The Sooners And the Buckeyes: Two Peas From the Same Pod

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No two college teams mirror each other more than the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Oklahoma Sooners.

Both used to be football powers. The operative word is used.

Jim Tressel has coached Ohio State for eight years.  Bob Stoops has coached the Oklahoma Sooners for ten years.

Jim Tressel's Buckeyes won the National Championship in his second year at Ohio State.  Bob Stoops' Sooners won the National Championship in his second year at Oklahoma.

Both football programs have become worse since winning their National Championships.

Jim Tressel has won four bowl games and lost four at Ohio State.  Bob Stoops has won four bowl games and lost six at Oklahoma.

The Sooners and Buckeyes have lost their last three bowl games.

Tressel and Stoops are the only two coaches ever to lose two consecutive BCS Title Games.

The Ohio State Buckeyes and Oklahoma Sooners are the only two football programs to lose two consecutive BCS Title Games.  

Neither team were much of a factor in the two BCS Title Games they lost. 

Ohio State and Oklahoma continue to be listed near the top of the Coaches Poll in preseason rankings.  

Insanity has been described as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The coaches are not alone in the aforementioned insanity. Major sports magazines continue to rank both teams with blind obedience to their hopes and desires.

Apparently, facts, history and reality will never get between the experts and their personal desires. 

Is it insanity or love?  

Could there be something that would cause the people who keep placing teams in the National Championship Game to use facts, instead of fantasy? Is it possible that the voters don't take their responsibility to place the two best teams in the country in the BCS Championship Game? 

Doesn't the BCS claim the above to be their primary role?—They talk the talk, but sure don't walk the walk.

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