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Game Thread tOSU at Illinois, Nov 16, 12 ET, ESPN

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The only thing I see is that Scheelhaase will be the most mobile/athletic QB OSU has faced this year so that bears watching.

The Illinois defense is just beyond dreadful. 35.5 ppg surrendered in B1G play, the best they managed all season was keeping Miami Ohio to 14 points. The highlight films look like they are missing tackles on purpose its so bad.
 
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Ohio State is currently on a 21-game winning streak.

Ohio State's longest winning streak of all time is 22 games, from November 4, 1967, to November 22, 1969. However, Ohio State also had a 22-game unbeaten streak from 1915 to 1918.

In 1915, Ohio State was an also-ran in the Big Ten conference, with a 140-77-19 overall record (.562 winning percentage, placing them 6th in the conference behind Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Illinois). The Buckeyes initial football season as a member of the Big Ten was 1913, and in their first three seasons they posted a mediocre 5-5-1 record in conference play.

Then Chic Harley arrived on campus, and Ohio State entered the big time. In 1916, Harley led the Buckeyes to a perfect 7-0-0 season and an outright Big Ten championship. The magic continued in 1917, when the team posted an 8-0-1 record and a second consecutive outright conference title. In his first two years, Harley's Buckeyes were 15-0-1 and they outscored their opponents by a combined 550-35, while Harley was a consensus All American both seasons.

In 1918, Harley left Ohio State and enlisted in the Army. Without their superstar performer, the Buckeyes finished with a 3-3 overall record. Their 22-game unbeaten streak, which had begun on November 6, 1915, ended on November 16, 1918, when Ohio State lost to Illinois.

After the end of World War I, Harley returned to Ohio State for his final season. The All American led his team to a 6-0-0 start, including the Buckeyes' first ever win over Michigan. But in his final game as a Buckeye, Ohio State lost to Illinois, 9 to 7, on a last-second field goal. Illinois also finished the season with a 6-1-0 record, but their win over Ohio State gave them an outright conference title and a national championship.

But this isn't your great-great-grandfather's Illinois. Ohio State is firing on all cylinders both offensively and defensively, and Illinois will be lucky of they can keep the score within six touchdowns.

And now a few words about Urban Meyer. When he woke on the morning of December 5, 2009, he was the greatest football coach in college football. At just 45 years of age, Meyer already had two national championships to his name, tying him for the most among active coaches with Joe Paterno, Bobby Bowden, and Dennis Erickson (remember him?). Meyer's overall record as a head coach was 95-17 (.848), and his team was riding a 22-game winning streak. And then came Alabama....

In the SEC championship game that evening, Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide blew the doors off of Meyer's Florida Gators, with the final score being 32-13. Alabama would go on to win the BCS championship game for the 2009 season.

Shortly after that epic loss, Meyer admitted himself to a Gainesville hospital after suffering severe chest pains and dehydration. Later that month, he briefly resigned from Florida, although he quickly changed his mind and returned to coach the team for the 2010 season....

Which turned out to be a mistake. Florida finished with a pedestrian 8-5 record that year (Meyer's worst record as a head coach), with three losses of greater than 20 points, including another blow-out loss to Nick Saban's Alabama (31-6). After that relatively miserable season, Meyer did call it quits for real, and he spent the 2011 season in the broadcast booth.

When the Ohio State job became available late in 2011, Meyer jumped at the opportunity. Since his hiring, Meyer is a perfect 21-0 as the head coach of the Buckeyes. Yet his team still gets no respect, warranting no better than third place in the polls, and his nemesis Nick Saban is generally considered the best in the business, and he now has four national titles and is the odds on favorite to capture his fifth this year. I would imagine that this situation makes Urban Meyer mad.

If you think that the Buckeyes have been an angry, pissed off team the past two weeks, just you wait. It will be ugly in Champaign this Saturday, and the destruction will only get worse as the season grinds to an end. It may end up being a vain effort, but the Buckeyes will do everything that they can over the next four weeks to impress the pollsters, and if that means some 70-7 beat downs of the Little Sisters of the Poor, then so be it. Beware the wrath of Urban Meyer!
 
