Game Thread Ohio State 33, Washington 14 (Final)

[Dryden]

Anybody from the Buckeyes hurt?

The only significant injury that JT reported today on his call-in show on the local AM radio was that Pettrey did not make the trip to back up Pretorious due to a lingering problem. Everybody else should be OK to go, and Ray Small is back and in the game plan.

Hazell sounded very excited about that.

 

[osugrad21]

DDN

Tressel loosens up before the long trip to Washington

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By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Friday, September 14, 2007
COLUMBUS ? Ohio State coach Jim Tressel has been noticeably looser with the media this season, and he dropped a few zingers on the press corps before leaving Thursday for the Buckeyes' game in Washington.
Asked what kinds of things he packs for longer trips, he replied, "Underwear."



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[osugrad21]

ABJ

Ohio State gets litmus test in Washington By George Thomas
POSTED: 02:49 p.m. EDT, Sep 13, 2007
Beacon Journal sportswriter
COLUMBUS: When Ohio State and Washington play Saturday, the teams might as well be looking in a mirror.
With respect to numbers, the teams match one another in almost every substantial category. Both also will be looking for something else to see how they measure up against talented competition. Neither has been tested, yet.



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[osugrad21]

ABJ

Five keys for Ohio State against Washington By George Thomas
POSTED: 02:23 p.m. EDT, Sep 13, 2007
Beacon Journal sportswriter
Here are five things Ohio State needs to do to play well against the University of Washington on Saturday afternoon in Seattle.



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[osugrad21]

CPD

Huskies QB poses running threat



Friday, September 14, 2007

For the first time in a long time, Ohio State won't have the most dangerous quarterback on the field Saturday. No offense to Buckeye junior Todd Boeckman, but if you're looking for a Troy Smith-type talent in this OSU-Washington showdown, it's Huskies redshirt freshman Jake Locker.
He was compared to former Texas quarterback Vince Young by OSU tackle Doug Worthington and to former Kansas State quarterback Michael Bishop by OSU defensive coordinator Jim Heacock. At 6-3 and 210 pounds, with 4.4 speed, Locker is one of Washington's fastest players and the perfect guy to run the Huskies' spread option as a run-pass threat. "No one can contain him or catch him on the film we've seen," Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said.




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[osugrad21]

Canton

Washington's downfall began vs. OSU in '03
Friday, September 14, 2007
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer

SEATTLE The matchup was supposed to be a showcase - the defending national champions of Ohio State against talent-laden Washington - before a national television audience.

Instead, that August night in 2003 in Columbus, when the Buckeyes easily handled the Huskies, 28-9, became the first step in the downfall of Washington's program.

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[osugrad21]

Lima

It's all a matter of perspective
Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 09.14.2007

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]My only other visit to Seattle before Ohio State?s trip to the University of Washington for Saturday?s football game was in July, 1993.
The Pacific Northwest?s famed rainy weather showed up only one of the five days I was there. Every other day was sunny, with temperatures in the high 70?s and low 80s?s. Just beautiful.
So, I was surprised to turn on a Seattle television station?s 6 p.m. news one day and hear their weather reporter talking about how the high temperature earlier that afternoon had been a ?sweltering? 83 degrees.
Who knows what they would call a typical July day in the Midwest or almost any day in Phoenix?



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[osugrad21]

Lima

The eye in the sky doesn't lie at OSU
Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 09.14.2007

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? Every move an Ohio State football player makes on the field during a game and during practice is recorded on video.
That is a good thing and a bad thing if you?re a player. It?s good because it helps you get better. But, on the other hand, since everything is recorded, there are few successful appeals when the coaches question your performance or decision making.
?It?s a great learning tool. In high school you had the opportunity that if you mess up and the coach yells at you, you can say, ?Well, coach I did it (right). But the eye in the sky doesn?t lie,? junior cornerback Malcolm Jenkins said.



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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Washington finds out fans gravitate to teams that win
Schools in pro markets face stiffer challenges
Friday, September 14, 2007 3:39 AM
By Bob Baptist


The Columbus Dispatch

TED S. WARREN Associated Press
Competition from Seattle pro teams has sometimes made it difficult for Washington to fill 72,500-seat Husky Stadium.



Once upon a time not that long ago, the number of fans buying season tickets for Washington football outnumbered the combined season-ticket bases of Seattle's three professional teams: the Mariners, Seahawks and SuperSonics.
Times changed. The Mariners erased the memories of Ken Griffey Jr. and Alex Rodriguez with Ichiro Suzuki and got hot again. The Seahawks went to the Super Bowl.
Meanwhile, Washington, which had gone bowling 22 of 26 seasons and won eight Pacific-10 Conference championships, stopped going. The Huskies stopped winning. Some fans stopped coming.

