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Game Thread 2010 Rose Bowl: Ohio State 26 Oregon 17 (Final, 1/01/2010)

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ORD_Buckeye;1616783; said:
Game comes down to our offense and whether they've truly overcome their early season problems in the following areas:
  1. Does TP play error free and make good decisions on when to pass and when not to pass
  2. Does the OL come out with a fire in their sac and wear down the Oregon front 7.
  3. Does our backup kicker rise to the occasion
  4. Do we convert red zone visits to touchdowns or settle for field goals.
Check all four of these, and Oregon's offense won't be on the field long enough to score big. Ohio State by 14.
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This is a really good post. My greatest fear as to how this game would play out is if we rely too much on our defense to stop Oregon in a close game and get burned because our offense fails to cash in on a short field opportunity.

A metric I am looking for in this game is total number of punts. Field position isn't nearly as important as how many chances do we give the Oregon offense with the ball. They don't care about TOP, just total possessions, because one way or another their possessions won't be long. They will have either scored, turned it over or punted. If/when we have those long 7 minute drives, they need to end in TDs. Too many punts or more than 1 or 2 field goal tries and we're probably in trouble. Simply chewing up the clock then sending out the D isn't enough. The offense has to be effective, opportunistic and efficient, and that means a sound, controlled game from Mr. Pryor.
 
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Per the Ozone.net. A good site for OSU apparel. Especially the Matchup Rose Bowl gear....
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NateG said:
Per the Ozone.net. A good site for OSU apparel. Especially the Matchup Rose Bowl gear....
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Personally I don't want to buy anything with Oregon's nasty colors on it.

I'll just gladly get the hoodie that says "Ohio State 2010 Rose Bowl Champions"

It will go nice with my "Ohio State 2010 National Champions" hat.
 
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JXC;1616980; said:
Personally I don't want to buy anything with Oregon's nasty colors on it.

I'll just gladly get the hoodie that says "Ohio State 2010 Rose Bowl Champions"

It will go nice with my "Ohio State 2010 National Champions" hat.
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I understand that... I was given a BCS title game shirt from 2 years ago and I can only really wear it at my house. I just know there are people that enjoy purchasing the matchup shirts and rose bowl gear. There was a hat that had a Rose Bowl patch on it that looked sweet.
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Maybe its becase I'm old the Bowls , yes even the NC game seem more like exhibitions than real Games..is the World Sereis started 40 days after the League Champion Sereis...the lost to Fla was bad but who doesn't believe the game might have been different if we played two weeks after scUM. Its hard to maintain that edge for so long..See Miami in 2002. When we go to California the team will be making appearances with the Ducks..I don't remember Super Bowl teams meeting together for meat eating contess etc. We played in 4 Rose Bowls from 72 to 76 and won only one but only the blow out in 72 bothered me. The Rose Bowl was just an honor you earned for a fine season. The players I know didn't gear up for it like scUM..it was their reward for working hard during the season etc. That said Go Bucks Beat Ducks!
 
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chileduck;1616944; said:
So while I'm making excuses through my Duck colored glasses. I don't think you can definitively say how much better Ohio State's defense would have played against Stanford that day. We know your defense shut down the running games of Michigan, Iowa and Penn State, and that bodes well for you against Oregon. But I'm looking forward to seeing if my Ducks might be better offensively than those teams. That's why we play the game.
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And Navy's triple option, though the game was closer than should have been, Illinois' read-option (shut out), and really Wisco's run game as well (118 total, 2.7ypc), with Tolzien having a great game coupled with tOSU turnovers.

tOSU also played well against Toledo (Top producing offense in FBS), pitching a shut out.

tOSU needs to force turnovers however, and they've done that all season. The Ducks will have trouble running, the D is great at stopping the run. UO needs to look for one-on-one matchups on the outside and attack it through the air, run off tackle or outside, with a lot of misdirection on the ground to hope for overpursuit because the D is pretty disciplined. But the air attack should be there. If Mazoli can hit some throws early, either deep or over the middle, and finds a rhythm, it will give UO a lot of options from the zone-read.

It will be a very intriguing matchup and we will see which team can impose the will they want. If UO wants to establish the run early, they will need to grind it out, tOSU has given up some big drives at times, sometimes they shut it down quickly. If UO comes out throwing and sacrificing the run early to open the field, it will be tough to go back to the grinding run game, especially if tOSU can get any early points.
 
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Onebuckfan;1616989; said:
Maybe its becase I'm old the Bowls , yes even the NC game seem more like exhibitions than real Games..is the World Sereis started 40 days after the League Champion Sereis...the lost to Fla was bad but who doesn't believe the game might have been different if we played two weeks after scUM. Its hard to maintain that edge for so long..See Miami in 2002. When we go to California the team will be making appearances with the Ducks..I don't remember Super Bowl teams meeting together for meat eating contess etc. We played in 4 Rose Bowls from 72 to 76 and won only one but only the blow out in 72 bothered me. The Rose Bowl was just an honor you earned for a fine season. The players I know didn't gear up for it like scUM..it was their reward for working hard during the season etc. That said Go Bucks Beat Ducks!
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NVM
 
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