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| 2006 Football Season Capsule The main threads for each of the 2006 season games. Looking ahead to the upcoming season, these threads will serve as a future timecapsule. |
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10-23-2006, 01:01 AM
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 No way JT runs too much. He wants to keep Troy and the rest of the O sharp for THE GAME. The Senator never really "runs up" the score on anyone, and truth be told the 44 against IU looked rather effortless. To me, Minny is actually a notch below IU talent-wise, so a similar score won't take to much...          
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10-23-2006, 01:07 AM
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And he wants to keep Pitt and Beanie fresh I'll say 35-0
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10-23-2006, 01:18 AM
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10-23-2006, 01:29 AM
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10-23-2006, 01:41 AM
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Kimchi, bulgogi, soju, OB, Crown, ammo bowls, plowah...ah, the memories of The Land of the Morning Calm. "Hey G.I., I buy, you pay." "I love you, no [censored]...what time PX open?"
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10-23-2006, 01:42 AM
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Ahem, back to football. I think we pound Minnesota worse than we did Indiana. I want a damn shutout...
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10-23-2006, 03:20 AM
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I think the most important thing in this game besides winning is no injuries.
This is probably the easiest game left on our schedule...sure Illinois and Northwestern may be worse teams (all three teams are bad) but this is at home, and in the past 5 season we've only lost in The Shoe twice. That's not going to change this Saturday. Road games are never gimmies, no matter how bad the opponent. So...the key here is just staying healthy. Maybe David Patterson will get to play some. If the Buckeyes come out of this one healthy, then i'll be happy. We know we are amazing...we don't need a 40 point win or a shutout to tell us that. If it happens great. If we win 35-14...that's fine too. I'd like to see us keep playing great football...but we've yet to struggle in a game this year. Usually every great teams struggles in one game they shouldn't. I mean maybe you could consider Cincinnati our struggle...but it ended up 37-7...so maybe not. Maybe Penn State was our struggle game, but they aren't a bad team, and it's hard to say you struggled agasint a team you beat 28-6...even if it was due to two late scores by the defense. And don't tell me our struggle game will be Michigan...that's not a struggle game. That game WILL be close...and that's not struggling, that's because it's The Game. It does bother me that the only 4th quarter experience this team has is against Penn State. And at that, the game was over before the last few minutes. There are a lot of guys on this defense that have never been on the field up by a few points with 2 minutes left. So will we struggle this week? I doubt it. I personally feel next week at Illinois is the game that's going to give us the most trouble for some reason. I'm not saying it will take us 4 quarters to win that game...but it may be close at the half. Illinois has overachieved this year. This game won't be close. We'll probably score 40+ and give up less than 10. Maybe I worry too much though. I just remember being in Champaign in 2002. Sure, that was a different team, but we were a lot better than that team, and didn't play like it. Up until now we haven't played a bad game. We've played a bad quarter...or maybe a bad half. But not a bad game. My thought is just that it always seems like every great team has needed to find a way to win one game, where everything is going against them and things just aren't going right. Do you think that was Penn State. Sorry this didn't stick more to just the Minnesota game...but there really isn't that much that can be said about Minnesota...I think every Buckeye fan is thinking big picture right now. You could tell at the game last Saturday...everyone's mind was 28 days into the future.
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10-23-2006, 05:39 AM
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This week's best Big Ten games Monday, October 23, 2006 1. Minnesota at No. 1 Ohio State, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., WEWS Channel 5. Who's the best back in the Big Ten? OSU's Antonio Pittman, with 778 yards and eight touchdowns? 2. Northwestern at No. 2 Michigan, Saturday, noon, ESPN. Or is it Michigan's Mike Hart, with 1,032 yards and eight touchdowns? 3. Illinois at No. 17 Wisconsin, Saturday, noon, ESPN2. Or is the best back Badgers freshman P.J. Hill, with 1,172 yards and 13 touchdowns? Hard to argue with Hill.
