Game Thread Game Ten: Ohio State 38, Wisconsin 17 (final)

[osugrad21]

ABJ

Running back racks up yardage in second half Boeckman says it's fun to watch Wells move
By George M. Thomas Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Sunday, Nov 04, 2007


COLUMBUS: After Wisconsin went ahead by seven points against Ohio State in the third quarter at Ohio Stadium on Saturday, things looked bleak.
Then as if it were some grand revelation, Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel remembered that he had a running back in Chris ''Beanie'' Wells, someone who possessed a scary mix of power and speed. Wells heard his number called often after that, and he answered in a way that erases any doubt as to his ability to put the Buckeyes on his broad shoulders and carry them.
Wells gained 169 yards on 21 carries and scored three times in the second half to lead OSU to a 38-17 win.



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[osugrad21]

ABJ

Shifting gears on offense puts OSU in fast lane Tressel switches to run after Badgers seize lead
Published on Sunday, Nov 04, 2007


COLUMBUS: How can a football team that averages 5.9 yards per rush, whose quarterback throws two touchdown passes and no interceptions, whose defense brutalizes the opposing quarterback with 10 sacks and gives up only 12 yards on the ground, win by a mere 21 points?
How does a team that gives up five plays of 22 or more yards ? including 50- and 46-yard passes ? commits seven penalties for 76 yards, has possession of the ball for less than 28 minutes and allows a successful fake punt win by as many as 21 points?


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[osugrad21]

CPD

Ohio State Buckeyes' Chris Wells carries Buckeyes to victory

Smashmouth second half lifts Buckeyes to win

Sunday, November 04, 2007 Doug Lesmerises

Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Limping to the bus an hour after Saturday's win, Ohio State sophomore Beanie Wells looked like he could barely carry his suitbag, much less the No. 1 team in the country.
When the Buckeyes needed him against Wisconsin, after giving up a second-half lead for the first time this season, Wells cut down the Badgers with a couple of cutbacks and sprinted toward the end zone on the road back to the national title game.
Ohio State's 38-17 victory was its first home win over Wisconsin in four tries and left the Buckeyes (10-0, 6-0 Big Ten) needing wins over Illinois and Michigan to finish another perfect regular season. But when the No. 21 Badgers (7-3, 3-3) turned a 10-3 halftime deficit into a 17-10 third-quarter lead with two lengthy touchdown marches, the Buckeyes didn't look like the best team in Ohio Stadium, much less the country.




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[osugrad21]

CPD

Ohio State Buckeyes take advantage of Wisconsin's botched fake punt


Sunday, November 04, 2007Mark Gillispie
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Wisconsin surprised Ohio State in the first quarter Saturday with a fake punt that turned into a 31-yard pass completion. That play set up a field goal that narrowed the OSU lead to 7-3.
Punter Ken DeBauche threw the pass, a surprisingly well-thrown ball on a tricky sideline route.
DeBauche attempted some trickery again in the fourth quarter, but that time the only player faked out was DeBauche, who was tackled behind the line of scrimmage while trying to run for a first down.




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[MililaniBuckeye]

The lolcats just shook their heads and walked away...

Good call, Nostradamus

I'm glad we can look back on this and laugh.

Yeah, I already ripped myself for my moment of misguided dispair:

We will lose this game. Our streak is over. Just too many things going Wisconsin's way...

Nice call, you chicken-legged old pasty fuck...

It was said in a moment of doubt, but your humor and candor redeem.

Still no excuse for doubting my team...I've never been happier to have been so wrong on a premenition...

 

[osugrad21]

Canton

It ends Wells for OSU
Sunday, November 4, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS Bloodied, bruised and left slumped in a corner against the ropes, Ohio State's season was taking a standing eight count. Wisconsin, not ready to leave the Big Ten championship picture and hoping to salvage a two-loss season, gave the Buckeyes more than they could handle.

The Badgers led by 7 in the third quarter, and college football fans around the nation turned into rubber-neckers.

Nothing to see here, folks. Ohio State fought back with a 10-sack effort from the defense and a dominating rushing game from Chris Wells to save its national title hopes with a 38-17 win.

"We came out, got some points and got punched back in the mouth a couple of times," said Ohio State receiver Brian Hartline, who had career highs with seven catches and 95 yards, including a 45-yarder. "Then we fought back.

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[osugrad21]

Yeah, I already ripped myself for my moment of misguided dispair:

Eh, I dinged ya too...just to make sure

 

[Best Buckeye]

CPD

Ohio State Buckeyes take advantage of Wisconsin's botched fake punt


Sunday, November 04, 2007Mark Gillispie
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Wisconsin surprised Ohio State in the first quarter Saturday with a fake punt that turned into a 31-yard pass completion. That play set up a field goal that narrowed the OSU lead to 7-3.
Punter Ken DeBauche threw the pass, a surprisingly well-thrown ball on a tricky sideline route.
DeBauche attempted some trickery again in the fourth quarter, but that time the only player faked out was DeBauche, who was tackled behind the line of scrimmage while trying to run for a first down.

