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LGHL Akrum Wadley has been a bright spot in an otherwise frustrating season for Iowa
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Akrum Wadley has been a bright spot in an otherwise frustrating season for Iowa
Kyle Sumner McKinnon via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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The Hawkeyes star tailback is headed for another career year.
Little has gone right for Iowa this season.
The 5-3 Hawkeyes are fourth in the Big Ten West and have already dropped three conference matchups. They had a chance to make an early statement against Penn State in Week 4, but lost on the final play. Since then, the floodgates have opened up.
Three years after appearing in the Big Ten title game, Iowa’s now in danger of missing postseason action entirely.
But for all that’s gone wrong, it’s star running back Akrum Wadley that continues to be the Hawkeyes consummate bright spot.
The senior out of New Jersey is coming off a breakout year that saw him compile nearly 1,400 total yards of offense and 13 touchdowns. While he probably won’t surpass those numbers at his current pace, that says more about the team than it does of his abilities.
Take a look at how Wadley’s fared thus far.
The production of a year ago may not be there, but Wadley’s impact is still felt.
Iowa’s offensive line hasn’t been able to get a consistent push this season. They’re routinely beat off the ball and it’s affected their standout tailback’s play. It’s why he’ll likely set a career-high in receiving yardage in his final go ‘round in college.
Regardless, Wadley’s averaged a solid four yards per carry, has found the end zone almost 10 times, and comes up big when Iowa needs him to.
With Penn State in town, Wadley put on a show alongside fellow stud back Saquon Barkley. He racked up 155 yards and a pair of scores, not to mention a jaw-dropping catch-and-run that kept the Hawkeyes in the game.
Akrum Wadley's 70 yard TD against Penn State pic.twitter.com/dxYqLfVH8f
— Devin Keller (@DevinMKeller) October 11, 2017
Part of what makes No. 25 so special is his versatility.
Similarly to Barkley, Wadley can be the workhorse or he can split out of the backfield as a receiver. His size and innate ability to make something out of nothing are why he’s indispensable in Iowa City.
And Wadley proved as much during his best outing of the year to date, courtesy of in-state rival Iowa State.
My personal favorite - Akrum Wadley turns into a video game and scores a touchdown against Iowa State to force overtime pic.twitter.com/9mBiwZIrxR
— Devin Keller (@DevinMKeller) October 11, 2017
Not only did Wadleyturn into a video game single-handedly tie things up in the waning moments, he literally ran over or around half of Iowa State’s defense.
This has been the theme throughout Iowa’s up-and-down season.
Wadley can’t always rescue the Hawkeyes, and that’s the main problem. They’re just not a well-rounded group and a porous offensive line doesn’t do them any favors.
So count on Wadley making more plays on Saturday. It’s what he does and it’s what he’ll continue to do.
How much will he impact the final score? That’s a different story.
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Kyle Sumner McKinnon via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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The Hawkeyes star tailback is headed for another career year.
Little has gone right for Iowa this season.
The 5-3 Hawkeyes are fourth in the Big Ten West and have already dropped three conference matchups. They had a chance to make an early statement against Penn State in Week 4, but lost on the final play. Since then, the floodgates have opened up.
Three years after appearing in the Big Ten title game, Iowa’s now in danger of missing postseason action entirely.
But for all that’s gone wrong, it’s star running back Akrum Wadley that continues to be the Hawkeyes consummate bright spot.
The senior out of New Jersey is coming off a breakout year that saw him compile nearly 1,400 total yards of offense and 13 touchdowns. While he probably won’t surpass those numbers at his current pace, that says more about the team than it does of his abilities.
Take a look at how Wadley’s fared thus far.
The production of a year ago may not be there, but Wadley’s impact is still felt.
Iowa’s offensive line hasn’t been able to get a consistent push this season. They’re routinely beat off the ball and it’s affected their standout tailback’s play. It’s why he’ll likely set a career-high in receiving yardage in his final go ‘round in college.
Regardless, Wadley’s averaged a solid four yards per carry, has found the end zone almost 10 times, and comes up big when Iowa needs him to.
With Penn State in town, Wadley put on a show alongside fellow stud back Saquon Barkley. He racked up 155 yards and a pair of scores, not to mention a jaw-dropping catch-and-run that kept the Hawkeyes in the game.
