While I think Dantonio has a real future as a head coach, I just don't understand how he will be able to stay with JT or OSU on his first game out. Nearly every head coach has a tough adjustment period, unless you inherit Miami like Coker did. Sure he has a lot of returning players and a great defensive scheme, but he has no idea how they are going to be able to execute his schemes against an opponent yet. There is no way he can judge how his players will do in his schemes against a school with the talent level like OSU. His players aren't covering guys like Santonio in practice, they have no one who can even give them that kind of look. Dantonio doesn't even get a warm up cupcake team to feel out his team and make adjustements. This game will be more of a learning process for him, rather than a game where he can just come out and coach.
Whenever JT has time to prepare, he comes up with a pretty good offensive gameplan. Watching the Washington game last year, you would have thought OSU was poised to be a top 20 offense.
My prediction is OSU 31 Cincinnati 10.