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Preseason and Regular Season Polls (2016)

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Buckeye86 said:
Most teams don't have the talent/depth to withstand the death march offense without a lot of breaks, but those that do (aka most top 25 teams) should beat them fairly easily.

The thing is, they have very few top 25 teams on the schedule this year.
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4 of their next 9 games are against teams that can handle the Rain Manball offense (Wisconsin, Iowa, MSU and OSU) three of those four are on the road.

They'll be exposed or we will be wrong but it's coming.
 
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jwinslow said:
Speight was just flipping it up to anyone and everyone in constant panic. OSU would have had about 2-3 TDs if they were the opposing defense tracking those wounded ducks.
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Speight's throwing motion reminds me of Pryor (similar QBs, right? :lol:)... the way he just kinda shot puts it out there.

Pryor had a few other things going for him that Speight doesn't, though.
 
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They aren't going to be able to run (just like last year)

They will have to pass 25-30 times with Speight vs this secondary (and of course, protect him) in the 'Shoe.

Good luck
 
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Jaxbuck said:
4 of their next 9 games are against teams that can handle the Rain Manball offense (Wisconsin, Iowa, MSU and OSU) three of those four are on the road.

They'll be exposed or we will be wrong but it's coming.
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If Iowa can't break the box against ND St I'm thinking they don't have much of a chance against Michigan's D.

(I didn't watch the game, but I'm assuming ND St put 9 in the box all day and dared Iowa to throw.)
 
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Jaxbuck said:
coaches poll

OSU #2

The SEC nonsense from #11-25 is just sad

You wonder if/when it's ever going to seriously be questioned
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When you consider that the Top 25 means 1/2 of the 50 teams in the big five conferences (including Notre Dame), and then look at the Mountain West, MAC and American what else can you expect? And when Iowa, Illinois, Purdue and Northwestern get whacked by Div 11 programs...
 
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Systems_id said:
There's a Buckeye team from 2002 that would beg to differ.:lol:
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While the 2002 Bucks played in quite a few close games, they never came close to blowing a big lead.

Games in which they had a 18-point lead at any point:

Texas Tech, 45-21
Kent State, 51-17
Washington State, 25-7
Indiana, 45-17
San Jose State, 50-7
Minnesota, 34-3

In the remaining games, they never had more than a 10-point lead except at Northwestern:

Cincinnati, 23-19 (biggest lead, 4 points - final)
Northwestern, 27-16 (biggest lead, 15 points - 24-9 in the third)
Wisconsin, 19-14 (biggest lead, 7 points - final)
Penn State, 13-7 (biggest lead, 6 points - final)
Purdue, 10-6 (biggest lead, 4 points - final)
Illinois, 23-16 (biggest lead, 7 points - final)
Michigan, 14-9 (biggest lead, 5 points - final)
Miani, 31-24 (biggest lead, 10 points - 17-7 in the third)

Also note that in six of those eight close games, our largest lead was the final score. So, yeah, the 2002 Buckeyes have absolute zilch to do with almost blowing 29-points leads.
 
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