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[Telekinesis]

I'm completely dumbfounded as to why people are pointing to crowd noise as a possible factor for our guys performing poorly. We play in the 'Shoe week in and week out. Husky Stadium does not begin to compare. Even JT will tell you that the team fully expects not to be able to hear when they play. I can understand why we could have a tough time on the road, but it won't be due to the crowd.

They've even been comparing Washington to Florida. Has everyone lost their minds? You go 2-0 for the first time since 2001 and suddenly you have a national championship team? Remove the rose-colored glasses, please. At least save the praises for mid-season when you find out what the team is really capable of. I won't be surprised at all if they're knocked off of their high horses pretty quickly.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

I'm completely dumbfounded as to why people are pointing to crowd noise as a possible factor for our guys performing poorly. We play in the 'Shoe week in and week out. Husky Stadium does not begin to compare. Even JT will tell you that the team fully expects not to be able to hear when they play. I can understand why we could have a tough time on the road, but it won't be due to the crowd.

Todd Boeckman won't be able to raise his arms and get the crowd to tone it down, though, will he?

They've even been comparing Washington to Florida. Has everyone lost their minds? You go 2-0 for the first time since 2001 and suddenly you have a national championship team? Remove the rose-colored glasses, please. At least save the praises for mid-season when you find out what the team is really capable of. I won't be surprised at all if they're knocked off of their high horses pretty quickly.

Here, I agree. Washington is playing better than people expected, but they're nowhere close to title contender. I suppose it's good - assuming OSU wins - as perception will be Ohio State beat a legit team.

 

[Dryden]

I'm completely dumbfounded as to why people are pointing to crowd noise as a possible factor for our guys performing poorly. We play in the 'Shoe week in and week out. Husky Stadium does not begin to compare. Even JT will tell you that the team fully expects not to be able to hear when they play. I can understand why we could have a tough time on the road, but it won't be due to the crowd.

Husky Stadium may not compare to the Shoe structurally as a landmark, but for crowd noise it is most certainly going to be a factor. Troy Smith and the 2005 team pointed out that Penn State's crowd and the White Out environment was much more than they were expecting in the road loss in 2005. Experience with the crowd noise at the Shoe is irrelevant, because the crowd only really gets up for a few games a year, like Michigan, Penn State, or Texas, and the crowd isn't screaming when Ohio State's offense is on the field. It's a huge difference.

Honestly, I was really, really disappointed with our crowd last week. Akron ran that no-huddle, check-off at the line crap all day, and the crowd didn't turn it up until after Akron was getting into their audibles. It's a shame it takes half the starting defense raising their arms to the crowd to signal "Scream you idiots. Help us out here!!!"

We're going to Washington with a QB, a C, a G, and a RB that have a combined 8 games starting experience. I think the crowd could be a HUGE factor for these kids, at least through the first half until they can get settled in, because they just haven't been in the fire yet.

 

[Telekinesis]

Husky Stadium may not compare to the Shoe structurally as a landmark, but for crowd noise it is most certainly going to be a factor. Troy Smith and the 2005 team pointed out that Penn State's crowd and the White Out environment was much more than they were expecting in the road loss in 2005.

If we were playing Penn State, I'd agree. Once again, why are we comparing Husky Stadium to these top-tier team stadiums? They have not been 2-0 since 2001. 2-0 is something that is expected of these teams Washington is being compared to every single year. The fans of the teams being mentioned are factors because we impact the league every year. Washington is lucky enough to even start selling a decent amount of tickets again. Putting the Husky crowd up against an Ohio State or Penn State crowd isn't logical to me. It's a completely different league of fans.

Go visit a Husky forum and compare it to tOSU or Penn State. The difference is outstanding.

 

[zincfinger]

...the crowd isn't screaming [in Ohio Stadium] when Ohio State's offense is on the field.

That's the critical difference when it comes to crowd noise at home vs. away. Every crowd outside of Ann Arbor knows that you shake the rafters when the visitors have the ball, and settle down when the home team has the ball. The OSU offense will hear FAR more noise pre-snap in Husky Stadium than they ever do in The Horseshoe.

 

[muffler dragon]

Not that I'm a big fan of CBSSportsline or Dennis "What's a football" Dodd, but when I'm all full of piss and vinegar I go over there to really get mad. So anyway I looked at thier predictions... 3-2 UW. Now though I don't see it as impossible, all these media types are really screwing over UW by hyping them. OSU had a problem with Florida partially because of the hype OSU got. To believe that OSU will come out flat when everyone I've seen outside of the Canton Repository is favoring the upset, I can't see. I see OSU coming out mad and doing some damage I'm not saying OSU will blow UW out of the water, but I do forsee them covering the 4.5 spread to say the least.

It's pisses me off to no end also. Couple this with the commentary I keep hearing about "Michigan can still win the Big 10", and I realize that the general media thinks tOSU sucks. Truth be told, it gives me incentive. WHEN the Buckeyes win this weekend, I'll have a rather decent time telling all of my Oregon colleagues about it.