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Game Thread Ohio State at Michigan State, 11/19/16, 12p ET ESPN/WatchESPN

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Tanner said:
I've always thought '98 was the worst, but I am starting to think 2015 might be it. Kirk Barton thinks it was the worst loss in program history and I'm not sure I can disagree. Most talented team in school history and one of the most talented in NCAA history lost at home to a team with a backup quarterback who isn't good?
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Systems_id said:
The '98 team just got fluked. It happens every now and then. Someone on the offensive coaching staff owed some dangerous people money in 2015. It's still the only that makes sense.
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The 2015 team may have been really good, but they were underachieving. The game was close, and evenly matched... and played on a rainy night. I even remember Bosa being dragged a few yards by their RB in one of their running plays. If they (tOSU) had played the way they played after losing to Sparty, they would've kicked Clemson's and 'Bama's collective asses. We seemed to be waiting for a spark, which came too late.

On the other hand, the 1998 team was blowing everybody out. And was leading substantially during the game, when we choked against a vastly inferior team. I didn't even know about Ohio State at that time, but I feel this was the worse loss.
 
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Mark Dantonio Remembers Time at OSU Fondly, Shares Woody Hayes Story

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Ohio State and Michigan State meet again this weekend, which means that Mark Dantonio will have a chance to give Urban Meyer three of his six career losses as the Buckeye head coach.

Currently, Meyer only has five losses at Ohio State, and Dantonio is responsible for two of them -- 2013, 2015 -- and both of them cost the Buckeyes a shot at playing for a title.

This is also an opportunity for Dantonio to once again coach against an OSU program where he worked as a graduate assistant, and then nearly 20 years later won a BCS title. Even though he only spent five total seasons at OSU -- '84, '85 as a GA, '01-'03 as a defensive coordinator -- Ohio State will always hold a special place for him.

"Oh, yeah. Most definitely there always will be," he said on Monday. "That's the part of when I got into coaching and I was a graduate assistant, ultimately, I was a graduate assistant for Earle Bruce at Ohio State for two years. So there's the relationships with those people at that point in time in my life, which was in my 20's, mid-to-late 20s.

"Then there was the relationship when I went there as defensive coordinator with those coaches and those people at that time and all of the players then, so I know a lot of people down there. I'm from that state, and, you know, I guess I don't know what the word I want to use here, but, the respect that I have for that program, and the players who played in it, is here, you know, and a lot of places, certainly here with our players and everything as well, but I have a deep respect for Ohio State and what they've been able to accomplish, you know, traditionally, long term."

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...s-Time-at-OSU-Fondly-Shares-Woody-Hayes-Story
 
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Honor&Glory said:
in my short (46 years....38 of them as a cognitively aware Buckeye fan) life there are 3 losses that brought tears to my eyes...

1980 Rose Bowl...I cried like a baby. quickly forgotten by the Miracle on Ice roughly 2 months later.
1996 scUM game. barely married for 3 months and hosting our first 'watch' party for The Game...#2 ranking, 17 point favorite...I gave up on Cooper that day.
1998 Sparty...fuck Nick Saban. that is all.
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1995 scUM was even worse IMO. Without 1995 scUM, I'm convinced that 1996 scUM doesn't happen.
 
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REVISITING THE OHIO STATE–MICHIGAN STATE SERIES UNDER URBAN MEYER, MARK DANTONIO

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Michigan State and head coach Mark Dantonio are responsible for 40 percent of Urban Meyer’s losses at Ohio State.

It’s become somewhat of a thing, this annual battle between the Spartans and Buckeyes, for Big Ten supremacy. Each has had a tendency to ruin something for the other every time they meet on the field.

This season, it’s only Ohio State that has something to lose, however. Michigan State is 3-7 and just picked up its first Big Ten win of the season while the Buckeyes sit at 9-1 and still have aspirations of a Big Ten championship and a College Football Playoff berth.

On paper, Ohio State should win in a landslide. But Dantonio is the one coach in the Big Ten to give Meyer’s team fits his first four seasons, so despite a massive talent gap, Saturday’s matchup in East Lansing is intriguing.

“We’re not the only ones they’ve given problems to,” Meyer said Monday during his weekly press conference. “They’ve won a lot of games, what is it, our fifth year here?”

With Michigan looming next weekend, Ohio State must not overlook the team that’s given it the most trouble these last few years in favor of its bigger rivalry game. The Buckeyes say that won’t be an issue as all that need said are the two words ‘Michigan State’ and you have their attention.

“All focus and laser lights are on a team that we know very well, have a lot of respect for, excellent players, great coaches,” Meyer said. “We’re going to do our very best to perform well on the road.”

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-state-series-under-urban-meyer-mark-dantonio
 
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DEPTH CHART: OHIO STATE'S LINEUP HAS NO CHANGES BEFORE BUCKEYES TRAVEL TO MICHIGAN STATE

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Dontre Wilson, Denzel Ward and Joe Burger all left Ohio State's 62-3 rout of Maryland on Saturday with various injuries. All indications point to each of them being available for the team's next game, however, so it makes sense the program would not feel the need to change anything on its latest depth chart.

That is exactly what happened on Tuesday afternoon. As is becoming tradition, Ohio State's last two-deep looks exactly like the one it released a week earlier. On that one, Wilson lost his job as punt returner to Curtis Samuel and K.J. Hill. That again holds true this week.

See entire depth chart: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...nges-before-buckeyes-travel-to-michigan-state
 
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OHIO STATE PLAYERS WON'T NECESSARILY COMPARE IT TO AN MMA FIGHT, BUT MATCHUPS WITH MICHIGAN STATE ARE ALWAYS A DOGFIGHT

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J.T. Barrett saw the video board behind him flashing MMA highlights on loop at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, knowing full well the point his head coach is trying to get across. Ohio State's upcoming matchup against Michigan State should be looked at like the only shot the Buckeyes have in front of them, and the only one they need to worry about.

But an MMA fight, where combatants try to literally beat the teeth and snot out of their opponents?



“I don’t want to compare that. We’ll let coach Meyer do that,” Barrett said. “I know what he’s talking about, but when I think about MMA I’m talking about bloody noses, people getting knocked out, things like that.”

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...but-matchups-with-michigan-state-are-always-a
 
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We know what we have to play for here in this one. They beat us in our house last year to ruin our season, have been our biggest rival the last 5 seasons if you ask me, and we seem to have hit our stride.

Couple that with their best defensive player being out and I feel our guys will do what they haven't done yet to MSU which is handle their business rather efficiently. I'm thinking 38-13
 
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