Obviously a different story in 1st H vs 2nd H of tonight's game. When evaluating the game and where the teams stand, remember that Ark's strength was in the passing game. OSU's defensive weakness was in the secondary PRIOR to the game. Mallett was expected to be able to take advantage of this. Dropped passes clearly impacted the result, BUT remember that OSU lost several key defensive players, especially in the secondary.
Against Mallett and the Ark offense, OSU still looked dominant, despite being weak in the secondary and facing multiple injuries. While they needed some luck to pull out the victory, OSU did look as good as any team in the country in the 1st H tonight.
As did Stanford last night in the 2nd H. As did TCU and Okla at points in their games.
Would be amazing to see a semi and final round after these BCS games wouldn't it??