Dear TCU - Stop ruining our fun!

I am pretty sure that is what Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee meant when he told TCU fans that they didn't play a hard enough schedule and shouldn't be included in the hunt for the National Title.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the Ohio State president said, "Well, I don't know enough about the X's and O's of college football," said Gee, formerly the president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day. So I think until a university runs through that gantlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame."

I am trying to dissect which gauntlet he meant?

Ohio State played a brutal Non-Conference schedule of Marshall, Ohio and Eastern Michigan all at home. Of those three brutal games, only Ohio is above .500. Talk about a gauntlet.

To give Ohio State credit they did play Miami (FL) (then #12), but this game, again, was at home. Tough to call it a gauntlet when every game you get to choose, you choose to play at home.

In non-conference games TCU hosted then #24 Oregon State and bowl eligible Baylor. TCU also did take advantage of being a powerhouse by scheduling a home game against Tennessee Tech, but unlike Ohio State, TCU went on the road to face Southern Methodist (above .500).

So when we compare Non-Conference schedules, I think it clearly goes the way of the Horned Frogs.

According to Gee, he plays a "gauntlet schedule" so by that you'd assume they play ranked teams on a daily basis, right?

Not so fast my Friend!

Let's start again with Ohio State. They have played 3 ranked teams, one at home, Miami (FL) and two on the road, Wisconsin and Iowa. Of these 3 games the Buckeyes are 2-1, losing only to the Badgers.

TCU? Well unlike Ohio State, TCU has played a top 10 team, Utah, and the aforementioned Oregon State. While they have also beaten Baylor and Air Force, who both have been ranked during the year.

Ohio State? Not so much. The rest of their schedule consisted of Big Ten cupcakes, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota, Penn State and, obviously, the final game this weekend against Michigan.

So what does it come down to? Gee was terribly mistaken when he made his comments, he clearly has little to no understanding of college football, other than he realizes that the Power Six, well doesn't quite have the "Power" it use to (although it does have a helluva  lot of it).

So if you're TCU Athletic Director Chris Del Conte, what do you do?

"Anytime. Anyplace. Anywhere," Del Conte said. "Buckeyes against the Horned Frogs. Tee it up. Let's go."

Absolutely. Put your money where you just threw your mouth Ohio State. Put up or shut up.