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Game Thread THE GAME: #1 Ohio State 42, #2 Michigan 39 (11/18/06)

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osugrad21;669195; said:
I love the jackasses who write this garbage...it was linked earlier in the thread but I thought about this section:

Even more surprising, considering the OSU administration's stated goal of cleaning up the gameday experience were all the vendors lining Lane Avenue who were selling every conceivable variation of "Fuck Michigan!" t-shirts. I'm not talking about some guy secretly selling stuff out of a duffel bag but full-on tables and displays as shown in the pictures below. Did they have vendor permits from the University or the city? Who knows. Yet even if they did, I'm guessing Nike and Budweiser wouldn't appreciate their logos used as they were.

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Passing the t-shirt merchants, somewhere around the Holiday Inn on Lane (or just past it), a group of Buckeye fans (again, college age or just older) on the other side of a fence at some party (not Hineygate) started in with the usual "Fuck Michigan" calls. That's when I felt something hit my jacket. I looked down to see what I thought was a piece of ice, until I looked at the white all over the arm of my jacket and realized it was a powdered donut. Another had just missed my friend.
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Obviously he didn't see these girls. How could he complain about the "Fuck Michigan" message displayed in such a manner?

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WTF was that OSU chick fan (above) thinking by drinking out of that Michigan glass??
 
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LoKyBuckeye;669121; said:
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COLUMBUS, OH?In what had been touted as a college-football matchup for the ages, the top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the No. 2 Michigan Wolverines 42-39 Sunday in a game that, while exciting, ultimately made no real impact on the football landscape and had no significant effect on the national rankings.

from The Onion.... :wink:
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So apparently the Big Ten Championship isn't worth crap. Where do they find these people to write?
 
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mooktarr;669624; said:
So apparently the Big Ten Championship isn't worth crap. Where do they find these people to write?
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LOL. The Onion is a satire my friend. Check out their other sports headlines:

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Dispatch

Some postseason issues to, ahem, chew on

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Ken Gordon and Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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</IMG> Despite returning only two starters, Ohio State?s defense dominated opponents, including Indiana and running back Demetrius McCray on Oct. 21.


