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Game Thread 2015 Sugar Bowl: (1) Alabama vs. (4) Ohio State, Jan 1st @ 8:30p ET, ESPN (civilized thread)

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kujirakira said:
I doubt crowd noise will be much of a factor in this game...
- NFL stadiums have significantly less capacity than some of the places these teams are used to
- Seating should be split pretty evenly - Ohio State travels. Maybe 60/40 for the home team.

East Lansing has about the same capacity as the Saints and crowd noise wasn't an issue (it was at PSU's 100k+ NAMBLA rally)
Sims has an experience edge I guess... but 1 season as a starter isn't usually what people mean by "experience". Usually we're talking about multi-year starters. Cardale has been around just as long as Sims in a backup role.
I'm more concerned with whatever deficiencies the staff saw to put JT ahead of Cardale. My Scarlet-tinted glasses tell me to believe they didn't see anything wrong, they just saw JT's heisman-esque potential.
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Sims has played/started in 13 straight games and in most of those games he played until the end of the 4th quarter. How many games has Jones started and completed?
 
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What can you tell me about the OSU kicking game? We have an excellent punter and a very strong legged FG kicker with accuracy issues. Our Punt/KO coverage has been very good but our return game has not been consistent.
 
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beau said:
What can you tell me about the OSU kicking game? We have an excellent punter and a very strong legged FG kicker with accuracy issues. Our Punt/KO coverage has been very good but our return game has not been consistent.
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Place-kicking is iffy. A true frosh who has been inconsistent.

Punter doesn't have the strongest leg, but does a really nice job. Aussie kid who will sometimes roll out and kick it Aussie-style. He's boomed a couple this year when OSU really needed it. Where he really, really excels is at dropping them inside the 5/10 yard-line. He had a 58-yarder against Wisky in the Big Ten Championship that hit at the one and backed up and was downed around the 5, leading to the Bosa TD. He had also had a 73-yarder downed at the 2 in that game. He is clutch.
 
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beau said:
What can you tell me about the OSU kicking game? We have an excellent punter and a very strong legged FG kicker with accuracy issues. Our Punt/KO coverage has been very good but our return game has not been consistent.
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I'll reiterate what the others have said:

Our punter is very good and our coverage is very strong. We try to converge the kick return game to a corner with angled kicks and that sometimes results in a kick OOB.

The return game is explosive, but often times worrisome... especially on punt returns.
 
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SloopyHangOn said:
I'll reiterate what the others have said:

Our punter is very good and our coverage is very strong. We try to converge the kick return game to a corner with angled kicks and that sometimes results in a kick OOB.

The return game is explosive, but often times worrisome... especially on punt returns.
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And the field goal efforts have been very iffy from our true freshman scholarship kicker (kickoffs are handled by a walkon ). He has the leg but not the consistency as a frosh (not unlike a number of future stud kickers at osu)
 
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