(2004) Game Eight: Penn State - 10/30/04 (W, 5-3/2-3)

[kn1f3party]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

well they did score 4 points today

They were given four points. Iowa kicked one through the end zone after a bad snap and deliberately took a safety because they half trust their defense. Penn State is awful on offense this year. Hopefully we'll score more than the Red Sox--that is all it takes to beat these guys.

[BuckeyeNation27]

Originally Posted by kn1f3party

They were given four points. Iowa kicked one through the end zone after a bad snap and deliberately took a safety because they half trust their defense. Penn State is awful on offense this year. Hopefully we'll score more than the Red Sox--that is all it takes to beat these guys.

are you [censored]ing serious? i saw the second "safety" but not the first. man they are the modol of futile offense. ill take a 1.1 ypc average lydell ross over that

[kn1f3party]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

are you [censored]ing serious? i saw the second "safety" but not the first. man they are the modol of futile offense. ill take a 1.1 ypc average lydell ross over that

I [censored] you not, the punter was terrified of being hit so he kicked it right through the endzone. I can't imagine how bad it would feel to be a Penn State fan.

[buckeye68]

* Twenty of 66 plays went for no gain or negative yardage (30%)--compare to 51% last week(Iowa)
This stat is from the Ozone

They do the best job by far of breaking the game down damn near play by play. Go there and check it out.

for anyone who hasn't been there ( I cant imagine that there are many who have'nt checked it out) the site is the ozone


If we have 20 plays against Penn State that go for no or neg yards this could be another heart attck waiting to happen.

In my opinion the key to this one is get after them early. bust up thier offense let them know that they are not going to score more than a field goal or two to help demoralize the D. Keep the D on the field to wear them down. Their D is very good but it's not the best we have seen this year. Wisky's D was someting else against us and we didnt do [censored].

I just hope the rejuvinated efforts we seen sat carry over for this week.

[MililaniBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

Thanks for sharing but the question was strictly about offenses. All opinions duely noted, the facts remain the same; as bad as PSU's offense is ours is about the same.

B10 competition only
through 10/17

OSU Offense
passing....10th....162 ypg
rushing....10th......74 ypg
scoring....10th......15.7 ppg
total O.....11th......235 ypg

PSU Offense
passing....7th....210 ypg
rushing....11th.....36 ypg
scoring....11th.....7.7 ppg
total O.....10th....245.3 ypg

Now, granted that doesn't take into effect their game vs Iowa or ours vs IU...

Well, that's pretty convenient to leave out the last games we both played. If Zwick wasn't on the bench, then you could go ahead and compare our first three conference games with theirs, but guess what...we had a significantly different offense last week (no Zwick at QB, no Ross at RB, better OL blocking), while Penn State did not. PSU's offense is averaging exactly 6 ppg in conference, and they've yet to score a rushing TD in Big Ten play.

Including this past weekend's games, here's the up-to-date comparison between the offenses:

OSU Offense
passing....162 ypg
rushing....126 ypg
scoring....16 ppg (not counting the two punt return TDs)
total O.....288 ypg

PSU Offense
passing....159 ypg
rushing....136 ypg
scoring....6 ppg (not counting the two safties against Iowa)
total O....294 ypg

[MaxBuck]

To say that the two offenses are similar when we are scoring twice as many points per game is disingenuous to say the least. Who gives a rip how many ypg a team gets if it wins? Or, conversely, if it loses? Points are what counts.

[chuck_jax]

I'm betting my house on the under.

OSU - 3
PSU - 2

I don't know what the bookies are predicting, but anything over 37.5 and I'm in.

The only way this hits 40 is 5x OT.

[kn1f3party]

Originally Posted by buckeye68

* Twenty of 66 plays went for no gain or negative yardage (30%)--compare to 51% last week(Iowa)

That is misleading. They're factoring incomplete passes as well. That means we had 8 plays that went for no yards or negative yards on the ground. Much easier to digest than 20. We had the same number of incompletions against Iowa so we were just flat out getting demolished on the ground. I would say we improved, we'll leave it up to Penn State to establish how much, but there was improvement.