After an Ohio State football regular season stuffed with wins, everything else is just gravy, right? OK, enough of the bad plays on words. Beat reporters Tim May and Ken Gordon have some issues left over (oops) from the season:
Gordon: Confessions first. I am among the many who figured Ohio State?s young defense would cost the team a game or two. I also overrated Iowa. Combine those factors and my prediction of a 6-2, tied-for-secondplace Big Ten finish obviously was off. I don?t know how many folks outside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center saw this defense coming together so well, so quickly. Antonio Smith, a walk-on until last spring, is suddenly first-team all-Big Ten? Who knew? It?s the story of the season, in my opinion, bigger than Troy Smith?s Heisman Trophy run. The question at the beginning was could this be a championship-caliber defense? Ummm, yes.
May: The "umm" part is what I liked best, because in the aftermath of a 42-39 win over Michigan, there were a lot of "umms" about the defense. That was the kind of shootout game many people expected the Buckeyes to get into throughout the season, with a high-powered offense coming to the rescue of a youngish defense. The truth is, that game had some good defense played here and there, and it might not have been quite the instant classic had the offense not turned the ball over three times. So maybe the defense took a black eye it didn?t quite deserve.
Gordon: I guess it?s easy to use "ifs" to make each team?s case in a rematch. If Ohio State doesn?t turn it over three times, it?s at least a 42-28 win (Michigan wouldn?t have gone for its last two-point conversion). If Chad Henne hits Mario Manningham on that first long pass, when Manningham is wide open, it might have been a different game. What convinces me the Buckeyes would win the rematch is they shredded the Wolverines for 503 yards, 187 on the ground. Why? The line play came out much more in favor of the Buckeyes than I expected, and that?s the reason OSU would win again.
May: It?s difficult to say what type of game a sequel would be. For example, would Michigan figure out a way to cover all four ? sometimes five ? Ohio State receivers while also getting enough pressure on Troy Smith to contain him and occasionally sack him? That?s doubtful. At the same time, would the Ohio State defense figure out a way to cover the outside zone running play on which Mike Hart had such success? Seriously, there were moments when the Michigan offense looked like a combine, especially near the goal line. There?s a chance the rematch would be as wild as the original. Personally, I think it is ridiculous in the grand scheme of the Bowl Championship Series ? remember, we were told that the BCS was needed to guarantee the sanctity of the regular season and to preserve the bowls ? that a rematch could even happen. Talk about double jeopardy ? Michigan had its chance.
Gordon: If Ohio State faces and beats someone other than Michigan in the title game, I believe it sets the Buckeyes up with a legitimate claim as one of the best champions ever. Think about it, will it ever happen again that a preseason No. 1 team takes on and defeats three No. 2 teams in the same season? That?s tough to do, just timingwise. It?s a credit to Ohio State scheduling Texas, it?s a credit to the Big Ten that it had the nation?s top two teams the second half of the season, and it would be a huge credit to Ohio State to go 13-0 against that schedule. Talk all you want about the Big Ten not being great, but I think Penn State was underrated, Iowa certainly wasn?t chopped liver, and I?m betting Illinois will make some Illi-noise next year.
May: Your Ill-ness aside, it?s tough to judge just how tough the Big Ten was. But when you consider the success of Wisconsin (11-1), well, no conference in the country had three teams of such high caliber. Yet Ohio State did not play Wisconsin, and the Badgers? outof-conference schedule looked like a nursery rhyme. That said, Michigan handled Wisconsin, and Ohio State beat Michigan. That?s why it would be more interesting to see Ohio State play someone other than Michigan on Jan. 8. Hypothetically, if Michigan were to win the rematch, what would it prove? In a fair world, the teams would be forced to meet again to prove it on the field, best two out of three. That?s not going to happen, obviously, which goes back to my original point. Ohio State already has beaten Michigan. Ohio State already is the king of its county. Now go play someone from another county.

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Wrong again Corso choses Michigan in its matchup last weekend against Ohio State.​


What?s Corso going to pick?

Sunday, November 26, 2006

asap?s Casey Laughman looks at the mascot head tradition.


