Flipping the Field: 2015 won’t produce a historic team — but it’ll be a season to remember

Ryan McGee 0 Shares Print This 2015 Ohio State team is not the 2014 Ohio State team. Alabama certainly isn’t ’92, Georgia isn’t ’80, USC isn’t ’72 and Notre Dame isn’t ’43, ’47, ’24 or even ’88. But you know what? That’s OK. We don’t need a team to be chiseled in granite for a season to go down in history.  In fact, the only certainty about this most uncertain of seasons is that whichever of the four playoff teams ultimately ends up atop this greased pole of a year won’t be among the greatest college football teams of all time. Heck, the Buckeyes, the team we all thought had three too many quarterbacks, suddenly look like they don’t even have an offense. Auburn was supposed to be the one serious SEC West contender without any QB issues, but on Saturday night, Jeremy Johnson said he wouldn’t be upset if he got benched. “No, not at all,” he admitted to reporters, shaking his head as he tried to wrap it around a 45-21 loss at LSU. One week ago, Ole Miss was overrated, Alabama’s development was ahead of schedule, USC was back, Stanford was done, UCLA had something to prove, BYU couldn’t lose, Georgia QB Greyson Lambert couldn’t toss a football into the back of a dump truck and … hey, just take everything we thought we knew and do what I did with my shirt when I hightailed it out of an East Lansing hotel Sunday to catch my 6 a.m. flight back to Charlotte. Turn it inside out. …

Continue Reading: Flipping the Field: 2015 won’t produce a historic team — but it’ll be a season to remember