The most important factor on Saturday night might be ........

#76
#76
Finishing strong will be the key. Staying in the game, keeping pressure on OSU & taking it in the 4th qtr is how you win big games on the road.
 
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swampfoxfan said:
You are ruling out the possibility he plays well?
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No. I’m saying the weather most likely will be a factor. It was in the Indiana vs Notre Dame game and those teams play in it more than we do. At 8pm in Columbus the weather will be 25 with 5-9mph wind which is cold and hard to grip a football in or throw a long pass.
 
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Orangecrush#27 said:
It’s not one thing, it’s doing the ordinary at a very high level.
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Agreed. Here are just a few things the team needs to focus on:

* No penalties
* No dropped passes
* No fumbles
* No missed tackles or sacks
* No missed interceptions
* No personal fouls
* No dropped punts
* No over or under thrown passes
* No interceptions
* No missed blocks
* No out of bounds kickoffs
* No kickoff returns allowed to get past the 25 yard line
* No botched punts
* No punt returns
* No missed field goals
* No missed extra points
* No blocked field goals or extra points

Did I miss anything???
 
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Spawn said:
It's Nico, he needs to be better under pressure, reduce the sack rate under pressure and hit some long balls.
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Agree.

Look at SMU. Played well early so far against PSU . . . BUT their QB blows a 4th down play in the red zone with a bad decision . . . Then throws a pick 6. 14 point swing.
 
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Volador said:
Agreed. Here are just a few things the team needs to focus on:

* No penalties
* No dropped passes
* No fumbles
* No missed tackles or sacks
* No missed interceptions
* No personal fouls
* No dropped punts
* No over or under thrown passes
* No interceptions
* No missed blocks
* No out of bounds kickoffs
* No kickoff returns allowed to get past the 25 yard line
* No botched punts
* No punt returns
* No missed field goals
* No missed extra points
* No blocked field goals or extra points

Did I miss anything???
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Score more points
 
#88
#88
Home teams are winning. Hope we break that streak tonight. UGA vs Notre Dame will be interesting in NOLA. Boise State and Penn State out west will also be an interesting game. I’ll take Georgia and Penn State. Tennessee vs Oregon at the Rose Bowl will be awesome.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
We haven’t really started strong all year. I hope we do but smart money would be on us starting slow yet again. OSU has an elite defense. It will be the best we have played. Even better than UGA. I think converting third downs will be one of the most important things in this game. We can’t have a bunch of 3 and outs.

Also we can’t think because we have Sampson that we can just line it up and run on them. Nico is going to have to play significantly better than he has all year for us to win.
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We need to play nearly a perfect game or we’ll get blown out.
 
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RockiesTop22 said:
Although it’s always good to start fast it could end up being detrimental.
An Ohio State has been fairly conservative from a playcalling standpoint but when under the gun they are highly efficient at a tempo 2 min type offense.
Our worst matchup against them is their 3 headed receiving core. They absolutely have the ability to do exactly what uga did to us once they discovered they could hold the pocket- pick us apart.
If the game flow starts and stays fairly slow- I think the pressure mounts on them even more and they play tight and I’ll take Heup over Day in that scenario.
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If we don’t get great pressure on their qb, it will be a long night for our secondary.
 
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#92
pimo1 said:
There are so many things that could go wrong for each team in this game.

OSU has probably the most talented offensive skill positions in the nation period no one is close. No 3 starting WR's are even in the conversation. Their RB's are 1a and 1b and are both probably gonna be in the top 5-7 backs taken in the draft. If it starts going right for them it can get ugly.

Sampson>Henderson or Judkins but Judkins/Henderson>any 2 deep in the nation.
Smith/Egbuka/Tate best 1/2/3 punch in the nation at WR probably all 3 have first/second-round talent.

The good thing is their Oline is a hot mess right now and their QB is a Gamemanager on his best day.

Our secondary has been rock solid all year but they have not seen a receiver group like this. Bama's WIlliams and Law was the closest we have seen to this level of a WR group and Law was grotesquely underutilized.

Rb's have we played against a beast RB this year? OSU has 2 that are both almost as good as Sampson. I think the best RBs we have seen this year were Booth with Miss State and Jackson at Arkansas.. and lets been real this has been a super down year for RB's in the SEC. Unless a lot of guys have monster bowl games (or texas plays multiple games) the SEC only produced 2 1000 yard rushers. The SEC usually produces like 4-5 of them.


