Listen my man. We’ve taken care of our postseason business the last three years. We beat FSU in the conferences last BCS win. We beat Tennessee in the Outback bowl in 2007, and took down A&M last season.

Further, we went out and smacked OrSU, a team that handled USC. I don’t know what we’ve done to be lumped in with Ohio State other than play in the same conference as them. WE haven’t blown it in big games, so why are we taking the abuse as if we had?

If you want to talk about a fraud, lets talk about Oklahoma. What have they done outside the Big 12? They’ve blown it to LSU, USC, WVU, and Boise BCSvbowls. Why don’t they suffer? They’ve failed just as much as OSU has, if not worse, and yet that reputation doesn’t pursue them. If they’re failures don’t follow them, why do we get punished for the sins of OSU in games we wern’t even a part of? Makes no sense to me.

and did keep it close last night to a new top-3 team.

As far as how your team looked, maybe it was just last night that your offense couldn’t get it started, but that seemed about par for the way the defense has been playing all season (at least looking at stats, and from the 2 games I actually watched)

Not sure how many Penn State games you’ve seen, but it can’t be that many if you are calling our defense slow, but yes, I think pretty much any defense would look slow compared to Crabtree.

Penn State continually does what it has to. We generally win our out of conference games, even against other elite BCS teams. I know people are looking at the out of conference schedule this year, ignoring the Oregon State game, and saying, “wow, Penn State plays weak teams”, but for anyone that actually follows the team and looks at their out of conference schedule of the past decade, they’d know they don’t schedule down, at least any more than any other school. With that said, we would love for the chance to prove it on the field against any team.

Let’s see if the voter’s opinions will allow that, though, because you know, Ohio State has shit the bed 2 out of 3 of their last national championship games (people conveniently forget how they actually won the 2002-3 championship in what many say is one of the most exciting bowl game/championship game/any game ever, and just look at the oh so large sample size of 2 games, while ignoring the rest).

Also, not sure if you recall, but Penn State also had an away game against a top 10 team on the national stage not too long ago (last weekend to be exact). We won that game and didn’t move at all, in fact some people were clamoring to drop us, since it was such a “snooze-fest”. You guys lost, and moved down only 4 spots. I imagine if Penn State lost the public perception would have dropped them out of the top 5, by more than 4 slots, and probably even out of the top 10. That’s the way polls work, though. The voters pick their favorites, and generally vote them up, while deciding to pick on other schools and vote them down.

Going along with the whole “big 10 sucks, look at OSU”, well, honestly Texas fans, how would you like it if people said the same thing about you and compared you to Oklahoma’s last few BCS performances (arguably worse than Ohio State’s).

I like Texas. I really do. They’re my favorite Big XII team. My four year old is trained to say “Hook ’em horns!” when we’re watching Texas and that’s no lie.

I’ll admit I wanted Texas to lose last night for selfish reasons. When I watched that game I saw two teams with great offenses and terrible defenses. You could tell at the end of the third quarter it was going to come down to who got the ball last. While the media may fawn all over games like that saying they are exciting, the fact is it’s hard to win championships when you’re counting on your offense to outscore theirs. At some point in a season your offense is going to come out flat and you’re going to need your defense to step up and win a game for you. Penn State needed their defense to win a game in Columbus. Texas needed their defense to win a game last night. Today Penn State is still undefeated and Texas is not.

The media loves scoring, and teams that average 40 points a game get high rankings. It’s just a fact. You can win all your games, but if you only average 20 points a game the media will say you struggle and play down to the level of your competition. I honestly think the Big XII was grossly overrated this year because everyone loves big name quarterbacks and high scores. But they seem to forget Penn State has been hanging 45 points on everyone until they went to Columbus. Now we’re suddenly a boring low-scoring team. Yeah ok. We’ll see you with whoever you want to pair with us in Miami.

If PSU can win a MNC, to me at least, they deserve all the credit they get. I am just not sold on them right now…

Why is holding an opponent on the road to 6 points not impressive?

 Why is holding one of the best RB’s in the country to only 55 yards not impressive?

I just guess defense is not impressive. I personally would love to watch a 13-6 game that displays sure tackling and great defense over a shootout in which the only reason a team wins is because their defense makes one stop and they get the ball last.

Teams win championships with defense. It wasn’t the LSU and Florida offenses that overwhelmed teams over the last two years, it was their defense that dominated teams.

I think Texas is one of the best teams in the nation right now. I believe they have a good defense, but it doesn’t appear so because of the explosive offenses in their conference. I believe Texas wins that game by 2 TDs if they are at home. It is very difficult to win road games at night in college football.

If I had to rank the best teams in the nation…this would be my top 5

1. PSU
2. Florida
3. Texas
4. USC
5. Oklahoma

…we will be ranked #1 after next weekend.

If OU beats Texas Tech next week, who is the winner of the Big XII South since TT, OU and TU all have 1 loss and would have beat each other?

We are still #3 in the BCS….

Didn’t our opponents say that before the last 2 bowl games. I think the outcomes were quite favorable with our slow defense.

Got some different input, widened my eyes a little wider, and got to connect with a new fan-base. Good luck on your season, hope you can make a BCS bowl or MNC.
hook’em

You have no idea how much this “Ohio State is a good team” business is killing us. We just want to mock them for being overrated and we aren’t being given the opportunity. We end up having to justify aspects of PSU’s and tO$U’s seasons. At the end of the day, the players aren’t responsible for the schedule. They just go out and play, and they have played better than any team in recent memory wearing the blue and white. I’m the first cynical guy out their when I see weaknesses in the squad that can be exploited by other teams. This team is exceptional. I don’t really see much in the play of the offense, defense, or special teams that looks like a major weakness (aside from some conservative offensive playcalling now and then). I honestly believe it’s the best team in the nation right now, and I only wish it can showcase it’s abilities in Miami.

One question though: If Ohio State always makes the Big Ten look bad, why did they beat Texas 24-7 in Austin back in 2006? It was a #1 vs. #2 game too. Seems like you can’t have it both ways.

Texas deserved it’s #1 ranking. TX is clearly one of the top teams in the country.
If this game is not a night game at Texas Tech UT wins. Even though they did not have their A game (or even B game). Texas Tech should not have jumped PSU in the AP pool. The TX game all be it impressive was not like going into a top program like TX or Ohio State and winning. Plus, I think TX Tech will loose to OK State and OK.

There was earlier talk in this post about Ohio State losing to USC because they didn’t play with Beanie and TP. Well we’ve played the entire seasom without Sean Lee and other D-line studs. Almost the entire D has been a no-name group and they’re still beating superstars like Juice, TP, those Oregon State guys, etc. Imagine how good we would have been with General Lee!!