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

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Brought this post over here from scout. The TP-JM comparison was buckeye1991's, I extended it to look at some QBs that come up in buckeye fan discussions.

Year 1: Masoli soph, Pryor true frosh, Krenzel RS junior, Young RS frosh

• JM 08: 136 of 239 (56.9 percent), 1744 yards, 13 TD, 05 Int., 131.9 rating; 127 rushes for 718 yards and 10 TD.
• TP 08: 100 of 165 (60.6 percent), 1311 yards, 12 TD, 04 Int., 146.5 rating; 139 rushes for 631 yards, 5 TD.
• CK 02: 148 of 249 (59.4 percent), 2110 yards, 12 TD, 07 Int., 140.9 rating; 139 rushes for 631 yards, 5 TD.
• VY 03: 084 of 143 (58.7 percent), 1155 yards, 06 TD, 07 Int., 130.6 rating; 135 rushes for 998 yards, 11 TD.


Year 2: Masoli junior, Pryor soph, Krenzel rs senior, Young rs soph

• JM 09: 168 of 285 (58.9 percent), 2066 yards, 15 TD, 5 Int., 133.7 rating; 115 rushes for 659 yards and 12 TD.
• TP 09: 144 of 258 (55.8 percent), 1828 yards, 16 TD, 10 Int., 128.0 rating; 142 rushes for 707 yards, 7 TD.
• CK 03: 153 of 278 (55.0 percent), 2040 yards, 15 TD, 10 Int., 127.3 rating; 109 rushes for 255 yards, 3 TD.
• VY 04: 148 of 250 (59.2 percent), 1849 yards, 12 TD, 11 Int., 128.4 rating; 167 rushes for 1079 yards, 14 TD.
 
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"They're big and physical," Masoli said of the OSU defense. "They really get after you and don't stop coming. We'll have our work cut out for us.
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"We're going to face the best team we've played all year in Ohio State, but if you're a football player, you couldn't ask for anything more," Masoli said. "I wasn't sure we'd even be here after how we started the season (loss to Boise State), but it's a testament to our coaches that we fought back to get to this point
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Masoli, Oregon took fast track to Rose Bowl berth | honoluluadvertiser.com | The Honolulu Advertiser

Nothing earth shattering here, just a few quotes from the local paper from Masoli.
 
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Heacock and Coleman Video:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindducksbeat/2009/12/rose_bowl_more_ohio_state.html

3:04 length.

Rose Bowl: Ohio State's defense is no-name, but brings plenty of game against Ducks | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

LOS ANGELES -- Ohio State's defense has gone from star-studded to nearly anonymous, but it's still the Buckeyes' best hope to beat Oregon in the Rose Bowl on Friday.

The Buckeyes rank No. 5 nationally in both total defense (262.5 yards per game) and rushing defense (83.42 yards), making them perhaps the best defense Oregon will face all season.

"Not perhaps," Oregon offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich said. "It's the most talented and complete defense we've seen."

This is a unit that placed just one player, senior safety Kurt Coleman, on either the coaches' or media version of the all-Big Ten Conference first team, despite some impressive feats.

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Good article above.

Rose Bowl: Ducks looking for first win in storied game since 1917 | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

Jan. 1, 1958: Ohio State 10, Oregon 7
FileRon Stover | UO receiver had a record 10 Rose Bowl catches in '58Ohio State's Don Sutherin and Oregon's Jack Morris each tried a field goal from the exact same spot -- 24-yard line, right hash mark -- on consecutive drives.

Morris' kick, out of Jack Crabtree's hold in the third quarter, was wide to the left by about a foot.

After the drive, Ohio State got the ball, and the teams switched ends of the field at the end of the third quarter. The Buckeyes' drive stalled and with 14:02 left in the game, Buckeyes quarterback Frank Kremblas placed the ball -- perhaps on the same dirt clod as Crabtree used -- and Sutherin hammered the ball perfectly between the uprights for a 34-yard field goal.

By that margin, the No. 1 Buckeyes broke a 7-7 tie, won the game and averted what would have been one of the biggest upsets in Rose Bowl history.

Or so the experts would have said. The Oregon players wouldn't have thought it an upset at all.

"We felt," said Crabtree, who now lives in Eugene, "that we should have won the ball game. We outdid them in every aspect of the game. Total yards, passing. Everything but the score."

But the paper difference between the two teams was indeed more dramatic. Ohio State had already been declared the national champions.

