Right on cue, Furls checks in with the first part of a three column installment that will preview Monday nights BCS Championship Game between THE Ohio State Buckeyes and the Louisiana State Tigers. In Part I, Furls takes a look at the LSU offense and how he sees the Buckeye defense matching up with them. The Tigers are a strong running team and have several talented playmakers like Early Doucet (pictured), but Furls says to expect a much more aggressive defensive scheme than last year vs. Florida.

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It's been painful as a Buckeye fan, listening to the national media trash this team for the last six weeks.  In Gary's latest, he says that Buckeye fans have heard so much of it, they're starting to believe it, creating a palpable sense of dread in the air for Buckeyes fans secretly terrified of a repeat of last year.  Can Jim Tressel funnel this negativity, embrace the role of underdog, and translate it into a win Monday and a national title?  Gary opines ...

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Heading into next Monday national championship game, conventional wisdom is that Jim Tressel and the Buckeyes are going to try and give LSU a heavy dose of Beanie Wells, running behind that giant Ohio State defensive line.  LSU will be aided in their attempts to stop this attack by the return of a healthy Glenn Dorsey, the nations premier defensive tackle, and a guy many feel the Dolphins will take with the #1 overall pick in the draft.  In his latest, Furls takes a look at the OSU offense, the LSU defense, and also the game plan the Buckeyes will likely employ offensively.

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The early bowl game results are starting to spill in, and Furls says that the talking heads are at it already, beginning to correlate bowl records to conference strength as though the former speaks definitively about the latter.  In his latest column, Furls takes a deeper look at what has happened in the December bowl games, and makes a couple correlations of his own.

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