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Game Thread Ohio State 43, Youngstown St. 0 (Aug. 30)

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The Ohio State Buckeyes will open their 119th season of football on Saturday and they will be doing it against the same team they opened their 118th season of football against.
In last season?s matchup, the Buckeyes started slow, but played well enough to secure a 38-6 victory over Youngstown State. The loss snapped a streak of eleven consecutive season-opening wins for the Penguins.
Youngstown State (ranked 12th in both FCS polls) comes into this game 19-21-1 all-time against Football Bowl Subdivision teams, and they are 7-0 all-time in August games.
However, they are 10-18 all-time in season opening road games.
The Buckeyes come into this game ranked 2nd in the AP Poll and 3rd in the Coaches Poll. They are 174-48-15 all-time versus in-state opponents and have not lost to an Ohio team since 1921, when Oberlin beat the Buckeyes 7-6.

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Dispatch

Another Griffin to play in the 'Shoe

Friday, August 29, 2008 3:07 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Three Griffin brothers, one of their sons and a nephew have played football on a fall Saturday in Ohio Stadium.
Saturday will be the first time, though, that one of the family plays there against Ohio State, Archie Griffin said.
"I think Tyler will be the first," the Buckeyes' two-time Heisman Trophy winner said this week. "I know he's excited."
Tyler Griffin, a Westerville North graduate and son of Archie's brother Larry, is a backup cornerback and special-teams regular for Youngstown State, which plays Ohio State on Saturday.
It has been a roundabout route home for Tyler, a fifth-year senior who signed with Eastern Michigan out of high school in 2004, transferred to Youngstown State the following year, played a lot as a sixth defensive back in 2006 but missed his first shot at the Buckeyes when the Penguins played them in Columbus last season because he was academically ineligible.

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Bucky Katt;1241997; said:
<24 hours! :groove:
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12:00 kickoff, it's about half way through the first qtr, score is 21-0. Saine ran the opening kickoff back for a TD, Robo caught a long ball from TB and Beanie scores on a 10 play drive.

Just dreaming - wake me up before the game starts so I can watch this LIVE.

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Smooth Olaf;1241993; said:
Unless I'm missing it, I only get one BTN channel.
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Hey Olaf, they like to hide them down in the 610+channels, they arent grouped together anymore at least on my Directv guide. I was browsing through a couple weeks ago to set my DVR to record tomorrow's game and noticed that next week on 610 is the Wisky game, and the rest are listed as TBA....
 
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