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2020 Team Discussion Thread

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GovTressel said:
The only option to play any of the games will be without fans...I have to believe that’s not likely.

The majority of normal life will return in 2-3 months, albeit with some adjustments....but until a vaccine is produced and distributed, things like concerts and sporting events will not be a reality.
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I hear you, BUT...

1997:
OSU Ath Dept Phone: Andy Geiger here, what's up?
ABC: Hey, Andy, how you doing?
Geiger: Just fine, looking forward to kicking off the season with Wyoming.
ABC: That's just great, but look, we have a hole in our schedule. Could you move that to Thursday?
Geiger: Hey, man, we're Ohio State. we don't do Thursday games.
ABC: I understand but see, we got this hole in the schedule, nobody who's anybody wants to play anybody, and we're sittin' here with a prime time need to fill.
Geiger: Have you tried Cincinnati, or maybe Miami - either one of 'em, how about West Virginia?
ABC: That's nobody playing nobody and that means nobody watching. So, I'm sitting here and looking at your schedule and I see small school out of state handout, and I got a shit ton of commercial money and you've got a team that would draw 100k just to line up and scrimmage, which also means I've got something that will kill the ratings in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Western Pennsylvania, and make the folks at Buffalo Wild Wings happy as a pig in shit. What say I shovel some of that shit pot full of commercial money your way?
Geiger: You know, I always wondered what it would be like to put up some lights and do a little Thursday football.

1998:
OSU Ath Dept Phone: Andy Geiger, what does the great World of Sports want?
ABC: We want you to open the season at West Virginia. You look like your loaded. They look like they could be trouble. It's the season opener and no one else is playing anybody worth turning on the set to watch. How about you get on a bus and play in Morgantown?
Geiger: You kidding? We got a potential Big Ten Championship team. We want to get back to Pasadena. We're Ohio State, we open at home.
ABC: I got big ol' shit pot full of commercial money. We'll do a lot more than pick up the cost of those busses to Morgantown.
Geiger: You know, I always wanted to open the season against a top 15 team in their place.

2017:
OSU Ath Dept Phone: Gene Smith here, what does ESPN need?
ESPN: We got a hole in our schedule. It's August. all the schools open before Labor Day, so families are home from vacation. The pros are still playing intramural football. Nobody wants to play anybody and that means nobody will be watching. I got folks on the line who really want to get their product out there and are offering me a shit ton of money if I can get you to open on Thursday, August 31 at Indiana.
Smith: Hey, we're OSU we don't open conference play in August. We especially don't open conference play in August against that Jeckyl and Hyde bunch from down in the sticks. Have you thought about Cincinnati, TCU, Baylor? Why not get Clemson to open on the road against a team with a pulse? How about Alabama playing somebody other than an FCS team?
ESPN: I hear you Gene, but we got this opening and IU wants this game sooo bad they're willing to give us a break on their costs, and I got a shit pot full of money to play with if you get my drift.
Smith: Ya Know, I always wanted to kick off the season with a meaningful conference game...

2020:
OSU Ath Dept Phone: Gene Smith here, what does ESPN need?
ESPN: Gene this damn COVID-19 has really fucked us over. No NBA playoffs - and let's be honest here, that's the only part of the NBA people care about. MLB has a cock-a-menie scheme to put half the teams in Arizona and the other half in Florida - Florida, where the batshit crazy governor wants to spread corona virus like Easter candy. and then there's the Red Sox trading away half their team and there goes our plan to have them play the Yankees every weekend. Who knows whats going on in the NFL what with Tom Brady in Tampa - fucking Tampa. I can sell Miami, New York, LA, Chicago, but no, Golden Boy signs with fucking Tampa and the championship trophy is in Kansas City which half the TV audience and the President thinks is in Kansas and which has a market slightly bigger than Piqua, Ohio. So I gotta an audience starved for sports and I got Budweiser, Coors, Mercedes, Ford and Chevy truck, Chuck Schwab and Ameritrade foaming at the mouth to get the economy rolling and showing me bags of money and all I'm asking of you is to open the season with the stands empty. How sweet do I need to make it?
Smith: Ya know I always wondered what it would be like to have a game with maybe ten people from the newspapers, Herbie and your crew - hey, with the stands empty, it'd be safe for Herbie to come back to Columbus.
 
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THE MISSING SPRING. Right now, we should be about a week removed from a fake football game we'll all read into way too much in vain attempts to prognosticate about next season.

Instead, the players have been doing the same thing we've been doing: staying at home, waiting out a global pandemic (full disclosure, if they've been doing exactly the same thing I've been doing, you can go ahead and write off a natty this year because my body is probably 2% takeout food and Dr. Pepper at any given moment).

