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Week 1 was a great way to start the season for Ohio State.
The Buckeyes got to play another Power 5 foe in Oregon State and looked at not just the starters, but the younger backups and what they could do. All of this, again, was against a Pac-12 school. We’ve all heard of Oregon State.
For the Beavers, Week 1 was somewhat of a disaster. The 77-31 final score sums it up. Oregon State, however, did take away $1.7 million for going to Columbus and getting beaten by 46 points.
On Tuesday, Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes had this to say on a Portland radio show after what was pretty much an embarrassment to the program:
“We won’t do it this way. This game was scheduled several years ago… it was a one-off, payday against a perennial top-five team. That’s not our philosophy. Our philosophy is that we’ll play the middle of the Big Ten, the middle of the Big 12, we’ll play a group of five team and a FCS team… building momentum means everything right now.”
Barnes doesn’t think Oregon State got anything from its beat-down to open the season. And maybe, Barnes is right. What good does it do — outside of money — to go play a powerhouse program and get blown out?
To have a chance at upsetting an Indiana, Purdue or Kansas State, for example, may make more sense.
At least that’s how Barnes is seeing it.
Kevin covers Big Ten football for Saturday Tradition.