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Too early for college football talk? NO.
ESPN.com’s Mark Schlabach updated his spring Top 25 recently, placing the Ohio State Buckeyes No. 1 after having Georgia there just days after the national title.
Let’s get something straight: If you’re gonna put Ohio State ahead of Georgia for the upcoming 2008 college football season, that prediction better have nothing to do with talent level.
Ohio State has as many juniors and seniors coming back as any team in the country, but that also means they have a lot of players back from the past two national runners-up, teams that got shamefully undressed by far faster SEC opponents …
Like Georgia.
The prognosticators are saying that the Dawgs’ schedule is just too tough.
Yeah … they play in the SEC. Everybody’s schedule is tough in the SEC.
Face it, Ohio State: You may have a lot of experienced players coming back. Playing in two national championship games in as many seasons means you’re doing something right. That is, of course, if you call what Ohio State did “playing,” rather than suffering.
But with all those players back, you’re forgetting something - you’re not getting any faster, and that’s why Florida and LSU bludgeoned you on national television. The same players aren’t gonna miraculously shave 0.2 seconds off their 40s between now and the fall.
So, the Buckeyes can lose at USC and win their other games and make it to their third straight title game. But Georgia’s just as capable of losing twice like LSU did, getting to the title game and reminding everyone why the SEC always has been and always will be better than the Big 10 …
Speed.
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