Monday, October 13, 2008

Name that program

A little quiz for our readers. The prize, as always, is wisdom and satisfaction.

What program/team/coach is this?
  • Storied program, goes through difficult stretch, hires young coach outside of "family"
  • In second year, Coach wins national championship against favored Florida team
  • Since that time, program is 1-4 in BCS games
  • Two of those losses were in back to back BCS Championships- one being a 30 point blowout
  • One of the other losses is considered one of the greatest upsets of all times
  • The other was a blowout against a team that was a significant underdog
  • Coach and program are 1-3 against top rival in the last four years
Guesses? Nope, not Ohio State. Try the Oklahoma Sooners of Bob Stoops. Here's what it would look like if we were talking about the Buckeyes:
  • Storied program, goes through difficult stretch, hires young coach outside of "family"
  • In second year, Coach wins national championship against favored Florida team
  • Since that time, program is 2-2 in BCS games
  • Two of those losses were in back to back BCS Championships- one being a 30 point blowout
  • Coach and program are 6-1 against top rival in the last seven years, and has won last 4 in a row
And yet, you never hear people talking about how the Sooners don't belong in National Championship or BCS consideration. Nope, that honor only goes to Tressel's team.

Interesting.

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2 Comments:

At 1:29 PM, Blogger Caleb said...

because osu is the largest small person in their class :)

 
At 4:25 PM, Blogger Chuck said...

Umm... that's tOSU to you. Unless you meant toOSU (I think I'm officially switching to TBPU).

 

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