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When Ohio State didn't show up against Florida in the National Championship game a few years back, experts and pundits everywhere lambasted the Big Ten's lack of speed. Apparently they thought that all 11 Big Ten schools only recruited big, slow, Midwestern farm boys so they could have an offense that runs up the middle and gains 3 yards at a time (and I say that only half jokingly as that appears to be what many people actually believed, and what Mark May still believes. Wow Mark May, classy). Even after all the big games flops in the past 3-4 years, I never felt Ohio State lost because of lack of speed. It felt that was a completely unintelligent analysis of what was occurring on the football field. After listening to Desmond Howard and Mark May emphatically pick Miami to win yesterday, with both citing Miami's speed as a problem for the oh-so-slow Buckeyes, I can't help but do my part to address and correct the common misconception that Ohio State, and the rest of the Big Ten, is simply too slow to compete with the SEC and other big name schools from the south.
