My, OH my

2008-09-13T22:55:36-04:00

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2008-09-13T22:55:36-04:00

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SafetyBlitz

Calabasas 5597

1 LOL choprz! Oh Buckeye fans: Na na na na... Nana na na... Hey he-ey... Goodbye! 2736476

2008-09-08T15:11:24-04:00

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choprz

Mission Viejo 29464

Too bad the hype is now #1 vs. #5 ... but what would one expect when THE bucks are as vacant on the field as they were... USC is going to give them all they can handle. I don't see how OSU wins this one. Keep this in mind - Tressel is not a great game coach - great coach, but game adjustments are just not his strength. LSU smacked them hard down by 10 and they are still reeling... OSU is officially the SEC's b*tch... and have not beaten USC since 1974... When this is over, the city of Cow-lumbus will be sullen until they stomp the RichRod Snivvel-renes. 2692518

2008-09-08T14:59:29-04:00

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SafetyBlitz

Calabasas 5597

Come Saturday night, I and about a million other Trojans fans will be singing the goodbye song, relishing our team's continuing #1 ranking. Calling yourselves 'the Ohio State' is just about as bad as the Cowboys naming themselves 'America's team.' You can say it all you want, it don't make it true. Can you say HABITUALLY OVERRATED? I am SO looking forward to this. Can't wait to see you Buckeyes eat crow. Tell ya what...come Saturday night, I'll sing the goodbye song right here, on this column. Whaddaya think of that, Leisure Suit Larry? 2692378

2008-09-08T14:23:16-04:00

mscott59

Powell 518276

it continually amazes me that osu gets such negatively publicity from a 2 td win over an in-state rival, yet last year usc, as a 41 point favorite, lost at home to eventual 4-8 stanford and there were no such ripples of 'overrated' chatter on the backside of that game. each game is its own opera, full of sometimes predictable and sometimes unpredictable variables, from weather to bounces to slips to injuries to mistakes to spectacular plays... you get the point. osu may indeed lose to usc, but it will have very little to do w/how they played vs ohio. usc may win saturday, but their performance vs virginia will have had nothing to do w/it if that happens. winning w/style may be a secondary goal; the primary goal is simply to end each game on top. osu will come to the coliseum ready to play. if sc is smart, they won't think otherwise. 2691916

2008-09-08T12:48:30-04:00

dougI

Arroyo Grande 13160

How is it that Ohio State can go year after year after year fooling the writers and other coaches with (basically) the same team? I have always believed that the number of returning players on a team is overrated. The main concern should be the quality of players. I would have been more impressed if Tressle had an entirely new team this year and said they are better than the players before. 2690745

2008-09-08T12:00:59-04:00

foxforcefive

lancaster 513491

Why all the hype about Laurinitis ? He makes a routine tackle and the announcers go wild ... he is the most overated player in America ... 2690084

2008-09-08T11:59:56-04:00

Gator H8r

Columbus 518128

beachgator, Man you can't be serious. The Gators struggled up until the forth quarter against Miami (FL). Virtually the same exact thing that happened to tOSU this Saturday. Up until that point, in both the UF and tOSU games, both teams were losing to lesser teams from lesser conferences. Please try to defend the ACC and say that they look ANY BETTER than the MAC this year... I'd love to see the logic there. Yea they are considered a BCS conference but NONE of their teams are playing like it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall the Miami being ranked since, I dunno, 2002. I haven't checked the stats, all I know is they faded off into the night after OSU upset them in the NC. I'm sure some blowhard Buckeye hater will have nothing better to do than look up stats to prove me wrong. 2690018

2008-09-08T10:58:17-04:00

will s.