Akrum Wadley's 70 yard TD against Penn State pic.twitter.com/dxYqLfVH8f
— Devin Keller (@DevinMKeller) October 11, 2017
Part of what makes No. 25 so special is his versatility.
Similarly to Barkley, Wadley can be the workhorse or he can split out of the backfield as a receiver. His size and innate ability to make something out of nothing are why he’s indispensable in Iowa City.
And Wadley proved as much during his best outing of the year to date, courtesy of in-state rival Iowa State.
My personal favorite - Akrum Wadley turns into a video game and scores a touchdown against Iowa State to force overtime pic.twitter.com/9mBiwZIrxR
— Devin Keller (@DevinMKeller) October 11, 2017
Not only did Wadley
This has been the theme throughout Iowa’s up-and-down season.
Wadley can’t always rescue the Hawkeyes, and that’s the main problem. They’re just not a well-rounded group and a porous offensive line doesn’t do them any favors.
So count on Wadley making more plays on Saturday. It’s what he does and it’s what he’ll continue to do.
How much will he impact the final score? That’s a different story.
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LGHL Ohio State probably won't generate many explosive plays against Iowa, and that's okay
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Ohio State probably won't generate many explosive plays against Iowa, and that's okay
Chuck McKeever via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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The good news? The Buckeye offense has a lot of other ways to hurt teams.
Lost in the Ohio State football team's skyward trajectory these last six weeks, between J.T. Barrett's hero-ball performances and the defensive line's ability to destroy opposing teams' will to carry on, is that the Buckeyes haven't been a particularly explosive offensive team in 2017. That might seem surprising, given a) the highlight reels of players like J.K. Dobbins and Parris Campbell and b) the sheer amount of points Ohio State has generated since the Oklahoma game, but it's true.
They're better than average, certainly; the Buckeyes rank 39th nationally in explosive pass plays and 48th in explosive run plays. But how can a team this good rip off such a pedestrian number of huge gains, relative to the rest of college football?
The answer, as usual, comes from the brain of SB Nation advanced stats wizard Bill Connelly: despite its popular acceptance as the best measure of how good an offense is, "explosive plays" is a thorny thing to parse out, and one as susceptible as anything to the ways that average can bury the real truth.
Simply looking at explosiveness, however you care to define it, misses this key step. Take the yardage of 20 plays from two (completely unrealistic) data sets, for instance:
Set No. 1: 80, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Set No. 2: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
In both sets, the offense gained 100 yards in 20 plays. In the first set, those 20 plays resulted in an almost certain touchdown (the 80-yard gain) and about six three-and-outs. In the second set, the offense converted on second-and-5 every single time and moved the ball at will. The median gain in Set No. 1 was one yard; in Set No. 2: five yards.
Need proof? Your three most explosive FBS offenses, through nine weeks: Mizzou, Oklahoma, Ole Miss.
So if the popular consensus for what makes an offense extraordinary is wrong, how do we figure out what makes it so? The truth, as usual, is way less sexy than the fiction: efficiency, baby.
The stats
Name: Mike Weber
Number: 25
Position: RB
Year: Sophomore
Height/Weight: 5'10, 214 lbs.
Line: 55 carries, 248 yards, 5 TDs; 8 catches, 72 receiving yards
Ripping off explosive plays is great, but unless that tendency is partnered with the ability to operate efficiently (and a defense that can ever get off the field), well, you're 3-5 Mizzou.
The good news for the Buckeyes is that they have been ruthlessly efficient with the ball since the sputtering disaster that was the Oklahoma game. Sophomore RB Mike Weber has been the paragon of efficiency minus explosion for the Ohio State offense: he's churning out 4.5 steady yards per carry, reliably moving the chains for Urban Meyer's offense in between J.K. Dobbins' home run attempts. (Dobbins, for his part, is up at 7.6 yards per carry—even when he's not ripping opposing defenses open, he's still getting chunk yardage.)
The Weber and Dobbins duo has its own sort of analogue in the passing game, where Parris Campbell (39 targets, 14.1 yards/catch, 410 rec. yards, 2 TDs) has functioned as the Buckeyes' rocket-boosted full-field threat, and K.J. Hill (53 targets, 9.4 yards/catch, 376 rec. yards, 3 TDs) has been the steady mover of chains that the Buckeyes can count on play after play.