On the other end. OSU's has beaten up on some scrubs all year. They played 2 legit teams (Oregon and Penn State) and 2 decent teams (Michigan* and Indiana) Michigan gets an asterisk because of rivalry. Indiana I seriously want to believe the hype but they literally played a single-ranked team. Their most impressive wins were Nebraska and Michigan. I feel like ND boat races them and then gets spanked by UGA.

UT's SoS is underrated IMHO....I know we all hate to admit it but Vandy was a good team this year. Miss State and Kentucky would have had a winning record in any conference not the SEC. Purdue, Northwestern and Michigan State were very very bad teams that would have had losing records in any P4 conference..They lost to AZ state by 7 and averaged almost 26 points a game. There are not a lot of bad teams scoring 3-4 TD's a game. The lowest scoring team in the SEC was Kentucky at 20.5 a game against mostly SEC defenses. The Big Ten had 4 teams under 20 points a game including Purdue dropping 16 (15.75). I was really looking hard at it and in the Big 10 they way they are structured you can literally have a bad team in the championship game every year and it mostly works out that way. In the SEC its not like that because there are no easy wins.

All those rants done...This is actually a no lose situation for us. No one really expects us to win. Everyone expects a close game but them winning out. Everyone expects the cold weather to be a problem. That being said. I think our defense has been more reliably challenged this year and can be more counted on to play up to who they are. I cant think of a single Defensive implosion we have had this year. how many games has our defense lost us? We have given up more than 19 points twice this year. Vandy (23) and UGA (31)... we have been held to under 23 points twice Arkansas (19) and UGA (17). if our offense and defense hold up to their average performances we win.

UT is an offense built on the run...and we have an amazing defense.. both of those travel and play well in any environment, especially cold. OSU is built on the outside pass and they tend to run a lot more outside the tackles both things that don't work well in the cold, especially with a game manager QB. I think it comes down to 2 things QB pressure, if we pressure their QB and we keep them off ours.. we win. Their DB's like to get handsy also.

the second thing it comes down to is ACC refs.... do they hate the SEC or Big10 more?
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No one expects us to win? 90% of the posters on this board think we’re going to blow them out.

I think we get smashed. Hope I’m wrong.
 
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#94
VolCalls said:
No one expects us to win? 90% of the posters on this board think we’re going to blow them out.

I think we get smashed. Hope I’m wrong.
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I think what you are seeing with Texas / Clemson is maybe a likely scenario for us. Clemson has been scrappy . . . But for the most part Texas has controlled the game.

One difference - not as much scoring in the cold.
 
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sami said:
........ starting strong. Given what has gone down with the OSU fan base bailing on Day and the potential fragility of their confidence, nothing would be better than jumping out of the gate with a couple of early scores and possibly turning the crowd against their own team.

Another slow start could be fatal in a game like this against that kind of defense, but a quick score, a turnover or stop and another quick score would be huge. Dominating the line of scrimmage on both sides is paramount, and taking care of the ball. Take the run away and make Howard beat us, and make his life miserable all night. Do these things and it should be a great night.
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ell that’s gone
 
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sami said:
........ starting strong. Given what has gone down with the OSU fan base bailing on Day and the potential fragility of their confidence, nothing would be better than jumping out of the gate with a couple of early scores and possibly turning the crowd against their own team.

Another slow start could be fatal in a game like this against that kind of defense, but a quick score, a turnover or stop and another quick score would be huge. Dominating the line of scrimmage on both sides is paramount, and taking care of the ball. Take the run away and make Howard beat us, and make his life miserable all night. Do these things and it should be a great night.
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Well, not even 8 mins into the game and that hasn’t happened. We look terrible.
 
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sami said:
........ starting strong. Given what has gone down with the OSU fan base bailing on Day and the potential fragility of their confidence, nothing would be better than jumping out of the gate with a couple of early scores and possibly turning the crowd against their own team.

Another slow start could be fatal in a game like this against that kind of defense, but a quick score, a turnover or stop and another quick score would be huge. Dominating the line of scrimmage on both sides is paramount, and taking care of the ball. Take the run away and make Howard beat us, and make his life miserable all night. Do these things and it should be a great night.
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It's over find a real qb in the portal
 
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