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BrutusBobcat
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I now appreciate Duke football fans over Duke basketball fans. Solid smack talk when your team has won one game in the past two seasons is priceless.
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Big Papa
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DaddyBigBucks;933001; said:I don't doubt that Muck's predictor provides a better prediction, but it has nothing to do with the past NW games or past games with teams of their talent level.
There are two reasons why I believe tOSU is going to brutally pound NW (they hate it when we call them that).
To sum up: Northwestern is not nearly as bad as they looked in Evanston last week. But I believe that the Buckeyes will make them look even worse in Columbus on Saturday.
- The way the team came together in Washington. It may have been just a one game thing, but I don't think so. We won't know until we can step back at season's end and consider the whole picture; but I believe that the corner they turned in Seattle will lead to a very special season. What I saw is the kind of thing that can bring teams together in ways that make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. I've seen it happen from Pop Warner to the Pros, and I think we just saw it with the Buckeyes. Time will tell. If the team changed in the way that I think they did; they will start fast offensively for the first time this season and they will play hard all the way to the end of the bench all game long.
- NW is a slow starting team, defensively. That and point number 1 are a bad combination for NW. Worse, they were hung out to dry by their coach last week. They put up 197 more yards and 10 more first downs than Duke, and their coach cost them the game (see the "Additional Information" portion of the upcoming BP preview for details). That kind of thing can make a team easy to deflate. The result will be OSU's fast start will take the wind out of NW's sails, and they won't even be able to keep pace with our back-ups.
No doubt they will. It should get real ugly, real fast.
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lvbuckeye
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did anyone else notice that we used a new formation against UW? it was an ace set with a TE, an H-back and the SE in a bunch formation at the end of the line, and a FL on the other side... we were running out of that formation a lot, but look to see some play-action from it this week...
i'm not real sure, but i think that Robo was lining up as the FL and Hartline was lining up as the SE...
i'll go back and look at it again if i remember...
anyway, here's what the set looks like. i don't recall seeing us use this formation before:
........LT LG C RG RT TE....SE
FL.............QB............HB
................TB
i'm not real sure, but i think that Robo was lining up as the FL and Hartline was lining up as the SE...
i'll go back and look at it again if i remember...
anyway, here's what the set looks like. i don't recall seeing us use this formation before:
........LT LG C RG RT TE....SE
FL.............QB............HB
................TB
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lvbuckeye;933127; said:
IIRC that was what they were in when Robiski blew his down block and Beanie got stuffed on a 3rd and short but yes, I remember seeing it and noticing it being a different look.
I also liked the misdirection/play action pass/handoff dealie deal that we saw for the first time last week.
JT has always added wrinkles as the year progresses and has always formationed teams to death. Now he might run the same basic plays but he has always done it from multiple sets. His conservative label needs an * imo. Yeah he's conservative in a sense, but very aggressive in another sense.
I still go back to Ubran Myer's take and how JT changes based on the size of the other guys checkers. Pretty much sums it up perfectly imo.
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Morning Journal
Tressel not planning any cartwheel celebrations
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/19/2007
COLUMBUS -- Three days after Jim Tressel showed a little emotion on the sideline, he was still being asked about his reaction to the blocked field goal in the second half against Washington.
The normally reserved Tressel jumped up and down on the sideline and pumped his fist after Larry Grant blocked the field goal attempt. Cameras hadn't caught Tressel so animated since the national championship game in 2002. He admitted yesterday he tries to make a point of staying cool on the sideline.
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Tressel not planning any cartwheel celebrations
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/19/2007
COLUMBUS -- Three days after Jim Tressel showed a little emotion on the sideline, he was still being asked about his reaction to the blocked field goal in the second half against Washington.
The normally reserved Tressel jumped up and down on the sideline and pumped his fist after Larry Grant blocked the field goal attempt. Cameras hadn't caught Tressel so animated since the national championship game in 2002. He admitted yesterday he tries to make a point of staying cool on the sideline.
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Morning Journal
Buckeyes not overlooking Wildcats
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/19/2007
COLUMBUS -- Dionte Johnson was an innocent bystander that night in 2004, when the world's rotation changed long enough for Northwestern to beat Ohio State in overtime.
It was Northwestern's first victory over the Buckeyes in 33 years and stunned the Big Ten and the rest of the country, since Ohio State entered 3-0 and ranked seventh
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Buckeyes not overlooking Wildcats
JASON LLOYD, Morning Journal Writer
09/19/2007
COLUMBUS -- Dionte Johnson was an innocent bystander that night in 2004, when the world's rotation changed long enough for Northwestern to beat Ohio State in overtime.
It was Northwestern's first victory over the Buckeyes in 33 years and stunned the Big Ten and the rest of the country, since Ohio State entered 3-0 and ranked seventh
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OZone
Buckeyes Not Taking Wildcats Lightly Despite Loss to Duke
By John Porentas
There is some excitement building about this Buckeye team, fueled largely by a 3-0 record and a 30-point second half against Washington last Saturday. An offense that some thought was hopeless has breathed new hope into the bandwagon jumpers who are now beginning to climb aboard and get excited. What may not be so exciting this weekend is the opposition.
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Buckeyes Not Taking Wildcats Lightly Despite Loss to Duke
By John Porentas
There is some excitement building about this Buckeye team, fueled largely by a 3-0 record and a 30-point second half against Washington last Saturday. An offense that some thought was hopeless has breathed new hope into the bandwagon jumpers who are now beginning to climb aboard and get excited. What may not be so exciting this weekend is the opposition.