Opposition research
Kirk Ferentz' Iowa team (5-3) has made its bones this year by choking the life out of other teams with the 16th-best defense in all of football. Their specialty has been—you guessed it—limiting the explosive potential of their opponents, a category where they rank ninth overall. All three of their losses, including to Saquon Barkley and co., have been by a touchdown or less; they held Penn State (No. 17 in explosive plays) to just 21 points in one of the season's most exciting games to date.
Middle linebacker Josey Jewell is the clear star of the Iowa defense, racking up 61.5 tackles (the best on his team by a full 22), including an astonishing 9.5 TFLs, 14 run stuffs, and four pass breakups. He's exactly the kind of do-it-all player than can shut down an opposing team's ability to break big plays. He's got help from defensive end Anthony Nelson, who boasts eight TFLs, six sacks, and four run stuffs to go with his outstanding 13.8 percent success rate (the percentage of successful plays the opposing offense gets when a given player is the one making the tackle).
What to watch for
Where the Hawkeyes fall short is exactly where the Buckeyes excel, though: efficiency. Iowa is a pedestrian 71st in defensive efficiency, while Ohio State is the 2nd-most efficient offense in all of college football. That's bad news for Kirk Ferentz and great news for Buckeye fans. It might take the Buckeyes a little longer to get going than in the other games where they were the clear favorites, but at the end of the day Iowa doesn't have the horses to get Ohio State's offense off the field quickly or painlessly.
J.T. Barrett has been shredding defenses with his arm and his legs of late, and there's no reason to think that won't continue against the Hawkeyes. Between Weber, Dobbins, and Hill, there are plenty of top-tier weapons to get the ball to and keep the chains moving. While Jewell and Nelson are talented enough that one or two ugly early turnovers wouldn't be surprising, the Buckeyes will more likely than not leave Iowa City with a three-score win.
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Chuck McKeever via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
The good news? The Buckeye offense has a lot of other ways to hurt teams.
Lost in the Ohio State football team's skyward trajectory these last six weeks, between J.T. Barrett's hero-ball performances and the defensive line's ability to destroy opposing teams' will to carry on, is that the Buckeyes haven't been a particularly explosive offensive team in 2017. That might seem surprising, given a) the highlight reels of players like J.K. Dobbins and Parris Campbell and b) the sheer amount of points Ohio State has generated since the Oklahoma game, but it's true.
They're better than average, certainly; the Buckeyes rank 39th nationally in explosive pass plays and 48th in explosive run plays. But how can a team this good rip off such a pedestrian number of huge gains, relative to the rest of college football?
The answer, as usual, comes from the brain of SB Nation advanced stats wizard Bill Connelly: despite its popular acceptance as the best measure of how good an offense is, "explosive plays" is a thorny thing to parse out, and one as susceptible as anything to the ways that average can bury the real truth.
Simply looking at explosiveness, however you care to define it, misses this key step. Take the yardage of 20 plays from two (completely unrealistic) data sets, for instance:
Set No. 1: 80, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Set No. 2: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
In both sets, the offense gained 100 yards in 20 plays. In the first set, those 20 plays resulted in an almost certain touchdown (the 80-yard gain) and about six three-and-outs. In the second set, the offense converted on second-and-5 every single time and moved the ball at will. The median gain in Set No. 1 was one yard; in Set No. 2: five yards.
Need proof? Your three most explosive FBS offenses, through nine weeks: Mizzou, Oklahoma, Ole Miss.
So if the popular consensus for what makes an offense extraordinary is wrong, how do we figure out what makes it so? The truth, as usual, is way less sexy than the fiction: efficiency, baby.
The stats
Name: Mike Weber
Number: 25
Position: RB
Year: Sophomore
Height/Weight: 5'10, 214 lbs.
Line: 55 carries, 248 yards, 5 TDs; 8 catches, 72 receiving yards
Ripping off explosive plays is great, but unless that tendency is partnered with the ability to operate efficiently (and a defense that can ever get off the field), well, you're 3-5 Mizzou.
The good news for the Buckeyes is that they have been ruthlessly efficient with the ball since the sputtering disaster that was the Oklahoma game. Sophomore RB Mike Weber has been the paragon of efficiency minus explosion for the Ohio State offense: he's churning out 4.5 steady yards per carry, reliably moving the chains for Urban Meyer's offense in between J.K. Dobbins' home run attempts. (Dobbins, for his part, is up at 7.6 yards per carry—even when he's not ripping opposing defenses open, he's still getting chunk yardage.)
