| 2004 Football Season Capsule The main threads from each of the 2004 season games. Should be interesting to go back and revisit in years to come. |
03-03-2004, 03:23 AM
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(2004) Game Four: @ Northwestern - 10/2/04 (L, 3-1/0-1)
<center><table cellpadding=4 cellspacing=2 border=0 width="96%" bgcolor="#000000"> <!-- GAME 4:2004 --> <tr> <td rowspan=4 width="100" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#464646"> <font face="Verdana" color="#5f5f5f"><font size=6>W/L</font><br> <font size=3>(0-0)</font> </td> <td colspan=5 align="left" bgcolor="#464646"><font face="Verdana" color="#ffffff"> Game 4: October 2, 2004 (7:45pm or 9:00pm) - ESPN or ESPN2</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" align="right" bgcolor="#b90000" valign="top"> <font color="#ffffff" face="Verdana"><b><font size="4">Ohio State</font><br> Buckeyes<br></b></font> </td> <td width="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <img src="http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/imgops/helmets/Ohio_St.gif" width="80" height="53" alt="Ohio State"> </td> <td width="1" bgcolor="#b90000"> <font size="5" face="Verdana" color="#ffffff"><b>@</b></font> <td width="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <img src="http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/imgops/helmets/Northwestern.gif" width="80" height="53" alt="Northwestern"> </td> <td width="50%" valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#b90000"> <font color="#ffffff" face="Verdana"><b><font size="4">Northwestern</font><br> Wildcats<br></b><font size="2"> <font color="#ffdd00">Big Ten</font><br> 2004 (0-0), 2003 (6-7/4-4)</font></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 align="left" bgcolor="#bababa"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> BIG TEN OPENER. The Buckeyes are 55-13-1 (0.804) against Northwestern. We've won 24 in a row against the Wildcats, our last loss was 11/13/1971 in Columbus, 10-14. Last year, (9/27/03) we posted a 20-0 shutout, our first in a few seasons. Northwestern plays in Evanston, IL on grass in Ryan Stadium, which has a capacity of 49,256.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 align="left" bgcolor="#a5a5a5"><font face="Verdana"><b> <font color="#5f5f5f">Discuss</font> : Box Score : Recap : Quotes : Pictures</font></b> </td> </tr> </table> <p><b><font size=3 face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=824"><< game three</a> | <a href="http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/?page=schedule_2004">full schedule</a> | <a href="http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=826">game five >></a></font></b></center>
Last edited by Clarity; 07-24-2004 at 11:03 AM.
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06-24-2004, 04:05 PM
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I'd rather be napping!!
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Why do these pussy's always make us a night game when it is in Evanston? It doesn't help their crowd after the first quarter anyway, don't they know that alcohol only intensifies suicidle tendencies?
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06-24-2004, 05:07 PM
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Probably just b/c that's the only way the game gets picked up by anything better than ESPN Plus. You know they only play two games a year (at most)that anybody ever gives a damn about, and they still need a gimmick to get attention for it.
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06-25-2004, 09:44 PM
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It's just fine with me that it's a night game...should start around 2:00 in the afternoon for me here and will lead in to the Hawaii game at 6:00 p.m. Football all day...
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06-26-2004, 11:22 PM
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I like the night games because it is much easier for me to watch a game when my two little boys have gone to sleep. Plus, I can get stuff done during the day and still sit back, relax and watch the Bucks kick some pussycats tail.
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08-03-2004, 06:50 PM
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76 days until The Game 2008
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FWIW on OSU B10 openers
B10 opener and corresponding season records 1953-2003(50 years)
Overall OSU record 1953-2003: 419 131 13 (.756)
B10 Openers
overall: 40-10 (.800)
record in seasons with win: 453 games 355-89-9 (.784)
record in seasons with a loss: 110 games 64-42-4 (.582)
So at quick glance, winning the B10 opener means we will normally enjoy a better than average year while losing is usually a harbinger of disaster. In 2004 it would roughly be the difference between 9-2 or 6-5.
For further reinforcement of this, here are the records for the seasons in which we lost our B10 opener since '53:
1999:6-6
1992:8-3-1
1990:7-4-1
1989:8-4
1988:4-6-1
1985:9-3
1983:9-3
1967:6-3
1966:4-5
1959:3-5-1
Now here is the part that throws it off a bit. Look at what happens when we start the year on the road in our B10 opener:
B10 opener on the road
overall:15-5 (.750)
record in W seasons: 120-39-5 (.732)
record in L seasons: 38-18-1 (.667)
The wining seasons aren't as good but the losing isn't as bad. If this pattern holds we would finish either 8-3 or 7-4 this year.
Take it all fwiw, but the numbers kinda jumped out at me when I started looking at B10 openers. I dont need any stats to tell me that losing a B10 opener to Northwestern would be a very bad thing.
The stat freak in me keeps thinking just one thing-they are due but please God don't let it be in my lifetime. 
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09-03-2004, 04:03 PM
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76 days until The Game 2008
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