Michigan #3 in first CFP ranking

People seem to have forgotten that Clemson missed a 29 yd FG to win the game.  Couple that with the BC game and FSU makes a weak case to be #1.  Prolly why they are #4.  

With that said, they do have the capability to beat anyone on any given day with the QB and receivers they have.  Booger has strong ties to Derrick Brooks, who is an FSU alum and very strong supporter of FSU.  Perhaps this is where a bit of the FSU support from Booger is coming from.  

I'm also not a fan of Booger.  He is annoying AF.  

Dude, none of that matters. 2014 Ohio State lost to Virginia Tech at home and needed OT to beat a .500 PSU team. Last year UGA squeaked by Kentucky and Missouri. In 2018 Clemson nearly lost to Syracuse and Texas A&M and two years before they lost to Pittsburgh and almost lost to Auburn, Troy, NC State, Florida State, and Virginia Tech. All national champions yet they lost games and won some close ones. You can't identify a team's postseason viability or current strength just based on having close games. 

Thats not cheap beard-dye on his face, it's used motor oil! (courtesy of the 80K truckers)

The good guys are still -6 as of this posting. Playoff committee has pretty clearly changed there own criteria. I highly doubt any of them would be putting there own money down on OSU vs UM or Georgia or Oregon for that matter on a neutral field.  

you are correct all the way around on that post.  we have good reason to have confidence, but over-confidence can be a big problem.  

I agree it's going to be dog fight and your defense is better than it's been in years

but FINALLY, we clearly have the better QB

Michigan by 3

Enough with the facts and fancy stats, you are  giving me BPONE!

Stats might be urethane but they’re not myethane. Michigan rules. ohio state drools 

Well if we were on a Buckeye website citing our humble brags I might agree. Your coach already lit the fuse! If you follow sports you truly know who the world has lately been against. Also, knowing which Day it is is a good sign.

This sounds like all the stuff we said with the #1 Don Brown defense and an offense that just did what it had to do to get wins, all the while OSU was steamrolling teams. We all knew what happened in The Game during those years.

I can assure you Team will be level headed. 

This isn't about Ohio State's defense although I still think you blitz way too much which works vs bad offenses not so much vs great ones. Just like Don Brown's defense.

This is about your offensive line vs Michigan defensive front. I mean OSU has struggled to score vs every good defense they've faced so I think its extremely likely you do here too. 

Obviously, it will be a great game....for us.

BC this is a reasonable take and I agree that their defense is quite good this year. I think that they will slow Michigan’s offense down more effectively than any other team Michigan will see this year. I think Knowles is a good and smart coach and he runs a complex scheme. Michigan will need to sustain longer drives in order to score on OSU this year. I do think that Michigans defense will make things difficult for McCord and Minter will do lots of things in an attempt to confuse or trick him and will probably have some success.  I don’t see OSU scoring more than 20 points on Michigan’s defense this year, so the question in my mind is whether Michigan’s offense can best that number. 

Of course it will be a fight.  But football is about match-ups, and you have a middling QB, and a middling OL.  We don't.  These, and the DL, are the most important units on the field.  Our DL is every bit as good as yours and likely better. Certainly deeper.  We've had our starters out, on average, the last 18 minutes of each game.  So, much of the stats you invoke are against 3rd and 4th teamers.  Can you quote what these same stats were showing last year on Thanksgiving Day?  I doubt they were intimating 45-23.  Football is a game of matchups, units against units.  We have equal or superior units in every phase except WR.  Our QB and OL are light years beyond yours.  

Now, that's nothing that a few fluke plays or turnovers can't sabotage.  We've seen it before, so I'll be chewing on my towel and yelling at the TV and never feeling safe the whole game.  But, for the first time in a generation, we are clearly the better team.