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2019 Team thread

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Ohio State is the most complete team in the country.

We asked on Twitter if the 2019 edition of the Buckeyes was the most complete in recent memory, and while the recency bias probably influenced the responses, it is an argument that deserves to be had.



However, an argument that doesn’t need to be had is that OSU is the most complete team in the country. Coming into this week, Ryan Day’s squad was the only team in the country to have both their offense (4) and defense (1) in the top-five of the SP+ rankings; they are also the only team to complete the feat in the conventional numbers, where they were No. 5 in total offense and second in total defense.

But, I do think that before this week, there was an argument to be made that those numbers could potentially be a bit inflated because of the relative weakness of their schedule thus far. However, following the 38-7 pummeling of Wisconsin, it will be very hard for even the most ardent of Buckeye deniers to claim that their position in the college football hierarchy this season isn’t warranted.

This isn’t to say that OSU has no flaws — both Day and his players default to saying that there are still things to fix — which should be scary to every team in the country.

Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...s-learned-ohio-state-wisconsin-recap-analysis
 
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Some quick stats for you post-Wisconsin game 2019 (rankings are all national ranks)

On Offense:
#3 Scoring Offense (48.3 points per game)
#7 Total Offense (514.8 yards per game)
#4 Rushing Offense (284.3 yards)
#2 1st Downs (215 total)
#1 3rd Down Conversion % (57.30%)
#4 Passing Efficiency (187.58)
#11 Completion % (69.1%)
#2 Passes Had Intercepted (1)
#7 Turnovers Lost (6 total)

On Defense:
#1 Scoring Defense (7.9 points per game)
#2 Total Defense (224.3 yards per game)
#1 Passing Yards Allowed (132.8 yds)
#9 Rushing Yards Allowed (91.5 yds)
#8 1st Down Defense (111 total)
#4 3rd Down Conversion Defense % (26.4%)
#3 Passing Efficiency Defense (91.23)
#2 Red Zone Defense (offenses only convert 56.3% of drives into any points)
#3 Team Sacks (4.25 per game)
#1 Team Tackles For Loss (9.3 per game)
#3 Turnover Margin (+1.38 turnovers/game)
#8 Turnovers Gained (17 total)
#10 Passes Intercepted (10 total)


Not many weaknesses with this team (if you could even call them that)...
#87 Sacks Allowed (2.38/game)
#51 Tackles For Loss Allowed (5.38/game)
#66 Passing Offense (230.5 yards/game)
#57 4th Down Conversion Defense % (50.0%)
#88 Blocked Punts Allowed (1)
#58 Fumbles Lost (5 total)
#59 Kickoff Return Offense (21.25 yards/return)


In conclusion, we're beating teams 48-8 on average, we're running straight over folks, passing really efficiently, rarely turning the ball over, we're a 1st down machine on offense, our D-line is getting tremendous pressure, our defensive backfield truly is Best In America (BIA), and in the event teams make it to the Red Zone, we shut them down
 
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We’re witnessing something extremely special. You watch these guys AFTER the games and listen to what they have to say.

They say you can throw out the individual accolades, they want the championship. They say they can’t let their brothers down. Asked if they will be taking the O-LINE out for dinner, the playmakers say they’re always around each other, this isn’t a “Hey, we’re taking you out to dinner!” team, because they don’t part ways enough to throw out a kind gesture.

This is a team with multiple possible Heisman candidates that cares more about kicking down the next door.

The college football world is in trouble, because this team lives and breathes the word itself.
 
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CHASE YOUNG, J.K. DOBBINS AND JUSTIN FIELDS CAN'T ALL WIN THE HEISMAN TROPHY, BUT THEY CAN CHASE A CHAMPIONSHIP TOGETHER

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Ohio State is the only team in college football that can legitimately boast having three Heisman Trophy candidates.

While Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields has been in the Heisman conversation since the beginning of the season, running back J.K. Dobbins and defensive end Chase Young proved that they belong in that conversation, too, with their performances in the Buckeyes’ 38-7 win over Wisconsin on Saturday.

If the Heisman was truly awarded to college football’s most outstanding player, Young would now be the frontrunner. With his school record-tying four-sack game against the Badgers, Young leads the nation with 13.5 sacks this year – 3.5 more than anyone else. He ranks second nationally with 15.5 tackles for loss and five forced fumbles.

