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

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Saw31;600523; said:
I would like to wish all our Texas friends good luck. This two game series has been a pleasure. Anyone who has the college football mania like we do understands how great this is. No matter what happens tomorrow, I will never regret these games being on the schedule. Hopefully the rest of the college football world grows a pair and starts scheduling these great match ups...Bowl Game in September!!!
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And some people say pro ball is better than college HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Well reality just woke up. It's 9:11 am so that means I have 10 hours and 49 min till game time. Yes it has started already. I have visited the Ozone, Bucknuts, rivals. I have the toledo blade in front of me now. They have an article that starts out about how orange Texas is, about how they airport just happened to have last years game replaying for them to see as they pass thru. I actually think the writer is a Mich grad. I dont go to work until 3:30. This may be ugly here today, it's a good thing the wife is away haha.
ok this took a few min 10 hours and 41 mins to go.

GO BUCKS !!
 
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The psychology of having THAT game playing on the TVs in the airport as the Buckeyes walked by might have been a good idea for us... adrenaline is a powerful force... and I know the only people that want a redemption victory more than the fans are the players themselves!!! Thanks Texas, that was just the reminder the guys needed, they are there for one purpose and one purpose only... to kick some Longhorn ass!!!!!
 
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I got up this morning to get the chilli going. Running down to Averill's in an hour or so to get the brats and hot and mild Italian sausages, a half case of Shiner Bock is cooling in the ice chest along with a half case of Harp, the chips, salsa, peanuts and Cheeze-Its (I'm a hopeless Cheez-It fanatic) await, the Buckeye Flag flys from the front porch, the scarlet and gray whirling thingamajig sits by the driveway ready to spin, TBDBITL is cued on the stereo, the DVR is ready to record, I'm running on 20,000 amps of adreneline, got my buckeye gear waiting for me to shower and get dressed, BUT I just want to stop and give a tip of the buckeye helmet to the folks from Texas, like High Lonesome and E-horn, who have joined us on this site. It's been fun getting to know you, your team and your school. I wish everyone good luck on the field tonight. GO BUCKS!

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I was at work til 11pm last night just dreading the long wait of today, and to make matters worse I had to be BACK at work at 7am this morning. So by the time I got home, ate, watched Sportscenter, browsed the net, and got to bed it was almost 2:30 and up at 6am. Now im here til 3:30 this afternoon and its already going down as the slowest day EVER.

I CANT TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE!
 
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T minus 10.5 hours! OOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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Dispatch

Defense out to stop McCoy
Pressuring young QB priority for Ohio State

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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HARRY CABLUCK ASSOCIATED PRESS Jamaal Charles, Colt McCoy and the Texas offense had a big day in a win over North Texas, but Ohio State will provide a much tougher challenge.


Conventional wisdom says it should be easier to break a young Colt than it is to corral a Young veteran.
The proof might be learned tonight when No. 1 Ohio State puts its newcomer-laden defense to the test against No. 2 Texas, led by freshman quarterback Colt McCoy.
It?s a sequel to the instant classic last year in Ohio Stadium. That?s when Vince Young, befuddled by a veteran OSU defense until the middle of the game, rose to lead the Longhorns on the winning drive, capping it with a pinpoint touchdown pass to Limas Sweed.
It propelled the Longhorns toward the national championship. More than that, it proved that just when the Buckeyes defense thought it had Young frustrated and figured out, he found another way to win. But that?s what Young, blessed with game-breaking ability with his feet and his arm, could do to a defense.
McCoy has yet to prove himself of being the same caliber. He threw three touchdown passes, ran for one and rushed for 38 yards in the season-opening win over North Texas last week. But that was against a team that won two games the year before.
Tonight will be a tougher challenge. In his second collegiate start, McCoy will be going against a defense whose credo is aimed squarely at him.
"Our approach is to affect the quarterback and affect the playmakers on the other team," cornerback Antonio Smith said. "Colt McCoy is the quarterback, so we?re going to try to get after him and affect him just like each and every game."
With Young in the NFL, the Longhorns would seem to have a more conventional offense, where distribution by the quarterback is more valued.
"Really, I don?t think they?ve changed that much," defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock said. "I think the biggest difference is Vince was pulling the ball down a lot more, taking the game into his own hands. Colt McCoy right now is giving it to his running backs and throwing the ball a lot more."
McCoy has a talented supporting cast. Sophomore running back Jamaal Charles has big-play ability with sprinter?s speed, senior back Selvin Young runs hard and steady, and receivers Sweed and Billy Pittman had major catches on the way to the title last year.
"I think they?re still as dangerous as they were last year," defensive tackle David Patterson said. "They might have a different way of going about that, but I think every play they?re capable of striking."
That also goes for McCoy, codefensive coordinator Luke Fickell said. Young ran a 4.6-second 40-yard dash, but McCoy reportedly runs a 4.7. Although Young ran when he felt he had to, Texas coach Mack Brown is prodding McCoy to run more because he thinks he can be good at it.
Fickle isn?t surprised.
"Obviously, he is a great player; he?s at Texas," Fickell said. "Just like the young guys we have, we think they?re great players, it?s just their (lack of experience with nine new starters compared with last year). But that?s why you?re at a big school, to find out how you produce and how you do under pressure."
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COMMENTARY
Loss to Texas could have lasting effect

