***Official #1 The Ohio State University @ #2 Texas Thread***

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P.S.= Putting the title of "THE" Ohio St. is one of the worst gimmicks in all of football


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This has nothing to do with football. The name of the University is The Ohio State University as opposed to Ohio University. I want to Ohio and at that time they were fighting over the use of the name "Ohio." I first saw it in print as "The Ohio State University" about 10 years before hearing it on TV.

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I believe it also deals with Ohio University and some controversy there.

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Yes, I thought I made that clear, but I was tired and playing poker when I posted above.

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The use of "The.." predates the legal issues with Ohio U. That's just the excuse people give nowdays, but it doesn't hold up historically. The spat didn't begin until 1995 and it was used before then.

It's more then likely been used to try and give the school elite status in the state of Ohio. So, yeah the prententious "we're better then you " theroy is probably correct.

[RR]

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P.S.= Putting the title of "THE" Ohio St. is one of the worst gimmicks in all of football


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This has nothing to do with football. The name of the University is The Ohio State University as opposed to Ohio University. I want to Ohio and at that time they were fighting over the use of the name "Ohio." I first saw it in print as "The Ohio State University" about 10 years before hearing it on TV.

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I believe it also deals with Ohio University and some controversy there.

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Yes, I thought I made that clear, but I was tired and playing poker when I posted above.

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The use of "The.." predates the legal issues with Ohio U. That's just the excuse people give nowdays, but it doesn't hold up historically. The spat didn't begin until 1995 and it was used before then.

It's more then likely been used to try and give the school elite status in the state of Ohio. So, yeah the prententious "we're better then you " theroy is probably correct.

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Yes I know it predates the legal issues, but prior ot the legal issues there was confusion between the two and neither one really liked being identified as the other one. I have been on both sides of this as both of my parents went to OSU and I went to OU as did most of my extended family. The first I saw it as "The Ohio State Unversity" was around 1983 on some alumni stuff of my mother's.

[z32fanatic]

Goin to this game tonight and went to the game last year. I'm a little worried about being the only OSU fan in my section, so I'm wearing my Ann Arbor is a Whore shirt, always a crowd favorite.

OSU 40
Texas 27

Smith to Ginn will be deadly.

[The Colossus]

WHO GIVES A [censored] ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE "THE"

TALK ABOUT THE GAME LETS GO BUCKS

[ohkanada]

Go Horns,

Texas 27
Ohio St 20

Ken

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GO GO GO OSU

[MacGuyV]

Dear Musberger:
It's only a 1st half time out. Settle down retard.

[GeicoLizard]

McCoy looks fine. UT's running game is sick. They'll win this as long as they don't turn the ball over inside the 10 again.

[BobLoblaw]

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McCoy looks fine. UT's running game is sick. They'll win this as long as they don't turn the ball over inside the 10 again.

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Although Texas can clearly run the ball on tOSU, I don't understand why this means Texas will win. They clearly are having a whole bunch of trouble stopping the buckeye passing game, and it looks like they could score a lot.

It's amazing that this game is only 7-0 because neither defense has been impressive. Obviously OSU missed a scoring chance missing a field goal and Texas had the fumble. I would expect to see quite a few points put up tonight.

[MacGuyV]

Yeah OSU has left points on the board too; Texas is hardly dominating.