As Ryan Day said Saturday, Young is “probably the most dominant player in all of college football right now.”

The problem for Young’s Heisman candidacy: Only one defensive player has ever won the trophy, and Charles Woodson (1997, Michigan) also played wide receiver and returned punts in addition to playing cornerback.

Since then, every Heisman has been won by either a quarterback or a running back, and only three defensive players have even been invited to New York as Heisman finalists: Manti Te’o finished second in 2012, Ndamukong Suh finished fourth in 2009 and Tyrann Mathieu finished fifth in 2011.

Young just might be starting to drum up enough support to make a legitimate run at the Heisman – many national media members, including Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel and Fox Sports’ Bruce Feldman, Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt, advocated for his candidacy after his performance on Saturday – but it would still require a groundswell of voters who are ready to break precedent.

An Ohio State running back winning the Heisman certainly wouldn’t be unprecedented, and Dobbins has emerged as a possible candidate to follow in the footsteps of Les Horvath, Vic Janovicz, Hopalong Cassady, Archie Griffin and Eddie George. With 221 yards from scrimmage against a Wisconsin defense that had allowed just 194 total yards per game before Saturday, Dobbins now ranks second nationally with 1,110 rushing yards and third with 1,242 total yards from scrimmage.

Day was ready to advocate for Dobbins’ candidacy on Saturday, too, describing him as “the best running back in the country,” and he’s made a real case with his play in recent weeks. Dobbins has had at least 150 yards from scrimmage in all five of Ohio State’s Big Ten games this year, and he’s averaged more than 7.2 yards per carry.
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All of those things, though, are out of their control. What they can control is continuing to work as hard as they possibly can to help Ohio State keep winning. And if they continue to play as well as they have through the Buckeyes’ first eight games of the season, they just might all have the opportunity to hoist a national championship trophy at the end of the year.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...hy-but-they-can-chase-a-championship-together
 
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THREE CONSECUTIVE OFF WEEKS
Technically, the Buckeyes have one week to rest before starting to prepare for a game. But given the two opponents waiting for them after the off week, it might as well be viewed as three weeks of rest.

An off week, then a home game against Maryland (3-5, 1-4 Big Ten) followed by a road matchup with Rutgers (2-6, 0-5 Big Ten). Three-week stretches in the middle of the Big Ten schedule don't get any easier. The Terrapins have lost three games in a row, including Minnesota's 51-10 beatdown of them on Saturday, and the Scarlet Knights have lost by multiple touchdowns to every opponent not named Massachusetts and Liberty.
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ign-jk-dobbins-chris-olave-as-a-no-1-receiver

Message to the team: You have great opportunity for the ultimate prize this year. Don't let the recent successes and press clippings go to your head, stay focused. The best team doesn't always win the game, the team that plays the best during the game wins it.



Remain humble and remember what can happen if you don't show up for a game prepared to play. One "hiccup" can ruin a season, i.e. 2018: Purdue 49-20 and 2017: Iowa 55-24.

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A few years ago, someone here (I think it was JWins) suggested a great way of measuring game control. By determining the last point in the game that the opposing team took possession of the ball with a chance to take the lead, one could keep track of how "in control" teams were of the games they played. Another method of measuring dominance is determining at what point in the game the winning team had more points than the loser had at the end. By either measure, the 2019 Buckeyes are kicking names and taking ass... or something like that. The following tables should only be viewed on a wide screen. Otherwise, it will be unreadable. I split them into 3 tables to minimize this, but it might still be an issue on phones.