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Always on visiting side
NORTHWESTERN | LB Kadela grew up near OSU, but his blood is anything but scarlet
September 19, 2007
BY JIM O'DONNELL [email protected]
Funny that a town named Dublin would be a spawning ground of football contrarians. But that's just the way it is in Dublin, Ohio -- a tony, emerald berg only 14 miles northwest of the Buckeye basilica of scrunch known as Ohio Stadium.
Adam Kadela and his Northwestern teammates will buck-neigh at the hallowed scarlet-and-gray pavilion Saturday when the Wildcats (2-1) open their Big Ten season against unbeaten Ohio State (2:30 p.m., Ch. 7, 720-AM).
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Always on visiting side
NORTHWESTERN | LB Kadela grew up near OSU, but his blood is anything but scarlet
September 19, 2007
BY JIM O'DONNELL [email protected]
Funny that a town named Dublin would be a spawning ground of football contrarians. But that's just the way it is in Dublin, Ohio -- a tony, emerald berg only 14 miles northwest of the Buckeye basilica of scrunch known as Ohio Stadium.
Adam Kadela and his Northwestern teammates will buck-neigh at the hallowed scarlet-and-gray pavilion Saturday when the Wildcats (2-1) open their Big Ten season against unbeaten Ohio State (2:30 p.m., Ch. 7, 720-AM).
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Big Ten opener sole focus for Buckeyes
September 19, 2007
from wire reports
Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel likes to think his Ohio State players live in a cocoon, only concentrating on their practices, their game, their immediate opponent.
But they are well aware of what's going on around them.
The No. 8-ranked Buckeyes play Northwestern in the Big Ten opener for both teams on Saturday. The Wildcats are coming off a humiliating 20-14 loss at home to Duke, snapping the nation's longest losing skid at 22 games.
Asked if his players knew of Northwestern's embarrassing defeat, Tressel implied that he doubted if they did.
Big Ten opener sole focus for Buckeyes
September 19, 2007
from wire reports
Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel likes to think his Ohio State players live in a cocoon, only concentrating on their practices, their game, their immediate opponent.
But they are well aware of what's going on around them.
The No. 8-ranked Buckeyes play Northwestern in the Big Ten opener for both teams on Saturday. The Wildcats are coming off a humiliating 20-14 loss at home to Duke, snapping the nation's longest losing skid at 22 games.
Asked if his players knew of Northwestern's embarrassing defeat, Tressel implied that he doubted if they did.
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Bucks want to avoid history
By: Jason LloydJournal Register News Service
09/19/2007
OSU would like to dodge repeating 2004 upset loss
to Northwestern
COLUMBUS - Dionte Johnson was an innocent bystander that night in 2004, when the world's rotation changed long enough for Northwestern to beat Ohio State in overtime.
It was Northwestern's first victory over the Buckeyes in 33 years and stunned the Big Ten and the rest of the country, since Ohio State entered 3-0 and ranked seventh in the country, fresh off an impressive nonconference win at North Carolina State.
Now the Buckeyes are again 3-0, ranked eighth in the country and coming off an impressive nonconference win at Washington. Johnson, now the starting fullback, wouldn't mind if the comparisons between the two seasons ended right there.
"We were 3-0 and thought we had just gotten over that hump in being the next great team," Johnson said. "It was a very disappointing loss. We don't want to go through that again."
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Bucks want to avoid history
By: Jason LloydJournal Register News Service
09/19/2007
OSU would like to dodge repeating 2004 upset loss
to Northwestern
COLUMBUS - Dionte Johnson was an innocent bystander that night in 2004, when the world's rotation changed long enough for Northwestern to beat Ohio State in overtime.
It was Northwestern's first victory over the Buckeyes in 33 years and stunned the Big Ten and the rest of the country, since Ohio State entered 3-0 and ranked seventh in the country, fresh off an impressive nonconference win at North Carolina State.
Now the Buckeyes are again 3-0, ranked eighth in the country and coming off an impressive nonconference win at Washington. Johnson, now the starting fullback, wouldn't mind if the comparisons between the two seasons ended right there.
"We were 3-0 and thought we had just gotten over that hump in being the next great team," Johnson said. "It was a very disappointing loss. We don't want to go through that again."
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Dispatch
College football
2004, '07 only seem similar
3-0 Buckeyes' loss to Wildcats then a far cry from now
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:34 AM
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
On paper, there are obvious similarities between the 2004 Ohio State football team that lost to Northwestern and the team set to face the Wildcats on Saturday.
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College football
2004, '07 only seem similar
3-0 Buckeyes' loss to Wildcats then a far cry from now
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:34 AM
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
On paper, there are obvious similarities between the 2004 Ohio State football team that lost to Northwestern and the team set to face the Wildcats on Saturday.
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Dispatch
Big Ten notebook: Wildcats pin hopes on Sutton's return
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:26 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Northwestern was playing on one leg when it suffered an embarrassing loss to Duke on Saturday. Coach Pat Fitzgerald expects the Wildcats to have the other when they open their Big Ten schedule Saturday at Ohio State.
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Big Ten notebook: Wildcats pin hopes on Sutton's return
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:26 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Northwestern was playing on one leg when it suffered an embarrassing loss to Duke on Saturday. Coach Pat Fitzgerald expects the Wildcats to have the other when they open their Big Ten schedule Saturday at Ohio State.
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