Ohio State - Oklahoma: Does anyone on this board pull for the Buckeyes?

"Pull for them" is a bit strong, but, I generally want all B1G teams to win their out of conference games and bowls.

However, I probably will pull for WMU on Saturday.

I just got my masters from Oklahoma where I also was a graduate assistant in their athletic department. Considering my OU roots and my Michigan fandom, fuck the Buckeyes. 

Would love to beat an undefeated Ohio State at the end of the year, but I just can't ever bring myself to pull for them. Eff'm

Want them tagged with an early loss so we don't run into a situation like last year and get hosed out of the playoffs.

I rememder when I had my first beer..

Never, ever. As I have said to others in the past, if it was OSU vs. a team with Hitler at QB, Stalin at RB, Pol Pot at WR, Genghis Khan at TE, Kim Jong Un at LT, and so forth, OSU's opponent (I think "The Dicktators" has a nice ring) would be getting my support... 

Anyone who does is a fool.

Them winning any games is not a good thing for Michigan. 

I just hate watching Ohio State play.  Maybe it will change with Wilson as the OC, but their games usually feel like sludge-farts to me.  I guess if they win it is good for conference rep, so......yeah, maybe, no -  I don't care.

I held a crawfish boil in Ohio for the LSU national championship, so nope.

It's too bad the Big 12 never beats anybody good.

However you root on Saturday, it's going to be an overrated OU team getting run out of Ohio Stadium by 2-3 touchdowns

Fuck No. I'd pull for ISIS over them. 

Also people need to understand they are our biggest competitior for almost every top recruit. Their performance necessarily impacts our recruiting. 

If you're asking me if I think they'll cover -7.5 then yes.

I usually like to play as highly ranked opponents as possible, but watching Urbz's tears and that miserable fanbase eat itself alive is always enjoyable. Fuck him and Fuck OSU.

Wat?

but they will win. I think they will wear down Oklahoma in the 2nd half. I don't think Baker Mayfield has the goods against top 10 teams.

*but no way when it's OSU

NO

1) I want them to remain undefeated so that we can crush their season on our way to going undefeated

2) I want them to lose every single game

Although option 1 seems like the perfect scenario, I'd also like to see them lay an egg like they did against Clemson.

I used to be a "root for the Big Ten" guy. And then the game happened in November with the Big Ten's incompetance in assigning honest officials. Now I'm strictly a "root only for Michigan" guy. Screw the Big Ten.

Fuck them, fuck the B1G.

We win the B1G, we go to the playoff, everything else is irrelevant so let OSU, MSU, PSU and all the others get destroyed.

Wisky for some reason doesn't bother me as much.

And the thought of it just gave me some sort of terminal illness

and it will be all about:

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I hope they get crushed and embarrassed.

Go Sooners!

Wasn't it just two years ago when Michigan needed OSU to beat MSU to have a shot at the Big Ten Championship? I remember people saying on this Blog that true Michigan fans were rooting for OSU that day. I was appalled at that sentiment. Thankfully MSU won that day. I cannot envision any realistic scenario in which I can possibly root for OSU. 

I understand the argument you reference in the OP...

But I just can't. I can't root for OSU in anything.

My wife is a Buckeye at heart so I am obligated to cheer for them when they aren't playing Michigan.  She returns the favor. It keeps things civil at home.

As others have said, I'd love for Michigan to play (and beat) OSU if OSU is undefeated. Now, I don't think I"ll be actively pulling for OSU to win, and if they lose, I won't be mad. 

Oh, jokes.

Nope. Scorched earth. BOOMER.

i hope they lose and are embarrassed and have a terrible season.

so no, not hoping OSU wins this weekend.

1) Michigan

2) Anybody playing Ohio State

Maybe if we beat them 12 of the next 14 years I will start to root for them to make The Game more meaningful, but until then I wish pain upon them.

Colombo delenda est!

Well now that the tiebreakers in the divisions include out of conference results (if 3 teams are tied and only losses to each other in conference) I will always root for every other team in the east to lose OOC regardless of rivalries.

