Game Thread Game One: Ohio State 38, Youngstown St. 6 (final)

[Zurp]

I'm not as confident as you are. Ohio State wins 28-10. Basically, one touchdown per quarter for Ohio State, and they give up a second-quarter touchdown to YSU, after some type of bad play (turnover deep in OSU territory, long punt return, etc). Add a field goal in there somewhere for YSU, as well.

Youngstown connections or not, there's no way Tressel will allow us to leave a I-AA team within 20 points. I've been looking for the thread in which a lot of us made some score predictions for this game (you'd figure it would've been this thread) and some were predicting a relatively low score such as Zurp's, and others predicting a total blowout (54-7, 48-0, etc.). JT will realease the hounds from the beginning and then call them back home once we're up 30+ to nothing. He'll keep our score around the low 40s. He'll want to make sure that Ohio State takes care of business against a I-AA team, yet not embarrass his former team (and give the backups and bench players plenty of game experience). I'm saying it'll be around 41-7 or 44-10, with the second half being played by our 2nd- and 3rd-stringers. No way in hell does YSU play us to 28-10.

Obviously, I was wrong in my prediction, and you were right. We should probably try to keep it quiet, though. The entire board would lose respect for life, itself, if it was known that Zurp was wrong about a prediction.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

Ohio State has enough to slide past Penguins
Sunday, September 2, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS As the winds of historical upsets swirled through the Big Ten, Ohio State wasn't what anyone thought it would be. The Buckeyes struggled running the football, and quarterback Todd Boeckman didn't look like a guy making his first start Saturday against Youngstown State.

Against a lesser opponent, Boeckman didn't look that much different than - gasp - Troy Smith. Then again, this was Youngstown State.

"It didn't matter if it was St. Henry High School," Boeckman said after leading Ohio State to a 38-6 win over the overmatched Penguins. "There were 105,000 people in the stands. ... I was excited."

Boeckman threw for 225 yards and two touchdowns, three true freshmen scored TDs and starting tailback Beanie Wells averaged fewer than 3 yards a carry on his 16 attempts. Nevertheless, Ohio State's season opening thumping over Division I-AA YSU went much better than things in Ann Arbor.

Continued......

 

[BrutusMaximus]

Everyone talking about the o-line play and the lack of running game......I saw things a tad different. Dont disagree that the o-line didnt look good, and didnt play together, but I also thought that the play calling in the running game was very basic and generic. Of course they really didnt have to show much, and that is always better. I saw the same pulling-guard, off tackle plays over and over, especially when Beanie was in there. When YSU could put 10 guys in the box because they knew what was coming, they did, and that's just hard to run against. Seemed like the guard-pulling was slow to develope as well, which allowed massive penetration.

Give em a couple games and see what happens, but I will never understand why, when you get inside the 5, you MUST line up and cram it up the middle. A fake there, and a pitch to the outside, naked bootleg, etc..........and you score easily.

 

[osugrad21]

On a scale of 1-10 in complexity for an offensive scheme, this game was a 2.

If anyone is expecting anything different next week, go ahead and get ready for more of the same...unless the game is closer than expected.

JT is not going to show anything this early...right now, this is like the scrimmage season in HS ball...throw a bunch of kids in the fire and see how they respond.

 

[Taosman]

When you can play that many people, you know it's no contest.
But, there were many interesting moments and play.
Boeckman looks solid and this is his team.
Many freshman are good enough to contribute this year.
WRs looked good.
Beanie, looked uninterested.
Saine looked like a excellent back.
Coaches got to look at lots of kids.
Homan looks like he may have passed Freeman at outside LBer.
Freeman missed several tackles.

Expect to see more movement in the depth chart/starting groups.

