But why is everyone ripping on Carson for being passionate about his school. In an age where it seems so many athletes don’t care at all about any but money it is nice to see someone give a damn.

Also unless you are a USC, Texas, LSU, or Florida fan you haven’t earned the right to say anything about The Ohio State program. BTW, last 10 years, the SEC has a 15-14 record versus the Big Ten in bowl games. The bucks have really let the Big Ten down.

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Someone in a public position like Mr. Palmer should know better than to spout off like he did due to the large amounts of press generated by comments such as his. And since he chose to say what he did, he should at least be man enough to stand by his words…his halfassed apology won him no favors and as I said before gave him zero credibility. If he had stood by his comments then at least he would deserve some respect for being honest. If there were any truth to his excuse of being fired up for the game, his comments would have been quite different. Hell, he could have used some funny jokes, I would have laughed. But yet he is dumb enough to bite the hand that feeds him by insulting OSU and thus insulting many Bengals fans and Ohio and the Buckeyes won’t forget that anytime soon. And from my four years at THE Ohio State University, we have shown nothing but class and good natured ribbing against every one of our opponents (Michigan excluded for good reason ;)) and take pride in being called ‘the Best Damn Fans in the Land” and if taking extreme pride in our alma mater and our football program makes us “annoying” or any of the other words thrown at us, then I’ll take it. If that overwhelming sense of pride I feel when I see the Buckeyes take the field for a home game is my contribution to being part of one of the most hated fan bases in college football then I take that title with pride. And as to you calling us idiots, we’d only be idiots if we didn’t see through that steaming pile of an apology.

And it’s Miss Go Bucks =] (girls know football too)

PEOPLE, think about it this way….in the past 35 years, Ohio State has competed for three….count them three, national championships………and “competing” equals being close at the end of the year. 3 in 35 years, and in two of them they were embarrassed and in the other, they benefited from the most questionable call in BCS history…some may same bad call. Point is, Ohio State isn’t any better than most other schools when you take into account everything…but like-nuts fans just love to beat their chests about an another SEC massacre.

TOSU = The overmatched (in national championship games) state university.

O-H-Oh-no!

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He also set the BCS Championship record for most tackles with 18. He won the 2007 Butkus Award for the nations top linebacker and the 2006 Nagurski Award for the nations top defensive player.

With that said, I do agree that USC has LBs that are at the top of the nation in talent. They could do a number on Boeckman as he gets panicky when the pocket is collapsing. It will be interesting to see how the coaching staff reacts with QB/ATH Terrell Pryor (6′6″, 235, 4.4) on the sideline. He could stretch the defense with a wrinkle play here or there.

I disagree with the “speed” argument, I believe what you mean is the type of offense. OSU has had repeated trouble against the spread/WCO. The Defense has trouble preparing for it due to their lack of exposure to it during the regular season. This became apparent against Illinois, Florida, LSU. It’s not that they are slow. I don’t buy that argument. The big programs recruit from the same group of speed players. It comes down to an offensive scheme/set matched with a defense that is not used to see it except once a year.

Overall it will be a close game, no matter what the fanatics from either side say. The boys who make a living on making the lines in Vegas have it at less than a touchdown in the home teams favor.

For those of you that say you graduated, or are just fans of the Buckeyes, please don’t claim you graduated from there if, one, you can’t spell words correctly, and two, you type things my 8 year old would correct.

Fans of sports, support your team, I get that, but to say things like, “I hope he gets his other knee broken… or that he is gay” is just childish, and shows that you have a mentality of a flea (and personally, I would take the flea in an IQ test.)

I don’t know why people from other states love to come down on California, the fans, and how we are “allegedly” gay. WTF? We have the beach, we have beautiful weather, we have great sports teams, and we have the HOTTEST women crawling all over the place here. I understand people from Ohio may be jealous because, you have fat, ugly women, and you have bad weather, but why take it out on us? If you don’t like it, move to somewhere where you may actually be happy (preferably to Florida).

The fact remains, USC is going to beat tOSU on September 13th because they are a fast team at every position and tOSU has had problems dealing with fast teams (see the last two NC games for examples). Not to mention, the Buckeyes have a QB that isn’t mobile and a QB that stands in the pocket against USC’s defense is a QB that is going to get smashed in the mouth on more than one occasion, just ask Juice and the ASU QB.

Beanie is a talent (and probably the best RB in the game for both sides), and I predict he will have over 100 yards and one big gainer during the game, but he will be the only offense for the Buckeyes. As for tOSU having the best LB in the nation? I would have to say that USC has TWO LB’s that are better in Cushing and Rey Rey. I don’t know how fast Laurinaitis
is, but Cush and Rey both run around a 4.5 forty, and had Cush been healthy all year, he would have made several AA teams.

I can’t wait for the game, both teams are historically great, and since we haven’t seen each other in the Rose for a number of years due to the BCS, it was a great idea for both the teams to meet. Let’s hope for a great game, and that no one gets hurt.