Saturday, September 09, 2006

BOB HUNTER


The possible consequences of another Ohio State loss to Texas first struck me in a Cincinnati electronics store. I was helping my mother and my aunt shop for television sets when Mom casually mentioned to the salesman that her son was from Columbus.
He looked up and stared at me for a second, then tucked the two middle fingers of his right hand under a thumb and gave me a "Hook ?em horns" salute.
"That was some game last year, huh? " he said, suddenly wearing a wicked grin.
The Houston-born sales associate didn?t know me, didn?t know I?m not an OSU graduate and didn?t care. He probably wanted to spike my wallet and do a little victory jig around it, but hey, his point had still been made. In the only football game ever played between Ohio State and Texas, the guys dressed to look like life-size Minute-Maid jugs won.
Salesman 1, Columbus guy 0.
Who?s your daddy now, Buckeye breath?
That could all change tonight, of course. OSU fans are counting on it. The Buckeyes are No. 1 and the Longhorns No. 2, and in the midst of all the building excitement most fans haven?t spent much time thinking about what happens if their favorite team should lose.
That?s the thought that hit me in the store. This is the final game of a historic two-game series, the first meetings between two of college football?s storied programs. It is also a series between two institutions which, because of sheer numbers of alums if nothing else, have a vast worldwide base of overbearing, obnoxious fans.
There are no future Ohio State-Texas games under discussion and an OSU official told me that all the schedules for the Buckeyes? future marquee matchups have been completed "through 2017 or 2018."
Can you imagine the Buckeyes going 0 of 2 against Texas and then never playing the Longhorns again?
This is what happened, sort of, with Notre Dame. The Buckeyes and the Irish played two historic games in 1935 and ?36, Notre Dame won both and then the schools didn?t meet again for 50 years.
A lot of reasons are given for why it took so long for them to get back together, but the fact remains that lots of rabid Ohio State fans were still feeling the sting of those losses years and even decades later. It?s one reason those two OSU wins over the Irish in the 1990s were so satisfying to them.
And that was before it became fashionable to talk "smack" about anything and everything. War vs. Peace? Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck? Crest vs. Aquafresh? Ohio vs. Texas? This cable news us-vs.-them mentality has raised the stakes even for those far removed from the program?s inner circle.
"The buildup for last year?s game, you couldn?t go anywhere without everyone saying ?Beat Texas,? " OSU offensive tackle Kirk Barton said. "We had Army rangers come in and they say, ?You?ve got to beat Texas.? You go out to eat, and it?s, ?You?ve got to beat Texas.? We have a lot of guys come home from Iraq for a week and they want to come out to practice and it?s like ?You?ve got to beat Texas.? They say, ?I?ve got five guys living with me over there and they?re giving it to me.? The whole hype around Texas has just been a beast, and you really want to deliver for those guys."
This series probably will never be remembered like the 1935-36 Notre Dame games, if only because of the way the bowls are set up today. Ohio State and Notre Dame didn?t schedule any more games after that homeand-home in 1995-96, but they still ended up meeting last year in the Fiesta Bowl. It?s conceivable Ohio State and Texas could have a rematch in a bowl game this season.
Or maybe never. The two schools had never met until last season, and "Texas" could be the word fans still have trouble uttering 25 years from now if the Buckeyes lose again. "Especially after how it ended last season, it?s really monumental," Barton said. "Everywhere you go, (it?s) ?You?ve got to beat Texas.? " And if they don?t? For starters, it might be a good idea to do a lot of shopping online. Bob Hunter is a sports columnist for The Dispatch. [email protected]
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Royal took Longhorns from oblivion to No. 1

