Profiles of the Big 10: The Ohio State Buckeyes
by JLew on May 17, 2010 10:37 AM CDT
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THE Ohio State University. Lets get that straight from the get go. It may sound pompous to us, but when you have the second largest campus in the US, have over 60,000 students, continually finish in the top 25 in the directors cup, and have won national championships in football, men’s basketball, and baseball, well you can command some respect.
The Ohio State University represents all that is exciting and all that troubles me about expanding to the Big 10. You have a football team that oozes tradition and excellence, but you it is also a University that has 1.65 billion in endowment (UNL has ~1 billion), and 3 times the enrollment of Nebraska.
Will Nebraska be trading in one Texas for another "Texas" in Ohio State?
You cannot mention Ohio State football without mentioning Michigan. It’s the best rivalry in sports, surpassing Red Socks/Yankees. I can’t attest to what the Nebraska/Oklahoma rivalry was, and I’m over 30 years old. Nebraska has no rivals (Missouri is trying, bless them) and hasn't for quite some time, but Ohio State knows all about playing a rival Michigan. Most Ohio State fans I know can sing you an alternate version of the Michigan fight song. I’d write it out for you, but it would break my firefox censor…
The Buckeyes play in "The Shoe" which only holds over 100,000 fans. (Fun fact: Ohio Stadium does not have field lights that function, and thus must have temporary lights installed for any night games). The fans are loyal and crazed. They live for their football just as much as Nebraska fans do, though they seem to hate couches and mattresses, burning both after wins. I was unable to find how futons are treated, I assume they are double persecuted, being an unholy combination of mattress and couch.
Nebraska has not played Ohio State in football since 1955 and 1956; No doubt the Buckeye are afraid of Nebraska. At least Bo Pelini will be familiar with Ohio State, since he played as a free safety for the Buckeyes from 1987-1990. Some dark corners of the Internet suggest that Bo would be inclined to return to his alma mater if the opportunity arose.
I’m wondering how Nebraska will fit in as the new kid in the Big 10 if and when this expansion happens. You have Ohio State with all the tradition, it’s relationship with Michigan, and it’s rabid fan base. I wonder if the average Nebraska fan appreciates how much goes on in other football universes. Right now Nebraska sits atop the Big 12 North and only has to play Texas or Oklahoma once a year. Ohio State would be a Texas/Oklahoma type opponent. A large, rich school, with a storied football tradition, that has an established rivalry.
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Qucikly
Every school has alternate lyrics to the other Big Ten fight songs, that isn’t unique to tOSU.
To be fair, they do have this though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5TVBf6cWM and that is pretty damn cool.
Ohio Stadium is worth the trip if you go there. I went last year and ended up getting more free beer than I could have possibly drank from the Buckeye tailgaters. Great stadium and a good game experience.
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Seconded.
I still remember every alternate fight song (except PSU because we didn’t play them at home when I was there).
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 17, 2010 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I actually don't think we have one
We were doing beer band before the 08 PSU game and just walked around yelling “F Penn State” at everyone.
I only remember that because the game was so awesome and because a bunch of Penn State people got us to sing the alternate Michigan Ohio State lyrics with them outside Fieldhouse.
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See that something we don't have in the B12-
I can barely sing the NU song (mostly we just sing "We Don’t Know the Words… over and over again, it’s funny when drunk). I can pick out some school songs, but no one I know in the B12 has alternate words. Maybe Texas and OU? Though there is only so much you can do with Boomer Sooner…
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Beer band from '98 (I'm aging)
taught me naughty Michigan, tOSU, jNW, IU, Wisco and Minnesota (not to mention the Iowa State “I had your mom”).
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 18, 2010 5:50 AM CDT up reply actions
My Favorite "Alt"
Oh Indiana
You big banana!
Oh Indiana
To hell with you!
We will fight for
the cream and coffee
and the honor
of Old Purdue!
At the altar
You always falter
And in the battle
You’re black and blue!
Oh Indiana
Oh Indiana
Oh Indiana
To hell with you!
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Come join me as I fanatically follow the goys in green!
Actually, the fun thing about ours
is that we intentionally set it to “Boomer Sooner” to highlight the idiocy of both groups.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 18, 2010 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions
That may be
The cleanest set of alternate lyrics of another school I have ever heard. The only one I know that doesn’t say F%&* in it at least once is the one we sing for Iowa.
http://victorypolka.blogspot.com/
I was at the Fiesta Bowl
in 2009 when Texas played Ohio State. And looking at the Ohio State – Michigan rivalry, I had always leaned towards Michigan; however, when their band and fans sang this song, I thought it was so badass.