You silly?

I hope OSU loses every single game they play.

That said, OSU will win by 10 or 14 points.

I'm sure there are nice people in Norman and throughout the state, but I have a hard time cheering for anything from such a culturally backward region.

If they're playing the Buckeyes that would change things.

Baker Mayfield plays well, OU wins.

Otherwise, all OSU. Sadly.

Big Ten success is important but the innate arrogance of the majority of osu's fanbase leads to me always rooting against them. Boomer Sooner.

They didn't need Michigan to be any good in 2014. Screw them and comparison scores for rankings. The same goes for Sparty.

as I hate both teams.

Conference integrity only applies with my sensibilities when it's not OSU. 

Root for the buckeyes to lose every game

but I'd rather them roll through the season undefeated and come into A2 ranked #1 and acclaimed as the best college football team in history. That will make beating them even sweeter.

Possible outcomes ranked from best to worst.  Only one truly bad one.

1) Ohio State humiliated.  Who cares what it does to our RPI, it's straight-up joyous to watch.

2) Ohio State loses in a regular way.  Not as much fun, but you know, still nice.

3) Ohio State wins in a regular way.  Not great, but at least it artificially puffs them up and sets them up for wonderful disappointment in late November.

4) Ohio State wins big.  This I can't stand.

i can think of someone 

Ohio State loses by 50, causing Urban to go on a sad pizza binge. He quickly reaches Mangino size and has to leave the team. Concurrently, the NCAA finds out that the entire team has been on the payroll and relegates them to late '80s SMU-land.



Yep, I don't like them very much.....

Pull for the Buckeyes? What kind of question is that? Really, I don't care who wins, but I will virtually never root for the Buckeyes. Especially given the last 10 years.

Now, I might make an exception if they were playing 'Bama. In some years or eras, there are teams that are insufferable, and good. ND was that at one time. So was USC. So were some of the SEC teams. But right now, I would never pull for the Buckeyes.

What I really want is a tight fought game, that exposes OSU weaknesses, and that forces OSU to do everything possible to win. There are sometimes formations or trickeration plays that you never want to expose . . . unless they are needed to win.

We're we going blow for blowfor the bucks year in and year or I would root for them because I want us both going into The Game undefeated. However, since we haven't been that fortunate lately I will take a loss for them whenever I can get it

I have OSU winning as my highest confidence pick in a pick'em for the win-win: I either get max points, or an OSU loss.

even if they were playing against a team of ISIS players being coached by Bill Cosby

I live in Oklahoma and hate, hate, hate the Sooner fans. However, I still want them to beat Ohio State because as much as I can't stand OU, I still hate them less than OSU. 

I'm pulling for OSU. I live in Texas and cannot stand OU and especially Baker Mayfield. I'd love to beat OSU in a game between two top 5 undefeated teams.

An OSU win raises the conference profile and the stakes of The Game.  OU is likely going to win the Big 12.  If we win the B1G without beating OSU, but OU beats them, I don't want that to be the deciding factor in slotting OU over us and knocking us out of the CFP picture.  So I guess I worry that short term glee over OSU losing Saturday night could end up hurting us in three months.

I don't root for them unless it directly -- and I mean directly -- helps Michigan.  Go Blue!!

against Miami for the national championship. ONLY because my moms best friend who was a Buckeye grad, and lifelong fan was on his deathbed just days before he lost his battle to cancer, and i sat next to him and watched the game. 

I did however let him know the interference call was complete bullshit and the championship wasnt really legit.

Om Saturday this is a Sooner fansite...can't believe you are even asking this question haha

I've got nothing against Oklahoma.  In fact I'd like to see them in the Big Ten to balance out east vs west.  So... No, I'll be rooting against OSU.

Hell no. I don't cheer for cheaters.

Never !



If they can feel pain from a loss, I want them to lose every game.



Suck it OSU! Go Sooners !!!

