FIESTA BOWL: tOSU 21, Texas 24 (01-05-09)

[schwab]

Who wants to come up with the drinking game involving Terrelle Pryor - Vince Young comparisons? There's got to be some potential here.

[BUCKYLE]

Originally Posted by schwab

Who wants to come up with the drinking game involving Terrelle Pryor - Vince Young comparisons? There's got to be some potential here.

I nominate OCBF. He's got drinking games on lock.

[High Lonesome]

Originally Posted by schwab

Who wants to come up with the drinking game involving Terrelle Pryor - Vince Young comparisons? There's got to be some potential here.

or at least a Vbet over/under

early line o/u 17 mentions

[bukIpower]

I'll already be drunk for this game and if I participate in the VY/TP game I'll most likely die.

On a side note hopefully Mac won't get hit in the mouth this game lol

[t_BuckeyeScott]

Originally Posted by High Lonesome

or at least a Vbet over/under

early line o/u 17 mentions

Criminally low.

[ytownbuckeye]

we beat colt once let's do it again. F texas! horns down! columbus west is back. canes...k-state...ntre ame, texas is next. buckeyes own the desert.

[generaladm]

Hmm... I was checking out UT's stats, and the rushing numbers seem to be deceiving at first look. Sure, their leading rusher has < 400yds, but there are 3-4 other RBs with 30+ carries and a 4.4ypc. Questions for UT fans; How does UT like to run the ball? Mostly out of the shotgun? Do they run some option? I'm watching the 06 game, and McCoy was pretty comfortable with it back then. Do they use screens and flat passes in lieu of a traditional rushing game? I saw only a bit of a few UT games. All I remember is McCoy looking very good. Also, how do your lines compare to 05-06? Those guys were enormous!

Looking at the 06 game again, this go round should be completely different. Teddy and Gonzo were the majority of our offense that day; we don't have that anymore. UT did have success running the ball early on outside tosses and option, but the OSU D adjusted nicely. I would think that since most of the back 7 returns, and the other pieces arguably improved (Homan over Kerr/Terry, Chekwa/DWash vs. A. Smith, Coleman vs. Mitchell) it will be even harder to gain the corner.

[fourteenandoh]

2005

YouTube - Texas vs. Ohio State

2006

YouTube - Ohio State Buckeyes Texas Longhorns...

"well, ohio state came to austin and they messed with texas"

[Buckeye89Fan]

Originally Posted by bukIpower

Hamby kinda gave us our heartbreak in 05'

Also I still think Pryor's best game will be in this bowl game. You saw what he did with that bye week and I expect to see a more improved #2 on Jan 5th. Having Pryor back there sure does help with all the heat that Texas is going to throw at our offense because they're gonna blitz before they even get off the bus.

Right now the re-occurring nightmare that keeps playing back through my mind is Hamby's drop (not trying to offend, but it's hard to forget) and Pryor's fumble in the PSU game this year (a little more forgiving, knew growing pains had to happen eventually)

[JXC]

Originally Posted by High Lonesome

or at least a Vbet over/under

early line o/u 17 mentions

You think you can just stop posting here for two years...and then be welcome back with open arms????

Well...you are right...this time...

Great to see you back. One of the best non-Ohio State fan posters on BP. Which is no surprise becaues I feel Texas has the best fans in the country. Couldn't be more excited for this rubber match.

[TimTaylor75]

Woohoo!!! My sig is relevant again!!!

[osugrad21]

DDN

OSU has date with Texas in sixth Fiesta appearance

Buckeyes will make fourth straight BCS appearance and will face a No. 3 Longhorns team left out of title game.


Associated Press

Monday, December 08, 2008

In a matchup of tradition-laden programs, the Fiesta Bowl will pair Texas against Ohio State on Jan. 5.
The Fiesta had to replace Big 12 champion Oklahoma, which will play in the Bowl Championship Series title game. It picked up third-ranked Texas and then selected the 10th-ranked, twice-beaten Buckeyes on Sunday, Dec. 7.
The Longhorns (11-1) finished in a three-way tie atop the rugged Big 12 South and thought their 10-point victory over Oklahoma should have earned them the nod over the Sooners. But Oklahoma was declared the division winner on a BCS standings tiebreaker, and the Sooners ripped Missouri in the Big 12 title game to earn a trip to Miami for the national title game.
Instead of playing for their second national title in four seasons, the Longhorns will have to make do with a date in Glendale, Ariz., with Ohio State. Texas has played in one Fiesta Bowl, losing to Penn State 38-15 after the 1996 season.
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[osugrad21]

