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The other day Urby said

You look at [2012], [Alabama] should have lost three games. Georgia had them beat. LSU, I watched that one, it was over. Obviously they ended up beating them.

Today, Saban responded with

When it was mentioned to him that Alabama likely would not have made the BCS Championship last season if undefeated Ohio State weren't on probation, Saban came back with a hypothetical of his own.

"How well would they have done if they had played the six teams that were ranked in the top 10? Would they have beat them all? Would they beat three of them?" Saban asked. "And I think they have a really good team and I think Urban (Meyer) is a great coach. I'm not questioning any of that. But I'm just saying that's where the strength of schedule and who you play doesn't get sort of accounted for quite equally."
 
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Everyday Should be Saturday looked at Ohio State playing the top 6 teams in the SEC. I'll post each team breakdown because the site usually violates TF policy. You can search for the actual link if you like.

OHIO STATE versus ALABAMA. There is someone who believes Ohio State legitimately stood a chance against last year's Alabama team. They will tell you how Braxton Miller is a mobile quarterback, and that mobile quarterbacks have given Alabama fits in other matchups. They will cite the improved performance of the defense throughout the year. Mentions may be made of the cold, and how SEC teams just can't cope with the conditions Big Ten teams face week in and week out in the savage cold of the great, frozen north.

Then you'll remind them how Ohio State almost lost to Indiana. Then they will call you gay, and refuse to share any of their protein shake with you, and screw you dude, he's going to the gym where he can't tell you how this game would look like a truck full of live chickens thrown into a jet engine. The gym: because the sign only said to wipe sweat off the machines, and tears are not sweat.
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OHIO STATE versus GEORGIA. Man, when Jarvis Jones missed on that zone read it'd be hilarious, you're thinking. Yes, but Jarvis Jones' neat solution for reading the zone read was pretty funny, too: tackling the living hell out of everyone within arm's reach, and thus bringing the whole backfield to a stop at once.

Have you ever seen Aaron Murray play quarterback, Ohio State? Have you ever seen a sword cut the rain that falls in the afternoon of the mind, or the bamboo that sways whistling in the breezes of the soul? No? Neither have we, but we've seen Aaron Murray play quarterback, and it's about as describable and predictable as any of those Taoist mind-erasers we just dropped on you. Georgia might win this game. They might lose this game. Either way, just know that these teams have only played once in the 1993 Citrus Bowl, and that Ohio State lost 21-14 to a team coached by Ray Goff.

Raayyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Goooffffffffffffffffff.

[live crow falls out of tree]

[hits ground as dead crow]
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OHIO STATE versus SOUTH CAROLINA. This will void your Braxton Miller warranty. Do you want to continue? (The state of South Carolina only recognizes Visigothic Code as accepted law, and even then only does so on Mondays and Thursdays.) Say you beat South Carolina. Fine, that's great. Nobody will give you the credit you're hoping for, because South Carolina is everything to nobody and nothing to everyone else.

For further fun, let's remember the time South Carolina beat them in the Outback Bowl with the top high school recruit from Ohio, Ryan Brewer.

[video=youtube;YQQbxHvsLNU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YQQbxHvsLNU[/video]

The name of that highlight video of an Ohio State loss to historically horrendous South Carolina: "Ohio State OWNed the SEC ten years ago too." Psychosis is one of our most underdiagnosed mental health conditions.
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OHIO STATE versus TEXAS A&M. Johnny Manziel versus that linebacking corps is an entire 48 pages of script from The Purge deemed too violent for anyone's consumption. Braxton Miller would have had some moments, and congratulations, Nick Saban: this is actually an entertaining matchup to think about, mostly because of quarterbacks levitating six inches off the turf and completing long scrambles for TDs untouched. The Aggies like horses, and tOSU gymbros like the lean protein and economy pricing of horsemeat. Let's make this natural marriage of market forces happen.
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OHIO STATE versus LSU. "So they can run the ball," you scoff. "Who cares? That's B1G ...., and B1G .... we can handle." That's one possibility, sure. The other is that you get shredded by Zach Mettenberger, and then you have to wander the Earth, constantly dying but never finally dead, even when the sun collapses into itself. Such is the Mettenbergering, and if you think it can't happen to someone as brilliant as Urban Meyer, give him a picture of 2008 Jevan Snead and watch his skin start falling off in clumps.
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OHIO STATE versus FLORIDA. The TEAM THAT ALMSOST LOST TO INDIANA meets THE TEAM THAT HAD TO BLOCK A KICK TO BEAT UL-LAFAYETTE in THE GAME THAT HAPPENED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE/LEAKED THROUGH THE WALLS SEPARATING OUR WORLDS/CAUSED THE BLACK DEATH OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
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CUM is a good coach, but he acts like the kid in high school that mocks the team, but never tried out. It's easy to sound tough from a distance.

After dismantling ND, the Buckeyes and USC are on my short list for teams I'm eager for us to play.
 
selmaborntidefan

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I'm not quite sure what the point is. We can debate the merits of the schedule, but Alabama didn't play six top ten teams last year. Furthermore, you can't go on what a team was ranked when they played you - look at 7-0 MSU last year.

Urban can say what he wants but I didn't even take it personal. If OSU had not wanted that Gator Bowl so badly, who knows?
 
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RTRCharlotte said:
Some of the OSU forums are not taking this well
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It's just reality. They struggled through the garbage B1G. They had no business lining up against SEC and they didn't. This is why I respect
Michigan. They'll line up and play. Urban coaches teams not so much. Wisconsin? Please! PSU was brave enough to have Home series. Bama beats OSU by 30 last year if they played. They were lucky to beat Michigan and Indiana? Really?!?!
 
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