The Buckeyes entered the bowl game 8-1, with eight consecutive victories after an opening loss to Texas Christian. They had outscored their nine opponents 267-92.

Oregon, on the other hand, was in the Rose Bowl on a technicality. They were 7-3 and had finished the season with a 10-7 loss to Oregon State at Hayward Field. They tied the Beavers for the Pacific Coast Conference championship at 5-2, but the rule then said the Beavers couldn't go twice in a row. They had lost to Iowa the year before.

Oregon took a couple of shots at the end zone after that. A Crabtree pass to Ron Stover, who had a Rose Bowl record 10 catches, got the ball to the Ohio State 24, but at the end of the play Leo Brown blasted him and he crashed to the turf. The ball popped out, and by the rules of the day the ground could cause a fumble. Ohio State defensive back Jim Cannavino recovered.

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Rose Bowl: Buckeyes' road to Pasadena took several twists | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

The 2009 season has become like many recent ones for Ohio State -- a disappointing loss here or there, big wins, Big Ten Conference title and a berth in a BCS bowl game.

Here's how the Buckeyes got to their Rose Bowl matchup against Oregon:

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Mike Tokito gives short summaries on a number of Buckeye games.

Video about Duck Uniform in the Rose Bowl:

Rose Bowl: The Uniform Question | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

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Rose Bowl: Even up-tempo, Chip Kelly and Mark Helfrich have time to debate | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

Interesting portion in the middle.

But just like hitting a fastball pitcher, if the speed is constant, you can catch up to it. It's the changing of speeds that makes it tough.

"I think so,'' said Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Heacock, who has seen elements of Oregon's attack from Toledo, Purdue and Northwestern and last season with Troy but never the whole speedy package. "I think it's a changeup.''

So why and when do Helfrich and Kelly change that tempo? It's not based on any political debate through the headsets. Helfrich spends much of his time looking at the body language of the defense. If guys are winded or on their heels, the tempo goes up.

"If we think we've got somebody starting to stand up, huff and puff, absolutely we'll try to attack,'' Helfrich said. "If we don't know necessarily how they're going to line up to a certain formation, if we're doing something different that week, then we'll try to get them to show their hand. It just depends.''

All this can make it difficult for a defense - even one as big and athletic and disciplined as Ohio State's - to adjust, or even to get playcalls in.

"The number one thing is getting the calls in,'' Heacock said. "Then you've got a chance of getting lined up. If you're not lined up, you've got a problem because they'll getcha.''

In Monday's practice, the Ducks ran 34 plays in 12 minutes, a pretty good clip - anything close to three plays a minute is pretty dizzying. The tempo, that must be Heacock's biggest worry.

No,'' he said with a sigh, "that's probably the third-biggest. The problems they present are schematic.''

And fitting considerable talent into those schemes. The Ducks have talent to put constant big-play pressure on a defense, and that could be the most telling factor in the Rose Bowl. Will Oregon be able to get the "explosion play,'' or will Ohio State - tied for fourth in the nation with 33 takeaways - continue its turnover-forcing ways?

One thing is certain: The Ducks will not be looking for any sustained drives to relieve pressure on their defense. Helfrich was quick to answer a suggestion that perhaps part of an offense's responsibility is to avoid putting its defense in a bad spot.

"Our number one job is to score,'' Helfrich said. "I don't think we approach it that way. We don't operate too much - and I think this comes from Chip - we don't operate too much in 'nots.' ''

Helfrich also shot down another football offense theory that is at the heart of Oregon's spread-option offense and philosophy.

"People talk about a hat on a hat,'' he said. "We don't want a hat on a hat. We'd probably lose that matchup. We want to gain a hat.''

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Rose Bowl: Architect of Buckeyes defense once coached against Ducks at Washington | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

Ohio State does not have many connections to the West Coast, but one member of the coaching staff does have roots in the Pac-10.

Buckeyes defensive coordinator Jim Heacock was the defensive line coach at Washington from 1983 to 1987. He admitted, thought, that the experience isn?t all that useful in preparing for Friday?s game.

?It was a long time ago,? said Heacock, who left Seattle to become head coach at Illinois State.

Heacock, who joined Ohio State as a defensive line coach in 1996 under John Cooper and was elevated to defensive coordinator in 2005, was at Washington before the Ducks-Huskies rivalry hits its most intense period starting with ?The Pick? in 1994. But he still remembers it being a good series.