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Todd Jones
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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AUSTIN, Texas ? The elderly man with the perfectly parted silver hair and shining blue eyes held up his right hand. "Isn?t that a heck of a Hook ?em horns?" he said with a tone of slight disgust. His fingers, bent and mangled by so much arthritis that he can?t even make a fist, formed a recognizable variation of the famous University of Texas hand signal.
With that, Darrell Royal, spry at 82, broke out into a song.
"The old gray mare just ain?t what it used to be, ain?t what it used to be, ain?t what it used to be," he sang, his voice sweet and in tune.
The Woody Hayes of Texas football smiled and laughed, for he harbors no bitterness about being old. Life has been good to Darrell K Royal. He?s healthy, other than the arthritis. He stays busy by not living in the past, but when the old days are mentioned, his memories are simply warm and sweet.
"It was a lot of fun," Royal said about those golden times when he coached Texas to a 167-47-5 record and three national championships from 1957 to 1976.
Texas is defending national champion again, and tonight Royal will watch from a private suite like a proud grandfather as No. 2 Texas plays No. 1 Ohio State in the stadium that bears his name.
His night will be filled with handshakes and gleaming faces, requests to pose for photographs, and a lot of "remember when? "
Royal, ever kind and gentle, will handle the attention from friends and strangers as he always does, with wit and folksy humor. This is the man who famously uttered, "Dance with the one that brung ya," and he?s not turning his back on anyone now.
"It?s all right," he said of the attention. "I remember when nobody cared."
That?s difficult to imagine in Texas, where current Longhorns coach Mack Brown said Royal is "kind of like the governor emeritus of Texas." But there was a time when no one knew much about the coaching ability of the man who grew up in hated Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Royal was just 32 when he left his job as coach at Washington after one year and arrived in Austin, the inheritor of a Texas program that had gone 1-9 the previous season of 1956. Not that low expectations bothered him then.
"I said you can?t fall out of bed sleeping on the floor," Royal recalled. "Heck, win two games and it?s a 100 percent improvement."
And when Royal rolled into town, Texas was in much need of improvement besides its won-loss record.
"I answered my own phone," he said. "All the coaches were in one big room. There were no offices. I?m telling you, it was unbelievable. I told them, ?I got to have somebody to answer the phone.? They said, ?Well, Darrell, it just takes time.? I didn?t feel that way. I felt my clock was running."
Royal had the weeds cut that were growing through the fence surrounding the stadium, painted the locker rooms, got offices for his coaching staff and set off on an adventure that would land him in lore.
"I never felt the pressure to win," said Royal, "but I know the turnaround for me was when we beat Oklahoma in 1958. They said, ?Holy cow, this kid might know what he?s doing.? "
Did he ever. The Longhorns went 9-2 in Royal?s third season, and a dynasty soon blossomed. He led Texas to a 85-17-2 record and three national championships in a 10-season span ending in 1970, with a 30-game winning streak.
Influenced heavily by the legendary Bud Wilkinson, whom he played for at Oklahoma, Royal channeled his competitive and aggressive nature into detail-oriented organization and homespun recruiting, peppered with his famous Royalism sayings such as, "He?s wiser than a tree full of owls."
"The things I said came from my upbringing in southwest Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl," Royal said. "I shined shoes in a barbershop. Now, you can hear some stuff in a barbershop. You can pick up some wisdom there. I?m just a model of the people I?ve been around in my life, and Woody was one of those people."
Royal credits Ohio State?s Hayes, his contemporary and friend, with being the first one to say three things can happen on a pass play and two of them are bad. However, it was Royal and his offensive coordinator, Emory Bellard, who created the wishbone formation in 1968.
The innovative Royal went 10-2 in 1975, but a year later, drained by personal tragedy (he lost a son and a daughter in two automobile accidents in the early 1970s) and the demands of coaching, retired after a 5-5-1 season. He was just 52, one year younger than Ohio State coach Jim Tressel.
Now Royal, whose own father lived to be 91, is enjoying the sunset of life. He attends many Texas practices, all the home games, and some on the road, too.
"I?m into great-grandbabies now," said Royal, who has twin two-year-old great-grandchildren, four grandchildren, and a son who lives in Austin. "I?m not doing any work, but I pay the rent."
In Texas, the man they call St. Darrell doesn?t owe anyone anything. Everyone else owes him a debt of gratitude.
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Depth on defense puts ?Horns in comfort zone

