No, it's not their fault. But, IMO, they play in one of the worst conferences, top to bottom. Generally, it's OSU and Michigan and the Nine Dwarfs. None of their other conference competition readies them for the big games. They don't help themselves by the non-conference games that they do have control over but then a lot of the high profile teams schedule pretty soft outside of conference. The difference is that a team like LSU can schedule soft non-conference teams because they know they will be extremely tested in conference games. OSU has team speed. But it's not at the overall level of the teams like LSU and Florida. It's just a notch below. There will be isolated positions that they are closer to matching up with them on occassion but overall, it's not the same.
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