Color me impressed with the job Laurinaitis has done with our LBs. His college career and pro career still recent enough for recruits to remember, and (to me at least), he brings a savvy gained in the pros, much as Hartline does. Now, all he has to do is sit his two All-American candidates a bit and get some of these young 'uns some minutes.

The running game tends to go toward the side that is opening holes in the D line methinks. So yeah, the left side of tOSU OL is moving people out, as the right side is not. Our left side this year appears to be as good as last year's.....even with two first rounders gone. Keep it up and Go Bucks!

Time to boat race these MFers….

You can color me as one who was concerned as well. Knowles record of improving the Buckeyes D is now history, taking them to #1 D on way to winning the 2024 Natty. OK, where does one go from there? Well, down of course, but it appears that so far, tOSU's D is farther ahead than last year, and with a win against the #1 team to boot. Believe a large achievement is 'getting' LJsr to vary the front 4 presentation. LJ ALWAYS presented a four front, and this year, the front line on D is varied, giving more and different looks that the opponent OL has to block. Dunno whether caused by necessity (lack of depth), or whatever, but personally believe that this aspect has permitted tOSU D to 'look better'. It worked against Texas (remember, there was no film of tOSU D with Patricia to study), but will be plenty for PSU, UX, Illinois to study. But the swagger and attitude of the D will increase as the new look D plays out. Great and glad to see it. Go Bucks!

Let's fuck em up

Other than some early exceptional match-ups, the 'pre-season' consists of mostly body bag games. Lesser lights are sacrificing their teams to pull in some money as visitors from the big boys. (see Grambling State). Allows the teams to develop teamwork, timing, etc before league starts. Bottom line, alot of teams put up some big numbers against lesser teams, so let's put the brakes on a tad until we see how well the early season goes. Indiana v Illinois is an exception. Can't believe anyone saw that coming. But will prove to be in Indiana's favor when selection time comes around. And yes, Hartline (and if you think Day isn't involved, pinch yourself) is grooming/bringing along Sayin slowly, then I wonder what color is the sky on your planet? Compared to what Texas is doing with their new QB, it would appear that tOSU is doing it right. Last year Raiola was thrown to the wolves, and he weathered it, but his stats were not the best. Plus, Nebraska isn't a perennial top team either. Texas and tOSU are....

Gonna hang half a hundred on Goldie for sure.

Ugly beating coming.

Jaxbuck said:

Rotation is announced.

Greene, Littell, Abbott if necessary
Lodolo out of the pen.

I like it.

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Lodolo, Burns and Martinez out of the pen is pretty strong.

They weren't. The DL pushed, but didn't try to beat blocks, just hold them, and kept their heads up against the QB. Whether to slide off and tackle, or put their long arms up to block the pass, dunno, but both would have worked. And do not discount keeping Arvell in to spy on the QB. Rewatched the game, and saw several times, Arvell just bouncing on his feet, holding in his LB position, just waiting for the QB to try to run. Great calling on the D, haven't seen (been aware?) that before. But yes, was surprised to see the 1's in the game fourth quarter. Only can think they wanted to preserve the no-TD inside the red zone streak. But losing a starter is a pretty high price to pay, especially the QB. Personally, would have Lincoln in there, to get some reps in, and protect Julian. But hey, what do I know?

This team is going to be hard to beat. I have a hard time seeing them giving up a lot of points in any game defensively and if they only need to score like 24 worst case to win...

This team is like Tressel Ball but with a 5 star QB and receivers. If they could only clean up special teams

Ha - There's a thread of funny pictures to make light of the results of the game.
This one was good:

Jaxbuck said:

I'm going to go with the one glaring thing that is different form last year........

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@Thump expanded his gameday diet to include app exclusive offerings from Taco Bell.

Jaxbuck said:

I'm going to go with the one glaring thing that is different form last year........

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Yup, methinks Knowles isn't the genius he thought he was...just absurd talent and 3 years to get it right

I thought Penn State fans were the greatest ever?
(Thread about possibility of no more white outs in the future)

There was a period of time before the white outs began when Penn State stopped having night games. It was after a Nebraska game and they were stopped because of poor/ awful fan behavior. I remember being surprised when they started up again.

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No one seems to want to respond to that.

calibuck said:

Can someone please explain to me how current year's D is better than last year's?

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I'm going to go with the one glaring thing that is different form last year........

brodybuck21 said:

can we PLEASE get an I-71 WS? I mean hell would freeze over but im ok with that

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The world has to end at some point.

Might as well be this

Rotation is announced.

Greene, Littell, Abbott if necessary
Lodolo out of the pen.

I like it.