ABJ

Longhorns motivated to rope in OSU Texas will want to make point as team it beat gets to national championship
By Rusty Miller
Associated Press

Published on Monday, Dec 08, 2008
COLUMBUS: For the fifth time in the last seven years, Ohio State is headed back to the Arizona desert.
The Buckeyes (10-2) accepted a spot Sunday in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5, where they will take on what figures to be an angry bunch of Texas Longhorns (11-1). Texas is outraged that an Oklahoma team that it beat by 10 points is playing in the national championship game ahead of them.
The Longhorns will have a point to make.
''They want to be at their best and they would love people to turn on the TV set and say, 'Hey, this is one of the best teams in the country,' '' Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said of the Longhorns' motivation.
Yet Tressel said he doubted if Texas coach Mack Brown would use the slight to motivate his team.
''He's going to coach his kids to do the right things for the right reasons and become as good as they can be,'' Tressel said. ''I don't think [he will use] gimmicks or 'Win one for the Gipper' or any of that stuff. They don't need that. They're good enough without it.''
The game will pit teams who split mammoth, regular-season showdowns in 2005 and 2006. No. 4 Ohio State lost 25-22 in 2005 at home to quarterback Vince Young and No. 2 Texas, which would go on to win the national championship. The next year the Buckeyes won in Austin, 24-7, in the second game for Longhorns standout quarterback Colt McCoy, now among a handful of Heisman Trophy favorites.
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[osugrad21]

CPD

It's Fiesta time again for Buckeyes

by Doug Lesmerises Sunday December 07, 2008, 11:16 PM


Columbus -- The best move for a loyal Ohio State fan would have been to buy a condo in Scottsdale in 2003, because for the fifth time in seven years, the Buckeyes are bowling in Arizona, treating the greater Phoenix area as a western Columbus suburb.
With the BCS bowl pairings announced Sunday night, Ohio State will play Texas in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5, the Fiesta organizers picking the Buckeyes ahead of other possibilities like Utah and Cincinnati despite the fact that Ohio State played there in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007.
"As long as the Ohio State players and coaches aren't tired of coming to the Valley of the Sun, we're not tired of having them," Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker said. "The university is the same, but the players all are different. It's just another version of that great tradition, and anytime you can match up a co-Big Ten champion against a No. 3 program that people think should be playing for the national championship, it seemed like a natural."
More natural than say, Boise State. While Texas did finish No. 3 in the final BCS standings, left out while Florida and Oklahoma, a team that 11-1 Texas beat, play for the national title, Ohio State finished No. 10. Undefeated Boise State, at 12-0, finished one spot ahead of the 10-2 Buckeyes, but according to the BCS, the bowls were free to bypass them for the bigger draw.
"I've got to be honest with you, I didn't feel for them, because I'd rather go," OSU coach Jim Tressel said of Boise State. "I'm a compassionate guy, but to an extent. . . . I'd rather the Buckeyes be there."

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[osugrad21]

Blade

Buckeyes will face Texas in Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5
Ohio State excited about getting to play No. 3 Texas
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
COLUMBUS - Over the past six years, Arizona's Valley of the Sun has been a place of great pleasure and great pain for the Ohio State Buckeyes. On Jan. 5, Ohio State will be back in the desert southwest trying to add another positive chapter to its legacy. The No. 10-ranked Buckeyes were selected last night by the Bowl Championship Series to meet No. 3 Texas in the 2009 Fiesta Bowl. In the 2002 season, Ohio State upset top-ranked Miami 31-24 in two overtimes in the Fiesta Bowl to win the national championship game, played in Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. Two years ago, unbeaten and top-ranked Ohio State got routed 41-14 by Florida in the title game, played in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale at University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals. Ohio State senior linebacker James Laurinaitis said last night he is excited about the opportunity to play in a fourth straight BCS game and to return to Arizona. He said the Buckeyes have been haunted by the loss to Florida and the defeat they suffered at the hands of Louisiana State in last year's title game. "We get asked about that over and over and over, until we win one of those games," Laurinaitis said. "It will be nice to get down there again, and hopefully this time, there will be better
memories." Ohio State will be making its sixth appearance in the Fiesta Bowl, and playing in the Phoenix area for the fifth time in seven years. The Buckeyes are making their seventh BCS bowl appearance, tied with Oklahoma and USC for the most. OSU is 4-2 in those bowls,
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