I will never want them to win under any circumstance. I can't stand them and can't even watch them. Last week I turned on their game because the Lions were in the second half of their meaningless preseason game. It was 14-13 when I turned it on and it caused some mild excitement. I noticed the game was in Indiana and foolishly thought, perhaps IU has a chance here. OSU proceeded to score 14 points in the next couple minutes and I turned it off immediately. I believe OU has zero chance to win this game. The Big12 is a crap conference in comparison to the B10 and OSU is on a different level than OU. I won't watch a second of it.

 I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Back before electricity, I wanted, I wished, I prayed that the Buckeyes  lose every single game. But  a wise Wolverine fan set me straight, and ever since I have seen the light.

You should want them to be undefeated every year coming into The Game. This has nothing whatsoever to do with "loyalty" to the B1G.  My only loyalty is to the Woverines.  I want them undefeated when we meet them in November, because it makes the win that much more impressive, and watching them dragging their sorry @sses back to Columbus in tears all the sweeter.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qILOCvvF-cA

Ever.

GO BLUE!!

Screw OSU.  Cheaters do prosper, which is unfortunate since they deserve a winning drought more than anyone outside of Baylor, Penn State, and probably ND.

Never in this lifetime, or any other.

no. Was this a serious question? I'd want the north korean soccer team to beat OSU.

Go back and watch the UM-OSU game from last year and tell me how you can give 2 shits about this conference after the officiating travesty that robbed the better team of a win last year.

Any conference that allows such a blatantly one-sided officiated game to take place, and then comes back months later and says.."nothing to see here, was all good"...can go to hell.  I don't give a shit about the B1G or any of its teams' successes outside of UM.

Just want the conference to be good enough that if when we win it, (even as a 1 loss team), we go to the playoff.  The rest of the teams and the conference as a whole can go to hell.

Our biggest challenge over the next 1 - 5 years is catching and surpassing OSU.  That is hard to do if they remain an extremely dominant team.  We need to start beating them, if not this year, then very soon, otherwise closing the gap will become even more difficult.  Any indication they are not as good as advertised is good news.  Simply put, an extremely dominant OSU is not good for us, recruiting or otherwise.

I'm not so emotional as to be stupid.

As long as there are 5 P5 conferences + Notre Dame, and only 4 CFP slots, I am rooting for all Big Ten teams out of conference.

We have to beat Ohio State anyway, might as well make it count for something.

 An OSU win helps our strength of schedule when we beat them, and it hurts the Big 12's SOS, expecially if OU is the champion or is the team the champion beats..

Double win.

We'll take care of Ohio State ourselves.

Fuck Ohio.

They hate us more than they like themselves so the answer is no and will always be no.

Fuck No!

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Hell no. Go Oklahoma. Put 60+ on them. 

So really it just comes down to "the enemy you know" vs. "the one you don't." If OSU were to play Alabama, ND or some place like that, I might not look unkindly upon them. Hell, I *will* pull for them against PSU this year, because what that program did--and how much of its fanbase continues to see themselves as the victims--is unforgivable. 

In this case, since I have no serious bad feelings toward Oklahoma, BOOMER SOONER. 

I've pulled for tOSU in bowl games. I really only root against them when they are playing another team I kind of like (Wisconsin, Oregon, N'W). Michigan's self-interest probably aligns with Ohio winning this game. 

No, never. I would rather root for an asteroid hitting the Earth than Ohio State.

No. Never. I don't pull for any team other than Michigan, and as far as I am concerned the rest of the BIG TEN can collectively get syphilis. I realize that makes me sound like an ignorant asshole, but I don't care. I have lived in Ohio as a Michigan fan my entire life. So I am entitled to be an indignant son of a bitch.

1) OSU did just fine recruiting and projecting power when Michigan entered its dark age.

2) The rest of the schools in conference were fine with kicking Michigan when Michigan was down.

3) The Game was fixed last year by the conference.

No! Next question!

Never. Under no circumstance.

where I would root for OSU to win.

