re: If osu wins the rest of their games in 10+ except maybe 1 close one

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Lol since when is most 1st rd picks the barometer for how tough your schedule is.

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Well, gee, most of the real asskickers in college football end up in the first round of the draft. Stands to reason that the more of them you face the more likely it is you will get pushed or beaten.

Nebraska faced one player who was a first round draft pick in the spring. And he was a bust to boot.

2019 LSU faced firepower like Tua, Jalen Hurts, Trevor Lawrence, DeVonta Smith, Jaylen Waddle, CeeDee Lamb, Tee Higgins, Travis Etienne, Najee Harris, and many others.

1995 Nebraska didn’t face players like that.

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95 Nebraska is the best and most dominant team ever

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The best thing 1995 Nebraska had going for them was they didn’t have to play Switzer’s OU, FSU, or Miami - elite teams that recruited to beat them (and could stop their running game) because they played them virtually every year for the Big 8 title or Orange Bowl.

Osborne was 5-12 against Switzer from 1973-1988 and 3-9 against FSU and Miami from 1980-1994. That is 8-21 altogether. Many of those teams had legendary players on the defensive front that Nebraska couldn’t push around.

Osborne was 71-3-1 against “top ten” Kansas, Kansas State, and Colorado. And even the coach who was responsible for those three losses (Bill McCartney) was gone in 1995. And with no OOC opponent with more than six wins (including one that folded the program after the season) and a bowl opponent that didn’t care about the running game (much less run defense) the schedule couldn’t have been more favorable.

Nebraska had a lot of great players in the ‘70s and ‘80s just like they did in the ‘90s. Heisman winners, Super Bowl winners, and guys with national awards named after them. Very few players from 1995 would be on the All-Osborne team.

Nebraska beating mediocre Big 8 opponents by 50 was nothing new in the mid ‘90s. The biggest difference was they did not face a defense with an elite front that was recruited to stop them. They faced that at least once a year back in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

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KSU played Nebraska every year, recruited to stop Nebraska's run game,

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The key word there being KSU.

Anyone like the Selmon bros., Tony Casillas, Brian Bosworth, Cortez Kennedy, Derrick Brooks, Ray Lewis, and Warren Sapp on those defenses?

That would be no.

Or anyone like Vince Wilfork, Jonathan Vilma, D.J. Williams, and Ed Reed like 2001 Nebraska faced?

That would be no too.

Osborne was 25-0 against KSU in his career.

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By your logic I guess I should be touting Nebraska's 40 point win @ Michigan St since Michigan St had a NFL QB Tony Banks + 2 future pro bowl WRs Mushin Muhammad and Derrick Mason... coached by Nick Saban no less hahaha

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None of those players were as good as the ones mentioned in my previous post.

LSU fans love romanticizing Burrow and Chase, but when you bring up the 2019 LSU defense it's crickets.
LSU only beat Auburn 23-20, not very GOATy if you ask me.
Minnesota beat Auburn by 7 and scored 31 on Auburn.
But the alleged GOAT LSU only scored 23 and won by 3.

Their D yielded over 22 points a game.
LSU D gave up 37 or more 4 times that year.
LSU only beat Texas by 7, Auburn by 3, Alabama by 4.
Frigging Vanderbilt scored 38 on 2019 LSU.
2019 LSU was far from dominant because of their garbage D.

Meanwhile 2025 Ohio State is yielding 7 points a game.
The most points allowed is 16.
They probably have the greatest defense in college football history.
And their offense averages over 37 a game.
And their offense has played conservative because they don't need to open it up due to their dominant D.
2019 LSU would struggle to score on 2025 Ohio State.
2025 Ohio State would score at will on that horrible 2019 LSU D.

The 2019 LSU offense isn't that much better than 2025 Ohio State's offense.
But the 2025 Ohio State defense is light years better than 2019 LSU's defense.

It has to be extremely boring as an OSU fan. They've played one ranked team all year, Texas.

But it has to be boring watching this for weeks. No drama, no uncertainty, really.

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But it has to be boring watching this for weeks. No drama, no uncertainty, really.

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I'd rather they not struggle against worse teams.

Watching 2002 Ohio State was "boring" in the sense that our offense was vanilla AF but we played tons of close games making it exciting.

Playing Rutgers close so far today

2025 LSU legitimately might be undefeated against OSUs schedule. Would probably be favored in every game except Texas.

It’s an absurdly easy schedule. The middle and bottom of the big 10 are absolute dog shite and they dodged Oregon and Indiana

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The best team ever is in a tight game with Rutgers

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Ohio St is designed to play this way, at least for now.

Just strangle the opposing offense, minimize total plays, and run an efficient offense.

The defense is the surprise this year allowing Ohio State to play this way.

They smother and kill at the end.

Do better as a poster.

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The best team ever is in a tight game with Rutgers

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42-9

The struggle is real