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They said on TV that the punter missed a signal from the bench just as in this article. I wonder if he had visions of a second chance at glory blinding him from the coaches and signals. :tongue2:

 

[Best Buckeye]

Eh, I dinged ya too...just to make sure

You wouldn't have enough dings to give one to everyone who went "astray" yesterday , Grad . :tongue2:

 

[osugrad21]

Lima

OSU passes test in adversity
Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 11.04.2007

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? During Ohio State?s national championship season in 2002, it seemed like every week brought a new cliff hanger.
Half of OSU?s seven wins that season came by a touchdown or less. Two games ended with the opposing team throwing into the end zone for what could have been game-winning scores.
Saturday?s 38-17 win over Wisconsin by the No. 1 Buckeyes wasn?t close to that. But it brought back a faint memory of both the achievement and the anxiety of that season. It also brought back memories of one game last season.
Saturday was the first time Ohio State actually stared at the possibility it could lose a game this season. It had trailed only twice in its first nine games ? falling behind Akron 2-0 on a safety and looking up at a 7-3 deficit at Washington.
But after Wisconsin scored on its first two possessions of the second half, Ohio State was behind 17-10 with a quarter-and-a-half to play.
It was the first time this year?s team had come face-to-face with anything approaching significant adversity.
Other than January?s national championship game against Florida, it?s been a long time since Ohio State has had to deal with adversity. Saturday?s win was Ohio State?s 28th consecutive regular-season victory and its 20th straight Big Ten win.

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[osugrad21]

Lima

All?s Wells for OSU
Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 11.04.2007

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? For someone his teammates say is one of the quietest guys on the team, Chris Wells sent a lot of messages when No. 1 Ohio State rolled over Wisconsin 38-17 on Saturday.
But he sent them the way he knows best. By running.
The first messages came when the 230-pound sophomore tailback ran to the end zone. Then he sent some more by running away from the end zone.
Wells crashed through Wisconsin?s defense for 169 yards and three touchdowns.
The first of his three scores, a 31-yard run, tied the game at 17-17 late in the third quarter after the Badgers had manufactured back-to-back touchdowns to take the lead. The second, a 30-yard dash to the end zone three minutes later, put Ohio State ahead to stay.
But after those touchdowns, Wells left the end zone almost as fast as he entered it and ran to the sidelines to grab a seat on the bench.

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[MililaniBuckeye]

Eh, I dinged ya too...just to make sure

Yeah, I noticed... :tongue2:

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Bob Hunter commentary: Buckeyes respond to cruel reality check

Sunday, November 4, 2007 4:05 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Pick a clich?, any clich?. Do or die. Now or never. Backs to the wall.
As tired as they are, all of them apply. In the pitiless, unforgiving world of college football, every legitimate national title contender must put up or shut up. It is, uh, win or go home, every week.
So it is that an Ohio State team had won nine straight games and has a firm grip on the No. 1 ranking can suddenly find itself trailing Wisconsin 17-10 in the third quarter and seeing its dreams being sucked like a sink full of dishwater toward a thirsty drain.
Fair or not, this is how it is. At this point in the season, college football is pretty much a one-shot deal. Lose and you can probably forget about playing for the national championship, at least until next year and maybe forever. It's like ordering a filet mignon for dinner and being served a small bowl of Jell-O. It might taste OK, but your belly feels ache-in-the-pit-of-the-stomach empty when you're finished.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

OSU notebook: Fake punts give and take
Miscommunication blamed for DeBauche's failed effort from Wisconsin 27-yard line
Sunday, November 4, 2007 3:53 AM
By Tom Reed, Tim May and Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

NEAL C. LAURON | Dispatch
Quarterback Todd Boeckman, Ohio State's second-leading rusher with 27 yards, takes off against Wisconsin in the first half. Three times he kept drives alive by running on third down.

FRED SQUILLANTE | Dispatch
Brian Hartline, who led Ohio State receivers with a career-high seven catches for 95 yards, hauls in a pass in the second quarter.



The Wisconsin coaching staff outsmarted Ohio State in the first quarter and perhaps outsmarted itself with the game on the line.
The Badgers ran two fake punts yesterday with drastically different outcomes in a 38-17 loss to the Buckeyes. The first worked as punter Ken DeBauche stunned the Buckeyes with a 31-yard pass to backup punter Paul Standring on the Badgers' first series to set up a field goal.
"As much as you practice fake punts, you don't expect it to happen in a game," said Ohio State linebacker Marcus Freeman, who was covering Standring. "I tried to backpedal and lost my balance."

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Scarlet & Gray Matter

Sunday, November 4, 2007 3:54 AM
By Rob Oller


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The game at hand

Short-attention-span synopsis: Just ? give ? Beanie ? the ? darn ? ball. Super-hero halftime show was perfect: Wells, Gholston, Laurinaitis and Robo saved the day.
Pregame prophecy: Despite recent success in the Horseshoe, Bucky Badger wasn't supposed to bare his teeth this time. Oops. But Buckeyes overcame the bite.
The $63 question: The 'Shoe almost became the most expensive Halloween haunted house in the state, but Beanie exorcised the upset demons.
One-liner: What's the difference between the Badgers' punt team and a shady New York street vendor? The vendor sells better fakes.

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