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Game Thread tOSU at Penn State - Oct 27th, 5:30 ET, ESPN

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If there's ANY game we have to bring the plunger out in (besides scUM of course) please please please let it be this one.


Mike Mauti Speaks his Mind

Of note:

About Ohio State
"We're kind of in the same boat, but their boat is a little bit different than ours. We didn't do anything to get our sanctions. Ours are unrelated [to football]. At the same time, we both can't go to a bowl game. Other than that, we didn't do anything to help our football team."
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And

Mauti also said that, "We didn't do anything to help our program cheat. I'm not saying they're cheaters. We have a lot of respect for Ohio State," whose new coach, Urban Meyer, recruited Mauti fiercely while at Florida.
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"Their boat is a little bit different than ours...We didn't do anything to help our program cheat" How is that not saying we cheat? [censored] him up Carlos
 
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Slate suggests this game could influence the outcome of the presidential voting in Ohio:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...en_barack_obama_and_mitt_romney_could_be.html

Economists Andrew Healy, Neil Malhotra, and Cecilia Mo make this argument in a fascinating article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. They examined whether the outcomes of college football games on the eve of elections for presidents, senators, and governors affected the choices voters made. They found that a win by the local team, in the week before an election, raises the vote going to the incumbent by around 1.5 percentage points. When it comes to the 20 highest attendance teams?big athletic programs like the University of Michigan, Oklahoma, and Southern Cal?a victory on the eve of an election pushes the vote for the incumbent up by 3 percentage points. That?s a lot of votes, certainly more than the margin of victory in a tight race. And these results aren?t based on just a handful of games or political seasons; the data were taken from 62 big-time college teams from 1964 to 2008.


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On Oct. 27th, a little more than a week before the election, the Ohio State Buckeyes have a big football game against Penn State. The University of Florida Gators have a huge match up against the University of Georgia Bulldogs. If the election remains razor close, these games in these two key battleground states could affect who sits in the White House for the next four years. Can you imagine Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer getting a late night call from the Obama campaign suggesting a particular blitz package? Or maybe Romney has some advice for how the Gators can bottle up Georgia?s running game. The decision of whether to punt or go for it on that crucial fourth down could affect the job prospects of more than just the football team?s coaching staff.
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ant80;2240875; said:
Story in SI: ArticleIs that number correct? If it is, WOW!
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According to this...

Penn State averages 79 plays per game, tied for the most in the Big Ten, and ran 99 against Northwestern two weeks ago and 90 against Iowa last week. Ohio State averages just under 70 per game, seventh in the Big Ten, with a high of 86 in the opener against Miami (Ohio). Penn State gets more done.
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bukIpower;2241067; said:
They don't really have a run game and they don't have really anyone who can kill us deep. They love the flats with the RB's and the TE's and the short hitch/slant routes. If we play them tight and limit big plays I think the defense is set up pretty well to have a pretty good game.
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...also from the above linked article...

Big plays: This isn't close. Ohio State has seven offensive plays of 50 yards or more this season. Penn State has none. Ohio State has 22 plays of 30 yards or move, while Penn State has seven.

With their 41 plays of 20 yards or more, the Buckeyes average 5.1 big plays per game, and that yardage accounts for 39.2 percent of the total offense. With 30 plays of 20 yards or more, the Nittany Lions average 3.3 big plays, accounting for 22.5 percent of their offense.

Overall, Ohio State averages 6.3 yards per play, third in the Big Ten, while Penn State averages 5.1, which is ninth
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BuckeyeTillIDie;2241537; said:
I'm not even going to link to the fucking bozos article on that website, but here is the headline:
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Evidently they didn't see the NASTY stiff-arm Carlos Hyde gave the kid from Purdue last week in the 4th quarter... I think he's been watching some highlight film of Beanie. Definitely looked like a textbook Beanie SAOD.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2241552; said:
:slappy:
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To add to that quote you included... Yes, because losing to Ohio and Virginia (one being a solid...:slappy: MAC :slappy: school this year and the other being a horrendous ACC team) in consecutive weeks is 10x better than being undefeated. Their "journalists" are just as fucking delusional as their fan base.

To add more to that, their only impressive win this year is against Northwestern. Who knows how good they are since they've only played one team with a pulse (Nebraska).
 
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