Opponent______________Start of last possession on which they could have taken the lead or tied_
FAU_______________________________13:07 remaining in the first quarter (could have tied)_______
Cinci______________________________2:38 remaining in the first quarter (could have tied)_______
Indi_______________________________0:31 remaining in the first quarter_________________________
Fredo______________________________1:51 remaining in the first quarter_________________________
Neb_______________________________10:35 remaining in the first quarter (could have tied)_______
MSU________________________________1:45 remaining in the first quarter_________________________
NW'ern____________________________10:42 remaining in the first quarter (could have tied)_______
Wis________________________________6:52 remaining in the first half____________________________



Opponent______________Time in Control
FAU______________________58:07________
Cinci____________________47:38________
Indi_____________________45:31________
Fredo____________________46:51________
Neb______________________55:35________
MSU______________________46:45________
NW'ern___________________55:42________
Wis______________________36:52________



Opponent______________Time at which Buckeyes had enough points to win
FAU_______________________6:50 remaining in the first quarter_______
Cinci_____________________8:28 remaining in the first quarter_______
Indi______________________11:26 remaining in the first half__________
Fredo_____________________5:16 remaining in the first quarter_______
Neb_______________________4:37 remaining in the first quarter_______
MSU_______________________8:09 remaining in the first half__________
NW'ern____________________10:42 remaining in the first quarter_______
Wis_______________________0:43 remaining in the first half__________



The only game that Ohio State did not control before the end of the first quarter was Wisconsin. Even against the best team they've played, they were "in control" from roughly the middle of the second quarter on.

It may not have seemed like it in the 3rd quarter when it was 10-7, but the Badgers never had the ball down by only 3. The next time they got the ball, they were down by 10.
 
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One thing that has stood out to me with returning starters from last year to this year is the desire to KILL. 2 players really stand out to me in this aspect in Dobbins and Arnette. These guys play every down out to decapitate someone and it's not just them, it's the whole damn team. But measuring attitude from last season to now, these 2 players are the measuring stick for me.
 
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Drubuck said:
One thing that has stood out to me with returning starters from last year to this year is the desire to KILL. 2 players really stand out to me in this aspect in Dobbins and Arnette. These guys play every down out to decapitate someone and it's not just them, it's the whole damn team. But measuring attitude from last season to now, these 2 players are the measuring stick for me.
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Harrison plays like he wants to take your head off as well.
 
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OHIO STATE BALANCING RECOVERY WITH PREPARATION IN SECOND BYE WEEK BEFORE HOMESTRETCH OF THE SEASO

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After Justin Fields suffered a back injury on a third-quarter touchdown run in Ohio State’s 38-7 win over Wisconsin on Saturday, one might think he would want to take this week – the Buckeyes’ second bye week of the regular season – to rest and recover as much as possible.

Fields doesn’t see it that way.

“A lot of guys, they use bye weeks just to rest and stuff like that, but I take an approach to the bye week as a time to get better,” Fields said this week. “So during the bye week, I’m just gonna go back to fundamentals and just working on my feet and just pocket presence and just get down to the basics, really.”

While Fields said Tuesday that his back was still “kind of sore,” he expects to feel fine by the end of the week, so he isn’t too worried about it. Quarterbacks don’t get hit during practices, either, so he doesn’t feel as though the minor back injury should change anything he’s doing in his preparation over the next two weeks for the Buckeyes’ next game against Maryland.

“I think at some positions, but quarterback, I don’t think the things we do, I don’t think it’s too vigorous or too hard,” Fields said. “I get a good amount of rest, so I’m not really worried about getting rest. I’m just worried about getting better.”



For the team as a whole, though, the balance between resting and recovering and staying sharp is one that the Buckeyes need to strike properly this week.

Ohio State has rolled through its first eight games of the season, winning all of them by at least 24 points, and the next two games on the schedule against Maryland and Rutgers shouldn’t be tough. The Terrapins are just 3-5 this season and have lost four of their last five games – including three by at least 26 points – while Rutgers is just 2-6 and has lost four of its last five games by at least 35 points.

After that, though, the Buckeyes face what could be their toughest stretch of the season – a home game against Penn State, a road game at Michigan and if they win both of those, a trip to the Big Ten Championship Game – and they won’t have another week off after this one until after the conference title game.

The second bye week is unusual in itself, as college football teams typically have only one bye week per season, and it comes just three weeks after the Buckeyes had their first bye week of the year. So it’s certainly an opportunity that players like starting cornerback Jeff Okudah – who has played 395 snaps this season, second-most among all defensive players – can take advantage of to get as healthy as possible for the homestretch of the year.

“I think it’s a big bonus,” Okudah said. “This is the first time that I’ve had two weeks, especially so close together, so you give a lot of guys a chance to recover their bodies over the course of a season. Fall camp, people tend to get injured, so having that extra week to recover, before you head into that last four-game stretch is really big.”

