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Game Thread tOSU at Sparty, Sat. Sep. 28, 730pm ET, Peacock

Welcome to the future grandpa

Seriously tho. A couple years ago I created like 20 Yahoo email accounts to use for free trials for precisely this shit. Works great
Problem is, as of this month Peacock doesn't offer a free trial anymore. Fortunately, I have it free as part of my Spectrum subscription. ( kind of) They are trying to get everyone to switch to their Xumo box and you get a free subscription for Peacock through Xumo. The funny part is all my TVs are smart TVs so I don't even use Xumo. I just just hooked it up one day to see what it was all about and signed up for the Free Peacock.
 
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I'd love to see the combined QB rating of QBs the week AFTER they play OSU

Akron threw 2 picks against Ohio State, but did a little better the following week vs Rutgers

Western Michigan had a PE of over 255 the week after they played Ohio State (they played Bethune-Cookman)

I looked at all of 2023, but didn't see a significant pattern
 
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Ohio State Opens As a 25-Point Favorite Over Michigan State Ahead of Its First Road Game of the Season​

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The Buckeyes are more than a three-touchdown favorite over Michigan State next Saturday night.

Ahead of Ohio State's first road game of the season, the Buckeyes open as 25-point favorites over the Spartans. The line dropped slightly almost immediately, as the Buckeyes are now 24-point favorites on DraftKings and 23.5-point favorites on FanDuel before their Big Ten opener. The total opened at 48.5 and has already jumped to 49.5.
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Just sayin': That comes out to around Ohio State 37 - Michigan State 13.......8D
 
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First Look: Buckeyes turn page to Big Ten opener at Michigan State

No. 3 Ohio State goes on road to Michigan State to open Big Ten play on Saturday (7 p.m., Peacock).​

The Setting: So in the wake of the Mel Tucker fiasco last year, Michigan State went outside the family and outside the box in luring former Oregon State quarterback Jonathan Smith away from his alma mater. MSU gave Smith a seven-year contract worth roughly $50 million overall to come in and try and clean up the mess Tucker left behind when he was fired at midseason last year.

Smith was 34-35 in six years at Oregon State. He led the Beavers to their first winning season in nine years in 2021 and a 10-3 finish in 2022 – its first double-digit win season since Smith was the quarterback in 2000. He came in and found a program racked by transfer departures, although he had an ace in the hole in sophomore quarterback Aidan Chiles who he brought with him from Oregon State.

MSU opened with an underwhelming 16-10 win over Florida Atlantic. The Spartans then went on the road and upset Maryland 27-24 in their Big Ten opener on Sept. 7. Jonathan Kim hit a 37-yard field goal with one second left to lift the Spartans to that win. Chiles piloted Smith's Air Raid offense to near perfection as he completed 24 of 38 passes for 363 yards with three touchdowns against two interceptions. His top receiver was Nick Marsh, who caught eight passes for 194 yards and one TD.

Next up was a 40-0 rout over FCS Prairie View A&M. This past Saturday, Michigan State ventured to Boston College to wrap up nonconference play. The Spartans led 13-6 at the half and 19-16 in the fourth quarter after a Kim field goal with just over four minutes left. But BC drove down and won the game on Thomas Castellanos' 42-yard touchdown pass to Lewis Bond with 1:28 left.

Chiles led Michigan State into BC territory before he was picked off by Max Tucker at the back of the end zone with 36 seconds left. Chiles was 17 of 35 for 241 yards, but he also threw three interceptions.

The Spartans have a nice 1-2 punch at running back with returnee Nate Carter and UMass transfer Kay'Ron Lynch-Adams. Marsh and Cleveland native Montorie Foster Jr. are also a strong receiving tandem. There were 10 returning starters on the defense, which has been pretty good so far this year. Defensive end Khris Bogle and linebacker Cal Haladay lead the way on that side.
 
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You gotta factor in the bump he'll get just for playing us. Looking forward to Marshall's next game where their starting QB throws 3 picks.
Haha it’s an odd phenomenon and it goes back to as long as I can remember.

My theory is kids usually buckle down in the horseshoe vs the buckeyes. No one is really watching Marshall but every scout will watch OSU. So when they play OSU they know this is their game film for the NFL.
 
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Haha it’s an odd phenomenon and it goes back to as long as I can remember.

My theory is kids usually buckle down in the horseshoe vs the buckeyes. No one is really watching Marshall but every scout will watch OSU. So when they play OSU they know this is their game film for the NFL.
Sound theory.
I think the visiting teams know that this is their one chance at immortality. Come out throwing haymakers. You probably won't succeed, but no one thought you would. But once a decade, you get Appy State taking down #5.
 
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