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Rutgers @ tOSU, Sat Oct 1, 3:30pm, BTN

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Watching Iowa vs Rutgers on BTN football in 60

Rutgers defense was getting pushed around by the decidedly un-vaunted Iowa OL. Iowa, bad as they are, would never have had to throw the ball if they hadn’t, 1) missed assignments on occasion, allowing unearned TFL, 2) called slow developing, Bollmanesque plays on occasion, 3) had the most Iowa running backs ever with no vision, moves or the ability to break tackles.
When Iowa did pass, the very un-scary Iowa receivers were frequently open; Petras either didn’t see them or threw inaccurately. As others have observed, literally worse than Bauserman.

The Rutgers qb does not see the field very well and is not particularly athletic. The Scarlet Knight offense might present a problem if they had a competent signal caller. As it is…

TL/DR version: BTN told me Rutgers is improved. I see little evidence of that
 
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RB07OSU said:
Ah Rutgers, the game where we make them sorry they ever joined the B1G. Train will keep rolling, Bucks by 55 in a "it could have been way worse" type of game where we call off the dogs. I do like that it is a 130 (Mountain Time) game, leaves plenty of time for our high-end happy hours.
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I saw an old clip of Charles Barkley yesterday where he said "the train is coming, you better get off the track"
 
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Ohio State vs. Rutgers football: Greg Schiano breaks down QB situation, 'going to Columbus to win the game'

On if Rutgers has closed the gap at all with Ohio State since Schiano arrived for his second tenure:

Schiano: "I don't know if there's a measuring stick right now with a program that's established that way. I don't know that. It depends how we play, right. It will be a great measuring stick if we play well. But if you play poorly against a team like Ohio State, it really gets exposed, right. So you go play poorly against a good team, you might not look great. You play poorly against them and it's a matter of how many, what is the difference. So we need to go out and play our best game and then some things go your way and again, the game is what you need to do.

"You need to hang in there, you need to play tough, and you keep looking up and there's still a chance and then you keep going and it gets tighter and tighter, and that's what you go in when you're a market under dog and that's where we are right now. We are not going to all be here, as a matter of fact, we are not always going to be in this position but it takes time. That's one thing, like I said, I had to do it myself first and then communicate it to people, first my team and my staff and now publicly in that that's a lot of great improvement going on. We have lost some really valuable players as was mentioned today to injury, some of them will be coming back as we go. Some of them won't. Some of them will have to wait until next year to see. Overall the tide is definitely rising and we are going out to Columbus to play our very best game since we've been back and see where that puts us."

On how Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud has elevated his play this season:

Schiano: "Yeah, he's been through a lot more football games and seen a lot more defenses, including his own. What he's going against now is some high-level stuff. So when you go against that every day in practice, I think it sharpens -- iron sharpens iron a little bit there.

"Yeah, he's an elite level quarterback for sure."

Entire interview: https://247sports.com/LongFormArtic...lumbus-to-win-the-game-194232361/#194232361_4
 
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Whatever else he is or does, Schiano gets my respect for the way he handles himself, at least in public because that's all I've seen. To take on that job not once, but twice and be able to improve the school each time is pretty special in my opinion. If he ever got more OSU level recruits I'd like to see what he could do over a couple years. Just not against Ohio State. He can go beat the piss out of PSU all he wants though
 
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If Toledo had not played Ohio State, they would currently be leading the country in pass efficiency defense. As it is, they’re 73rd.

Rutgers is top 25 in scoring defense; top 10 in total defense. Based on having watched them play, those rankings will be almost as much a smoldering crater as Toledo’s after Saturday
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Whatever else he is or does, Schiano gets my respect for the way he handles himself, at least in public because that's all I've seen. To take on that job not once, but twice and be able to improve the school each time is pretty special in my opinion. If he ever got more OSU level recruits I'd like to see what he could do over a couple years. Just not against Ohio State. He can go beat the piss out of PSU all he wants though
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I like to agree.....then I'm reminded of the fuckery he pulls against us that he doesn't pull against anybody else. If he runs any of those trick plays against Michigan in 2020 instead of using them all against us, he wins. I'm sure it's rooted in heavy bias....but I have such disdain for lesser teams who put it all out there against us, but play like scared little pussies against everyone else.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
I like to agree.....then I'm reminded of the fuckery he pulls against us that he doesn't pull against anybody else. If he runs any of those trick plays against Michigan in 2020 instead of using them all against us, he wins. I'm sure it's rooted in heavy bias....but I have such disdain for lesser teams who put it all out there against us, but play like scared little pussies against everyone else.
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I think Ryan Day running a fake punt (while up 14-3) against him in that 2020 game opened the gates. It felt like a pretty normal OSU-Rutgers game up until that moment and then it went off the rails.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
I think Ryan Day running a fake punt (while up 14-3) against him in that 2020 game opened the gates. It felt like a pretty normal OSU-Rutgers game up until that moment and then it went off the rails.
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For the record, I like Greg Schiano. If he wants to throw the kitchen sink of trick plays at Ohio State, fine. If that's what beats Ohio State, then they don't deserve to by conference champions.
But the opening kickoff, Schiano was already pulling cards from his sleeves. He knew Ohio State had a weak left side of the kickoff defense (returning team's left side, Ohio State's right side). He had his kick returner throw the ball backward to the other returner on the other side of the field. Ohio State defended it well enough, but Schiano fired the opening shot.
 
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