Look at how each season played out.... aruing that Ohio was a better team last year is just silly. Im trying to be reasonable here but its funny that you all accuse herd fans of not being reasonable, yet try to argue that a team that lost their bowl game to ECU, which marshall pounded 59-28, is better than a Marshall team who went to maryland, and beat them in the military bowl convincingly.
Thank you to the few ohio posters who iare reasonable.
It's kind of weak to play the comparative score game when you have a head to head game, but you can play the comparative score game the other way, too. Note that Ohio also beat NTSU, who easy beat both Rice and MTSU, both of which beat Marshall.
What you don't take into account, goherd, is that last year's Ohio team was anything but consistent. They had talent, and they played well at times, while at other times, they did not. When to 2013 Bobcats were off, they were really off, but when they played well, they played very well. If you want to factor in consistency, then yes, Marshall was no doubt better, and their record shows that, but if you want to extrapolate that to the general statement that Marshall was "better", it doesn't necessarily follow.