?I can?t say I had a real hate for them, but Oregon was definitely a rival,? he said.

Heacock won the Frank Broyles Award in 2007 after his Ohio State defense finished first in the nation in total defense (233 yards per game), scoring defense (12.77 points) and passing defense (150.1 yards).
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Masoli Video:

Rose Bowl close-up: Jeremiah Masoli | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

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Rose Bowl: LeGarrette Blount a no-show at media day | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

The full squads of Oregon and Ohio State took turns filing into a conference room at the Los Angeles Marriott Downtown on Wednesday morning - everybody except LeGarrette Blount, that is.

There were conflicting reports about why the Ducks running back was a no-show, but Oregon is not in danger of being fined, according to a Rose Bowl spokesperson.

"Everybody is asked to come,'' Gina Chappin said. "It's our understanding that LeGarrette asked (coach) Chip (Kelly) to not come.''.

But teammate Ed Dickson said Blount was on the bus to go from the team hotel in Beverly Hills to the Marriott but then was taken off, out of concern for a possible deluge of questions from the media throng that numbered well more than a hundred.

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Rose Bowl: Player to watch - Ohio State S Kurt Coleman | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

At 5-foot-11, 195 pounds, Kurt Coleman is hardly a prototypical safety. But no Ohio State player garners the respect he does.

"He's a good leader who loves the game, and he's going to be good at the next level," Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said.

Coleman's teammates so respect him, they voted him the team's most valuable player, as well as the top defensive player. Coleman also was the only Ohio State player selected to both the all-Big Ten Conference coaches and media first teams.

If not for his great play, Coleman's senior season might best have been remembered for a controversy in September, when the Big Ten suspended him for one game for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Illinois backup quarterback Eddie McGee. The penalty, issued two days after the game, drew the ire of Tressel and Buckeyes fans.

But Coleman bounced back in high style in a nationally televised game against 5-0 Wisconsin. He intercepted a first-quarter pass and returned it 89 yards for Ohio State's first touchdown, helping the Buckeyes win 31-13. He also made 14 tackles in the game.

Coleman, a three-year starter, capped the regular season by getting two interceptions in the Buckeyes' 21-10 win over Michigan, giving him five for the season and nine for his career.

Now he and the Buckeyes will try to slow Oregon's potent spread offense. For Coleman, who decided not to enter the NFL draft after last season partly because he didn't like the way it ended -- a last-minute 24-21 loss to Texas in the Fiesta Bowl -- it's an opportunity to end his career with a big win.

"This would be the right way to send the seniors out," he said. "We've been working hard, and you want to leave a champion."
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Rose Bowl: Scout team QBs try to get defenses up to speed on Pryor and Masoli | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

LOS ANGELES -- Their names won?t show up in the boxscore after the Rose Bowl, but Oregon?s Daryle Hawkins and Ohio State?s Chris Fields already have made contributions for their teams going into Friday?s game.

The true freshmen, neither of whom have played in a game this season, have played the roles of the Rose Bowl?s two starting quarterbacks on their respective scout teams.

Oregon?s Jeremiah Masoli and Ohio State?s Terrelle Pryor are unique talents whose ability to run makes them doubly dangerous. Getting a player to mimic them in practice has been vital for the defenses.

?It is a big role,? Fields said. ??I didn?t realize it until I came (to Ohio State). I really didn?t think it was so important going hard on scout team, but I know the importance of it now.?

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Rose Bowl: Players to watch - Ohio State RBs Dan Herron, Brandon Saine | The Ducks Beat - OregonLive.com

When Beanie Wells left Ohio State after his junior year last season, it seemed to open the door for his backup, Dan Herron, to slide into the featured runner role.

But an ankle injury has kept Herron, a sophomore, from carrying the full load. That, in turn, opened the door for junior Brandon Saine. Now Ohio State goes into its Rose Bowl matchup with both ready go against Oregon.

"We love the fact if those two guys are healthy, that's really a good thing for us," Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said.

The backs have garnered the nicknames "Boom" and "Zoom," although they might not go with the player one might assume.

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muffler dragon;1628687; said:
See post #1102. Second Link from the bottom. :tongue2:
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OOPS!... nevertheless a great article.

One of our safeties, John Boyett, is a real feisty little guy... from everything I heard he's got a bit of the napoleon complex and comes off pretty cocky. He's probably the only guy on the Oregon defense who thinks wee'll have "no problem" containing Pryor, lol.
 
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