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10-23-2006, 05:49 AM
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10-23-2006, 06:29 AM
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No off week, but maybe a few breathers Buckeyes' next 3 foes 1-11 in Big Ten BY RUSTY MILLER | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS - Top-ranked Ohio State's long season all comes down to four more Saturdays. The Buckeyes (8-0, 4-0 Big Ten) are two-thirds of the way through a 12-week string of games with no break, no chance for a breather, no week to get healthy. "We learned early that every team will give you it's best," quarterback Troy Smith said Saturday after the Buckeyes beat Indiana 44-3. "You can never take a game or a week off en route to get to the national championship game." Four matchups remain for Ohio State, which has been No. 1 since the preseason and has so far lived up to that ranking. The Buckeyes play Minnesota (3-5, 0-4) on Saturday at home, then hit the road for games at Illinois (2-6, 1-3) and Northwestern (2-6, 0-4). The prize at the end is a date with No. 2-ranked Michigan (8-0, 5-0) for supremacy in the Big Ten, the polls and the Bowl Championship Series rankings. As dominant as they have been, the Buckeyes know that one slip would take all of it off the table. "As great as it feels now, it would feel twice as bad if we lost, you know?" wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez said after the Indiana victory. "Yeah, it feels great right now, but in all honesty, we haven't done anything yet. Nobody's getting a ring for what we've done thus far, and that's a fact." The Buckeyes have played well all season, with few extreme highs or lows. In September, they took on and methodically dispatched three ranked teams (No. 2 Texas, No. 24 Penn State and No. 13 Iowa). After that they began a stretch of six games, each opponent having lost at least four times - none currently with a winning record. They are now halfway through that second phase of their season. Smith threw four first-half touchdown passes and Ted Ginn Jr. threw one TD pass and caught another against Indiana as the Buckeyes stretched their winning streak to 15, longest in the nation. Despite incompletions on his first four attempts, Smith finished 15-of-23 passing for 230 yards without an interception. His scoring strikes covered 23 yards to Rory Nicol, 31 yards to Ginn, 5 yards to Gonzalez and 1 yard to Jake Ballard - giving Smith 21 TD passes this season with just two interceptions. Ginn had five catches for 72 yards and also completed a 38-yard toss-back pass to Nicol for a score. Ohio State scored on its final four possessions of the half for a 28-3 lead, all on Smith touchdown passes - and on three of the four the receiver was almost alone. "I've voted them No. 1 and nothing today changed my opinion," Indiana coach Terry Hoeppner said after the Buckeyes outgained his Hoosiers 540-165. Throughout the season, the Buckeyes have been driven by not just beating teams but by a higher standard. They've attained perfection with their record, but not in any other area. "We need to continue to get better," linebacker James Laurinaitis said. "We have a good running team coming in in Minnesota, so we all need to keep improving." Golden Gophers coach Glen Mason was one of the two finalists for the Ohio State job when Jim Tressel was hired in 2001. Mason, a former player for the Buckeyes, always takes special notice of his alma mater on the schedule. "The Minnesota coach would love to beat Ohio State," offensive tackle Kirk Barton said. "They run the ball well and they have a good (offensive) scheme." Last edited by osugrad21; 10-23-2006 at 08:29 AM.
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10-23-2006, 08:18 AM
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I'm sure the defense wants a shut-out, too. But, more important than the shut-out, I think, is getting back-ups in the game. Against Michigan State, Ohio State could have had the shut-out, but they played the back-ups at the end. When you're up by that much, I think that getting some PT for the back-ups is more important than the shut-out. That's why I think that if the defense does get a shut-out, it would be a somewhat close game. Much closer than a game with Minnesota should be. It won't be a shut-out. 35-7.
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10-23-2006, 08:32 AM
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10-23-2006, 08:33 AM
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I'm suspicious that Tress doesn't want a shut out, so he can use it as motivation for the defense?
But, maybe I'm over thinking this. Minny was obviously looking ahead last week, so I think we can throw that game out. But, then there's the Wisconsin game!!!!!!
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10-23-2006, 10:14 AM
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The highlight of this game (for me anyways) will happen before the game, when the "I" gets dotted.
Make sure you get this included in your clips, Mili!!!!!!!!  Edit: Looks like it's going to occur at halftime, not before the game. They better show it live, then! Last edited by NightmaresDad; 10-24-2006 at 11:29 AM.
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10-23-2006, 01:01 PM
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Its why they play the game
The chances of Minnesota winning are less than 1 in 500, but are greater than 0. It is why we play the game on the field and not on paper. Tress would disagree...he'd say Minnesota's chances are much better than 1 in 500, and they fight until the end, and Mason is a great coach, and their kids are always in position, yada, yada, yada.
Sure, a shutout makes for feel-good, but I'll take an injury-free game and/or 2nd & 3rd team reps over a shutout any day. OSU's defensive M.O. has been to make the opposing offense 1-dimensional, and then contain that. Minnesota is 1-dimensional to begin with, although as poorly as they are running, I'm not sure they have any dimensions at all. Let's see if OSU can win the line of scrimmage battle, especially on defense. I'd like to see Cupito running for his life. C
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