Pick6;1359885 wrote:Its possible for Buckeye fans to be disappointed and not make the NC next season, but your reasoning is way off base. They are still "The Ohio State University". Teams want to beat them. What do you have to say about Urban motivating the team and making them undefeated when they had nothing to play for? What about the just as easy schedule next season?
True, they are OSU and teams will want to be them, always. I think thought that you can admit that if they would have had the added target on their back of being ranked in the top 10, 7, 5, 3, etc throughout the season gives opponants JUST a little bit more juice.
ALso, the pressure locally and nationally can squash a team when the games they play each week are the biggest of their lives. Those two phenomenan (sp?) I think are reasons why we see so many teams get beat once they are number one throughout the season. The target, and added pressure each week of playing the biggest game of your life and being the biggest game of the season for every opponant is a bit different then what they had to go through this year.