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2007 tOSU Football Season Discussion (merged)

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Mediocraty is our enemy.
Tribune-Chronical

Mediocre Big Ten hurts OSU
By JOSHUA HUDSON Tribune Chronicle Assistant Sports Editor


West Lafayette, Ind. - Ohio State playing for a possible Big Ten championship shouldn?t be surprising to anyone. But the teams the Buckeyes are competing against baffle all of the college football experts.

Michigan entered the season ranked in the top five, but after successive losses to Appalachian State and Oregon, the Wolverines found themselves in a desperate situation. Although it has won both of their conference games, Michigan doesn?t look as good as advertised.

Penn State and Iowa dropped the first two games of the conference season and played in a virtual elimination game on Saturday. The Nittany Lions defeated the Hawkeyes, 27-7, to get their first conference victory.

Wisconsin lost its first game on Saturday, but didn?t really look good in any of its wins this season.

So with the Big Ten elite dropping out of the conference title chase, aside from the Buckeyes, the conference title could be decided on Nov. 10. Not when Ohio State travels to Michigan or Penn State. Not even when the Buckeyes host the Badgers, but when Illinois travels to the Horseshoe.

That?s right ? Illinois is the main threat to Ohio State and a possible BCS berth.
 
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Best Buckeye;954499; said:
If a trainer wins this award we must be hurting for tacklers .:tongue2:
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Has anyone gotten the medical report back yet on the severity of his injuries? :) He put a hit on Beanie on the sidelines because he wanted to feel what it was like for that poor guy at the Minny game where Beanie put his shoulder down and moved him aside"

He wanted to know what Jack Tatum felt like on Sunday morning after a game?

He's looking for a medical redshirt as a trainer?

His tOSU AFLAC is paid up?
 
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Reading the press conference release again by JT, it just continues to amaze me every week that a different player steps up and has a monster game. The emergence of Chekwa and the return of Amos almost allows this team to play nickel exclusively if we wanted to. That makes me feel a great deal better about teams that can really throw the ball. The run defense has been good all year and when we are attacking teams I see few offenses that can put up significant points on us.

Offensively we are erratic at times but dominant at others. The defense allows us that range. The special teams have been special all season except for about 2 plays. I'm very happy the way these guys have stepped up and played this season.
 
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With that article calling for Illinois being our "game" that we need to win the Big Ten/BCS birth how do you think we defened Illinois? They have Zero passing game from Juice Williams, but the people they have to run the ball is quite impressive. Juice, Mendalhall, and Benn poise quite a threat to our defense. However by the time Illinois gets to us they will hav faced ZERO defenses like ours. Wisconsins run game should atleast prepare us for Illinois, but I'd like to see us play more of our bigger guys on defense.
 
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bukIpower;954670; said:
With that article calling for Illinois being our "game" that we need to win the Big Ten/BCS birth how do you think we defened Illinois? They have Zero passing game from Juice Williams, but the people they have to run the ball is quite impressive. Juice, Mendalhall, and Benn poise quite a threat to our defense. However by the time Illinois gets to us they will hav faced ZERO defenses like ours. Wisconsins run game should atleast prepare us for Illinois, but I'd like to see us play more of our bigger guys on defense.
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Illinois is a very good team ... much improved from the squad that gave us fits last year.

However, we are a better team defensively on the perimeter than we were last year, and this back-seven is the best group of open-field tacklers I've seen in quite awhile. J Leman will be hard pressed to duplicate his 20-tackle effort from a year ago, too.

I'm happy for Zook and glad to see the Illini reassert themselves (most likely at Notre Dame's expense, which is a huge bonus) but I still think road games at PSU and at Michigan are more difficult than the Illini at home, despite the fact that the Illini are almost certainly the better team of the three.

I just don't see this year's battle for the Illibuck being as close as last season.
 
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The Illinois win over Wiscy has switched the tOSU-Wiscy game from a likely Gameday visit to a likely BTN game. :tongue2:

Seriously - the BTN must show each Big Ten team at least once in a conference game.
 
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[quote='BusNative;95542;4]We still can't sleep on scUM... their emotions will be sky-high going into that game. And you never know with The Game.[/quote]

too true

By the time we play them, scUM will have nothing left to play for but beating us. Their 3 best players came back for three purposes, 2 of which will be down the drain by 11/17.

I expect us to win. But I wouldn't be surprised if TSUN played the game of their lives against us. It may not be enough, but they'll put up much more of a fight against us than they did against Oregon.
 
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BB73;955394; said:
The Illinois win over Wiscy has switched the tOSU-Wiscy game from a likely Gameday visit to a likely BTN game. :tongue2:

Seriously - the BTN must show each Big Ten team at least once in a conference game.
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Well my vote goes to showing them when they play us. Seriously.
 
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DaddyBigBucks;955710; said:
too true

By the time we play them, scUM will have nothing left to play for but beating us. Their 3 best players came back for three purposes, 2 of which will be down the drain by 11/17.

I expect us to win. But I wouldn't be surprised if TSUN played the game of their lives against us. It may not be enough, but they'll put up much more of a fight against us than they did against Oregon.
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all very plausible.

On the con side for the tsuners consider this:

1-They finish with @MSU, @Wisky(night game iirc) and The Game. Thats a flat out physically brutal way to end and Wisky is the perfect team(for us) for tsun to have to play the week before.

2-The health of Mike Hart by week 12. See above and remember they are plowing him into 8-9 man fronts 25+ times a game. He has a history of getting nicked up. Tsun can't beat anyone without Mike Hart being 100%.
 
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