Ohio State’s clobbering of Florida A&M didn’t change voters’ perspective. The 56-0 win over Purdue last week didn’t do anything. And a 9-0 record over mediocre competition hasn’t convinced anybody that Ohio State is a legit national championship contender.
The Buckeyes needed help, and lots of it if they were going to climb up the national championship ladder.
Well, they got it with Stanford upsetting Oregon 26-20 in a game that really wasn’t as close as the score indicates. The Ducks will go from being ranked third in the BCS to easily out of the top five and pretty much out of the crystal football conversation.
Enter Ohio State.
Urban Meyer’s team will go from being fourth in the BCS to at least third. I mean, there’s no way a one-loss Stanford team is going to jump an undefeated Ohio State, right? Probably not. And ironically enough, that one loss came from Utah, the same program that Meyer coached before he became a household name and began winning prestigious hardware.
Funny how stuff like that just happens.
The win over Oregon was fantastic, but the loss to the Utes still plays in the back of everybody’s mind. It would be shocking if the Cardinal leapfrog any of the remaining undefeated teams in the BCS. Maybe if Stanford had lost to UCLA, but Utah? Yeah, that’s an ugly loss for a team looking to build a case against flawless competition.
That now leaves only two teams in the way of Ohio State: Alabama and Florida State. Both are clearly the…
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