The Weber and Dobbins duo has its own sort of analogue in the passing game, where Parris Campbell (39 targets, 14.1 yards/catch, 410 rec. yards, 2 TDs) has functioned as the Buckeyes' rocket-boosted full-field threat, and K.J. Hill (53 targets, 9.4 yards/catch, 376 rec. yards, 3 TDs) has been the steady mover of chains that the Buckeyes can count on play after play.
Opposition research
Kirk Ferentz' Iowa team (5-3) has made its bones this year by choking the life out of other teams with the 16th-best defense in all of football. Their specialty has been—you guessed it—limiting the explosive potential of their opponents, a category where they rank ninth overall. All three of their losses, including to Saquon Barkley and co., have been by a touchdown or less; they held Penn State (No. 17 in explosive plays) to just 21 points in one of the season's most exciting games to date.
Middle linebacker Josey Jewell is the clear star of the Iowa defense, racking up 61.5 tackles (the best on his team by a full 22), including an astonishing 9.5 TFLs, 14 run stuffs, and four pass breakups. He's exactly the kind of do-it-all player than can shut down an opposing team's ability to break big plays. He's got help from defensive end Anthony Nelson, who boasts eight TFLs, six sacks, and four run stuffs to go with his outstanding 13.8 percent success rate (the percentage of successful plays the opposing offense gets when a given player is the one making the tackle).
What to watch for
Where the Hawkeyes fall short is exactly where the Buckeyes excel, though: efficiency. Iowa is a pedestrian 71st in defensive efficiency, while Ohio State is the 2nd-most efficient offense in all of college football. That's bad news for Kirk Ferentz and great news for Buckeye fans. It might take the Buckeyes a little longer to get going than in the other games where they were the clear favorites, but at the end of the day Iowa doesn't have the horses to get Ohio State's offense off the field quickly or painlessly.
J.T. Barrett has been shredding defenses with his arm and his legs of late, and there's no reason to think that won't continue against the Hawkeyes. Between Weber, Dobbins, and Hill, there are plenty of top-tier weapons to get the ball to and keep the chains moving. While Jewell and Nelson are talented enough that one or two ugly early turnovers wouldn't be surprising, the Buckeyes will more likely than not leave Iowa City with a three-score win.
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Google Watch: Dixon has become OSU's clutch touchdown maker - 247Sports
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Watch: Dixon has become OSU's clutch touchdown maker
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You could say that Ohio State junior wide receiver Johnnie Dixon is a lot like former Buckeyes great Cris Carter. As they used to say about Carter, “All he does is catch touchdowns.” Dixon surged into the overall team lead in touchdowns with his fifth ...
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Watch: Dixon has become OSU's clutch touchdown maker
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You could say that Ohio State junior wide receiver Johnnie Dixon is a lot like former Buckeyes great Cris Carter. As they used to say about Carter, “All he does is catch touchdowns.” Dixon surged into the overall team lead in touchdowns with his fifth ...
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After unveiling of playoff rankings, Ohio State still holds second best National Championship odds
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The Buckeyes were named No. 6 in the first edition of the playoff rankings, but their title odds remain second best behind Alabama.
On Tuesday night, the first batch of College Football Playoff rankings were released. Compared to the AP Poll, there was a considerable amount of movement. But rankings weren’t the only big mover; the betting odds for some of the top teams changed, too.
On Wednesday, Bovada, one of the bigger sportsbooks on the Internet, listed new odds for a handful of the top teams in the country. Compared to Monday, there was a lot of fluidity.
After a big win against then-No.2 Penn State, the Ohio State Buckeyes had 3-to-1 odds of winning the title on Monday. However, their odds dipped a smidge after the releasing of the CFP rankings. Now, as of Wednesday afternoon, the Buckeyes hold 7-to-2 odds of winning the championship.
Even though Alabama isn’t the No. 1 team in the new rankings, they still own the top spot in the eyes of the oddsmakers. The Crimson Tide saw their odds move from from 5-to-7 on Monday, to 6-to-5 on Wednesday.
Georgia, the new No. 1 in the eyes of the playoff committee, saw the largest odds jump. Entering the week, the Bulldogs had an 11-to-1 booking for the championship; now, those odds are much shorter at 5-to-1.
Below is a table with the 10 best teams and their odds to win the natty.
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Geoff Hammersley via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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The Buckeyes were named No. 6 in the first edition of the playoff rankings, but their title odds remain second best behind Alabama.