While I firmly believe they will beat OU by at least 17 points, I will watching openly and loudly rooting for the Sooners.

I will be rooting for the Broncos and the Dawgs as well.

I NEVER root for OSU, MSU or ND to EVER win a football game.  I might hope for a meteor to hit the stadium or armageddon to take place if any two of these three play each other, but this bullshit about rooting for the conference in all OOC games is absolute HORSESHIT.  MSU, ND AND OSU can die in a fire every freakin' Saturday.

I can't be any more plain than that.

I root for Ohio to lose so their women and children may cry. 

I'm rooting for North Korea to attempt to drop one on Columbus but it gets shot out of the sky. Just enough to see all of Ohio collectively shit their pants.

Don't even watch.

I don't pull for MSU or OSU or ND...that's why they call it a rivalry.

Although this outcome is unlikely.

Oklahoma has been my Big 12 team since like 1970.

No next question

I hope that Ohio State loses in a heartbreaking fashion. I don't care how it happens, but I want it to be crushing.



PS- I realize this makes me sound like I need therapy. Perhaps a large Michigan win Saturday provides some relief.

Fuck no. But I have a hard time seeing them losing to OU at home.

Never, ever.

Fuck no. I'd rather have chlamydia.



Not really, but I'd consider taking a full force punch in the stomach from Mike Martin if it meant we beat those assholes this year.

I always support Big Ten Teams because a stronger conference builds the standing of Michigan. That even goes for Michigan State as well.

The one exception to that is, whether it makes sense or not, I don't like Ohio State winning at anything.

If Ohio State was the last thing remaining that could save the earth from an alien invasion, I would want them to lose to the aliens.

The only circumstance I can see myself supporting OSU would be if it directly led to a Michigan division title. Otherwise, no way.

It's tough. Realistically the B1G could get 2 teams in the playoff this year if both Michigan and Ohio State are undefeated going into that last game. OU plays in a soft conference, an early season loss really diminishes the Big XII's chances of getting a playoff team. Pac 12 has a high chance of not having a playoff team. For that reason, you'd like to pull for Ohio State. 

Of course losing on the recruiting trail and for the past decade does not feel good, and every loss for OSU helps to (hopefully) turn that around. 

So for that reason, most outcomes from this game have both pros and cons for UM - but I'd much rather have OSU win this game and then drop a couple of conference games. 

I went to Michigan for undergrad and I currently attend OSU for grad school. I hope Michigan beats an undefeated OSU team every year.

Sorry but people who want OSU to wi because it "raises the profile of the conference" are dumb

Did it matter when OSU lost to Tech in '14 and barely beat a 5-7 Hokr sqaud? No? Then shut up.

Honestly people who want MSU, ND or OSU to win i always look at side ways.

Sorry but people who want OSU to wi because it "raises the profile of the conference" are dumb

Did it matter when OSU lost to Tech in '14 and barely beat a 5-7 Hoke sqaud? No? Then shut up.

Honestly people who want MSU, ND or OSU to win i always look at side ways.

In a respectable conference a 1 loss team gets in the playoff. In the Big 12 a 1 loss team plays in the outback bowl. I personally love having 4 teams in the top 10 and I hope Michigan is the first team to beat all of the others.

the BuckNuts!

Hell NO.

I hope the Sooners kick their arses.

F U C K N O !

i will always root against OSU, happily, no matter the team. ND, Bama, USC, whoever. just want to see urban meyer get curb stomped as much as i can during my lifetime.

My stance on rivals:

OSU should only ever lose to us.

MSU should never score another point.

Only in Bowl games.

I go back and forth between...

A) Thoroughly enjoying the ridiculous fan reaction when they lose (aka fire the coach immediately despite the fact he's won us National Champtionships and has us in contention every single year wah wah wah wah!!!)

AND

B) The absolute joy that I would feel if they came into Ann Arbor undefeated with eveything on the line and got absolutely punched in the face by the Wolverines. (sadly some of us are old enough to remember when that was a thing that actually happened in real space and time.)