Ohio State: Can Buckeyes be stopped & Will Oklahoma succeed in the SEC? | Joel Klatt Show

I want to move more specifically into this game uh or excuse me this season this FSU loss early in the year kind of brings up this this idea and you touched on it that hey all is not lost for Florida State how do you think that's going to impact specifically the SEC which looks like it's going to be a nightmare for teams like Oklahoma and Georgia even though Georgia I think you and I both agree like as talented as anybody in the country is there anybody that can actually go through through that schedule undefeated no no I've got them I mean power rating wise I think they're the best in the country to start the season I think they're going to lose two games I don't even have them in Atlanta I don't even have them playing for the conference title game so that's just a matter of scheduling when you I mean when you're looking at any kind of odds board or rankings or ratings or what have you and you're going to what they go to Bama they go to Texas they go to Old Miss they play five of my they play six of my top 21 teams five of them away from Athens the totality of that's going to catch up to you sabin's best teams rarely went undefeated uh Kirby's Kirby's lived in the SEC East for a while and now they venture out into a little more shark-infested water they may be the biggest shark there man but that doesn't mean you can't get a bite taken out of you so I say all that to say you know one of the other chaos scenarios this year is what if there is legit cannibalization in the SEC and or and or what if these teams just aren't Elite what if they're just really good what if Georgia what parody over the last couple of years is actually what's going on and the elite teams aren't you know tangibly way better than everybody else that's interesting what if we just tune in Saturday it's like a noon kickoff eastern time I think what if Clemson is is up 2320 on Georgia fourth quarter no one expects that they're a two touchdown favorite what if what if like we just said what if Texas goes to Michigan they can't move the ball in week two and it's 13- 12 in the middle of not out of the question by the way with that defense not at all question and so um Bama goes to Wisconsin what if they're clunky up there early on and all of a sudden everyone's just losing two games and so then let me interrupt you who's the beneficiary of that that conference specifically Missouri Missouri and old miss those are the two beneficiaries uh there is such imbalance in that SEC schedule this year that you you could have Missouri not so much old miss you could have Missouri you know from a Vegas standpoint be power rated as the fifth best team in that conference and go playing at and in a one game situation have a chance to win the thing it's it's really crazy when you look at what the schedule makers dealt Florida versus what they dealt Missouri it's not even the same sport much less the same conference no and I would I would Point more towards Oklahoma because I think Oklahoma is just more of a legitimate Contender than Florida I I know that Florida's schedule is brutal I just I don't think any of us believe that like oh Florida could make a run if it weren't for that schedule they're not there yet um in terms of roster but OU is venables is in his third year they've got a quarterback that they believed in enough to allow Dylan to walk and now he's you know in some cases the odds on favorite to win the Heisman Trophy as a starting quarterback for Oregon uh they've got a defense that that is largely Back Billy Bowman Danny stutzman and yet they've got these six games I don't even so I did this whole thing that I don't even include the Auburn game which is a Fool's errand on my part I understand that but they've got these six games in their schedule that are brutally tough you know obviously Texas uh they've got Tennessee they've got LSU they've got all these games and in my mind I was like you know if they just split them and they go you know nine and three they could probably go to the playoff but in reality when you start filling out the bracket and you realize Notre Dame's got an easy schedule and you realize the group of five get in you realize the ACC gets in you realize the Big 12 gets in all of a sudden guess who gets boxed out a 9 and3 Oklahoma team because they lost three times with a brutal schedule hey that two game stret they got Tennessee in there week four hyp going back to Norman for the first time as a head coach and then they go to Auburn the very next week that is a real quick onew across the jaw of just kind of life in the SEC they may be smack dab in the middle of it or out of it already by the end of that two- game stretch but you know you just mentioned something I don't want to totally overlook this it may be nothing but the two favorites right now in the Big 10 according to most people at least would be some combination of Ohio State and Oregon yeah they each have quarterbacks that kind of got chosen over I mean Kansas State thinks they got the better of that proposition between Avery and will Howard and then you just mentioned Dylan Gabriel he he