It's definitely not ideal for them to miss an entire spring practice, for a variety of reasons.

Garrett Wilson went from outside receiver to slot receiver, Harry Miller slid from center to left guard and Baron Browning moved from inside linebacker to outside linebacker.

They were all trial runs, a hallmark of the spring season when coaches have more leeway to reconfigure rosters.

“When you’re in training camp and you have an idea, you’ll tweak with it a little bit,” Carpenter said. “But in spring, that’s when you experiment with all that stuff and see how it looks. Some of it looks good, you carry on, and then you keep paring it down. Some of it looks bad in the spring and you throw it out right away. But this is the opportunity of when you try to figure out, ‘Is there anything unique we can do?’”

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Carpenter said younger receivers also stood to benefit from spring practice, as they had a chance to work on their timing with quarterback Justin Fields. That included four freshmen who were among the 14 early enrollees, as well as Wilson, who was a freshman last fall.

“They’re trying to figure out what those guys do well, how they get in and out of their breaks, how to run routes to the liking of the quarterback,” Carpenter said. “And then where are you going to try to fit them in?”

I know everybody across the country is dealing with the same thing, but it's impressively shitty timing for Ohio State to have the most early enrollees in program history when they can't benefit from it.

It's especially shitty when they pretty much need at least one of those early enrollee receivers to start this season. However, the fact that all four of them are top-100 players coming out of high school does abate my anxieties a bit.
 
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ESPN's FPI makes projections for every Ohio State football game

After a 13-1 finish, a third straight Big Ten championship and a College Football Playoff berth, Ohio State is primed for another big season in 2020.

ESPN.com is rolling out its Football Power Index (FPI) for the new season. These computerized rankings can give us a decent idea of how Ohio State will do next fall. Of course, it helps to understand what the FPI is before we dive into its projections for OSU in every game next season.

Here's how ESPN describes the FPI:

FPI is a predictive rating system designed to measure team strength and project performance going forward. The ultimate goal of FPI is not to rank teams 1 through 128; rather, it is to correctly predict games and season outcomes. If Vegas ever published the power rankings it uses to set its lines, they would likely look quite a lot like FPI.

Correctly predicting game outcomes can’t be done by evaluating teams’ records because some teams are stronger than their records indicate (lots of close losses), and others have favorable schedules. Both of these situations are reflected in the game- and season-level projections.

It is important to note what FPI is not -- FPI is not a playoff predictor, and it is not designed to identify the four teams most deserving of making the College Football Playoff. ESPN has other metrics, including Strength of Record, that can be used to identify the most deserving teams.

Using the FPI rankings, Ohio State is predicted to have a 90 percent or better chance to win 10 of its 12 regular season games. The two outliers are the road games at Oregon and Penn State, where OSU is predicted to win each game by a likelihood of roughly 62 percent.

Let's take a look at Ohio State’s overall FPI metrics as well as the FPI's game-by-game projections for the Buckeyes (and also my early predictions on start times for OSU’s 2020 games).

OHIO STATE OVERALL FPI METRICS

* FPI Score: 30.0

* FPI Rank: Second nationally

* Projected Win-Loss Record: 11.3-1.3 (second nationally)

* Chances of Winning Out: 18.4 percent

* Chances of Winning Conference: 49.3 percent

* SOS Remaining Rank: 24th

See projections for all the games: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...tions-for-2020-season-146302370/#146302370_12

MICHIGAN
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Jim Harbaugh is back for his sixth season as the Michigan coach
* Date: Nov. 28

* Location: Ohio Stadium

* Result/Projection: 91.7 percent Ohio State win

* The Series: Michigan is 58-51-6 all-time against Ohio State. OSU has won the teams’ last eight meetings, including last year’s 56-27 rout in Ann Arbor. OSU has won its last nine home games against Michigan, dating to a loss in 2000.

* The Skinny: Michigan (9-4, 6-3) moves on from Shea Patterson at quarterback. Coach Jim Harbaugh is back for his sixth year at the helm at his alma mater. He will decide between a pair of 6-5 juniors Dylan McCaffrey and Joe Milton.

RB Chris Evans is due back after missing last year due to injury. Zach Charbonnet and Hassan Haskins shared that role last season. Nico Collins and Ronnie Bell are back at wide receiver.

Michigan has a decent enough group returning on defense to where the Wolverines should be able to again push for nine or 10 wins.

Michigan’s FPI ranking is 12.9 (19th nationally). That would make Ohio State a 17-point favorite over Michigan.
 
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