 

[ShakerBuck]

Did anyone else who watched notice the Buckeyes didn't run any play-action. Its almost like they telegraphed their plays and let YSU know what was comming... hmm

I do recall at least one play action....a pass to (TE) Ballard. for about 9 yards

 

[cincibuck]

Everyone talking about the o-line play and the lack of running game......I saw things a tad different. Dont disagree that the o-line didnt look good, and didnt play together, but I also thought that the play calling in the running game was very basic and generic. Of course they really didnt have to show much, and that is always better. I saw the same pulling-guard, off tackle plays over and over, especially when Beanie was in there. When YSU could put 10 guys in the box because they knew what was coming, they did, and that's just hard to run against. Seemed like the guard-pulling was slow to develope as well, which allowed massive penetration.

Give em a couple games and see what happens, but I will never understand why, when you get inside the 5, you MUST line up and cram it up the middle. A fake there, and a pitch to the outside, naked bootleg, etc..........and you score easily.

If you can't punch it in on first and goal... and they amply demonstrated that they couldn't... against Youngstown State you don't have a running game. It reminded me of 2004 - 05. You begin to wonder just what sort of attraction/benefit Jim Bollman brings to the coaching staff.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

On a scale of 1-10 in complexity for an offensive scheme, this game was a 2.

If anyone is expecting anything different next week, go ahead and get ready for more of the same...unless the game is closer than expected.

JT is not going to show anything this early...right now, this is like the scrimmage season in HS ball...throw a bunch of kids in the fire and see how they respond.

Hell, I don't think we'll see much til Purdue. By then, hopefully Boeckman will be able to hit Hartline once in a while .... :p (He's (Hartline) on my fantasy team, so I'm being jokingly critical)

 

[lvbuckeye]

Heres what we need to work on though at first Ohio state didn't do well on the goal line or runnig the ball. Hopefully this doesn't Happen again.

in short yardage situations, YSU's D-line was just submarining our O-line and creating a big pile, with the LBs filling the holes. rather than go outside or run play action, Tressel chose to run straight at it... probably for a couple reasons. 1) he didn't want to run up the score. it's not like we couldn't have thrown up 50 or more points if we wanted to, and 2) to get the kids to experience some difficulty. remember what happens when you have it too easy all season?

 

[lvbuckeye]

Was it just me, or was Malcolm Jenkins lined up as a Safety on a few plays?

it wasn't just you. he was shifting over to free safety in the nickel.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Ahem.

Throat problems?

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

I'm saying it'll be around 41-7 or 44-10...

Damn, I need to start playing in my LoTwo Pick'em game...

 

[lvbuckeye]

Everyone talking about the o-line play and the lack of running game......I saw things a tad different. Dont disagree that the o-line didnt look good, and didnt play together, but I also thought that the play calling in the running game was very basic and generic. Of course they really didnt have to show much, and that is always better. I saw the same pulling-guard, off tackle plays over and over, especially when Beanie was in there. When YSU could put 10 guys in the box because they knew what was coming, they did, and that's just hard to run against. Seemed like the guard-pulling was slow to develope as well, which allowed massive penetration.

Give em a couple games and see what happens, but I will never understand why, when you get inside the 5, you MUST line up and cram it up the middle. A fake there, and a pitch to the outside, naked bootleg, etc..........and you score easily.

you should know by now that Tressel saves those plays for the end of the season... no reason to give TSUN or PSU or Wisky a chance to watch it on film...

 

[osugrad21]

Blade

Article published Monday, September 3, 2007
Alumni band plays sour tune for 400 OSU football fans

ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS - A computer glitch caused a ticket mix-up that displaced about 400 Ohio State fans who had arrived to watch the Buckeyes take on Youngstown State, but instead found the OSU alumni band already in the same seats, university officials said. Officials told the miffed fans on Saturday that they'd have to wait in a line for a seat reassignment or a refund.

Cont...

 

[OmahaBeef]

]If you can't punch it in on first and goal[/B]... and they amply demonstrated that they couldn't... against Youngstown State you don't have a running game. It reminded me of 2004 - 05. You begin to wonder just what sort of attraction/benefit Jim Bollman brings to the coaching staff.

I think it was WAY too early to make the statement that "[we] don't have a running game" if you honestly meant that.