moves on because they got Jackson Arnold there and how crazy is it that at the top of the leaderboard two viable National Title contenders mind you in Ohio State and Oregon are being led by quarterbacks that that kind of were the second option in the other places just something to file away from down the road Road I I I find it so fascinating you know the OU Oregon one with Dylan Gabriel and Jackson Arnold I do believe it was it was a case of styles and fit like Dylan fits what Oregon and will Stein their offensive coordinator wants to do more Jackson Arnold fits what Oklahoma is built to do you know with all those guys andrel Anthony and and for you all those guys on the outside they need to be a down thefield passing team but that was not what Dylan Gabriel was going to do and so when I did their game last year even the game at Cincinnati they won the game and I was just like this just it doesn't feel like a fit I love what Dylan is doing I love what the wide receivers are doing but when you try to mesh them together it's like nah I don't know that's why I think Jackson Arnold is going to be a better fit for Oklahoma while Dylan Gabriel could probably excel at a really high level at Oregon and maybe the same can be said about will Howard and and Kansas State moving to Ohio State but this this whole thing with Ohio state is I don't even think they need let me choose my word carefully here they do not need great quarterback play this year with the with their roster with Chip Kelly with that run game so he's going up there and the value that he brings is not his style it's his experience and the fact that he's got that experience I think is is going to pay dividends for them move to the Big 10 what you and I both are backers of Ohio State I think it's pretty crazy not to be to be honest with you with that roster they're vet they're experienced they're talented they remind me of what Michigan was a year ago MH yeah which is a compliment to them that they only uh shed because of the logo that you just mentioned in the sentence that is um that is about as as versatile a team in terms of style they could choose to win with I think as any team in the country also I think if we go back to like the mid-20 teenss when sabbin had his vintage defense is talent-wise there'd be a week where they'd ston someone there'd be a week where someone caught them and hung 31 on them uh the point is they won different ways throughout the year so that's that's the roster that Ryan Day Has there right now and so it wouldn't surprise me um you know I'm excited to see their secondary against Dylan Gabriel by the way when they go up to Eugene like that's one of the individual matchups of the year I just nothing t on the outside and yeah yeah yeah nothing more needs to be said about that but I also think um like Ohio State I think a lot of folks got caught up on the portal stuff and the first words out of anyone's mouth Once you walk in the building is yeah it's great the Portal's great it's great we got Caleb DS maybe the best football player in the building but the ones that came back just like the story was with Michigan the year before the ones that came back in Michigan's Case by the way you know this I don't think a lot of people do guys who turned down big offers to go elsewhere and came back Ohio State maybe not so much turning down the big offers because you can make a lot of money at Ohio State but choosing to come back and a roundabout way you talking about 20 minutes ago about what nil has done Carson Becks back at Georgia because nil allowed him to be back at Georgia this year this Ohio State Defense a lot of them are back instead of playing on Sunday or in training camp somewhere because nil allowed them to be I was did you see that thing Jim naggie put out uh the couple of months ago now where he was talking about what the standard list how deep in standard years they pre-draft board would look like before a season and how much deeper it was right now and how it was so glaring that there were a lot more guys that used to be headed off to Sunday that are still around the sport this year because On The Fringe of first second third round nil has kept them here Ohio State I think is the biggest beneficiary of that someone could go win a conference because a couple of guys hung around this year yeah I listen there's no doubt Oregon by the way I think is going to be a a great team um I I leave in Oregon I know you do as well I do and and we joked on on social media you know no one no one on Game Day picked Ohio State to win it and I'm like you know what that's fine because there are great teams and and you and I both know that but then you said nobody believes and you accept me Ohio State and I'm like I read that and I was like um shame on them shame hey look look there's room there's room for both of us in the front seat I'm just saying how great is it that you can latch yourself on to the most talented roster in college football and it's like they're The Underdogs it's like this little Caboose with a flat wheel on it someone's got to take them we'll take them that's fine go Bucks I'm like it's like it's like you're picking in the schoolyard and