On Tuesday night, the first batch of College Football Playoff rankings were released. Compared to the AP Poll, there was a considerable amount of movement. But rankings weren’t the only big mover; the betting odds for some of the top teams changed, too.
On Wednesday, Bovada, one of the bigger sportsbooks on the Internet, listed new odds for a handful of the top teams in the country. Compared to Monday, there was a lot of fluidity.
After a big win against then-No.2 Penn State, the Ohio State Buckeyes had 3-to-1 odds of winning the title on Monday. However, their odds dipped a smidge after the releasing of the CFP rankings. Now, as of Wednesday afternoon, the Buckeyes hold 7-to-2 odds of winning the championship.
Even though Alabama isn’t the No. 1 team in the new rankings, they still own the top spot in the eyes of the oddsmakers. The Crimson Tide saw their odds move from from 5-to-7 on Monday, to 6-to-5 on Wednesday.
Georgia, the new No. 1 in the eyes of the playoff committee, saw the largest odds jump. Entering the week, the Bulldogs had an 11-to-1 booking for the championship; now, those odds are much shorter at 5-to-1.
Below is a table with the 10 best teams and their odds to win the natty.
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Google Buckeyes No. 6 in College Football Playoff rankings - 247Sports
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Buckeyes No. 6 in College Football Playoff rankings
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Ohio State is No. 6 in the initial 2017 College Football Playoff rankings, which were released Tuesday evening. The Buckeyes (7-1, 5-0 Big Ten) are coming off a thrilling 39-38 comeback win over Penn State (7-1, 4-1), which is ranked No. 7 by the CFP.
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Buckeyes No. 6 in College Football Playoff rankings
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Ohio State is No. 6 in the initial 2017 College Football Playoff rankings, which were released Tuesday evening. The Buckeyes (7-1, 5-0 Big Ten) are coming off a thrilling 39-38 comeback win over Penn State (7-1, 4-1), which is ranked No. 7 by the CFP.
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Google Jack Looks Back: Buckeyes and Hawkeyes ruled the mid-1950s - The Columbus Dispatch
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1955 Buckeyes. The line, from left to right: end Dick Brubaker, Buckeye co-captain; tackle Francis Machinsky; guard Jim Reichenbach; center Bob Thornton; guard Jim Parker; tackle Dick Hilinski; and end Dean Dugger. The backs, from left: halfback Bob ...
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Jack Looks Back: Buckeyes and Hawkeyes ruled the mid-1950s
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1955 Buckeyes. The line, from left to right: end Dick Brubaker, Buckeye co-captain; tackle Francis Machinsky; guard Jim Reichenbach; center Bob Thornton; guard Jim Parker; tackle Dick Hilinski; and end Dean Dugger. The backs, from left: halfback Bob ...
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Future Buckeye stars include Ruckert, Gant, Jones and Mitchell
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Future Buckeye stars include Ruckert, Gant, Jones and Mitchell
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After every weekend during the football season Bucknuts wraps up the weekend that was in high school football in Ohio and elsewhere, focusing on those who will continue their careers playing for the Buckeyes. Over the weekend most of the future ...
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BTN Everything you need to know about the initial 2017 CFP Rankings
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Everything you need to know about the initial 2017 CFP Rankings
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The initial 2017 CFP rankings were released Tuesday night. You've probably heard, but the Big Ten doesn't have a team in the top 4. No. 6 Ohio State paces the Big Ten's four ranked teams, three of which land in the top 10. Here are 10 things to know about the first rankings.
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Brent Yarina, BTN.com Senior Editor via Big Ten Network
The initial 2017 CFP rankings were released Tuesday night. You've probably heard, but the Big Ten doesn't have a team in the top 4. No. 6 Ohio State paces the Big Ten's four ranked teams, three of which land in the top 10. Here are 10 things to know about the first rankings.
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BTN Numbers Knowledge: One stat for every Big Ten team entering Week 10
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Numbers Knowledge: One stat for every Big Ten team entering Week 10
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Things get more interesting in November, as the stakes get higher. Here is some Numbers Knowledge to enhance your enjoyment, with a big assist from @BTNStatsGuys.
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Things get more interesting in November, as the stakes get higher. Here is some Numbers Knowledge to enhance your enjoyment, with a big assist from @BTNStatsGuys.
