I watched the Buckeyes today and saw a team with more talent than the Bengals

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(10-26-2019, 07:02 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: You can't really compare college football with the pros.  The very best college teams often have a small number of players that are good enough to even make it to the pros and out of those even fewer that are good enough to be NFL starters.  At the same time they are often playing against teams that have even fewer if any players that are good enough to play pro football.   So they may play lights out but you have to consider the competition and the average level of skill.

Most starting college football players on every team, even the very best  teams, will never put on an NFL uniform.  If you matched the best college team against the worst NFL team the college team would get blown out.

I don't know....

Normally I would probably agree with you, but Ohio State over the last 4 years has had 35 players drafted. 12 of them were drafted in the 1st round, another 14 were drafted in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.

Think about how crazy that is. If you took the last four years of Ohio State drafted players, you could make a team consisting of 

QB: Dwayne Haskins
WR: Michael Thomas
WR: Curtis Samuel
WR: Terry McLaurin
RB: Ezekiel Elliott
TE: Nick Vannett
LT: Taylor Decker
LG: Billy Price
C: Pat Elflein
RG: Michael Jordan
RT: Jamarco Jones

DE: Joey Bosa
DT: Adolphus Washington
DE: Nick Bosa
OLB: Sam Hubbard
ILB: Jerome Baker
ILB: Raekwon McMillan
OLB: Darron Lee
CB: Marshon Lattimore
CB: Eli Apple
(Nickle CB: Gareon Conley)
S: Vonn Bell
S: Malik Hooker


...and this year is considered the most talented Ohio State team. There's a couple weak spots in that roster, sure, but you'd have 5 Pro Bowlers, including arguably the best WR and one of the top 3 RBs in the league with a pretty darn good secondary and pass rush. Also all those players were drafted in the NFL, and only 2 of them were drafted later than the 4th round.