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Ohio State is currently on a 21-game winning streak.

Ohio State's longest winning streak of all time is 22 games, from November 4, 1967, to November 22, 1969. However, Ohio State also had a 22-game unbeaten streak from 1915 to 1918.

In 1915, Ohio State was an also-ran in the Big Ten conference, with a 140-77-19 overall record (.562 winning percentage, placing them 6th in the conference behind Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Illinois). The Buckeyes initial football season as a member of the Big Ten was 1913, and in their first three seasons they posted a mediocre 5-5-1 record in conference play.

Then Chic Harley arrived on campus, and Ohio State entered the big time. In 1916, Harley led the Buckeyes to a perfect 7-0-0 season and an outright Big Ten championship. The magic continued in 1917, when the team posted an 8-0-1 record and a second consecutive outright conference title. In his first two years, Harley's Buckeyes were 15-0-1 and they outscored their opponents by a combined 550-35, while Harley was a consensus All American both seasons.

In 1918, Harley left Ohio State and enlisted in the Army. Without their superstar performer, the Buckeyes finished with a 3-3 overall record. Their 22-game unbeaten streak, which had begun on November 6, 1915, ended on November 16, 1918, when Ohio State lost to Illinois.

After the end of World War I, Harley returned to Ohio State for his final season. The All American led his team to a 6-0-0 start, including the Buckeyes' first ever win over Michigan. But in his final game as a Buckeye, Ohio State lost to Illinois, 9 to 7, on a last-second field goal. Illinois also finished the season with a 6-1-0 record, but their win over Ohio State gave them an outright conference title and a national championship.

But this isn't your great-great-grandfather's Illinois. Ohio State is firing on all cylinders both offensively and defensively, and Illinois will be lucky of they can keep the score within six touchdowns.

And now a few words about Urban Meyer. When he woke on the morning of December 5, 2009, he was the greatest football coach in college football. At just 45 years of age, Meyer already had two national championships to his name, tying him for the most among active coaches with Joe Paterno, Bobby Bowden, and Dennis Erickson (remember him?). Meyer's overall record as a head coach was 95-17 (.848), and his team was riding a 22-game winning streak. And then came Alabama....

In the SEC championship game that evening, Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide blew the doors off of Meyer's Florida Gators, with the final score being 32-13. Alabama would go on to win the BCS championship game for the 2009 season.

Shortly after that epic loss, Meyer admitted himself to a Gainesville hospital after suffering severe chest pains and dehydration. Later that month, he briefly resigned from Florida, although he quickly changed his mind and returned to coach the team for the 2010 season....

Which turned out to be a mistake. Florida finished with a pedestrian 8-5 record that year (Meyer's worst record as a head coach), with three losses of greater than 20 points, including another blow-out loss to Nick Saban's Alabama (31-6). After that relatively miserable season, Meyer did call it quits for real, and he spent the 2011 season in the broadcast booth.

When the Ohio State job became available late in 2011, Meyer jumped at the opportunity. Since his hiring, Meyer is a perfect 21-0 as the head coach of the Buckeyes. Yet his team still gets no respect, warranting no better than third place in the polls, and his nemesis Nick Saban is generally considered the best in the business, and he now has four national titles and is the odds on favorite to capture his fifth this year. I would imagine that this situation makes Urban Meyer mad.

If you think that the Buckeyes have been an angry, pissed off team the past two weeks, just you wait. It will be ugly in Champaign this Saturday, and the destruction will only get worse as the season grinds to an end. It may end up being a vain effort, but the Buckeyes will do everything that they can over the next four weeks to impress the pollsters, and if that means some 70-7 beat downs of the Little Sisters of the Poor, then so be it. Beware the wrath of Urban Meyer!
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