{"id":772,"date":"2007-01-09T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/01\/09\/punditry\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T14:49:38","slug":"punditry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/01\/09\/punditry\/","title":{"rendered":"Punditry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I\u2019d dig this up from the December archives over at <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsgamer.blogspot.com\/2006_12_01_archive.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsgamer.blogspot.com\/2006_12_01_archive.html', 'The Blog for the Sports Game');\">The Blog for the Sports Game<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsgamer.blogspot.com\/2006_12_01_archive.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsgamer.blogspot.com\/2006_12_01_archive.html', 'r');\">r<\/a> where my favorite Ohio State fan made the following prediction:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now I am thinking 30-16 OSU in the title game, FWIW. I just don\u2019t think there is any offense in the SEC that can match up with Ohio State\u2019s and I think Florida\u2019s defense is in for a rude awakening. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We saw.  To be fair, he didn\u2019t update that prediction after Michigan was destroyed by USC, LSU crushed ND, Texas barely beat Iowa, and Texas A&M was humiliated by California.  All of these results gave us clues about Ohio State\u2019s demise.  I live in the Big-12 conference now after multiple-years in the SEC.  I\u2019m also a graduate of a Big 10 school (Minnesota) so I am forced to live through the agony of watching the Gophers blow leads against their conference (not to mention in bowl games).  I can see just how slow and different football is here when compared to the teams I saw come into Gainesville from the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>So in this case I give the ESPN folks at \u201cAround the Horn\u201d and \u201cPTI\u201d a great deal of credit.  Many of them saw what all of us saw during the bowl games leading up to the title-game.  The Big 10 is slow.  Tough, but slow.  And speed kills.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I\u2019d dig this up from the December archives over at The Blog for the Sports Gamer where my favorite Ohio State fan made the following prediction: \u201cAs of now I am thinking 30-16 OSU in the title game, FWIW. I just don\u2019t think there is any offense in the SEC that can match &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/01\/09\/punditry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Punditry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}