I haven't followed LSU all that closely so this is an honest question, not just being argumentative: How would you rate LSU's receivers compared to tOSU's?
I have a similar restriction in the quality of my evaluation here...I've only caught a few Buckeye games this year, so take this with a grain of salt and it's likely worth what you paid for it.
I'm primarily rating them against previous lsu WR corps and within our conference this year. I haven't been able to watch enough national games to make a direct comparison with confidence. My comment is mainly based on past knowledge and how our unit would generally stack up in the bigger landscape on average.
Ohio State's guys seem easier to evaluate when I watch them. Simply, Stroud is a far better qb than our guy. It hasn't been the easiest job evaluating this crew with a qb who goes through long stretches of holding the ball too long and who needs to see them busted-coverage-level open before he'll throw the ball.
That said, I imagine Boutte was also on the pre-season Biletnikoff short list due to last year before he got injured, leading the conference with Max freaking Johnson throwing to him. But overall it's about the depth. There's 5 wrs that have been great when the QB is "up". There's no one or two guys you can take away and say you can live with the rest. None of them will be confused with Chase or Jefferson, but they're all really physically gifted and have abused some good corners.....when someone throws them the ball.
It's also a "right now" thing. I don't think earlier in the year they were as good as now. They definitely had to develop chemistry with the new staff and transfer players, and/or outright just had to get better. Tennessee's group is really good, obviously, but for depth's sake I'd take our wr roster over theirs at this moment. These guys block like some mofos too....what they did to Bama’s players springing some runs in that game was fantastic.
All said....I might be inclined to take OSU's top guys (especially with your qb). I think our guys are not far below them, and there's not really any drop off between the top 5 as far as what they can do and the plays they've made. I'd take them over any other sec squad, and beyond that I'm just guessing.
For clarity, if osu wrs pile up on uga I'm not going to be surprised. I don't think our crew is any better than y'alls. I think our quality depth makes things hard on a defense because there's no obvious guy to take away, and for that reason I tend to favor our wr unit over others.
....which means little, obviously, since I just haven't watched osu enough to say for sure. It could be that the Buckeyes top 2 guys are so good that I'd trade 5 of ours for 2 of yours. Or that the Buckeye's top 5 are more impressive than I suspect.
