Ohio State's Loss To Va Tech Was The Worst Ever By A National Champ
I'll spare you a major quote dump from the article, because, for lack of a better description, the paragraph I am posting below might be the most tame and nicest towards us. Let's just say, we're not exactly being spoken of in a very nice way. If you're offended by foul language, that is not the link you want to click.
Virginia Tech's SRS of 6.54 ranked 40th among this year's college football teams. Which is the lowest that a team who beat a national champion has ranked since 1968. The only two teams that really compare to Va Tech's shittiness are 1977 Ole Miss and 1990 North Carolina. Ole Miss of '77 had a losing record, but beat Notre Dame by seven at home. 1990 North Carolina had a slightly better record, 6-4-1, and managed to tie Georgia Tech at home.
And Something tells me this will be the first of many articles coming out over the next few weeks and months that puts a complete target on our backs for being this horrible team that somehow ended up beating the champs. I'll give this article some credit, they did put a little bit of analysis into it, but I'm not going to lie, I had a very tough time reading past the first paragraph after seeing the tone of the author. Complete and utter a-hole.
Someone needs to copy all articles like this and give it to the team for summer reading. I'm sure they'll absolutely love hearing about how awful they are all offseason long. Won't give them any extra motivation for that next game, no siree!
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Sweeping the series with them on Labor Day would be so, so sweet.
I could die happy.
I may not die happy because of it, but it would help my Rail hangover significantly.
I think that there would be more bad teams like us in this discussion had the playoff system been implemented earlier. If we been under the BCS this season, this conversation would not be taking place at all.
Completely agree. With BCS system all we would've beaten was Rose Bowl Champs at the most
Completely agree with the last paragraph of this post. In fact, I want OSU to underestimate us and just assume their reputation will put us in shock and awe of them. Let them come in fat and sassy thinking we're going to roll on over and play dead.
as much as I would love that...and it would probably help our team TBH, I don't see it happening. Urban Meyer, love him or hate him, is a damn good ball coach and he won't make the same mistakes twice. He's going to put together one hell of a game plan against us and he won't let his team forget that we beat them in their house last year. Yeah, they might have won the championship but they still had a blemish on their record and that won't sit well with a perfectionist like Urban. We're going to have one hell of a mountain to climb on Labor Day. I'll be at the game cheering on the Hokies and all I can hope for is that they come out fighting. I can't expect a win and I won't be disappointed by a loss. I will be disappointed and dejected if we just look lost and unprepared and unmotivated. But win or lose if we come out attacking that mountain with everything we got I can't really complain.
Go Hokies!!!
Well said and I completely agree!
Agreed. Going into this past seasons game not only was I confident (which I always am) I actually expected us to win and would be let down with anything less. That was a completely different Ohio State team. Though the same personal, I think this upcoming years squad will be much more prepared and confident in their ability
I expect the hokies to win every game. I just won't be heartbroken if they don't live up to my expectations.
If they underestimate us it will end when "Let's Go...Hokies" echoes off the Blue Ridge Mountains and the ground shakes as Enter Sandman blares through Lane. Won't be a dry set of drawers in the OSU tunnel.
I don't think anyone is out to put a target on our backs. People are just going to try to rationalize how on earth we beat OSU, because the only thing they know about us is our record, and the WF result. They don't know the ins and outs of the team the same way that we do here.
My only issue is that they seem to be doing so without actually watching the game film or at least watching it again. Doesn't really do the game justice for either team.
OSU got blitzed that night, both figuratively and literally. They didn't piss down their leg, they simply didn't survive the onslaught and got beat.
Whatever. Let 'em rip us. They'll see.
He may not be with us anymore but I felt this was appropriate
I don't know why but I can't stop laughing at this. It must be the hat. I'm glad I'm in my office by myself right now.
Awesome find.
You could use the phrase "complete and utter a-hole" to describe practically every writer at Deadspin
the whole gawkerverse really
I'd generally agree with this statement, although I enjoy the work done at io9.
It's a fun site for science/geek culture type of stuff and their writers very rarely fall into the narcissistic, condescending, pessimistic douches that populate Deadspin's writing staff.
the more anOSU hears about how we're a crappy team that lucked into beating them, the happier I'll be. UM and his coaching staff may take us seriously next year, but I doubt very much that their players won't come in over confident from being national champions and hearing from all sides that we're a shite team that can't repeat against them. I want our guys to be ready to prove themselves and I want anOSU's players to be convinced that they can just waltz into Lane and walk away with an easy W. Also, I'll take Foster's summer of meticulous scheming over Meyer's any day.
On a side note: an FSU fan once told me, "you can't spell scum without UM" and while I find that very ironic because, well, FSU, I now have two instances to which I can apply this saying.
As much as I want this to happen I doubt it does. They won't be thinking they're entitled to everything because they're national champs, they'll be thinking of the one team that beat them on their home turf. And how now its time for payback.
They've got a mission to accomplish (see what I did there). Can't guarantee a return trip to CFP without a better performance vs. Hokies.
Kind of OT but I really hope this is a fake shirt, might be embarassing as the "Mission Accomplished" shirt
Not fake. More than slightly embarrassing. Stupid TSL...
