Ohio St. prez disregards TCU, Boise St.

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[alrea]

Gordon Gee is just a civil servant at a government-run Yankee school.

Since he has Government status he deserves better. His University is far more progressive and enlightened. His Union run state is spending too much money on this conglomerate team to have to compete with a small private school from a hick state like Texas. /s

[alrea]

“Murderers Row”

includes Marshall, Ohio, Eastern Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Purdue

[OrioleFan]

I see your point about paying the bills. However, do you think OSU would play BSU on a neutral field? I doubt it. Too much to lose for OSU and too much to gain for BSU.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

There are many people who can make a statement like this but (the given OSU’s recent BCS record) the Ohio State president is not one of them. By saying this he has indirectly placed alot of pressure on Wisconsion who will probably now play TCU in the Rose Bowl.

[GreenAccord]

This thread (as many CFB ones with OSU have been of late) is filled with anti-Buckeye fervor. What Gee’s comments meant are that teams like Boise and TCU face an ENTIRE (with rare exception) regular season schedule comprised of the teams equivalent to the weakest non-conference schedules of the bigger schools. Their conference games are essentially equivalent to the weaker non-conference games of the BCS schools.

Of course there are exceptions, but it is almost unarguable that if a team like South Carolina, or Oklahoma State, or Arizona (perennial mid-tier conference teams) played a conference schedule that TCU plays, they’d be undefeated year after year.

I believe this was Gee’s point, that an undefeated Boise or TCU has had to face an exceptionally weak schedule as a whole.