and all of a sudden people you know that passed over for like three or four picks and you're like wa I'm sorry sorry that kid hasn't been picked yet he yeah I'll take it I don't care what rash he has that'll clear up my playoff time if you know what I mean like I'm in um so I I thought that that was I thought that was pretty funny what are the teams that you think could take advantage of the scheduling imbalance in the Big 10 uh Penn State weird answer I know because they don't play a soft schedule Penn State's last four games are probably against non-ranked opponents the way I see them is you got them in week one so you're doing the Penn State West Virginia game it seems to me like the quintessential we got got two new coordinators we're trying out a new offensive coordinator we haven't given up on this quarterback at all nor should you still got a ton of talent um we're we're mixing and matching at wide receiver it seems like the kind of team that takes a little while to get itself up to offensive speed now in years past Penn State's just kind of been what they are offensively they can they can put up Mirage numbers against inferior opponents big boys shut him down Ohio State Michigan shut him down this year I think they probably have a little bit higher ceiling in terms of offensive potential there's no excuse why both those ta backs shouldn't be thousand yard caliber tailbacks um I I think the C Nikki Drew Aller marriage probably makes a lot more sense than the guy they had their last year so My point there is go win like SMU somehow got by Nevada doesn't matter they want go beat West Virginia by any means necessary buy yourself some time to get that offense up to speed if it gets up to speed I don't care if they beat Ohio State or they don't beat Ohio state that home should be a competitive game they've got four games at the end of the year that they can just flex and flex and flex and flex in if they've hit their offensive stride and it's a higher stride therefore they're earning benefit of the doubt in the committee's mind and they're an 11 in1 or a 10-2 non-conference champ forget if they go to the conference title game and win it that's a whole different conversation I think their schedule sets up well for them because it's not backloaded yeah I agree I you know in some ways them and Old Miss are kind of mirrors to me you know you could put them at third fourth right now if you're looking at their conference uh and and then you you think to yourself yeah but with the schedule that they have compared to what the other teams have they should be I mean Penn State candidly really should go to the Big 10 championship game it's the top two seeds they don't have the division um no team was left out of the four team playoff more often than Penn State who would have been in a 12 team playoff of the last eight years they would have made six playoffs I don't know what that would have done to perception for James Franklin and and everybody at Penn State here's another one though I want to throw out another one and this is one that I'm kind of like I know I know I get it and maybe I'm not supposed to as an old Colorado guy but Josh Nebraska really should be playing some games in November that have actual legitimate implications for the playoff if you look at their schedule they've got Colorado at home if they can beat them they likely would be an undefeated team facing Ohio State and then even if they lose to Ohio state with one loss they're sitting in that same boat we're talking about Penn State that you're playing really meaningful games in November that's the one where we've we've sat here in years past and looked at a workable schedule for Nebraska and then you hit get reality just hit you in the face same thing this year I just believe in them a lot more this year the whole Matt rule Year too principal is in play by the way and it's he did it he's done it proven I mean general rule of thumb if you do it at Temple and Baylor you can probably do it in Lincoln Nebraska so um how about how about that whole flip of Dylan riola from Georgia to Nebraska and what was funny about that you would have loved to hear this reverberating through the South people in the South were up in arms because money was the deciding factor in that recruitment I don't know if you're aware I don't know if you're aware but you know scoundrel I think was a word heard thrown around in regard to Matt Ruland Nebraska well he's going to be a true freshman he's going to start for them it it reeks of the kind of thing where if you do nothing more than flip your fortune in one possession games you you go from a seven and five caliber team to 10 to 111 if they're 11 and one they're in like well they may be in the conference title game but even if they're not yeah especially if there's chaos elsewhere you tell me a Committee Member doesn't get romantic about the possibility of putting Nebraska in the playoff these are human beings absolutely they would 100% 100% thank you for watching the Joel Clash Show YouTube channel and if you like this clip make sure to like it and subscribe to the channel and you can stay up to dat on all of my college football coverage