COLUMBUS It?s just about noon on Saturday, and the crowd across the street from Ohio Stadium is roaring.
No. 2 Michigan is in town to take on No. 1 Ohio State, the beer has been flowing since, oh, Wednesday, and on top of all that, ESPN?s ?College GameDay? ? half college football preview show, half traveling circus ? has set up shop in Columbus.
It?s almost time for the big question of the day to be answered: What is Lee Corso going to pull out from under the desk?
PAST AS PROLOGUE
When GameDay was in Columbus 10 years ago for the Penn State-Ohio State game, it was still rare for the show to go on the road. Usually, host Chris Fowler and analysts Corso and Kirk Herbstreit would break down the game from the studio, with Corso throwing in a little humor with a pompom or something.
But in Columbus, he stumbled upon something big.
Corso happened to see the Ohio State mascot ? Brutus Buckeye, whose most recognizable feature is his gigantic head made to look like the highly poisonous nut ? and had a brainstorm.
?All of a sudden at Ohio State, I saw this Brutus Buckeye walk by, and I said to Herbie: ?Kirk, how about if I could get that headgear and put it on??,? Corso says.
Herbstreit, a former OSU quarterback, and his wife, a former OSU cheerleader, helped arrange it. The next day, Corso hid the head under the desk and when it came time to make his pick, he had a surprise for everyone.
?I put it on ... and the (production) truck went crazy, the crowd went crazy, and I said, ?Wow, we?ve got something here,?? Corso says.
CROWD-PLEASER
Corso gets in contact with the sports information office of the school he?s going to pick during the week and arranges the delivery of the head. The only exceptions are at Auburn ? school policy prevents anyone other than the mascot from using the uniform, Corso says ? and schools such as Oklahoma that don?t have mascot heads. In those cases, he gets a helmet.
After he gets the head, only he and one other person from the ESPN crew know what it is. A crew member hides it in either a box or a black bag, depending on the size.
And Corso takes it seriously, too. He said his longest streak of being right is 16 in a row, and he doesn?t just automatically pick the home team.
When it comes time for the big moment, the crew member hands it to Corso and the crowd goes wild ? either good or bad, depending on whom he picked.
?They get kind of mad,? when he picks the visitors, Corso says. ?That?s why I usually have extra police officers when I pick against the home team. They?re not bad, (but) they get passionate.?
AGAINST THE GRAIN
It was a more somber GameDay than usual this past weekend, following the death of former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler. But by the time Fowler introduces the last pick of the day, the crowd starts getting revved up.
Corso leans over and gives Herbstreit a hug and tells him he loves him. He says that he loves Herbstreit?s kids, who are a fixture on the set when the show is in Columbus, and that he loves the ?O-H-I-O? chant the Ohio State faithful do at the drop of a hat.
?But,? Corso says, turning around and reaching down, ?give me this one right here.? He pulls out a blue helmet with maize stripes ? a Michigan helmet.
As a wave of boos crashes over the set, Corso screams to be heard. He says this one is for Schembechler, and Fowler wraps up the show by pointing out that it?s the first time Corso has ever picked against Ohio State in Columbus. Herbstreit smiles nervously. (Corso would turn out to be wrong, of course. Ohio State beat Michigan 42-39.)
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OHIO STATE FOOTBALL
There's no slowing the Scarlet spread


Sunday, November 26, 2006 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter

Columbus -- Arkansas has a running back who lines up in the shotgun and throws passes. Florida's been rotating quarterbacks most of the season. West Virginia features a quarterback with tailback speed who's rushed for more than 1,300 yards.
Every offense in college football offers some kind of wrinkle, it seems.
But breaking down the way Ohio State rolled up 42 points on one of the best defenses in the nation a week ago, the Buckeyes' plan of spreading them out and tearing them down works as well as any offense you'll find.
During Ohio State's 42-39 win over the Wolverines last Saturday, broadcaster Brent Musburger went so far as to call OSU coach Jim Tressel the best playcaller he's seen in college football in recent times. That's up for debate.
What Tressel did for sure was maximize his offense's greatest edge, one the Buckeyes all know about. Receiver Anthony Gonzalez said he's been talking about it with receivers coach Darrell Hazell throughout the season.
"There aren't too many teams that have a whole bunch of really, really talented defensive backs," Gonzalez said. "It's just not how it works in college. So sometimes we maybe have that advantage in that we can put some talented receivers on the field."
Tressel said during the course of the year that the Buckeyes use three receivers about 50 percent of the time, two receivers 25 percent of the time and four receivers or more 25 percent of the time. Against the Wolverines, the Buckeyes went wide even more often. Excluding their final possession, when they ran out the clock, Ohio State had at least four receivers on the field 38 percent of the time. In the first half, when they built a 28-14 lead, the Buckeyes went to four or five receivers 47 percent of the time.
Though the offensive line was ready to take on Michigan's front four, recognized as the best in college football, the Buckeyes decided not to go through them, but over them.
"If all they want to do is run the ball, and not let No. 10 operate," offensive coordinator Jim Bollman said of his linemen, "then they're not thinking very carefully, are they? So they do what they need to do."
What they had to do was pass protect, but not for very long. The Buckeyes gave No. 10, quarterback Troy Smith, enough time to take short drops and get off quick passes. A Michigan defense that had 41 sacks in its first 11 games got to Smith just once.
That's what opened up the running game. The Wolverines had been giving up 29.9 yards per game on the ground before the Buckeyes hit them for 187. But 52 came on a Chris Wells touchdown run and 56 on an Antonio Pittman touchdown run. The rest of the game, Ohio State gained 79 yards on 27 carries, a 2.9 yard average.
But those two big plays were open in part because the Wolverine safeties had to spread wide to help in pass coverage, and when the Buckeye backs popped through the middle, they couldn't close the gap quickly enough.
"It wasn't like you were going to come out and ram the ball down their throats," Bollman said.
No, the Buckeyes made them open up and say "Ahh."
"We've seen that since the beginning of the season, going three, four, five wide and spreading the ball around," said receiver Brian Robiskie said. "That says a lot."
It says how far Tressel has come since arriving at Ohio State. Tressel's third and goal call from the 1 in the first quarter, when Pittman and Wells were on the sideline and from a five-receiver set Smith hit Roy Hall for a touchdown pass, told you everything. That's a long way from the offense that analyst Kirk Herbstreit said several years ago wouldn't be able to draw top skill position talent.
"It's a different offense today," Herbstreit said. "If you look at the offense since Troy Smith has been in there, you've got [Brian] Hartline and Robiskie, most of the nation has never heard of those two, but you put those two with [Ted] Ginn and Gonzalez, that gives you four receivers on the field at once. And they exploit teams with that ability to throw. If I were a quarterback right now, I'd love to play in this offense."
And if you were a third or fourth defensive back against the Buckeyes in the national title game, you'd hate to face it.
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
[email protected], 216-999-4479
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Before the game, many BP members offered keys to the game. One of the most common opinions was that the key was stopping Mike Hart and getting a pass rush out of our front 4.

