Should be a great game.  Can't believe the season is over.  Glad they gave us a huge break and weeks of mediocre games so that we could build up to this.

To a good, clean open thread with no injuries.

Comment like a champion, commentators.

Although it took tOSU longer to score this year than it did last.

I like what Tressel did -- mix it up, hit them with something they didn't see coming, but that your team is capable of doing. Maybe he learned from last year?

And as I say that, hester busts it up the middle for a huge gain on 3rd and short.  Nice play by the safeties although I don't think Hester was out running anyone.

Zenon made a great play that I'd like to see again from a multitude of angles.

Say what you will about the WWL, but you get the benefits of dozens of cameras and producers.

Well done, sir.  Well done.

Again not challanging the accuracy of your general analogy but I think Beanie would be somewhat offended

Also why run the ball with Flynn like that? Not only with the whole injury thing, but does anyone really think he's going to keep it on the option?

Maybe its my bias, but he looks slow, and I can't imagine him running the ball is their best option, over and over.

I guess that's what you get with a caretaker QB.  Tell him to drop back and throw it, and he'll do it.

LSU is doing what the want, and they are mixing it up and making it look easy.

This will be a theme throughout the night.

1st down.. another near interception.  Tressel panics man.. He's awful when he's out of his comfort zone.

There's enough time left to just run the ball and get your team going.

Well, I'd rather have $XXX,XXX per year in Hawaii than $10M/5 years in Dallas.

Who leaves paradise? For Dallas!?!?!?1

Things fall apart.

Although the "Holy Moses!" was a bit much.

I think the Big Ten wants to limit itself to the Rose Bowl every year so that it is only humiliated in one BCS bowl per year.

(Joke not valid in years when the big ten team plays Notre Dame.)

Oh that's right, I'm a homer.

And we lost to Michigan...

All of Louisiana is some sort of twisted Disneyland.

Wadda ya think Dawg?

Somehow 2 touchdowns doesn't feel as bad as 3...

They need 2 stops and 2 TD drives -- and LSU will probably go back to run, run, run for the next few series, like they did to allow UK back into the game.

Moron.

What a season.

Can't wait for Spring Practice.

Until then.....thanks all.

1.) I don't remember ever seeing Matt Flynn play that well. That TD throw when he was on the run with a guy in his face was absurdly perfect.
2.) Crowton's playcalling was superb. On numerous plays, I said to my buddies as the play was developing, "damn, that's a good call."
3.) OSU - as they have done all year - spent way too much of the first half trying to get Boeckman involved. Running Beanie is working. Don't out-think yourselves.
4.) Two huge plays made this game and this score what it was: Robiskie dropping that TD pass on 3rd down (LSU blocked the FG on the next play) and the should-have-been-blocked-punt. I'm gonna drive myself insane thinking about those two plays for the next nine months. Probably not as much as Tressel will, though.

The thing is, part of me wishes we didn't even get here, because this OSU team was a year away (16-17 returning starters, at a probable minimum), and they got to the championship game and lost by multiple scores again, and now it's possible no one will give the benefit of any doubt for the next several years. The one saving grace: road game at USC next year. Win that one, and this game maybe gets erased. Maybe.

Great season, SMQ. Will certainly be reading anything you put out there.

I hope you can find something to write about in the interim, SMQ.  This is the best site going.