Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

[Taosman]

"I think this is a problem of giving the coaches the power to issue a challenge. The guys in the booth will sometimes hesitate to institute an 'official review' because the coach has the ability to request one."

Excellent point!
And we are still subject to official's non-reviewable calls!

[Bucky Katt]

Originally Posted by Rob Oller

Lamb chops on OSU schedule ?

As if defeating No. 2 Texas wasn?t enough good news, the Buckeyes had to be smiling to see that other Saturday games had Notre Dame thumping Penn State, 41-17, California crushing Minnesota 42-7, Rutgers embarrassing Illinois 33-0, New Hampshire hammering Northwestern 34-17 and Ball State defeating Indiana 24-23. The Buckeyes face all of those losing teams this season.

Rob Oller is a sports reporter for The Dispatch .

roller@dispatch.com

Way to do your research, dipwad.

Cal won 42-17 and Indiana beat Ball State 24-23. The point stands, but at least get the facts right.

[Taosman]

There are still many good QBs in the Big Ten and those guys will test us!
Lots of big games left!

[osuguy0301]

Myself and 3 buddies went to Austin and had a great time. The Texas fans were great for the most part. Many were very helpful with directions and helping us with place to eat and drink.

We hit up Bevo Blvd. before the game and had a great time. Must of had a 100 Texas fans come up and talk to us and ask us if we were having a good time and enjoying Austin. Had about 10 people ask me about my buckeye necklace, most had no clue what a buckeye was. Had a lady offer me $10 for it but that was never going to happen.

The game was great. We sat up in the upper deck with a spattering of other Ohio State fans, most within high-5 distance. The Texas fans around us were great and many gave us congrats after the game was over. As a whole they seemed to be very impressed with the band, especially the double script Ohio. The Texas band was good also but I wasn't all that impressed with script Texas.

After the game was when it got a little bit ugly. We had about 5 different people wanna fight us on our way to the bar. 1 out of every 4 cars had some choice 4 letter words for us. We even had some various items thrown at us, water bottle, beer can, etc. I don't know if this is what the Texas fans experienced last year but we expected it. You can't let a few drunk idiots speak for a crowd of people. Overall we were treated great and had a great time. A big thanks is deserved to the Texas fans.

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by NFBuck

Unless I'm mistaken, LeBron was on our sideline...I don't think he's ever given squat to tOSU aside from being a fan.

I believe LeBron is a major sponsor for the Ted Ginn Sr. bus tour. If LeBron is helping inner-city kids get scholorships while keeping the Glenville to C-Bus pipeline flowing strong, he can have sideline passes to OSU games for life as far as I'm concerned.

[BuckeyeNation27]

plus, LeBron wasn't doing coked out jumping jacks.



where the [censored] is xray?

[Adam Locked]

BB73 Great writeup! I enjoyed reading about your experience!

[Ginn4Heisman20]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

where the [censored] is xray?

Still crunching the numbers in an attempt to figure out how the Horns could have possibly lost.

[osugrad21]

Link

OSU-UT a prelim for Showdown Saturday

By: ESPN.com



COLLEGE FOOTBALL FINAL
By Brad Edwards, ESPN Research

Now that the dust has settled on No. 1 Ohio State's big win at No. 2 Texas, it's time for us to step back and evaluate what it really means. The previous three regular-season 1 vs. 2 matchups all involved a team that went on to win the national title, but the last two times, it was the loser of the game that ultimately took home the hardware in January. (Florida won the 1996 championship after losing to Florida State. FSU won the 1993 national title after losing to Notre Dame.)


Harry Cabluck/AP Photo
Troy Smith and the Buckeyes have their sights set on Glendale.



In the last eight years, five teams have reached the BCS Championship Game after losing in the regular season, so it should be perfectly clear that all is not lost for Texas. If the Longhorns can win out, the odds are decent that they would be the highest-ranked one-loss team come December. That, however, is insignificant if there are two or more undefeated teams in front of them. Just ask Penn State about last year. Yes, it's time for Texas to start scoreboard watching. And rooting for undefeated teams to lose. Ohio State might have to lose twice to fall behind the Longhorns, since voters don't easily forget such a performance by a road team in a big game. It's not the ideal situation, but Texas is still alive ? unless it loses again.
As for the Buckeyes, it's hard not to like their chances of going undefeated through the regular season. This team seems very unlikely to lose a home game, even considering the history of upsets in its series with Michigan. And on OSU's remaining road schedule, only Iowa is currently ranked, and that's a team that needed multiple overtimes and a goal-line stand to beat Syracuse. Would home-field advantage and a healthy Drew Tate be enough to bridge the gap between what we saw of the Hawkeyes and Buckeyes on Saturday? We'll find out on Sept. 30.
The most fun part of this season, however, might be watching other teams try to remain unscathed, as Notre Dame and the major-conference powers slug it out over the next 12 weeks. And that fun begins this coming Saturday with six games between undefeated, ranked teams. On paper, it looks like the most exciting weekend of the season.

[Best Buckeye]

Originally Posted by DaddyBigBucks

Texas spent more than seven minutes on its only touchdown. Got a little help in the red zone, too, when the Buckeyes' 6-6 Jay Richardson slammed into McCoy and apparently was flagged for being too tall.

Ohio State's response: Smith goes for 23 yards to Brian Robiskie, 14 and 23 to Gonzalez and the final 29 to Ginn.

Elapsed time: 1 minute, 39 seconds. Just long enough to suck all the air from Texas.