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BTN Polls: It’s time to pick your Week 10 Big Ten football winners
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Ohio State is in the mix, as are Nebraska and Penn State.
Halloween night brought us the tricks and treats. (*cues sitcom laugh track).
After taking down the then-No. 2 ranked Penn State Nittany Lions, the Ohio State Buckeyes were slotted into the No. 6 spot in the first edition of this season’s College Football Playoff rankings. Georgia, Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame were the top four teams, respectively, and Oklahoma slipped into the No. 5 spot.
I guess you could call that a trick, as the Buckeyes seemed to be the team with the hot-hand at this point in this season—and opened up their playoff pursuit on the outside looking in.
While Saturdays are the days when Urban Meyer proves what his team can do, the recruiting trail perpetually moves on. Even on Halloween night, news broke.
The Wait Is Nearly Over
A little after the unveiling of the initial CFP rankings, a notable five-star recruit took to Twitter to announce his commitment date.
Weak-side defensive end Micah Parsons (Harrisburg, PA/Harrisburg) was the one to give us the treat we’ve been waiting for: his commitment date. The Buckeyes were seen as the frontrunner for the Keystone State standout, but things started to fizzle within the past couple months. Parsons attended the Friday Night Lights camp back in July, and even made an official visit to OSU in September; however, after the OU loss, things took a turn as he tweeted support for Dwayne Haskins over J.T. Barrett.
Since the college football season started, the 6'3, 235-pounder has made unofficial visits to Penn State and Nebraska. The latest of the those trips, which happened this past Saturday, was to Norman, OK to visit with the Sooners.
It’s been a wild ride in the Parsons recruitment process. In February 2016, he committed to the Nittany Lions football program. That commitment lasted over a year, before he decommitted a week after making a trip to Columbus in April 2017.
Either way, whoever Parsons commits to on Dec. 20 will be getting one of the best DEs in the 2018 class. According to the 247sports composite, he’s the No. 5 overall prospect in the class, and the best WDE and PA prospect. From a prediction standpoint, the 247sports Crystal Ball has 87 percent (20 of 23 votes) casted for Penn State being the program Parsons commits to.
We can speculate all we want, but we’ll get the verdict in mid-December.
An offer to another WDE
While Parsons is one of the focuses for the Buckeye coaching staff, they can’t limit their options.
Before the Pennsylvania star prospect tweeted about his commitment date, another star on the high school football circuit went to Twitter to talk about some big news.
Truly Honored To Receive An Offer From Ohio State #GoBucks
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— Abdul-Malik McClain (@malikmcclain8_) October 31, 2017
Four-star WDE Abdul-Malik McClain (San Juan Capistrano, CA/J Serra Catholic) made his tweet about the OSU offer late Monday night. McClain currently stands as a top 300 player in the country, coming in at No. 270 on the 247sports composite. At his position, he’s the 15th-best in the 2018 class—and 34th-best in the state of California.
If the Buckeyes do end up getting McClain, they’ll need to do some serious work. Back in July, the California native elected to stay in the state for college football by committing to the UCLA Bruins. While not all commitments are set in stone, it’s hard to uproot someone from across the country.
Ohio State joined 14 others schools in offering McClain, a list that includes Oklahoma, USC, Notre Dame and Washington.
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Ohio State is in the mix, as are Nebraska and Penn State.
Halloween night brought us the tricks and treats. (*cues sitcom laugh track).
After taking down the then-No. 2 ranked Penn State Nittany Lions, the Ohio State Buckeyes were slotted into the No. 6 spot in the first edition of this season’s College Football Playoff rankings. Georgia, Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame were the top four teams, respectively, and Oklahoma slipped into the No. 5 spot.
I guess you could call that a trick, as the Buckeyes seemed to be the team with the hot-hand at this point in this season—and opened up their playoff pursuit on the outside looking in.
While Saturdays are the days when Urban Meyer proves what his team can do, the recruiting trail perpetually moves on. Even on Halloween night, news broke.
The Wait Is Nearly Over
A little after the unveiling of the initial CFP rankings, a notable five-star recruit took to Twitter to announce his commitment date.
Weak-side defensive end Micah Parsons (Harrisburg, PA/Harrisburg) was the one to give us the treat we’ve been waiting for: his commitment date. The Buckeyes were seen as the frontrunner for the Keystone State standout, but things started to fizzle within the past couple months. Parsons attended the Friday Night Lights camp back in July, and even made an official visit to OSU in September; however, after the OU loss, things took a turn as he tweeted support for Dwayne Haskins over J.T. Barrett.