Perhaps...
…but when your band’s greatest tradition involves spelling the name of another school before every game, well, that’s weak. :-)
I think he's saying because they write OHIO instead of OHIO ST.
by HawkeyeRecon on May 21, 2010 1:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Well since OU is older
it’s only appropriate.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 21, 2010 3:34 PM CDT up reply actions
my experience
with Ohio State fans has generally not been that good. Granted, I appeared to them as a Minnesota Gophers fan, and in doing so, they were frequently dismissive and obnoxious.
Having said that, Ohio State would be one of those schools where I’ve always wanted to attend a game.
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Depends
There are the usual arrogant jerks but if you go there you tend to run into alot of the better ones (at least I did).
I actually ended up wearing facepaint and everything in the Ohio State student section last year and they were surprisingly nice about it (aside from a couple drunk frat guys but we all have those).
http://victorypolka.blogspot.com/
The final line is this
While we have great tradition here at NU the big 10 has a HUGE AMOUNT of tradition with each other. Even more with the big three of OSU, Mich, and in some ways by proxy Norte Dame and yes I know they are not part of it yet or will be. Just saying we will be a outsider if we join the confrence because almost every one of the scholls has a rivalry with someone and in most instances a trophy to boot
You have little to worry about;
the rivalries with Iowa and Wisconsin would be instantaneous (Minnesota will actually have to fire Tim Brewster [please, God, never allow this] to be included on this list).
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 18, 2010 5:52 AM CDT up reply actions
This wins it for me!!
They live for their football just as much as Nebraska fans do, though they seem to hate couches and mattresses, burning both after wins. I was unable to find how futons are treated, I assume they are double persecuted, being an unholy combination of mattress and couch.
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“Nebraska has not played Ohio State in football since 1955 and 1956; No doubt the Buckeye are afraid of Nebraska. "
You left out some info:
1955: Ohio State 28 Nebraska 20
1956: Ohio State 34 Nebraska 7
Perhaps it was the otherway around in who was afraid of who?
ah no
but that would work on an Ohio State web site. :)
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by Jon Johnston on May 19, 2010 11:33 AM CDT up reply actions
Obviously tOSU took the wins when they could
and refuse to play NU again.
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Yup, tOSU was ducking them
to schedule lightweights like USC, Texas and Miami.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 21, 2010 11:49 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm glad we are in agreement
Pfffft cream puffs all of them.
Really though you’d think that NU would have run into tOSU sometime in the past 50 years.
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I don't know, over on the Daily Gopher
Peter Bean from Burnt Orange Nation noted that UT has played Big 10 teams a total of 19 times outside of bowl games. That’s pretty remarkable. Hell, I think last year’s Orange Bowl match-up between Iowa and Georgia Tech was only the first or second time the two sides had squared off. College football is weird like that.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 21, 2010 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions
If it happens
As a lifelong buckeye living in Columbus if the Big Ten invites Nebraska to join and they accept. I can safely say that most Buckeye fans would love another storied program to play against.
I have to take exception with this statement
You cannot mention Ohio State football without mentioning Michigan. It’s the best rivalry in sports, surpassing Red Socks/Yankees.
Without being biased and mentioning a rivaly my alma mater is involved in, there are two other rivalries that surpass Ohio State-Michigan for outright hatred (Auburn-Alabama would show those Midwesterners what real hatred is) and for tradition (Army-Navy, hands down).
I should also mention that outside of fans of the Yankees and Red Sox, no one gives a damn about the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry, no matter how much ESPN tries to hype it up. Duke/North Carolina in basketball is a better rivalry than NYY/Boston in baseball.
You and I may be the only two who agree on this point:
Army-Navy is the most special and best rivalry in all of American sports. Who cares if they don’t hate each other the way other schools do; in many ways theirs is the truest sense of athletic rivalry in that, once off the field, they are brothers in arms with perspective on just how important sports is in the larger scheme of things.
Not to go way off-topic, but anyone who loves college sports would be remiss not to read John Feinstein’s “A Civil War” about a year in the ‘life’ of the Army-Navy rivalry. The line I still remember all these years later is, “the service academies are the only places where football practice is the easiest part of a student-athlete’s daily routine.”
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on May 23, 2010 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Agreed
I’m not sure if it was from that book or another one, but a coach of an opposing team warned his players about playing Army: “You guys don’t get it; you go to practice every day and complain and whine about having to attend it and meetings. Football is FUN for them, it is the fun part of their day.” That coach’s team beat Army, but just barely escaped with the win.
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