SEC
Colin Cowherd: Ohio State would run through the SEC
Fox Sports radio broadcaster Colin Cowherd took aim at the SEC Monday.
SEC fans — and coaches — have been talking about Ohio State’s schedule that features just one ranked team this season, and many are tired of it. Even Paul Finebaum is tired of it.
On the heels of a lackluster weekend that featured Arkansas losing Toledo, Cowherd sounded off about the conference.
“The quarterback play inside the SEC, outside of Texas A&M, is hot garbage,” Cowherd said, while pointing out Ohio State has two NFL quarterbacks.
Cowherd added, “SEC fans who are ripping Ohio State, you’re quarterback play is embarrassing.”
Here are Cowherd’s comments about the SEC:
Lol
Well. Good thing they don’t have to, huh?
Collin is trying for some attention and impress his new employers. OSU has nothing but elaborate scrimmages in nice uniforms between now and November.
VT > Toldeo
Are they though?
Pretty sure
People, Ohio State’s schedule is what it is, but his statements are not ludicrous. Take a step back and look at the reality. QB play is mostly sub-par in the SEC, and the conference looked rather mediocre over the weekend. Ohio State has 3 quarterbacks that could arguably start at every SEC school. I’m an SEC fan, by the way.
Colin is a blow hard but I completely agree with him on this issue.
My team (Bama) is in a world of hurt if we don’t get some better QB play down the road continues to have problems with up tempo offenses. Its the way it will go… no more 9-6 LSU battles anymore. Really stinks as I like that play of football but Colin is right… the rules are geared to make money… IE SCORING..
Yes, we had a down weekend (i.e., 2 of our teams lost out of conference, one of them to a likely Big 12 champion). The previous weekend, the Big 10 went 6-6 out of conference, and the marquee program was trailing at half time before they broke VT’s QB. There are only two teams in the Big 10 with quarterbacks at all. So, um, let’s keep things in perspective maybe.
This would be an insult if it were coming from anyone other than Cowherd. What he doesn’t know about football, and a lot of other things, would fill up volumes. About the only time OSU could run through the SEC is if it were the Cross country team.
Nah Florida, A&M, & Arkansas have top track and field teams lol.
Well, Alabama has already played as many ranked Big 10 teams than OSU will all season.
I really don’t care what Colon (my spelling) thinks, anyway. Where did this guy get a name like that anyway? Cowherd? LOL Sounds like he’s used to walking in bull droppings.
How many ranked teams are on Ohio State’s schedule?
Do u really put any value on early season rankings?
Ohio State has a great team. You can only play one QB at a time. That being said, Ohio State and Michigan State are both very capable of beating any SEC team. The question is can they beat one after another after another, week in and week out? You can get up and focus on a great opponent much easier if you have “easy” games to allow you to rest and recuperate players. Let’s face it, this guy isn’t the brightest bulb in the box.
There is 4 weeks between your last game and the bowl game. Smh
Let me start by saying I agree that Ohio State would be favored in every game in the SEC West with the possible exception of a road game at Alabama which would likely be a pick’em.
With that said…your chances of running the table in a league that lacks a depth of talent are far greater than in a league that has the best talent. The real question isn’t if Ohio State plays the way they are capable of would they win…obviously they are head and shoulders better than anyone in the nation.
The question is could you survive when your team is having a bad day…which every team has. Ohio State has a bad day and who in the Big 10 would beat them?
Indiana…no
Maryland…no
Penn State…no
Rutgers…no
Minnesota…no
Illinois…no
Michigan State…YES.
Now lets roll through the SEC West:
Alabama…Yes
Mississippi…Yes
Texas A&M…Yes
LSU…Yes
Auburn…Yes
Mississippi State…Maybe
Arkansas…Maybe
In my opinion the argument isn’t would OSU do well in the SEC…of course they would. Ohio State has the second best recruiting track record from 2012 to present (by depth of 4 and 5 star talent) in the entire country…second only to Alabama. The real difference is the average SEC school finished ranked just under 19th nationally in recruiting during that time…and the average Big10 school finished just over 41st.
Agreed. Ole Miss is a prime example of the grueling SEC gauntlet. Looked amazing early on, but the turning point was LSU. LSU just ran at us, body blow after body blow that took us down and we just never recovered. OSU may win the SEC, they may finish 3rd or 4th..but to say they would “run through us,” is just wrong. Cowherd knows this, but statements like this is what grabs headlines and recognition.
Very well stated. If OSU played a good team this past weekend I would have bitten all my nails off. I don’t go by early season rankings. Nothing to base it on and is a popularity contest. All you have to do is actually watch the games to know if a team is quality or not.
Whatever Cowturd.
Please send this guy back to the nobody cares show. i mean how many times did he have to bend over to her this position. Guy knows nothing. uses a baseball ratio term as a bowl game win ratio. go sit on another D douche. we will see everything come clear in november.
They would realize quickly that “running through” and SEC schedule is not a given even with the sub par QBs so far, week after week after week after week of lining up against SEC teams will take its toll. Every team has a down day or three, if you hit anyone on an off week and they are up that week you lose, plain and simple. Check out the results over the years and you will see inexplicable loses sprinkled into the final won/loss standings.
