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Game Thread Game Five: Penn State 17, Ohio State 10 (Final)

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Well, that's two of the finest defenses one will see anytime soon. OSU may have better individual players, but Penn State played quite well as a unit tonight. I can't remember too many games where the playcalling seemed to be as "afraid" as it was tonight from both teams. Of course, one team was ahead, and one wasn't, and both teams called plays like they were ahead. Obviously it worked for one and not the other.

The turnovers were they key, plain and simple, and one would be hard pressed to find a game where turnovers played the basically singular role, because bothe defense dominated tonight.

As for the ref crying, I'm not surprised...Big Ten officiating is always bad. Most of the calls didn't matter anyway, because both teams were punting all the time, and even if one considers the holding not called on Penn State, there's still no excuse for the OSU offense playing like it did.

Hats off to both teams...I saw a lot of heart, a lot of effort, and that's all anyone can ask...though a few more positive offensive plays would have been nice.
 
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bukIpower said:
I dont' think we've had one good offensive team since tressel to be honest. We played lights out when MoC played the first 5 games, and after he got hurt it was ugly the rest the way.
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I agree. And I think it starts with offensive line play. Look back to the time to which you refer, when MoC had us playing lights out--we only moved the ball b/c he broke tackles like crazy (remember the Wash. St. game?). As I said, I think our poor offensive performance all starts with the offensive line play, and I do NOT think it's a question of us not having the talent.
 
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  • Total offense of 195 yards..
  • Winning points differencial coming on a bumble headed int back to the two...
  • 5 penalties CALLED for 29 yards
  • Bewildering # of holding penalties not called... including on the 26 yd run
hardly makes me think of PSU as a team to tip my hat off to...

whereas
  • Throwing passes to folks not open
  • Not throwing passes to folks who were open
  • Not catching easy balls that would have resulted in 1st downs
  • Performing miserably on punt returns
  • Missing block after block
makes me want to throw my hat at a few folks
 
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buckeyeboy said:
I don't mean to sound overly negative after a loss, but did anyone else feel like in the 4th quarter, despite the fact that our D forced another punt, that there was no way our offense was going to drive down the field and score a TD? I know PSU's defense is much, much better than Iowa's, but our O looked like two entirely different teams against those two opponents.
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Joe Paterno. A few of the Penn State fans who didn't agree booed him just before their last punt.
 
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Wonder why Northwestern didn't have that much trouble putting up 427 yds on that PSU defense?

Answer; they have a QB that can run their offense.

Lets not strain any muscles giving PSU too brisk a blowjob here fellas, we are the better team and fucked this one up 8 ways to Sunday.
 
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I think a big factor tonight was Holmes. He looked very gimpy. Not only slow, but he didn't get up into coverage for a few passes, which is very unlike him (he's not afraid to take a hit). This entire season our passing game has revolved around holmes... with some other guys sprinkled in. I would be very curious to hear how healthy he was. We should ahve adjusted, but against an elite D that is bad news
 
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Bucklion said:
I had to laugh at that. Any idiot could see that if Penn State wanted their best chance to win the game, the offense was definitely NOT who they wanted on the field.
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No joke. The only way PSU was going to lose that game was if their O turned the ball over in the 4th quarter or we blocked a punt. Our O had no chance of driving down the field and scoring a TD.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Wonder why Northwestern didn't have that much trouble putting up 427 yds on that PSU defense?

Answer; they have a QB that can run their offense.

Lets not strain any muscles giving PSU too brisk a blowjob here fellas, we are the better team and fucked this one up 8 ways to Sunday.
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I don't mean any disrespect Jax, but are you saying that the other team should never get any credit when we lose a game? Their D played a good game...didn't they? Maybe they didn't play that well against NW, but they played well tonight, and ours did too...just as good as theirs, unfortunately without the fortuitous turnover, which was the main difference in the game.

Texas played well, the Penn State defense played well, and we didn't play well enough.
 
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Wonder why Northwestern didn't have that much trouble putting up 427 yds on that PSU defense?

Answer; they have a QB that can run their offense.

Lets not strain any muscles giving PSU too brisk a blowjob here fellas, we are the better team and fucked this one up 8 ways to Sunday.
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Nailed it Jax.
 
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buckeyeboy said:
No joke. The only way PSU was going to lose that game was if their O turned the ball over in the 4th quarter or we blocked a punt. Our O had no chance of driving down the field and scoring a TD.
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That and the fact that the PSU offense couldn't do dick against our defense except hang onto the ball...which, in the end, unfortunately turned out to be enough. The boo birds were just stupid.
 
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I mean I just wanna say GO BUCKS !!! I love this school, but man is this disappointing. Once again everyone knows why I think we're struggling on offense so theirs no need to go over my points. I feel so extreamly bad for Hawk and Co. cuz man do they put us in the position to score every week. Its just frustrating when you're so talented but you just can't get it done.

Never said it so I'll say it... HATS OFF TO PENN STATE TONIGHT. "welcome back". #31 on defense is a bad ass.
 
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I'm not trying to be negative but.....

Every coach since the 1940s (Paul Brown) has been fired from Ohio State. Will this consistenly shitty offense and subsequent stubborness to do anything about it be JT's ultimate downfall?
 
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Bucklion said:
I don't mean any disrespect Jax, but are you saying that the other team should never get any credit when we lose a game? Their D played a good game...didn't they? Maybe they didn't play that well against NW, but they played well tonight, and ours did too...just as good as theirs, unfortunately without the fortuitous turnover, which was the main difference in the game.

Texas played well, the Penn State defense played well, and we didn't play well enough.
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My point was that our offense helped make PSU's defense look a lot better than it really is.

They seem to have a knack for that particular trick.

USF, UC, Minny and NU all put up more total offense against that same defense than we did tonight.
 
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