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Replace conf champ games

Been talking to some friends and it almost seems like a non reward to play in the conf championship game. Just a thought what if the outright winner gets the automatic bid and then you have a wild card weekend where the #2 & #3 team play for their playoff spot. Because if I’m Oregon right now I’m not sure how much I actually care to play when it feels like Ohio state gets the easy way to win. It still keeps regular season interesting cause you’re playing for the outright title and essentially two bye weeks no conf champ game and you get a bye first week of the playoffs. Just a thought on how to make the regular season a little more interesting as well as the late playoff push. I’m a little thrown off that the committee decided that those who don’t play this weekend won’t get bumped out of the playoffs and that’s just wack to me!
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OSU offensive philosophy, quality, and weather . . .

Something to consider is whether an offense that is passing focused is as effective as a running based offense in the Michigan/Ohio State game.

I think an argument could be made that the team with an offense more running/power focused will generally have an advantage in a game played in a cold climate later in November. It's harder to throw the ball in cold weather (and then any precipitation/wind makes it even harder). Yesterday's game was played in cold/somewhat windy weather.

Even though Meyer's offenses put up huge numbers in the air against us several times, they also dominated on the ground (and generally ran the ball more than they threw it). The same goes for Tressel before him

Generally speaking, I don't think it is/was the wrong philosophy for Day to try to develop more of a power/running offense to beat Michigan. He just hasn't been very good at doing it.

Here's the other thing, I'm not sure OSU's offense was really all that great in general this year - especially post Oregon. Here are OSU's defensive yardage totals post Oregon:

Nebraska - 285 (averaged giving up 302/game)
PSU - 358 (averaged giving up 267)
Purdue - 433 (averaged giving up 452)
NW - 420 (averaged giving up 362)
Indiana - 316 (averaged giving up 245)

These are good numbers - but not great.
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