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ond-bye-week-before-homestretch-of-the-season
 
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OHIO STATE NOTEBOOK: JUSTIN FIELDS MAKING THE SMART PLAYS FOR FIRST TIME, A STRONGER “BROTHERHOOD,” RYAN DAY WATCHED JOE BURROW FILM

A STRONGER BROTHERHOOD?
Jashon Cornell has been around Columbus for plenty of time. So long, in fact, that he didn’t want to commit to Chase Young being the best player he’d ever seen come through the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

The fifth-year senior has been around for Nick Bosa, Denzel Ward, Joey Bosa, Braxton Miller, Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas and Marshon Lattimore. He’s seen Dwayne Haskins, Billy Price, Malik Hooker, Curtis Samuel, Taylor Decker, Darron Lee, Eli Apple and Tyquan Lewis line up for the Buckeyes as his teammates. No shortage of greatness.

With that much experience, he’s also been a part of multiple different locker room cultures led by two different head coaches and many assistant coaches. He’s seen players come and go, and he thinks what the Buckeyes have right now feels different.

“Previous years, I feel like we were so stiff. This year, we're just letting it loose,” Cornell said. “We're letting the bullets fly, and I feel like we're just having a lot of fun out there. We're enjoying playing with each other. What we have in the locker room now, it's really different. The love that we have for each other and the love we have for our brothers, we just want to go out there and have fun and play ball. And I feel like that's one thing we're doing this year from previous years is we're letting it loose.”

Per Cornell, there’s not frequent arguing or players getting down on each other in the locker room.

“That's one thing that we're not doing that we did in previous years,” Cornell said. “We're not playing selfish. We're not playing for (ourselves). We're playing for each other, and I feel like this is just a brotherhood now. Like, a really strong brotherhood. Not saying that we haven't had brotherhoods before, but the bond that we have with one another is really different this year.”

In his fifth year in the program, Cornell would know.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...e-a-stronger-brotherhood-ryan-day-watched-joe
 
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OHIO STATE NOTEBOOK: JUSTIN FIELDS MAKING THE SMART PLAYS FOR FIRST TIME, A STRONGER “BROTHERHOOD,” RYAN DAY WATCHED JOE BURROW FILM

A STRONGER BROTHERHOOD?
Jashon Cornell has been around Columbus for plenty of time. So long, in fact, that he didn’t want to commit to Chase Young being the best player he’d ever seen come through the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

The fifth-year senior has been around for Nick Bosa, Denzel Ward, Joey Bosa, Braxton Miller, Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas and Marshon Lattimore. He’s seen Dwayne Haskins, Billy Price, Malik Hooker, Curtis Samuel, Taylor Decker, Darron Lee, Eli Apple and Tyquan Lewis line up for the Buckeyes as his teammates. No shortage of greatness.

With that much experience, he’s also been a part of multiple different locker room cultures led by two different head coaches and many assistant coaches. He’s seen players come and go, and he thinks what the Buckeyes have right now feels different.

“Previous years, I feel like we were so stiff. This year, we're just letting it loose,” Cornell said. “We're letting the bullets fly, and I feel like we're just having a lot of fun out there. We're enjoying playing with each other. What we have in the locker room now, it's really different. The love that we have for each other and the love we have for our brothers, we just want to go out there and have fun and play ball. And I feel like that's one thing we're doing this year from previous years is we're letting it loose.”

Per Cornell, there’s not frequent arguing or players getting down on each other in the locker room.

“That's one thing that we're not doing that we did in previous years,” Cornell said. “We're not playing selfish. We're not playing for (ourselves). We're playing for each other, and I feel like this is just a brotherhood now. Like, a really strong brotherhood. Not saying that we haven't had brotherhoods before, but the bond that we have with one another is really different this year.”

In his fifth year in the program, Cornell would know.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...e-a-stronger-brotherhood-ryan-day-watched-joe
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“Previous years, I feel like we were so stiff.”












THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID
 
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Having the #1 scoring offense (51.00 ppg) and the #1 scoring defense (8.56 ppg) means we have the best scoring margin in the country, winning games by over 42 ppg (42.44). I haven't run all the figures, but I think no other team has a scoring margin over 40...
 
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