Chesapeake 95335

I think the team will be fine as Lou Holtz said on Saturday - its a different team, different mindset, each week as you prepare these young men for a game. How many times have we seen a USC or an Alabama lose to someone they've had no business losing to? You count your blessings in NCAA football along with the wins and move on. If the only "good" teams in college are USC and top-tier SEC teams, then what boring sport it would be. There's no need to see anyone else playing then, is there? 2689084

2008-09-07T17:10:12-04:00

fatboyjay70

Georgetown 478758

I was appalled at several different things I saw on Saturday. Our DB's with the exception of Jenkins, let their man get seperation and several times they would leave them when it looked like the QB would be sacked. Several times the QB would get the pass off and now the reviever is wide open. If your job is to stick to a reciever than do it the whole play. Second Boeckmans timing was extremelly off. There were times where he was at least 3 seconds late thus allowing the OU DB's a chance to get back in possition. It almost seemed at times they were running new plays that Boeckman had never seen so he had no idea where his receivers were. I still think we can win next week but the coaches need to be jumping the players and get them into the right frame of mind. I will also say that OU played very well. Considereing their first string QB was knowcked out of most of the game they played very well. I hope they continue to play that well the rest of the season and good luck to them. 2684028

2008-09-07T12:11:04-04:00

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etc_04

Athens 492322

I also have a sinking feeling we're going to get a field goal blocked against USC. Our coverage on such plays is awful 2682899

<img style="width: 425px; height: 301px; float: right;" title="Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images" src="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/images/09/06/t1_harden.jpg" border="1" alt="Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images" width="425" height="301" align="top" />Is this the type of uninspiring play we have to look forward to if Chris "Beanie" Wells can't go vs. USC next Saturday? Ohio State's offense looked anemic, its defense vapid -- and it all came against a MAC team that was a 33-point underdog. In the end, the Buckeyes' talent and depth won out as they survived Ohio with <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/scoreboards/2008/09/06/37896_viewcast_recap.html">a 26-14 victory</a>, but Saturday's performance was alarming with that much-anticipated showdown with the top-ranked Trojans looming. Ohio State has a history of taking MAC teams lightly (beating Marshall 24-21 in 2004, Bowling Green 24-17 in '03 and Akron 28-14 in '01), but in those other slim wins, OSU had never been ranked third in the nation, had never struggled so much on both sides of the ball and never had so much riding on the next week's game. Ohio State trailed the Bobcats for most of the game until early in the fourth quarter with the offense unable to establish a running game without its Heisman contender. The absence of Beanie seemed to take a toll on the unit as a whole. Todd Boeckman passed for 111 yards and no touchdowns and he bumbled a snap into the Buckeyes' end zone that gave Ohio a 14-6 lead in the third quarter. The Buckeyes finally restored order in the fourth quarter with a rushing touchdown from Brandon Saine and a punt return touchdown by Ray Small, which gave Ohio State the final 12-point advantage. But three quarters of struggles vs. a MAC team doesn't bode well for a team with aspirations of winning a national title. It did come as a surprise that Jim Tressel didn't utilize freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who supplied some punch in the opening win over Youngstown State. But Tressel's not one to step away from the conservative route, and that meant riding his fifth-year senior at QB and hoping his offense simply woke up. Pryor appeared in one series in the first quarter and didn't see the field again until Ohio State was up by 12. While the offense was bound to lose some of its firepower without Beanie, the defense seemed to just get caught taking a bunch of guys who weren't recruited by the state's mother school too lightly. The nation's top-ranked D from a year ago had trouble bottling up Ohio's spread and its dual-threat quarterback Boo Jackson. The spread has been Ohio State's Achilles' heel of late -- most famously against Florida in the national championship two seasons ago -- and it's made their pass rush almost non-existent (they had just two sacks today). Ohio State's defense eventually came through, thanks to some Bobcats miscues. Jackson had a pass intercepted by James Laurinaitis in the middle of the fourth and the Ohio quarterback just couldn't hook up with his receivers in the clutch. It's still a win and it still sets up the Game of the Year (for now) in L.A., but this performance wasn't the statement the Buckeyes were looking to make. Last we saw of the Trojans, they were lambasting a Virginia team that won nine games in 2007. Today's performance by the Buckeyes is a definite cause for concern. If the OSU team that put up just 287 total yards of offense against Ohio is the team that shows up in the Coliseum, things will get far uglier than they did against the Bobcats. 1232 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/471/4/thumb/mccartney_cory.jpg 15 GA

Cory McCartney

Atlanta 4734