Wishing A Get Well Soon To Everyone Suffering From The Very Contagious "Anyone But Ohio State Syndrome"
Listen I never want to see people get sick, so here’s a get well soon to the College Football Media and College Football Fans across the country have come down with Anyone But Ohio State Syndrome.
Like the Buckeyes are the defending National Champions coming off a run of blowing out Tennessee, Oregon, Texas, and Notre Dame, brought back the best offensive AND the best defensive player in the country, have started the season 9 and 0, haven’t trailed for one second in the second half all season, have the Heisman frontrunner quarterback that was a 5 star #1 in his class, 2 of if not the 2 best receivers in the entire country, a historically great defense that is giving up 7 points per game when the 2nd best in the sport is giving up 12, a linebacker AND a safety that are both projected to be Top 5 picks, all while being coached by a staff that has made a conscious effort to slow things down because these games they’ve been playing don’t matter as much as the ones ahead…..and people spend their every waking moment trying to justify why this team isn’t that good. I mean someone put them 4th in the AP Poll this week....
Could you imagine where all this were true for a school like Alabama and someone voted them 4th? Trade uniforms AND schedules and the Crimson Tide would be the unanimous #1 team in the country being talked about as perhaps the greatest team ever. And don’t even get me started on the absolute smear campaign going on in the Heisman simply because Ohio State is involved. Remember when Joe Burrow won the award going away with Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase as his receivers? But now it’s a knock of Julian Sayin because he’s playing with Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate.
Julian Sayin is number 1 in the country in QB rating, #1 in the country in completion percentage, number 1 in 300 yard games, #4 in touchdown passes (in less games than #1 and #3), and that’s just this season. He’s also on pace to finish #1 in the history of college football in completion percentage, he’s got the best passer efficiency rating in the big ten since the turn of the century, and people’s knock on him right now is he hasn’t had to make any big throws because his team is winning by too much.
Like this is an actual serious tweet I saw from an Indiana account:
The Heisman race is 100% over because Fernando Mendoza threw 4th quarter interceptions at Iowa, Oregon, and Penn State….and then he led game winning drives against all of them. Am I taking crazy pills right now? So because he threw 3 4th quarter picks, he was able to lead game winning drives. In what world is that better than going 20 of 23 for 4 touchdowns and blowing that exact same team out?
I’ve got people DMing me has your QB thrown a game winner like this. Buddy my quarterback throws his game winning touchdowns in the first quarter. And don’t tell me anyone could play quarterback in this offense either. Yes, Jeremiah Smith is an all time great. But watch this throw and tell me who else in the country is putting it in this breadbasket!
And it’s not just Indiana, it’s the entire country. Here’s an SEC tweet about how Alabama “knocked off” the preseason number 13 team in the country and no one is hotter than the Crimson Tide. Folks South Carolina fell to 3 and 5 in this game and we’re touting their preseason ranking?
Here I’ll try it out: Ohio State has wins over both the preseason number 1, number 2, and number 12 teams in the AP Poll, beating them by a combined 48 points. How could you possibly question the Buckeyes schedule with a stat like that?
The good news is that Buckeye fans are completely unbothered by it. We just show up, win, and move onto the next game. But man these other fan bases really have brought out their magnifying glasses trying to diminish this program.
The fact of the matter is that the country is so sick and tired of how good Ohio State is that they are doing every single thing they can to try and devalue how great they’ve been.
I guess it’s true when they say it’s Ohio Against The World. And it’s going to be so so sweet when they do this all season long, and then we beat the entire rest of the world, again.