Batter up!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pod2dawg]

08/31/13 vs. Buffalo Columbus, Ohio TBA
09/07/13 vs. San Diego State Columbus, Ohio TBA
09/14/13 at California Berkeley, Calif. TBA
09/21/13 vs. Florida A&M Columbus, Ohio TBA
09/28/13 vs. Wisconsin * Columbus, Ohio TBA
10/05/13 at Northwestern * Evanston, Ill. TBA
10/19/13 vs. Iowa * Columbus, Ohio TBA
10/26/13 vs. Penn State * Columbus, Ohio TBA
11/02/13 at Purdue * West Lafayette, Ind. TBA
11/16/13 at Illinois * Champaign, Ill. TBA
11/23/13 vs. Indiana * Columbus, Ohio TBA
11/30/13 at Michigan * Ann Arbor, Mich.


How would you like to be Buffalo?

[Squints]

Best competition in that list will be the OSU band v.s. the FAMU band.

[e0y2e3]

I HATE playing a shit schedule like this, especially with no MSU or Nebraska.

Fucking hell, thank christ for Gene Smith's new 4 top 50 out of conference teams mantra (thanks to the new selection committee running the playoffs and losses being acceptable).

[Govbarney]

Is that a typo... Do we really face Wisconsin 2 yrs in a row at home?

Either way Ill say the same thing I said when I first saw this yrs schedule. I don't see a loss on that list.

[furls]

Looks like a pretty clear path to Nebraska in Indianapolis. Then to the NCG...

[Cerebral_DownTime]

Going to Northwestern should be interesting. They always have a scrappy little team that seems to give a good OSU team fits.

[Sea Foam Green]

Honest to God, NW might be the best team on that list. They've got a good coach and will continue to get better. I'm not so sure we see a lot of improvement from UM or Wisc next year.

Anyone got any idea what, if anything, the other B1G teams have coming back?

[Fire Marshall Bill 2.0]

That's pathetic...and a testament to the conference

Can't wait till Rutgers is on the list..

12-0 will get the same respect The Pedo did 30 yrs ago

[e0y2e3]

Well, Vandy did back out....

More than anything it is a testament to the BCS era. Teams are terrified of taking OoC losses because of what a battle it makes getting to the title game (count the number of marquee SEC OoC games while noting that the few played were all on neutral fields). With the need to schedule marquee games 5+ years in advance (Cal was good when added for this home and home) if that one marquee match-up ends up sucking team's schedules are ruined.

The Buckeyes are leading the charge to take a real schedule on starting in 2014 (this will be impossible because of the schedule delay) and have already added home and homes with Oklahoma, TCU, Texas, Cinci, BC, UNC and Oregon in the mid-later part of this decade/begining of the next. Smith said point blank he wants four top 50 OoC games going forward.

[FUDU]

Still sucks that Urban needs to go 25-0 to get a NC.

[e0y2e3]

The cause of that was picked up onto Mike Doss' shoulders and cheered during the end of the Buckeyes season, so it can't suck that bad.

[fairvis]

Well, and next year San Diego State is a BCS team. Yeah. The Big East is a joke. So, we've got a Big East team, a Pac-12 team, a MAC doormat and the battle of the bands (although since the Florida A&M drum major was killed due to hazing, I'm not sure how good the band there will be anymore).

I know they tried to balance out the divisions, but if Wisky continues to be mediocre and Penn State starts its inevitable decline (the loss of that many scholarships is going to have an impact, no matter how good O'Brien is), we're going to be in weak B1G schedules for the forseeable future. Hopefully we go to 16, get into pods, and then can maintain decent schedule strength.

[Govbarney]

A lot will depend on their preseason ranking. There's no reason they shouldn't start next season in the top 3 or 2 of the coaches poll.

[furls]

The nice thing about finishing 12-0 is that sportswriters are really lazy and generally don't do alot of research, so they will not notice that tOSU lost some incredibly important pieces on D (or that they need some players to really step up in the positions where their weren't significant losses).

Think about it, tOSU has to replace:

WDE (Nathan Williams)= Noah Spence (long term upgrade, short term... steep learning curve)
SSDE (John Simon) = Adolphus Washington (push longterm, shorter learning curve than Spence)
3Tech (probably John Hankins) = Mike Bennett (projecting that they move him in downgrade)
0/1 Tech (Goebel) = Tommy Schutt (Upgrade next year, Goebel played well but Schutt really flashes)

SSLB (Sabino) = ???? Josh Perry is rumored to be going to DE.
MLB (Klein/Boren) - ???? Gotta think one of the 2013 kids may be the front runner, but we don't have one yet.

BCB (Roby) = ???? Armani Reeves? Adam Griffin? a 2013 true freshman (Conley, Woodard)?
FCB (Howard) = ???? see above

Lots of questions once you get past the front 4.

[danwismar]

Is that a typo... Do we really face Wisconsin 2 yrs in a row at home

Nope...not a typo. They played in Madison this year.

Also, Roby is staying (per a good Bill Greene source)...but Furls is right...they really do lose an awful lot on defense(arguably five of their seven best players...Simon, Hankins, Williams, Sabino, Boren...the other two being Shazier and Roby)

And it was a defense that looked terrible for half the season...at least.

The 2013 schedule would have looked better if Vandy hadn't bolted, and Cinci rescheduled to a different year. That would have made three of four from BCS AQ conferences. At the time Cal was scheduled in the middle of the previous decade, they were a legit Top 15-20 program. Who knew? Nebraska and MSU rotating off for two years at the same time is just the luck of the draw.

[furls]

I'll believe Roby is back when I see #1 on the field next year. He is a 1st-3rd round pick, gotta get paid while you can. You are just one ACL tear from falling a day and losing millions. Same thing with Hank. I think the D will be OK, but there are some severe question marks. You just have to hope that some of last year's recruits are ready this year (Marcus, Williams, Perkins, etc.)