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Originally Posted by NightmaresDad
I'll predict that Muck's predictor is more accurate than BN27's predictor.
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I don't doubt that Muck's predictor provides a better prediction, but it has nothing to do with the past NW games or past games with teams of their talent level.
There are two reasons why I believe tOSU is going to brutally pound NW (they hate it when we call them that).
- The way the team came together in Washington. It may have been just a one game thing, but I don't think so. We won't know until we can step back at season's end and consider the whole picture; but I believe that the corner they turned in Seattle will lead to a very special season. What I saw is the kind of thing that can bring teams together in ways that make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. I've seen it happen from Pop Warner to the Pros, and I think we just saw it with the Buckeyes. Time will tell. If the team changed in the way that I think they did; they will start fast offensively for the first time this season and they will play hard all the way to the end of the bench all game long.
- NW is a slow starting team, defensively. That and point number 1 are a bad combination for NW. Worse, they were hung out to dry by their coach last week. They put up 197 more yards and 10 more first downs than Duke, and their coach cost them the game (see the "Additional Information" portion of the upcoming BP preview for details). That kind of thing can make a team easy to deflate. The result will be OSU's fast start will take the wind out of NW's sails, and they won't even be able to keep pace with our back-ups.
To sum up: Northwestern is not nearly as bad as they looked in Evanston last week. But I believe that the Buckeyes will make them look even worse in Columbus on Saturday.
