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Game Thread BCS Championship Game, tOSU vs. Florida - Jan 8th

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COMMENTARY
In Tebow, Gators have illuminating role model
Friday, January 05, 2007
ROB OLLER

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ? Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was born in a jungle, attended school in his living room and plays in a Swamp. Other than that, his life has been perfectly normal.
 
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Grandma gets another chance to watch Pitcock
Friday, January 05, 2007
Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ? Kitty Church will be standing (all 5 feet of her) and cheering ? with tears in her eyes, she said ? when Ohio State takes the field to play for the national championship Monday night.
 
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Dispatch

Meyer, Gators give punt plenty of attention, too
Friday, January 05, 2007
Rob Oller
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ? When Florida coach Urban Meyer arrived in Gainesville, Fla., the Gators could be forgiven for thinking that Jim Tressel had just stepped off the plane.
 
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Dispatch

RAY STEIN?S NEWS FROM THE VALLEY
Optimistic? Worried? You bet!
Friday, January 05, 2007
RAY STEIN

Dispatch sports editor Ray Stein is in Arizona to cover Ohio State in the national championship game for BuckeyeXtra.com. Here is a sampling of what he is writing. For more, visit BuckeyeXtra.com:
Kickoff is a mere three days away. Should you be confident that the Buckeyes will handle Florida and win their second national championship in five years? Or should you feel a little angst because the Gators might have the goods to pull the upset?
 
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From all their comments it seems like Florida's players are trying real hard to give our team a little extra motivation so we don't come out flat (not that we need it, but it never hurts to play with a chip on your shoulder)... how nice of them.
 
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Buckeye86;706437; said:
From all their comments it seems like Florida's players are trying real hard to give our team a little extra motivation so we don't come out flat (not that we need it, but it never hurts to play with a chip on your shoulder)... how nice of them.
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And I love it! These Florida players are in for a rude awakening.
 
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New York Times

January 5, 2007

Scoreboard Shows This Isn't Same Old Ohio State

By PETE THAMEL

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz., Jan. 4 -- The first tangible sign of how drastically Ohio State shifted its offensive philosophy came from the opponent's sideline.

On Nov. 13, 2004, in a game at Purdue, the normally conservative Buckeyes began the game with five-wide-receiver sets, then ran option pitches to the receivers. Continued....
 
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Chicago Tribune

Very few secrets between Ohio State, Florida

BY TEDDY GREENSTEIN

January 5, 2007

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- You can safely assume the Bears' Lovie Smith will never share coaching secrets with, say, the Packers' Mike McCarthy.

But Ohio State and Florida coaches huddled last spring to discuss coaching philosophies and defensive schemes.

"One thing you'll find about the football profession--it's very sharing," Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said. Continued...
 
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USA Today

Why bigger is better at Ohio State

Updated 1/5/2007 3:17 AM ET

By Steve Wieberg and Kelly Whiteside, USA TODAY

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- "We're a large-thinking institution," Gene Smith says.
The words come not as a boast from the Ohio State University athletics director but as a quiet statement of scarlet-and-gray-wrapped fact. From the campus -- the nation's largest with an enrollment of almost 52,000 -- to the more than 101,000-seat football stadium and the top-ranked team that plays there, there's nothing modest about the 136-year-old school that sits hard by the Olentangy River. Continued...
 
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TresselOwnsCarr;706328; said:
One thing that worries me about florida's legendary speed:

their d-line is very fast, we can all agree to that. If i remember correctly cinci's undersized but fast d-line gave us all sorts of problems in the first half by stunting and using their quickness to their advantage. Will florida copy the bearcats' line scheme and be able to disrupt our game like they did? Or am i just buying into the Florida Speed hype too much?
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I didn't get to see that game because it wasn't nationally televised. How rough of a time did we have with the Cincy front?
I watched scUM struggle with USC's d-line but I believe that was a matter of being out-coached. All they had to do was drop into the shotgun and start making some quicker passes, screens, etc. and I think they would have been fine or at least made it a game. All I saw from scUM was a stubborness to stick to the run game that wasn't working and occasionally try to pass way down field and get the big play. When they did go into their 2 min offense they were able to move the ball. But being out-coached that's what you get with a coach like Carr. Tressel won't make the same mistakes.
 
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Bruce Hooley from 1460 interviewed Leak yesterday and he commented that Leak did not appear to be at all comfortable in Glendale. As if he is feeling a great deal of pressure. I don't know, maybe that's just the way the guy is, but Hooley said he just appeared to him to be wound up way too tight.
 
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TJnTN;706614; said:
I didn't get to see that game because it wasn't nationally televised. How rough of a time did we have with the Cincy front?
I watched scUM struggle with USC's d-line but I believe that was a matter of being out-coached. All they had to do was drop into the shotgun and start making some quicker passes, screens, etc. and I think they would have been fine or at least made it a game. All I saw from scUM was a stubborness to stick to the run game that wasn't working and occasionally try to pass way down field and get the big play. When they did go into their 2 min offense they were able to move the ball. But being out-coached that's what you get with a coach like Carr. Tressel won't make the same mistakes.
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I was at the game. The first half wasn't really a joy, Cinci was giving us fits with their defense. Near the end of the half though it seemed like things started to click and the 2nd half went very well. I don't know whether Cinci caught us off guard or whether we were just a little flat after Texas.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;706665; said:
Bruce Hooley from 1460 interviewed Leak yesterday and he commented that Leak did not appear to be at all comfortable in Glendale. As if he is feeling a great deal of pressure. I don't know, maybe that's just the way the guy is, but Hooley said he just appeared to him to be wound up way too tight.
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Maybe he just had a headache from watching flashes of orange and blue streak past when he was playing against the defense in practice.
 
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TJnTN said:
I didn't get to see that game because it wasn't nationally televised. How rough of a time did we have with the Cincy front?
I watched scUM struggle with USC's d-line but I believe that was a matter of being out-coached. All they had to do was drop into the shotgun and start making some quicker passes, screens, etc. and I think they would have been fine or at least made it a game. All I saw from scUM was a stubborness to stick to the run game that wasn't working and occasionally try to pass way down field and get the big play. When they did go into their 2 min offense they were able to move the ball. But being out-coached that's what you get with a coach like Carr. Tressel won't make the same mistakes.
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well, they held tOSU to 29 rushing yards in the first quarter and sacked Troy.. Then late in the second quarter pittman finally got going.
But just from my memory of the game, it didn't look pretty early on. I remember yelling at the offensive line through my tv.

I'm just worried florida's d-line speed might disrupt the running game and pressure Troy more than even scUM did.
 
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