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Game Thread Ohio State 20, Wisconsin 17 (Oct. 4)

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MililaniBuckeye;1277075; said:
[jo4h]fify[/jo4h]
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Thanks. Great insight.

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NightmaresDad said:
Just think - DickRod will be able to say that this season!

I really like the way our offense matches up against their defense.

If our front seven on D play well, we should have that stadium pretty quiet by the time of the jump around.
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I think that's a big if. This will be a huge test for our front four. If they can't get pressure at all, or free up the linebackers at all, we may be in a little bit of trouble here. I don't want just to depend on their QB making poor decisions and bad throws.
 
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Beckum is almost guaranteed to play on Saturday and TE Garrett Graham and WR Maurice Moore are on schedule. Everybody knows about what Travis brings to the table but Garrett Graham is being labeled as the better tight end by some "experts". He and Maurice Moore were safety nets that Allan Evridge didn't have at his disposal against Michigan to employ a conservative passing game. The style that O.C. Paul Chryst would probably prefer since he doesn't appear to have full faith in his quarterback. The Badgers like to use Maurice Moore's blinding quickness/speed to net substantial gains on safe swing passes.

Beckum, Moore OK; Graham closer - Badgers Blog

Madison - Wisconsin's offense should be closer to full-strength this week for the Badgers' critical Big Ten Conference game against visiting Ohio State. According to coach Bret Bielema, who spoke today during his weekly news conference:
Senior tight end Travis Beckum, who missed most of UW's loss to Michigan because of a lingering hamstring injury, practiced Sunday and is expected to be available for full duty against the Buckeyes.
Fellow tight end Garrett Graham (foot), who missed the Michigan game, is expected to return to practice on Wednesday.
Wide receiver Maurice Moore (groin), who also did not play at Michigan, should practice Tuesday.
Beckum missed UW's first two games, had four catches for 51 yards at Fresno State but then aggravated the hamstring during the bye week and missed practice time last week.
Graham is tied for the team lead in catches (11) and leads the team in receiving yards (154) and touchdown catches (three).
Moore has five catches for 61 yards, a 12.2-yard average.
Beckum sat out the first three quarters against the Wolverines before entering the game. He had two catches for 17 yards but was lined up improperly on a critical two-point conversion in the final minute, a mistake which wiped out a successful conversion and contributed to the two-point loss.
Bielema was asked again today why Beckum sat out until the final quarter against the Wolverines.
"He was cleared from a medical standpoint," Bielema said. "We put it in Travis' hands. Any time you're dealing with the type of injury he has...We can't see it. We can't feel how he is feeling. We left it up to him.
"(At kickoff) he didn't feel comfortable. At halftime we asked him again and he didn't feel comfortable. Then the competitive nature of Travis...he felt compelled to get out there and play..."
However, immediately after the loss Bielema noted he didn't feel comfortable using Beckum because of the missed practice time in the days leading to the game.
"It was just one of the situations with our players that if they don't practice throughout the course of the week, then you can't count on them during the game," he said after the loss. "And that's what the plan was going into the game."
When asked today about the differing comments, Bielema offered this explanation:
"The first person to give clearance to our guys is the medical (staff). And because of the history Travis has had over the last three or four weeks, they didn't want to push him beyond what he wanted to (do)...So the ultimate decision whether he was going to go on the field lied in Travis' hands.
"The medical people felt if Travis felt he could go we could let him go. As coaches, we were hesitant if he decided on Saturday that he could play because he had not gotten any (practice) reps. He had not (worked) full-speed in practice.
"And for Travis to get out there and be effective on every play, he needs to practice...If he was on the field, any hesitation I would have as a head coach is that he did not practice and I wouldn't know how he would be able to play.
"That wouldn't prohibit him from being out there (but) it would cause concern."
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Krenzel absolutely raved about the atmosphere up in Camp Randall, talking about the electricity and how the opposition feeds off the energy and 'jump around' too. He loved playing there, and reminisced about laughing (despite their disappointment) at the nude streaker who avoided the cops forever.

Also referenced the tunnel that they built so the students could no longer rain down batteries and bottles on them (referenced a ketchup bottle breaking on his shoulder pad).

I'm interested to hear Jack Park tell the last time an OSU team had absolutely no one with any experience in the upcoming venue. Has to be pretty rare (Todd is the only 03 kid left, but he was not on the team officially that year).
 
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Dispatch

Tressel: 'Our guys are looking forward' to Camp Randall

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:25 PM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Jim Tressel is preparing his 14th-ranked Ohio State football team for a trip to Camp Randall this weekend, emphasizing the fact it will be anything but a place for a Boy Scout sleepover. No. 18 Wisconsin's home stadium is known as being the most hostile Big Ten environment for the opposition. Because of the 11-team league's revolving schedule of just eight conference games a season, Camp Randall is a place Ohio State hasn't been since 2003. That night the Badgers ended OSU's 19-game winning streak that included the 2002 national championship.
"Our guys (the current Buckeyes) have never played there," Tressel said. "I think knowing our guys, they'll be energized by the atmosphere because it will be loud and it will be fun. And the hitting will be stepped up just because of all the energy that will be translated or transferred into the people on the field. I think they're going to enjoy the experience of playing.
"That's the fun. We always talk in recruiting about if you come to the Big Ten, not only do you -- if you come (to OSU) -- get to play in Ohio Stadium which is extraordinary, but you get to go to places like Camp Randall, so our guys are looking forward to it."
It remains to be seen how much Wisconsin's collapse in the second half at Michigan last week will play into the atmosphere. The Badgers were ranked eighth going in but then watched a 19-0 lead evaporate into a 27-25 loss to a Michigan team that had been humbled by rebuilding Notre Dame.
Until further notice, Tressel said he expects that to be a rallying cry for the Badgers.
"That's just going to make a very good team a much better team as we go into their house," he said. "We're looking forward to that challenge.
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MililaniBuckeye;1277240; said:
Thanks. Someday you'll learn about "fify" and the true "keys to the game"...we aim to please.
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I know what "fify" means. Thanks.

Another member alerted me to the inside joke about the scoring more points. I just signed up, so I didn't know.

Now. Do you want to talk about the game or just jab at each other in the ribs? I'm good with both. You will lose one and we all can have fun on the other.

With that in mind. I trend towards Wisconsin getting themselves in managable third down situations as being important. For the Buckeyes I think they need to throw downfield early to back out the eight in the box that we are going to throw at Pryor.

Thoughts?
 
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BadgerNation;1277317; said:
Now. Do you want to talk about the game or just jab at each other in the ribs? I'm good with both. You will lose one and we all can have fun on the other.
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Doubt it.

As for the game, you put eight in the box and chances are you'll stuff Beanie a few times but will have a repeat of last year's game where busted three long TD runs by cutting back against the flow (twice) or taking it outside (once). Plus, with an athletic kid like Pryor, he won't be a sitting duck like Boeckman would be for the extra pressure an eight-man front brings. If Pryor gets past an eight-man front, he's gone, whereas if you have the standard seven-man front or even drop into nickle, you could get him in the secondary should he get past the LOS.

Our offense is not the same one that sputtered against you the first two and a half quarters of last year's agme. Granted, Pryor is still learning, but he brings a much bigger arsenal and adds an entirely different dimension. I would not want to be your DC this week...
 
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