Logically what will happen.

LSU is scoring 38.7 points per game.

LSU is giving up 13.6 points per game.

OSU is scoring 32 points per game.

OSU is giving up 10.6 points per game.

So logically the score would be....

LSU-24

OSU-23

I could care less who wins this game I just hope that the score is similar to the one I posted because that would be a great game.

Nice post.

If you factor in some of the intangibles:

Penalties, advantage - OSU
Turnovers, advantage - push, too hard to call
Home crowd, advantage - LSU
Pressure of NOT winning last years NC/being 0-8 vs. SEC, advantage - LSU
Pressure of being favored/expected to win in front of the home crowd, advantage - OSU
Game officiating - push/hopefully a non factor

All this and I still don't have a clue who should win lol!

What do you think?

OSU is pretty good on the road so im not sold that LSU has a big advantage when it comes to then having basically a home game.

If Tressel blows this game then he might as well just never return to the Buckeye State.

Don't forget how well OSU fans travel. It's not like this is a regular season game. It's for the whole ball of wax, and OSU fans will be all over down there. In 2002, the game was in Arizona, and they estimated that over 80% of the stadium was dressed in scarlet and gray.

Colt 45

If you have ever traveled to New Orleans you would have never made that statement.  i am an Alabama fan and hate LSU but, there fans, there town, there state.  OSU fans have no chance to factor in this game.  The cajuns could be the loudest most annoying fans on the planet.  80% is close to what lsu will have there.

skibum25

Then perhaps you can tell me why OSU paraphanilia has outsold LSU's? (In New Orleans no less.) Sure, SEC teams have great fans with a lot of passion about their teams. But up here we call that... Northwestern. OSU has to play in the loudest, most intimidating stadiums on Earth every year. The paltry amount of people in the Superdome won't be an obstacle for this team. The only way the crowd has an affect on OSU is if the pay to much attention to the shocked look on the LSU fan's faces we they see all that Scarlet and Gray in the arena.

I'm sorry, but both of these teams play in loud stadiums every year. I don't get how people make that out to be such a big deal, they both are used to these enviroments and I don't see how it would affect either team in any way. The crowd is almost as dumb a myth as the Big Ten's "lack of speed."

Ohio st fan 10

If you read what was posted I was commentting on the previous post in which ohio had 80% attendance at some Arizona game in the Desert.  Unless your entire state travels to new orleans it will not be possible for that to happen.  LSU is the only major college team in La.  so in turn THE WHOLE STATE is LSU FANS.  Not literally just the vast majority.  Giving the fact it is at the superdome in which Saints/LSU fans own the boxes. There is no way the buckeyes have a chance to have more fans in the game.  Never did i say anything about the atmosphere you play in.  And your answer the WHOLE state already has the LSU merchandise why would they go buy more.  Do you go and buy a buckeye t-shirt for every single home game. 

Is it a myth when proven Go Gators!

Buffalo Bills of Cf, huh??? you must have short term memory or something....is it hard for you to remember 2002 when the Buckeyes went to the desert and beat Miami for the title????  A Miami team that most experts at the time were saying was the best college football team ever assmebled???

OSU will be back in title game again this year, and I can't wait till they beat the Trojans in the Colisium...it's going to be a great day!