There are 5 SEC teams that Ohio State would beat almost any time they playd them. The others, not likely. If Ohio State had to play Auburn’s Alabama’s LSU’s scheduel would they come out with less than 2 losses? I doubt it. QB play is nice, but let’s be serious for a moment shall we, that’s 1 position of 22 on a field. If Ohio State really thinks they could do that how bout the scheduel a few Home and Home’s against the top SEC schools, YEA I thought so!
OSU scheduled home and home with Georgia but had to back out cause it conflicted with their pac12 contractual obligations for those dates. Other than say Georgia and LSU I do t know of any top programs that do it. Bama is too concentrated on teams like charleston southern
If Chad Kelly’s play thus far is ‘Hot Garbage’, then please sign me up for more of the stuff. I’m ’embarrassed as hell’ of his ‘terrible’ play thus far. When you throw 40 yard frozen ropes to your receivers, you can’t discount that because of the opposing teams lack of talent.
OSU could likely compete in the SEC, and to be fair to them it isn’t their fault that the rest of their conference is pretty lame and won’t give them a true test until MSU, but OSU in the SEC would face other OSU level talents most Saturdays and I don’t see them ‘flying through’ the competition when it is on par with their own.
Cowherd is finally out from underneath the ESPiN corporately driven SEC spin. Truth!!!
What’s the latest evidence? Wisconsin got beat by Alabama and the 2014 bowl against the SEC, Minnesota got beat by Missouri, Iowa got creamed by Tennessee. Since bowl season 2014 began only Ohio State managed to squeak out a big10 win against the SEC. And there are no prospects of the Big 10 winning anymore games against the SEC in the future. No wonder you want to talk now you are safe until bowl season where the Big 10 will have to prove your theory has something behind it.
One game head to head versus an SEC team he’s absolutely right. Ohio state matches up against any SEC school. The point is we’re talking about a schedule not a single game. It’s not just being better than another team. It’s running a marathon threw a extremely competitive conference. I’ll use my school for an example( UGA ). We play Bama Tenn and Missouri in consecutive weeks. That’s going threw a dog fight then having to fight again before your wounds have even healed. It’s losing players to injuries because of the week in and week out tough games. OSU has the luxury of playing second and third string in most games and resting starts for the one or two tough games they play. It’s a cupcake schedule and everyone knows it
As an Ohio State fan, this is just hyperbole that I don’t agree with from Colin. OSU would play on par with whomever the top 2 or 3 SEC teams are any given year but not necessarily any better especially on a consistent basis.
Also, I know from the outside you look at teams like Indiana, Minn, Penn State, N. Western & Michigan in a vacuum and think they’re currently garbage and, against some others, they play that way. However these teams play OSU like it’s their Super Bowl and it’s a rougher weekly battle then you think just by looking at a team name and subjective ranking next to it on paper.
OSU doesn’t have back ups in during these games. These are decided late-especially last year. They’re bitter rivals-especially MI & Penn State . They know OSU well and since we’re currently the big dogs in the B1G these are all out battles. (Penn State took us to 2OT last year. Tevin Coleman from IN ran for over 230+ on OSU, Mich was decided very late last year, Northwestern battled until late two years ago).
These aren’t “glorified scrimmages”. OSU’s starters are on the field the whole game with just as much risk of major injury as anyone else.
Oh Colin, the Crimson Tide’s defense will rip your beloved Ohio State to pieces this year and Henry will run all over their defense just wait and see.
He would have last year if Kiffin had the sense to keep giving him the ball, but Simm’s fizzling game had Lane flustered. And I don’t think Elliot would have quite the career game he had last year.
Nice of you to match Colin’s exaggeration with some exaggeration of your own.
“Rip to pieces”?…how many of Alabama’s Linebackers and Safety’s will Cardale Jones run over this time around?
Henry’s a big time load but without Amari Cooper, hopefully OSU can focus on him a bit more.
The Herd just ain’t worth listening to, anymore.
Cowturd watches Oh.St. play one patsy after another then states they would take that pounding the SEC would give them week after week, and they would run threw it. Colin is the biggest no it all, I have ever heard~!
HAHAHAHA, good thing he doesn’t have to:) The world is a playground when you are young and stupid:)
These arrogant idiots do good one year and they ar Gods in their own minds:)
Urban knows what’s up, that’s why he really bailed on Florida. Meyer doesn’t have the guts to put and SEC team regualrly in the top 3rd SEC standings annually. He probably would try some Stoops (OU) ish and play like a Tenn. or Kentucky (somebody who hasn’t had a solid team in a while) and say look we beat an SEC school.
They sure as hell would.. They’d run thru every door that is open hoping it leads to the SEC Commissioner and beg for him to allow them to run back to the B1G Conference. On the strength of, “We signed up for a few tough games, but not this crap every week! Thanks for inviting us.
And the reason why Ohio St fair well is because now they would have to go and recruit in Alabama, in Louisiana, in Tennessee..How many kids u know from the south go up north to play and compete for a National Championship?? Some but not many..
Proof shows the SEC has more northern kids on their rosters than B1G has southern kids on theirs..I wonder why????
He just said Kyle Allen is the only decent QB in the SEC. LMAO twice.