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Even worse, they're almost sold out.
As presented, this isn't that bad IMO. We aren't claiming co-NC or any such bullshit, we're merely saying we beat the national champions by a score of 35-21.
Yea I hear you, but at the time they weren't the national champs, just Ohio State. not a big deal, I just know I will say we beat OSU who eventually became NC's not we beat the national champions on that day
As long as we don't order any rings. Somebody make sure that Fedora's phone number isn't in Frank's speed dial.
Interestingly enough, apparently this shirt got flagged as a violation of intellectual property and the site that was hosting the design has rejected all orders and is in the process of refunding all payments.
Which I find to be extremely odd, as I don't see anything on it that jumps out as a violation of any kind of intellectual property. Did the school trademark the letters 'VT' without regard to font?
The state of Vermont might like to have a word, if that's the case.
Interesting development.
I mean, I know I've had my own issues with the school in terms of some designing I've tried to do locally, but I didn't think they were this bad. I just don't see anything at all that should lead to a violation. It's all generic fonts, and while, yeah, VT is our initials, VT could really stand for anything.
Did we trademark any form of the letters of V and T with orange and maroon?
I think they blocked it because the creator forgot to put "Mission Accomplished" on it. Once that revision happens then it will be given the green light.
My guess, which is admittedly just conjecture, is that although the designer didn't use the square root of one logo that's trademarked, there is no way the designer could effectively argue that the letters "VT" stand for anything other than Virginia Tech. The school has licensing rights for any commercial product that references it, even if the product doesn't use one of the school's registered trademarks.
I also think the designer could legally challenge this, but is just chosing not to.
The typeface for the VT logo also appears to be taken from VT's official logo, which has a custom font. Likely the university owns that, too. That could be what put it over the line. Also just conjecture.
I'd gladly take an 8-4 season if it meant beating OSU again. 10 wins are great, but not if we keep losing the big OOC games
This on a sesame seed bun with a side of this. Signature wins with a gradually improving record will do much more to build the program.
2010 is the perfect example of that. Even JMU loss aside, our 11 wins were completely overshadowed by the fact that we lost the only two primetime games we played (with the second one being a complete beat down). It was a very hollow 11 wins
yes, such a hollow, meaningless morass of a season. certainly nothing worth celebrating all year.
I think that season illustrates the dichotomy of Hokie fans vs Joe Sportsfan. We were proud of going undefeated in conference play, beating a good FSU team and making the Orange Bowl, while people not following the program remember us losing late to Boise State, getting beaten by a 1AA and being dismantled by Stanford.
In general, VT was being thought of in the same vein as Oklahoma: win all the games but the big ones. Signature wins like OSU in the Shoe will help us rewrite that as we rebuild the program.
Yeah, being defeated by a team back on the upswing led by winningest head coach right now is just plain awful... C'mon Deadspin, you'd think the boo hoos, instead of the Hokies beat them.
I like how Deadspin did a story that Andy Bitter had already written...
How does OSU's loss to VT stack up historically? via Andy Bitter
Except their story was inferior and intentionally inflammatory, which isn't surprising.
Screw that article.....screw it hard.....
Guess that is why they play the game
It doesn't even register with fans that it is the 'worst historic loss' by a national champ if you watched any of VTs games this year. Other than the Miami game, VT was in every single other game. So take it for what its worth from some gut-shot reactionary clickbait.
But to change the national perception, just win baby
Say what you want about the title, but the article actually used a ranking/stat to compare teams. So a grade above "gut shot reactionary click bait" in my book.
National champions don't tend to lose many games, especially to average or below average teams. Even more so when one bad loss could keep you out of a title game (no way OSU gets a chance to win a NC before 2015). Is it really so surprising that a 3-5 ACC team graded out as the "worst" loss for a national champion? VT was the better team that night in September. But the article looked at the entire season, which of course had OSU beating everyon else, and us losing to Wake Forest.
Shit, people, just take it as a compliment. Whatever our team ended up being, we were good enough on that night to whip the eventual national champs. Not many teams can say that
Okay, maybe not a compliment. But not an insult
Deadspin...I have a little something for you...
Does the team really need any more motivation than playing the defending national champs in your house in prime time with almost every recruit, analyst, pundit in the country watching while we pull out the brooms and sweep the series with anOSU?
No.
Brewer will keep getting back up as long as they keep pushing forward!
U mad, Deadspin?
Is it August yet?
How about now... August yet?
Closer, but still no.
I'm not really sure what you're offended by. It's incredibly accurate. I thought about that as soon as they announced OSU in the playoff "is this the worst loss a national champion has ever had". Are you trying to say we were good this year? A 6-6 team beat the National Champions at their stadium, that's about as bad as it gets. 40th ranked sounds about right for us, I'm not sure anyone can argue with that.
Agree, there's nothing wrong with this perspective, althought I'd content the LSU loss to Kentucky in triple OT was just as bad. I think Kentucky had a better overall record than we did at the ends of our respective seasons, but...Kentucky football.
It was the worst record over the last 11 years (as far back as ESPN let me go) that a national champion lost to