Game Thread Ohio State 6, Penn State 13 (Oct. 25)

[fourteenandoh]

Who needs sleep??? The Buckeyes are going to show Penn State that they are just one a dirty step-son in the Big Ten family, and that since they joined the family, we are there daddy...and we are going to slap them around until they realize that it was a privledge for them to join our family, but they need to know their role. Buckeyes are your daddy, and Michigan is your mommy. Now...you've been good for nine years, and listened to your mommy. But this year you beat your mommy. Well daddy is [censored]ed, and is going to [censored] you up. Because you are just the [censored]ing step-son.

that is some funny shit right there! i don't nominate posts usually, but if this isn't GPA material i don't know what is.

 

[osugrad21]

Canton

Ohio State's Wells sore, but ready for Penn State
Friday, October 24, 2008
By RUSTY MILLER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS Chris "Beanie" Wells is sore all over. His foot still hurts from an injury that sidelined him three games, and aches and pains still linger from last week's season-high 31 carries.

And especially when he's black and blue, Wells relishes the thrill of a big game.

That comes Saturday when No. 10 Ohio State hosts No. 3 Penn State in a game that could decide the Big Ten championship.

"All my life I've loved big games," he said. "It's something that I guess you could say that I'm made for. I like to think that I'm made to play on the big stage."

BREAKOUT GAME LAST WEEK

Last weekend, Wells rushed for 140 yards and two touchdowns in a 45-7 rout of No. 20 Michigan State. It was the first time he carried more than 22 times in a game all season.

"Beanie was sorer after 31 carries than he was after 20, which is understandable," Head Coach Jim Tressel said. "You get hit 11 times by a truck, it hurts more."

Wells, one of 11 kids who grew up in a scarlet and gray house in Akron, is used to taking and inflicting hits. And that worries his Penn State counterpart.

"He's a great back," said Penn State's Evan Royster. "He's got speed and power. He's the whole package. It's going to be tough to stop him.
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[osugrad21]

Scout$--Buckeyes Looking To Stop PSU's Clark

Plenty of praise from the Buckeye players

 

[osugrad21]

BN Free--Bucknuts TV: ESPN's College Football Live On OSU-PSU

 

[osugrad21]

BN Free--Tressel Thursday Update: OSU In Good Shape Injury-Wise

 

[osugrad21]

BN Free--Tons Of Events Surround OSU-Penn State, Homecoming

 

[osugrad21]

Link

Clark, Pryor battle for supremacy in Big Ten





By Andrew Wible
Collegian Staff Writer

The last time Daryll Clark and Terrelle Pryor met was more than seven months ago.
Pryor had just finished leading his Jeannette (Pa.) High School basketball team to a 76-72 overtime victory against Strawberry Mansion in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association championship game.
After Pryor and his Jayhawk teammates finished hoisting the state championship trophy, the pictures had been taken and congratulatory hugs given, he made his way off the Bryce Jordan Center court and met with a group of Penn State football players.
At that time, Pryor was considered by many recruiting services as the No. 1 high school football recruit in the country and had whittled his list of schools to four, including Penn State. And with Pryor on the University Park campus for the state title game, some Nittany Lion players decided to meet him and try to convince him he would look good in blue and white.
Among those players trying to woo Pryor that day was the next man in line to be Joe Paterno's starting quarterback. The man who, if Pryor committed to Penn State, was supposed to step aside for the highly touted, athletic specimen. That man was Clark.
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[osugrad21]

Link

PSU, OSU share long-standing rivalry

By Matthew Spolar
Collegian Staff Writer

James Warren and Michael Fuller are friends at Penn State Erie. They're brothers in Delta Chi fraternity. For three hours on Saturday, they won't be speaking to each other.
While Fuller (junior-anthropology) will be joining Nittany Lion nation in rooting for Penn State, Warren will be pulling for the Buckeyes.
Warren (sophomore-international business and marketing) moved to Ohio's capital in fifth grade, just as his interest in college football began to flourish. Cheering the guys in scarlet-and-gray was a natural choice.
"When I was in Columbus for all that time, my team was Ohio State," he said.
But while sticking to his allegiance at University Park might be almost untenable, Warren is certainly not alone in Erie and other Pennsylvania towns along the Ohio border.
"It's split pretty much down the middle between Penn State and Ohio State," Fuller, from Erie, said of his hometown.
Bound by coal and steel and at times only separated by tollbooths and liquor laws, the familiarity between Pennsylvania and Ohio breeds a noticeable contempt come Saturday.
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[osugrad21]

