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Ohio State vs. Western Michigan: Land-Grant’s experts make their picks
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Every week, we will be picking the score, MVP, and major storyline for each Buckeye game.
Being the Buckeye beat’s black sheep blog, we here at Land-Grant Holy Land like to pat ourselves on the back. So, throughout the season, members of our staff will be making predictions about that day’s game. They will go on the record with what they think the final score will be, who the game’s MVP will be, and what the major storyline will be coming out of the day.
The No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Western Michigan Broncos on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET in a game to be broadcast on the Big Ten Network. As of this article’s writing, the Bucks are 37.5-point favorites according to FanDuel Sportsbook. College football’s gold-standard advanced analytics model SP+ is predicting a score of 45-3 in favor of Ohio State.
Check out what our staff members think and then let us know your thoughts on the game in the comments below. As we move forward with the season, you will be able to keep up with just how well our prognosticators do on a weekly basis HERE.
Score Prediction: 45-10
Game MVP: Emeka Egbuka
Major Storyline: Ohio State’s defense after another multi-sack, multi-turnover (forced) game.
Score Prediction: 48-0
Game MVP: J.T. Tuimoloau
Major Storyline: Ohio State’s defense continues to impress, earning its first shutout of the season.
Score Prediction: 41-0
Game MVP: Will Howard
Major Storyline: Will Howard has four touchdowns.
Score Prediction: 54-10
Game MVP: The offensive line
Major Storyline: Ohio State’s running game looks a lot crisper this week than we saw against Akron.
Score Prediction: 45-7
Game MVP: Will Howard
Major Storyline: Cody Simon leads in tackles and forces a turnover in his first game of the season.
Score Prediction: 52-0
Game MVP: Will Howard
Major Storyline: Ohio State will amass 600 yards of total offense and will not punt all game.
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Matt Tamanini via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images
Every week, we will be picking the score, MVP, and major storyline for each Buckeye game.
Being the Buckeye beat’s black sheep blog, we here at Land-Grant Holy Land like to pat ourselves on the back. So, throughout the season, members of our staff will be making predictions about that day’s game. They will go on the record with what they think the final score will be, who the game’s MVP will be, and what the major storyline will be coming out of the day.
The No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Western Michigan Broncos on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET in a game to be broadcast on the Big Ten Network. As of this article’s writing, the Bucks are 37.5-point favorites according to FanDuel Sportsbook. College football’s gold-standard advanced analytics model SP+ is predicting a score of 45-3 in favor of Ohio State.
Check out what our staff members think and then let us know your thoughts on the game in the comments below. As we move forward with the season, you will be able to keep up with just how well our prognosticators do on a weekly basis HERE.
Josh Dooley
Score Prediction: 45-10
Game MVP: Emeka Egbuka
Major Storyline: Ohio State’s defense after another multi-sack, multi-turnover (forced) game.
Dan Hessler
Score Prediction: 48-0
Game MVP: J.T. Tuimoloau
Major Storyline: Ohio State’s defense continues to impress, earning its first shutout of the season.
Justin Golba
Score Prediction: 41-0
Game MVP: Will Howard
Major Storyline: Will Howard has four touchdowns.
Brett Ludwiczak
Score Prediction: 54-10
Game MVP: The offensive line
Major Storyline: Ohio State’s running game looks a lot crisper this week than we saw against Akron.
Gene Ross
Score Prediction: 45-7
Game MVP: Will Howard
Major Storyline: Cody Simon leads in tackles and forces a turnover in his first game of the season.
Matt Tamanini
Score Prediction: 52-0
Game MVP: Will Howard
Major Storyline: Ohio State will amass 600 yards of total offense and will not punt all game.
Continue reading...