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




The forecast for Texas tonight actually is for more heat than it has had all week. Troy Smith and Ted Ginn Jr. are passing through.
The Longhorns don?t look to be sweating it, though, even if they will be without their top cover cornerback, Tarell Brown, when they play host to Ohio State. Brown was suspended for the game after being arrested Monday on drug and weapons charges.
Brown, a senior with 25 starts under his belt, was expected to spend most of his time shadowing Ginn. Without him, much of that responsibility is expected to go to the other starting corner, senior Aaron Ross, with over-the-top help from a safety. Brown?s starting spot will be taken by sophomore Ryan Palmer or junior Brandon Foster, who have experience but have not started. Two true freshmen are behind them.
Secondary coach Duane Akina said it isn?t an issue whether the replacements can handle the assignment.
"If you watched the end of the SC game, we had a lot of those guys out there," Akina said.
They were called into service after Brown suffered a broken arm in a collision with safety Michael Griffin during the fourth quarter of Texas? 41-38 victory over Southern California in the BCS championship game in January.
Even when healthy, the Longhorns played as many as seven defensive backs at the same time last season when matching up against three-, four- and five-receiver offenses. Gene Chizik, who coordinates the defense with Akina, said four corners were on the field at times during the win at Ohio State.
"It used to be if someone got injured, we?d be afraid for the defense because of the drop-off," defensive end Tim Crowder said.
No more.
"We?ve got crazy depth right now," Crowder said.
The depth, and the fact that eight starters return from a group that finished last season ranked eighth nationally in points allowed and 10 th in yards allowed, has Texas confident its defense can hang with anyone, even as explosive a pair as Smith and Ginn.
"We have a chance to be the best defense we?ve been in awhile if we can stay healthy and continue to work to improve," coach Mack Brown said.
"I personally have been more vocal about this defense, expecting more out of them, because we had some key losses on offense. Since we?re inexperienced on offense, we?ve asked the defense to hang in there and play to a higher level until we have a chance to grow up with our offense."
Without saying it directly, Chizik intimated that it was easier to game plan for the Ohio State passing game this year than last, when the Buckeyes had not only Ginn but Santonio Holmes, an NFL first-round draft choice.
"Last year, it was a little different because there was Ted and Santonio Holmes and there were a lot of unknowns going into the season of who would get the ball more," he said. "Not to slight any of the other receivers because ? they have a lot of great receivers, (but) I think you still have to pinpoint No. 7 (Ginn) as being a big-play target."
Dispatch reporter Todd Jones contributed to this story.
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OHIO STATE NOTEBOOK
Hype fires up Buckeyes for big game

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Tim May and Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




As much as the Ohio State players tried to keep their heads down and ears closed to outside distractions this week, defensive end Jay Richardson said there comes a time when the hoopla surrounding the most anticipated game of the day must be acknowledged.
That?s this morning, he reasoned. He and the No. 1 Buckeyes flew into Austin yesterday in preparation for the matchup tonight with No. 2 Texas. The Texas capital is going to be hopping all day, too, with an expected influx of 40,000 Ohio State fans.
"You do kind of embrace the hype," Richardson said. "Once you see all the people and you see all the craziness surrounding it, it does kind of pump you up and get you ready to play a little bit."
There might be friendlies in the area, and there might be 10,000 or more OSU fans in the stadium, some ticket brokers have estimated. But it?s still not going to be home sweet Horseshoe for the Buckeyes.
"Going anywhere you know you?re going into a hostile environment; you have to go in there thinking like you?re kind of like the enemy invading," center Doug Datish said. "You?ve just got to be close as a team. You?ve got to stick with your guys, because that?s all you?re going to have with all of their crazy fans.
"I think it?s going to be an unbelievable atmosphere and we?re looking forward to it."
As for last year

Forget Vince Young?s pass and Limas Sweed?s winning catch in eventual national champion Texas? 25-22 win in Ohio Stadium. It?s what happened immediately after the game that sticks with Buckeyes safety Brandon Mitchell.
"The one thing I remember is watching them celebrate on our field," Mitchell said. "It?s always tough to have to sing ?Carmen Ohio? in front of the band after a losing effort. We gave everything we had, but it always leaves a bad feeling in your stomach when you lose a game."
Speaking of bad feelings

Defensive tackle David Patterson said since his freshman year at Warrensville High School, he gets pregame butterflies to the point where he sometimes throws up.
"I just have a problem," Patterson said. "I always find something to get nervous about. I think if we were playing my high school ? Ohio State vs. Warrensville ? I would be pretty nervous."
He was asked if getting worked up might help him play with more intensity.
"I guess when I don?t regurgitate, it does," Patterson said. "If that happens, it makes my stomach hurt a little bit, and that?s not too good."
Possible Small role

Ted Ginn Jr.?s father/coach referred to Ray Small as being almost a clone of his mercurial son.
Small, a freshman receiver from Cleveland Glenville, showed glimpses of that last week. As the fifth receiver in the rotation tonight, he might get another shot, and there?s no question about why.
"Like a lot of those other guys, speeeeeed," offensive coordinator Jim Bollman said. "That?s one big deal. He has a chance to be a pretty good receiver. He?s got good hands and quickness, and he can run."

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OSUsushichic;600615; said:
T minus 10.5 hours! OOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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IIIIIIIIIIIII-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

It was 69 degrees in Austin at 8 a.m.

Local forecast says 86 degrees at kickoff and 78 at the end of the game.
 
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BB73;600624; said:
IIIIIIIIIIIII-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

It was 69 degrees in Austin at 8 a.m.

Local forecast says 86 degrees at kickoff and 78 at the end of the game.
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You are keeping well hydrated, right? I mean really.. the heat.. how are you surviving the heat??? How many pairs of sneakers have melted to the pavement so far?
 
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