Link

OSU looms large


Football at Ohio State



By Travis Johnson
Collegian Staff Writer

Daryll Clark can sense the hype brewing in the air.
Each time the Penn State quarterback strolls by the Student Bookstore on College Avenue, he is reminded of the Nittany Lions' looming challenge.
There, the red LCD numbers on a digital clock count down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until Penn State's Saturday night showdown with the No. 10 Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus, Ohio.
The Lions have not beaten the Buckeyes within the confines of Ohio Stadium in their last seven tries. Penn State's last win in Columbus was in 1978.
Clark said Tuesday the Penn State coaches were being "very, very tough" and "very, very critical of every small mistake" in the leadup to No. 3 Penn State's biggest game thus far of the season -- a game that has Big Ten title and national title implications for the victors.
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[osugrad21]

Link

Comp has Pryor knowledge

Strategy: Wilson High coach has advice for PSU on OSU's QB.

By Mark Wogenrich |Of The Morning Call October 24, 2008 With 3 minutes left in the state title game, Wilson football coach Bret Comp bucked conventional wisdom and risked his team's 29-28 lead by going for it on fourth-and-one.

From his team's own 46-yard line.

Because he didn't want to give Terrelle Pryor one more offensive huddle.

So as the last coach to beat a Pryor-quarterbacked team, Comp would offer this advice to Penn State:

''Tell the offense to take few a more risks than its accustomed to taking, which is something I'm sure [coach Joe Paterno] doesn't want to hear,'' Comp said. ''You have to let it all hang out. You don't want to get in a shooting match with him, even though these days Penn State can do it.''
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[osugrad21]

Blade

Mr. Productivity: Ohioan Clark leads powerful Penn State
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
COLUMBUS - When he talks about Daryll Clark, we're not sure if Ohio State coach Jim Tressel is critiquing the performance of the Penn State quarterback or nominating him for political office. It is that laudatory. Clark essentially won the starter's role with the Nittany Lions with a strong showing in last year's Alamo Bowl, helping the team come back from a two-touchdown deficit and win 24-17 over Texas A&M. This season, the junior from Youngstown Ursuline has been other-worldly, leading Penn State to eight straight wins and the No. 3 national ranking. But outside the unbeaten record and leading the top-scoring offense in the Big Ten, Tressel gives Clark credit for having all the right stuff and punching the time clock every day for several years while preparing for his break. "I think he gives them an excellent leadership dimension," Tressel said. "They were behind in their bowl game, and he took over and got them a victory, and I think that began their momentum. He's a guy that's put his work in, and he's waited for his opportunity, and he's made the best of his opportunity. You could see that in the second half of their bowl game."
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[Jake]

Well, now I'm getting really pumped for this one. I work in PA and there's too much damn blue and white in the building today. The few members of Buckeye Nation - myself included - are representing the Scarlet and Gray.

Happens every year for me, PSU is the 2nd biggest game of the season. This year it's worse because the Lion fans here are feeling pretty cocky, and are in serious need of a good ass kicking tomorrow night in the Shoe.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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Royster, Wells playing different feature roles

By Jeff Rice

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One is a big guy that runs like a little guy. The other is a little guy that runs like a big guy.
CDT photo/Nabil K. Mark
Penn State?s Evan Royster rushed for a career high 174 yards against Michigan and might need a similar performance for the Nittany Lions to get past Ohio State and star running back Chris Wells on Saturday.



One has slipped out of the Heisman chase because of a nagging injury. The other might be ready to slip into that chase ? at least his quarterback thinks so ? after starting the season with little fanfare.
One will carry the ball for Ohio State, the other for Penn State. And which running back has the best evening might be the difference in the Big Ten?s biggest game of the year.
The Buckeyes? Chris ?Beanie? Wells and the Nittany Lions? Evan Royster are both feature backs in traditional power offenses that have added new twists this season, and they both have qualities seen in most great backs.
?They both have good vision, they cut well,? said Penn State linebacker Tyrell Sales. ?They don?t go down a lot of times on the first hit.? That might be where the similarities end.

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[jwinslow]

Weather shaping up nicely...

Nope, looking nice now. Weather.com predicting:

9 am - last showers
10 am - sunny & 50
6 pm - sunny & 55
8 pm - partly cloudy (moon) & 50
11 pm - mostly clear & 47

Looks like some great, crisp autumn weather for football.

 

[JXC]

Weather shaping up nicely...

Rain or shine...GET LOUD!!! Go Bucks!!!