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Game Thread Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

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no but there might be one waiting for you, at home, early in september :p

I think UT may be more talented at most positions, but VY simply changes everything. Without him, the entire complexion of the defense changes. If Nordgren were back, I could see predicting that things will not drop off as harshly as some might think. But with a completely unknown QB at one of the hardest positions, I think Texas will struggle to put up tons of points against OSU and OU (as I said earlier, maybe the cupcakes will help boost that point total).

I do not doubt that McCoy/Snead could develop nicely. But its awfully early, and as a kicker, it sounds like you guys are headed for a platoon system. As seen last year, two qbs = no qbs.
 
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xrayrandy, you cannot be serious.

You could be have a better offensive line, recievers, tight ends, and running backs, and you would still not be better offensively than last year. Vince Young carried your team, and without him you wouldve easily lost 3 regular season games, if not more. You honestly think that your offense will be even close to how good it was last year with a quarterback at the healm that hasnt even thrown a college pass?

I have a ton of respect for Texas, but you cannot be serious.
 
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You could be have a better offensive line, recievers, tight ends, and running backs, and you would still not be better offensively than last year.
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I thought I said that. Texas will not be as good as they were with Vince, but they should still be close to and probably a little better than normal offensively.
 
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Date Opponent Location Time
Saturday, Sept. 2 North Texas Austin, TX TBA
Saturday, Sept. 9 Ohio State Austin, TX 8:00 PM
Saturday, Sept. 16 at Rice Houston, TX TBA
Saturday, Sept. 23 Iowa State Austin, TX TBA
Saturday, Sept. 30 Sam Houston State Austin, TX TBA
Saturday, Oct. 7 vs. Oklahoma Dallas, TX TBA
Saturday, Oct. 14 Baylor Austin, TX TBA
Saturday, Oct. 21 at Nebraska Lincoln, NE TBA
Saturday, Oct. 28 at Texas Tech Lubbock, TX TBA
Saturday, Nov. 4 Oklahoma State Austin, TX TBA
Saturday, Nov. 11 at Kansas State Manhattan, KS TBA
Friday, Nov. 24 Texas A&M Austin, TX 12:00 PM

In all honesty, with the likes of North Texas, Rice, Sam Houston State, Baylor, Ok St and Kansas State on their schedule...it probably won't be very difficult to average 40.
 
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One season he did lose his only experienced QB and startered a RS-FR in the second game and the rest of the year. The team averaged 470.6 yards and 36.3 points per game.

It was the Macks first season and it has a lot a parallels offensively. It had a great offensive line. Talent at RB and receiver, and a bright young QB. The runningback talent this year is more of a group effort rather than a single star that year.

The year was 1998.
 
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xrayrandy said:
One season he did lose his only experienced QB and startered a RS-FR in the second game and the rest of the year. The team averaged 470.6 yards and 36.3 points per game.

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The year was 1998.
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Taking away the 66-point opening game win in which that RS-FR didn't start, Texas averaged only 33.7 PPG (not sure about yardage).
 
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Correct, and it is quite possible that if the coaches adopt a very conservative rushing game plan as the did in 1998 for Ricky Williams and 2004 for Cedric Benson (35.7 ppg) it is possible that we will not hit 40, but I don't think so. The biggest difference with this team versus those, aside from a RB trying to win the heisman, is the depth at running back. The 3rd or 4th string RB we have now could easily pop a 60 yarder on any one of a number of the cupcakes on our schedule.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Taking away the 66-point opening game win in which that RS-FR didn't start, Texas averaged only 33.7 PPG (not sure about yardage).
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Actually, Major didn't start in the first or second game, he only threw about five passes in the UCLA game IIRC. So take those two games out of the equation, and Texas averaged a whopping .3 pts more per game, 34 ppg. But hey who's counting, and I don't even know why these stats are relevant.
 
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My mistake. I have a gap in my memory as far as the UCLA games are concerned.

The 1998 season isn't really relevant at all. I think there is a perceptual difference regarding scoring, since tOSU has been more conservative on offense, while Texas has been among the top three scoring offenses in the country since Mack arrived.
 
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very true, OSU has lived and died by shutting down the majority of the high-powered offenses they have faced. From mid-02 to mid-05, OSU's offense was not high-powered. What was interesting was how our offense carried us in some games where our defense let us down a little bit (ie Minny).


Tressel's offense put up big numbers early in 02 when he had a feature back. If Pittman can continue his success, and Wells provides a good #2 back (something we haven't had in a while), Tresselball could put up a lot of points. Nowhere near the top nationally, as he likes ball-control and mistake-free clock-churning more than points, but I would expect our offensive performance to be similar to this year overall.

I do not think we will look as lost on offense against Texas and PSU as we did this year. I'm not sure we'll light up the scoreboard either, but I expect to do better in those stiff tests... and then continue good production against the rest of our schedule.
 
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