We did neither. Hart ran well and what pressure we got came from blitzing. We did sack Chad "statue" Henne four times, but he had plenty of time on an awful lot of his throws.

This thread is not intended to say, "I told you so"; but rather, "Oh ye of little faith". We needed 40 or more to win against TSUN, and that's what Troy gave us. I'd just like to remind everyone that there were plenty of people here at BP that never doubted Troy for a minute.

DaddyBigBucks;636197; said:
IMHO...

Mike Hart is not the key to this game.

Chad Henne is not the key to this game.

No UofM player is the key to this game.

TROY SMITH is the LOCK of this game, and the Wolveweasels have no key!

Troy is going to will the offense to however many points they need. If we need 17, they'll score 17. If we need 70, they'll score 70.
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The same applies to the game in Glendale. Troy will see to it that we get all the points we need. It's what great quarterbacks do.
 
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DaddyBigBucks;671739; said:
Before the game, many BP members offered keys to the game. One of the most common opinions was that the key was stopping Mike Hart and getting a pass rush out of our front 4.

We did neither. Hart ran well and what pressure we got came from blitzing. We did sack Chad "statue" Henne four times, but he had plenty of time on an awful lot of his throws.

This thread is not intended to say, "I told you so"; but rather, "Oh ye of little faith". We needed 40 or more to win against TSUN, and that's what Troy gave us. I'd just like to remind everyone that there were plenty of people here at BP that never doubted Troy for a minute.



The same applies to the game in Glendale. Troy will see to it that we get all the points we need. It's what great quarterbacks do.
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I agree, and btw, how was Mickey?
 
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DaddyBigBucks;671739; said:
The same applies to the game in Glendale. Troy will see to it that we get all the points we need. It's what great quarterbacks do.
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Absolutely. Troy is the man!!

It is human nature to canonize the past (e.g., John Elway) and maybe they are right. I'm not the judge on the past that I never experienced. But I said this before and will say it again, what Troy did in The Game series can be compared to any football legend out there. He led two 97+ yds TD drives in 04, came back from two possessions down, and totally dissected the great defense that scUM has for a long time.

I truly wish Troy go on to have a glorious career in NFL. It just take too much things to happen to be successful in the next level. But given the right circumstances, I have no doubt that Troy has the capability to succeed. Best of luck to him!!!

Go bucks!
 
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