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OSU/Wisconsin - 2003

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Anyone going to this game? I'll be there with some Badger fans a a whole bunch of Buckeye fans!! Camp Randall is usually a good time but I can't imagine some of these Badger fans after a whole day of tailgating.
 
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I read somewhere recently that the reason for playing back to backs in Camp Randall is to make up for a back to back in the Shoe' sometime in the last 10 years or so.

That was going to be a tough game to begin with, but especially tough now that it's a night game. At least we have an extra week to prepare (and get healthy) for the game. I think Wisky has a hard game the week before us, too.( @ Penn State)
 
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From the official site

Football: The Ohio State at Wisconsin football game, Oct. 11 in Madison, will be nationally televised by ESPN and will kick off at 9:08 p.m. EDT. The late start gives the Buckeyes two night games this season. Previously, ABC announced an 8:07 p.m. EDT kickoff for the Aug. 30 season opener between Ohio State and Washington in Columbus. The Buckeyes will be traveling to Madison for the second consecutive year. This year's game with the Badgers will be the Buckeyes' first road game of 2003 and follows a bye week. Ohio State opens the season with five consecutive home games and then is off Oct. 4 before heading to Madison.
 
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Unfortunately for me here in DC, the 30 AUG 2000 hrs game on ESPN will be the N.Carolina v Free Shoes U game. Looks like it's off to the sports bar.

Armed Forces TV will carry the OSU/WASH game live for the troops though on the primary channel, then the FSU/NC game tape delayed.
 
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Well, at least they'll have the listings for the current upcoming week available for free. I'm not really concerned right now about whether, say, the Illinois game, will be ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2...I won't be until the week prior to the game.
 
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I've heard some say that we are saving certain things for big games but we have had several big ones already. We have had some nail biters that would prompt any coach to use his best stuff on Defense and Offense. I don't think we will see anything to different against Wisky. The main thing will be to perfect the things that we have been a little suspect at doing. On defense the only thing that has really concerned me is the performances by Mike D, and F. Pagac at MLB. Luckily Hawk and crew are playing at a level that hide some of there mistakes.

Offensively, we just need to keep improving at things. Cut the penalties in half and execute a little better. Our passing and running game has improved and looks like it's moving it the right direction.

The only thing I think we will see that we haven't is T. Smith acting as though he is running the qb Draw, and then shoot one down field to Jenkins or Carter .
 
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ant, I think you're right on about Smith throwing the ball. Tressel knows what he doing by putting Smith in on three plays and running the ball on all three. It may be next week when we actually get to see Troy throw. Another play l'd like to see in a goal line situation, only if we really need to use it, is the option that we ran against scUM last year with Hartsock in motion going the other way.
 
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while i don't think that we will pull out all the stops, we most likely see some new wrinkles. i don't think that we have to pull out all the stops to beat the badgers. i could be wrong, but i am feeling better and better about a repeat. maybe it is because we just keep chugging along, and so many other teams are so inconsistant. you never know if a team will show up or not. the Buckeyes D ALWAYS shows up, and the O does enough to get the job done. they are going NUTS on grassy right now, and the anti-Buckeye sentiment is as high as it was in January, which IMHO is GREAT, because it means that the canes unconciously KNOW that we are the team to beat...

it's great to be a Buckeye!!!
 
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I don't think OSU will pull out all the stops, but we will probably see a greater conssitency by using the plays that have been successful. I think OSU will run more toss sweeps with Guilford and the screens and slants to open up the running game.

OSU just needs to hit one of the deep throws a couple of times and the defenses will back off.

I am not sure what the longest completion of the year is, but I am pretty sure it is under 35 yards, and most of that on the run.
 
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