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Game Thread Game Six: #1 Ohio State 35, Bowling Green 7 (10/07/06)

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NJ-Buckeye;628190; said:
lack of tackling skills still worries me... we HAVE to get this fixed...
when did Freeman forget how?
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Agree 100%. I'll discount everything else that bugged me today and chalk it up to being flat but the tackling has been a problem from day 1.

The offensive style of scUM is exactly the kind of team that would hurt us badly if we don't improve a lot over the next 5 weeks.
 
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Muck;628185; said:
I never thought I'd say this a couple of years ago...but now I absolutely LOVE the fact that every team the Bucks play honestly thinks they were only a few plays away from winning the game.

It's took me long enough to figure out that Coach Tressell does the absolute least amount necessary to win...so that when it comes down to brass tacks (TSUN & Bowls) he can unleash a team that no one saw coming.

Think the rest of college football will ever figure it out?

Absolutely brilliant.

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I agree. JT experiments when he makes it sound like each game is the most important one of the season. I think that's a great stratedy when you try different things with an offense and a young defense, and it WILL pay dividens later.

However, addressing NJBuck's analysis, tackling must get better; that is one area that should be constant every game. Hopefully they figure it out before the scUM game, less we have another Biakabatuka experience.

No need to force force Freeman. A Homan, Terry, Animal Jr. lineup is more than adequate.
 
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Nice review; thanks for taking the time.

That being said, I think you over-graded the O-line. Pass blocking has been an A, but run blocking isn't there yet. That's what we'll need to be a Championship team. Some of these teams should have been blown off the ball, but they haven't been. Many of those yards are due to Pitt's efforts. Here's to improving. Depth has been greath though.
 
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Muck;628185; said:
I never thought I'd say this a couple of years ago...but now I absolutely LOVE the fact that every team the Bucks play honestly thinks they were only a few plays away from winning the game.

It's took me long enough to figure out that Coach Tressell does the absolute least amount necessary to win...so that when it comes down to brass tacks (TSUN & Bowls) he can unleash a team that no one saw coming.

Think the rest of college football will ever figure it out?

Absolutely brilliant.

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I've been thinking about this too. Tressel likes to comfortably beat opponents and seems to prefer a 2-3 score margin.

In my experience, there are 3 kinds of losses:

Loss by 1 score - aka the heart breaker. This is a dangerous way to beat opponents because one bad play costs you the game. These losses tend to leave teams deflated and increases the risk of your adversary having a 'hangover' in their next game.

Generally, you want your opponent to do well before and after you play them, so this is definitely not the preferred way to win.

Loss by 2-3 scores - aka tressel ball. This is the best way to beat opponents because your risk of losing is extremely low. (<5% last I checked) Even though your opponents odds are staggeringly low, they still believe they are in the game.

Once the eventually lose, they blame themselves for the loss instead of understanding that they were, in fact, soundly beaten. They tend to say things like, "If you take away my 2 interceptions, our team would have been right in this game."

Loss by 4+ scores - aka petey ball. When you mercilessly detroy an inferior opponent, you open yourself up for (at least) three bad things happening to you.

1) Injuring your key playmakers after the game was put away already.
2) You just fueled a fire for next year's REVENGE match.
3) It demoralizes and embarrasses your opponent while making your team look like a bunch of @ssholes.

This weakens your conference because it detracts from the fun of the game (anyone want to play for Rice?) and makes it harder to schedule quality opponents.
 
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BGDrew;628149; said:
No offense, but BG cared about this game as much as our game against FIU. This game meant nothing to the BG season, and we spent the same amount of time getting ready for it as we would any OOC game.
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You don't really believe that, now do you?
 
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Dispatch

A winning exercise
Long TD pass caps so-so day for OSU

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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KARL KUNTZ COLUMBUS DISPATCH A host of Buckeye defenders combine to bring down Falcons running back Chris Bullock.
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Ohio State?s Troy Smith (10) looks to throw a block as Ted Ginn, Jr. looks for running room in the win over Bowling Green in Ohio Stadium.


