DOOLEY Observed: The Ohio State University football team ..... lost, post game tradition, forgotten

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

The Ohio State University football team ..... lost, post game tradition, forgotten

I was thinking of Ohio State football, this morning, and Jim, way out there in Oklahoma. Many OSU fans felt they should be NUMBER ONE in the country. I got the impression that knowledgeable football analysts didn't feel that way. As there ex maligned spendthrift president, Gee, once referred to teams who play the "Sisters of the Poor," I think it was, and referred to other schools when he should have looked at his own horseshoe, so to speak.

Only OSU fans, naturally, felt they were qualified to be Number one.

They played Michigan, I team I felt was not very good this year, and OSU didn't win, Michigan lost. Big Difference. Now, they have played MSU and lost.

I think all doubt has been removed about the quality of OSU.

I must admit, I did not watch the second half, I went to bed. I woke up later on, and turned the radio on to our local station, which had broadcast the game. I listened to the Post Game interview with the coach and a few players. Listening to their comments, their attitude, I assumed that OSU had won the game. Not till their interview was over and they announced the score, did I know that MSU had won. I am not sure they think that they lost. That is one reason that I am no longer an OSU fan, I used to be an avid one. I wonder how many OSU fans had already made plans to attend the Championship game.

INDIANAPOLIS – If you want to know how badly the Big Ten championship loss wounded Ohio State, consider this: After Michigan State had finished harmin' Ohio, the Buckeyes bagged "Carmen Ohio."

At a school that takes its traditions seriously, that will be considered sacrilege by some fans. Under former coach Jim Tressel, the ritual was non-negotiable: Win or lose, the team would gather postgame before the marching band and sing the song, written more than a century ago by an Ohio State student. For 24 games under Urban Meyer, that continued. Game ended, players gathered, song was sung. Meyer, a self-proclaimed lover of Buckeye lore, was always front and center, flanked by players on either side.

Made for a nice photo op, at the very least.

Of course, for 24 games there was never a loss, never a chance to test the commitment to tradition in a time of adversity.

Saturday night, that changed. Saturday night, Meyer's Buckeyes finally lost – and did so in shocking fashion. They fell behind the Spartans 17-0, roared back for a 24-17 lead, then were hit with another 17-0 flurry in a devastating 34-24 loss.

National title aspirations vanished. The program that had dominated a diminished Big Ten finally played an opponent of consequence – and was exposed as a cut below championship mettle.