Since the college football season started, the 6'3, 235-pounder has made unofficial visits to Penn State and Nebraska. The latest of the those trips, which happened this past Saturday, was to Norman, OK to visit with the Sooners.
It’s been a wild ride in the Parsons recruitment process. In February 2016, he committed to the Nittany Lions football program. That commitment lasted over a year, before he decommitted a week after making a trip to Columbus in April 2017.
Either way, whoever Parsons commits to on Dec. 20 will be getting one of the best DEs in the 2018 class. According to the 247sports composite, he’s the No. 5 overall prospect in the class, and the best WDE and PA prospect. From a prediction standpoint, the 247sports Crystal Ball has 87 percent (20 of 23 votes) casted for Penn State being the program Parsons commits to.
We can speculate all we want, but we’ll get the verdict in mid-December.
An offer to another WDE
While Parsons is one of the focuses for the Buckeye coaching staff, they can’t limit their options.
Before the Pennsylvania star prospect tweeted about his commitment date, another star on the high school football circuit went to Twitter to talk about some big news.
Truly Honored To Receive An Offer From Ohio State #GoBucks
️ pic.twitter.com/eWMf47R4qC— Abdul-Malik McClain (@malikmcclain8_) October 31, 2017
Four-star WDE Abdul-Malik McClain (San Juan Capistrano, CA/J Serra Catholic) made his tweet about the OSU offer late Monday night. McClain currently stands as a top 300 player in the country, coming in at No. 270 on the 247sports composite. At his position, he’s the 15th-best in the 2018 class—and 34th-best in the state of California.
If the Buckeyes do end up getting McClain, they’ll need to do some serious work. Back in July, the California native elected to stay in the state for college football by committing to the UCLA Bruins. While not all commitments are set in stone, it’s hard to uproot someone from across the country.
Ohio State joined 14 others schools in offering McClain, a list that includes Oklahoma, USC, Notre Dame and Washington.
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Since 2012, the Buckeyes are 68-7 including this season's 7-1 start. Ohio State has lost just twice to unranked opponents over the past five-plus seasons, including last year's mid-October road loss to a Penn State team which went on to win the Big Ten ...
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Despite the early season loss, the Buckeyes picked up their biggest win of the season on Oct. 28, when they took down No. 2 Penn State, 39-38. J.T. Barrett had a tremendous game against the Nittany Lions, going 33-of-39 and passing for 328 yards and 4 ...
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Despite the early season loss, the Buckeyes picked up their biggest win of the season on Oct. 28, when they took down No. 2 Penn State, 39-38. J.T. Barrett had a tremendous game against the Nittany Lions, going 33-of-39 and passing for 328 yards and 4 ...
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Season tickets would still be the cheapest way to see the Buckeyes live with about a 15 to 20 percent discount from purchasing individual tickets. As has been the case since 2013, Ohio State will use variation pricing that sees lower value for some ...
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Season tickets would still be the cheapest way to see the Buckeyes live with about a 15 to 20 percent discount from purchasing individual tickets. As has been the case since 2013, Ohio State will use variation pricing that sees lower value for some ...
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The night he landed the offer from the Buckeyes Chambers told me he would soon visit Ohio State. That visit came this past weekend. Chambers was one of the many recruits on hand as the Buckeyes defeated Penn State 39-38. “Without a doubt,” Chambers ...
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Kurelic: Meyer tells RB Buckeyes all in; chances with 5-star OL
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The night he landed the offer from the Buckeyes Chambers told me he would soon visit Ohio State. That visit came this past weekend. Chambers was one of the many recruits on hand as the Buckeyes defeated Penn State 39-38. “Without a doubt,” Chambers ...
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We saw it in 2014, when the Buckeyes were ranked No. 16 in the first set of rankings before a run that resulted in the national championship. We didn't see it in 2015 when the Buckeyes finished 12-1, but they didn't have the Big Ten championship after ...
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Many positives came out of the victory over Minnesota. Iowa was able to shake off the overtime defeat at the hands of Northwestern to keep the 'Floyd of Rosedale'. Moving forward, Iowa must face two top five ranked opponents in the course of two weeks ...
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Iowa Football: Two Weeks Of Hell Upcoming Against Buckeyes And Badgers
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