This quote from the Dallas Morning News is priceless.

I was wondering if anyone would pick that gem out of my post. I laughed for more than a few times .

[Best Buckeye]

OSUBasketballJunkie
Basketball
Moderator
"On defense, did they really cover Ted Ginn Jr. one-on-one with 22 seconds left in the first half? They might as well have taped "kick me" signs on their players? backs"

I had just said to an aquantaince that any one who tried to play bump and run on Ginn is dog food. When I saw Ross playing up I knew it was going to be a TD!

[High Lonesome]

so here goes, I haven't read anything on this site since wed. of last week so I am not sure what has and has not been said and even still at this point I am not sure how this is going to come across other than in what apperes to be one of the longest run-on sentances I have ever written.

First and foremost, the better team won that night. I have no doubt in my mind of this fact. With that said, a couple of things bother me. In all my life I have never seen a team dominate the line of scrimmage the way we did and still only put up 7 points. Texas avg. almost 6 yards per carry(on what looked like 4 different plays that were called over and over again). On the other hand, Texas flat out stuffed the ohio st. running game. I was very pleased with these two areas. I love the Texas offensive line, they played their butts off and looked lived up to their hype. Thats about where the good ends.

I believe that Corso said it best(yeah you read that right) in the wrapp up show when he said(paraphrasing)," I'm sure that Colt McCoy is a great kid, but this is Texas and that is not a Texas quarterback". His ball fluttered and was not delivered on time for most of the game despite ample time to throw. Texas avg. 4 yrds per completion which is flat out unacceptable and leads me to my next point that I was very affraid of.

Mack and Greg Davis looked like they had warped back to 2002. I don't mind trying to hide a young qb and protect him but there are a few things that I have to point out. These are in no order other than that which pops into my head first.

1) 3rd and 1 from the osu 30(ish), Texas lines up in shotgun and runs the zone handoff(i refuse to believe that there was any reading going on here). tOSU stuffs the latteral run and texas misses the fg badly. Here is my problem and something that I don't understand yet. Where was Henry Melton? How in the world was he good enough to play as a true freshman in one of the toughest venues in college sports but not as a soph at home? Moreso, where was the power package with Lokey at fb...If you must have Selvin in then at least let him run down hill.

2.) Where was the saftey help on Ginn at the end of the Half? Were we worried about the threat of the run with seconds to go? I haven't rewatched this play but it really bothered me at the time...I know the kid is fast but he ran a go rout, its not complicated, tricky, or even unexpected...We could have really used Brown here, don't know if it would have made a difference but it wouldn't have hurt.

3.) This is actually my largest problem with the whole game and is the sole reason that I left a game early for the first time in my life. Our coaching staff gave up on the team. Late in the 4th as Texas is down by 3 scores with the ball on the 25ish, 3rd and 15+. I look down and Kasey Studdard is pleading with the fans to get into it, it is tough but I begin to yell scream and what not and then it happend. We ran a speed option to the short side of the field and got 3 yards.

That is flat out give up football and is unexcusable in my book. I am sure that deep down the coaches didn't want Colt to lose any more confidence than he already had but in doing so they sent a message to the team and the fans that this is a rebuilding year. That is a sad thing to do when you have a team as tallented as we do. They should have scratched and clawed away doing everything they could to win. Tressel is not going to run up the score, he is not bob stoops, and now Mack and Greg have to look guys like Blalock and Studdard and Michael Griffin in the eye and convince them that they made good decisions on comming back to school.

I am not going to proof this so I am sorry if it rambled but I had to get it off my chest. I am sure that I will take some time off from this site but I will be back at some point. Till then I wish yall luck and I hope that ever one had a good time that came to Austin,

Hook 'em and

[jwinslow]

I agree the coaches let the team down... I think they were very foolish to abandon the run, which was working brilliantly between the 20's.

I agree the Lokey option may have worked well... I can't imagine being asked to stand in front of that earlier in the game.

I think texas did a good job containing pittman, but I'm not sure it was shut down (4.6 a pop for Pitt). They definitely contained Smith nicely... tho I think all of his work as a pocket passer has made him forget when to take off (brought up by SIMV at the bar).

I guess we'll have to disagree about Colt. I wasn't at the game so I couldn't see downfield like you, but did he ignore many downfield options? OSU's scheme prevents the home run and yields the short stuff. I saw a lot of WRs dropping catchable balls... far more than I remember thinking Colt made a bad/late throw.

[the_woodster]

Originally Posted by the_woodster

i only have one thing to say...





well, at least the beer from texas showed up tonight....


lets keep it going!

sorry for the pics saturday night fellas. i was a bit buzzed and had a case of football overload, with my alma mater Troy University almost beating FSU, and of course that game in Austin. hope you all understand.

[the_woodster]

Originally Posted by jwinslow

I agree the coaches let the team down... I think they were very foolish to abandon the run, which was working brilliantly between the 20's.

that was the biggest mystery to me. that first texas drive, they pounded the run game down our throats and if it wasn't for that fumble, would have scored. that fumble really was the turning point, which wasn't good for texas, being that it was in the 1st. we haven't been able to stop the run at all these first two games, which i attribute to not being able to get off blocks. i don't agree with the gameplan for texas after that fumble, putting all the pressure to win the game on mccoy. hard to win a game when your receivers keeping dropping wide open passes. our secondary was doing everything they could to get texas back in it, except for that awesome "interception" in the endzone. wish that would have gone down like that last year to sweed.