What good does complaining about the loss do for us?  We lost.  On to next week.  As others have said here, our ability to have some perspective shows that we actually have a mature, intelligent fanbase that is unlike anything in the big school conferences, not a lack of passion.  THAT IS A GREAT THING.  These are the people who will pack their butts into Peden, rain or shine Thursday.  I'm one of them, and I'll be in the ozone in a Stetson cowboy hat cheering on the Bobcats as if we'd never lost a game in our lives.

The loss to Miami has actually gotten my jacked for Thursday even more because now our backs are to the walls.  Now is the time where we all show up and support OUr boys as well as we EVER have.  Go Ohio!

I find it ironic that an Alum that lives as close to Athens as Oxford and was attending his first game in three decades, uses the word unacceptable to describe anything that has to do with Ohio's program. 

Clarification - It was not my first game in 3 decades - I have attended MANY - Season tics for last 4 years - and this year attending Every Game except UMass. The rest of the group w/me I enthusiastically recruited to attend, bought all their tickets - most family members, and a few friends, 4 of whom were alums or attended Ohio, others w/sons or daughters there now, who had indeed Not been to an Ohio FBall game Home or Away for 30+ years. This was their first taste in 30+ years. I bet the first taste in decades for many others there also Saturday because of the ranking, hype. Lotta air was let outta a lot of green & white balloons Saturday. Sure their were a lot of "Rufus's come lately's" - jumpers on the bandwagon. Now hope they don't just leave/jump off - lose interest and then takes a whole 'nuther year to get them back on board. That was one of the main dissapointments to me - Especially that it was at friggin' Fiami!

This is exceptionally well said. Fans of many teams take it personally when their team lose, and are openly critical of players and coaches, when there is no way they personally could have done better in either position. The team played hard. They fought to the end. They were in position to win it. The other team made a play at the end, and Ohio didn't. On the other hand, more often than not Ohio has made the play at the end, but it isn't going to happen 100% of the time. You can't ask for more than this.

The fact is that the odds of an undefeated season were about 10%, and the odds caught up with them. Sometimes you are going to lose. When you do, if they team played hard, you give them credit for that, and you give the opponent credit for their part in the loss, and you move on. I am impressed that a significant portion of the fan base is ready to do exactly that. The players need to do the same thing, and I think they will. An 11-1 or 10-2 season still remains the as the two most likely outcomes, either of which will be a good season. 

Buffalo is favored against Miami this Saturday. I think it's highly likely they'll lose one more. The tougher task is for Ohio to win out.

Same can be said the other way around.
"What good does celebrating a win do for us? We won."

While losing Saturday was not the end of the world, it was the end of any chance of BCS possibility. It doesn't matter what might be another very good team on paper in '13, there are no guarantees that they will be back in this position.

Big things can still be accomplished this year, but having one slip away because of a mental error like not knowing how many timeouts remained is a tough one to swallow.

That new website is very handy. Their projections are not much different than mine. I have done projections for years, and it seems that I can save the effort, because their numbers are virtually identical:

1. My computer projects Kent with 7.1 conference wins, BG with 6, Ohio with 5.2, and Miami with 4.4. They show 6.8, 5.9, 5.2, and 4.3.

2. Another place we agree is that, even though Miami "controls their own destiny", they have little chance of making that happen, as they will be the underdog in all four of their remaining games. If they lose even one of those games, Ohio again controls their destiny. Using their odds, Miami has a 1.02% chance of winning all games. My computer says there is a 1.2% chance Miami wins out. Either way, there is about a 99% chance that the loss to Miami is irrelevant to the conference championship.

3. Finally, we agree that Ohio has a tough road ahead. They show Ohio with a 6.8% chance of winning out. My computer says 6% chance. Again, it's pretty much the same.

What neither computer accounts for is the intangibles. Will Miami find new confidence, enabling it to win out? Will Ohio, with the eyepatch gone stop playing not to lose, and play with abandon, and return to early season form? We'll have to wait and see.

Oh, and in terms of bowl eligibility, six MAC teams are already eligible, and 3 others have a reasonable chance of becoming eligible. My projections for final number of wins are:
NIU 10.8
Kent 10.1
Toledo 9.9
Ohio 9.2
Bowling Green 8
Ball State 7.7
CMU 5.4 (must go 3-1, they project 46.4% chance of bowl eligibility)
Miami 5.4 (must go 2-2, they project 41.4% chance of bowl eligibility)
WMU 5.4 (must go 3-0, they project 28.4% chance of bowl eligibility)

I have used this site for several years - I like it a lot!

I asked for someone to post an "RS Bobcat banned From Oxford" before any new Miami travel game thread. I just keep thinking the bad luck will change.

Here's a true story - few years back I was in Cincinnati for the day, then when day done and began to drive back to Columbus, remembered we had Basketball game at Oxford. I though about going, then thought about my bad luck streak, then decided to just listen to the game on the Miami radio network instead. So then mid way through the second half, as I was nearing being out of the radio network signal range, I pulled over at a roadside rest area, and listened until the game was over - and we won! That was the big game that Jerome Tillman had there. 

Oh and I'll take responsibility for posting (just as a gentle reminder) in 2014...  

Someone else will have to monitor for the basketball season...I'm not dialed in enough to take that kind of responsibility on...I'm working on it though!

I understand what you're saying, but I still don't agree.

I was always under the impression that you build on a win and grow from a loss.  After a win, you use the momentum to carry you into the next week.  After a loss, you look at the film and see what mistakes you made, correct them, and go business as usual next week.  Dwelling on a loss is a double edged sword; you either come out fired up, or your confidence takes a hit.

You're right on all accounts.  But whether you win by 1 or 30, you'll take it either way.

      Has anyone considered/researched the potential $$ lossed by not making a BCS bowl? Several million?