Bowling Green was already beaten. Trailing Ohio State by 21 points in the fourth quarter yesterday, the Falcons did not seem capable of mounting a comeback.
But the Buckeyes had been a little blah, just a bit underwhelming for their taste. They mostly had nibbled around the edges of the Falcons defense without taking a big bite.
Something had to be done.
On the first play of a drive from OSU?s 43-yard line, the call came in from the sideline. Center Doug Datish said offensive linemen don?t know all the pass routes on every play, "but we know when this one comes up."
This one was a go route for Ted Ginn Jr., who certainly can go. The Buckeyes got their juices flowing.
"We were like, ?Let?s protect for a long time here,? " Datish said.
They did, and quarterback Troy Smith fired one of those photogenic spirals about 60 yards in the air. Ginn was two steps behind cornerback Antonio Smith. Ginn caught it for a 57-yard touchdown that was the final score in a 35-7 victory.
"I was especially pleased with the last one," OSU coach Jim Tressel said. "We need people to know that we?re going to go deep. People need to know that?s part of who we are and who we need to be."
It wasn?t about tacking on another TD. It was about being not just good but scary-dangerous, about looking and feeling like the nation?s No. 1 team.
It was something to settle the Buckeyes? stomachs after a day in which Tressel said OSU?s effort felt, "worthwhile, but not wonderful."
That?s a statement on the standards he has for OSU (6-0), which extended its win streak to 13, tops in the country.
Smith added to his Heisman Trophy resume, completing 17 of 20 passes for 191 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. He also had a season-high 54 rushing yards.
Besides the one to Ginn, Smith threw scoring passes to tight end Rory Nicol and Ray Small, the first TDs of the season for each.
Antonio Pittman rushed for 61 yards on 13 carries and two first-half scores. Ginn had a career-high 10 catches (for 122 yards).
And though the defense gave up 339 yards to the Falcons (3-3), it forced a turnover and gave up just one TD or less for the fifth time in six times. The special teams contributed a key blocked fieldgoal attempt, as well.
"They just have so many weapons that you have to account for," BG coach Gregg Brandon said. "Those weapons got to us like they?ve gotten to everybody else."
Overall, though, the feel was more of a spring game or intrasquad scrimmage. Maybe it was because it was a one-week hiatus from the emotion of a Big Ten season.
"We didn?t do as well as we wanted, we didn?t improve, we felt like we just stayed the same," defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock said.
OSU drove for a 7-0 lead on its first possession. BG answered with a decent drive and lined up for a 50-yard fieldgoal try, but it was blocked by freshman Kurt Coleman.
Taking over on their 47, the Buckeyes moved to the Falcons 26 before two penalties backed them up and left them facing a third-and-26 from the BG 42.
Smith fumbled a bad shotgun snap, picked it up and rolled left. He reversed field to the right, saw an opening and scooted 34 yards to the 8.
It was his longest run of the season.
"It was like watching Play-Station, it was unbelievable," Brandon said.
Pittman scored on the next play for a 14-0 lead. An interception by defensive end Vernon Gholston set up another Pittman score for a 21-0 edge at halftime.
Bowling Green used its funky, no-huddle offense to grind out a 15-play, 85-yard drive for a score coming out of halftime, a possession that took nearly nine minutes off the clock.
BG quarterback Anthony Turner was 16-of-24 passing for 179 yards with a TD and one interception. Chris Bullock rushed for 72 yards on 21 carries.
Any hope for a Falcons rally was killed when OSU answered with 70-yard drive capped by Smith?s 11-yard toss to Small, a freshman.
Afterward, the Buckeyes were relaxed. Asked about the condition of the turf, which was replaced two weeks ago, Tressel even joked a bit, saying, "the sideline was extraordinary."
Answering the same question, Smith spotted an opportunity and took advantage.
"There were a lot of little divots and stuff out there, uneven spaces," he said. "(It will) take some time to beat it up a little bit, fall on it a little more, run some more deep routes, we?ll be OK."
He elbowed Tressel. Both of them smiled. After that last touchdown, there was no reason not to.
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Dispatch

OHIO STATE NOTEBOOK
Linemen exit after sustaining injuries

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Tim May and Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




Top-ranked Ohio State popped in-state, nonconference foe Bowling Green as expected yesterday, but it won?t be known until later in the week whether it came at the expense of a starter on each of the offensive and defensive lines for the Big Ten game at Michigan State.
Right tackle Kirk Barton, who apparently had sprained his left foot in practice last week, tweaked it again early in the first quarter and left for the day. Later in the half, defensive tackle David Patterson had to leave after twisting his left knee.
"It happened while I was making a cut," said Patterson, who had to be helped off with 10:46 left in the second quarter. "But I think I?m going to be all right."
OSU coach Jim Tressel said he expected them both "to be fine" but added that Patterson?s status in particular could be "day to day" this week.
Coleman unfettered

Freshman defensive back Kurt Coleman made a name for himself as a playmaker in practice after enrolling early this past spring so he could take part in spring drills. Finally, he said, he got the chance to do it in a game, coming clean to block a BG field goal attempt in the first quarter.
"I have just been waiting for my chance to get out there and do whatever I can for this team" Coleman said. "We knew coming into the game the snapper was a little slow, so I knew I could get a good bead on it and get that ball."
Catch and lateral

Linebacker James Laurinaitis caught the blocked field goal in mid-air, then lateraled to safety Jamario O?Neal, who returned it 14 yards. Laurinaitis, who leads the team with four interceptions, had been chided by the defensive backs to lateral the next time he got the ball, so he did, and the coaches didn?t complain. At least yesterday.
"We?ll find out what they really think (today)," Laurinaitis said. "But it obviously worked. If it didn?t work, the reaction might have been ?What are you thinking?? "
Secret is out

Smith said he was challenged this week in practice by an at-first unindentified coaches aide to start showing better touch on deep passes after he misfired on home run balls the last few games.
Smith, apparently, is a better quarterback than confidant.
"It was a defensive back who played here in the late 1990s, a guy I have a lot of respect for, and a guy who everybody knows because he was a great player at Ohio State ? a guy named Ahmed Plummer," he said of the former pro for the San Francisco 49 ers who is now student-assistant strength coach.
Quick hitters

This season marks the 23 rd time Ohio State has started a season 6-0. The last time was 2002, when it finished 14-0 and won the national title ? OSU has outscored opponents 76-16 in the fourth quarter. ? Smith was 17-of-20 passing, an 85 percent completion rate that is third all time at Ohio State. William Mrukowski was 10 of 11 (90.9) against UCLA in 1961, and Stanley Jackson was 13 of 15 (86.7) against Indiana in 1997.

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