college football’, which was why they were going to handle USC, after all.

Does it matter if Ohio State has great linebackers if Vince Young is running around out there? I doubt it. Do I know who’s going to win that game? No. Most likely, it will be a race to the bottom, just like last year’s Rose Bowl.