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Game Thread Ohio State vs Northwestern, 10/29/16, 3:30pm ET ESPN/WatchESPN



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'TUNNEL VISION': OHIO STATE’S MARGIN FOR ERROR IS GONE, SO ALL OF ITS ATTENTION IS NOW SOLELY ON NORTHWESTERN

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On one of the doors at Ohio State’s indoor practice facility sits not one, but two signs that read ‘Beat Northwestern.’ The giant video board, which once declared the Woody Hayes Athletic Center to be ‘the land of the wolves,’ no longer displays that mantra. “Beat Northwestern,” it reads.

There’s a clear message around the team this week. Nothing else matters.

“It’s gotta be tunnel vision,” senior center Pat Elflein says. “There’s no other option.”

This is hardly a new thing in football and in sports. The “one game at a time” saying is one of the oldest clichés in the book. But Urban Meyer and some of his players admitted Wednesday after practice it might have been hard to ignore a lot of the outside talk.

Ohio State entered last Saturday’s game against Penn State as the No. 2-ranked team in the country. Most had the Buckeyes pegged as serious College Football Playoff contenders — and most still do despite a loss to the Nittany Lions — and many were already starting to look ahead to the Nov. 26 showdown with archrival Michigan.

“It’s a little bit a product of the College Football Playoff and it’s a product of — because it’s such attention and great for the sport, great for us,” Meyer said. “We’re such a young team, we better focus on playing a young team that’s on a roll right now so that’s the reason we do that. It’s just focus.”

“I think this week the focus has really just been we’re playing Northwestern and we can’t get ahead of ourselves,” senior linebacker Joe Burger added. “Some of that might have happened the past couple of weeks. Everyone is trying to blow up The Game and right now we’ve blocked off everything else and we’ve focused on what’s happening this Saturday.”

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...f-its-attention-is-now-solely-on-northwestern
 
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Starting Northwestern CB ruled out vs. Ohio State

Struggling mightily in the passing game, Ohio State may have caught a bit of a break as the Buckeyes look to rebound from just their fifth in the four-plus years under Urban Meyer.

On Northwestern’s official injury report, cornerback Trae Williams is listed as out for the Wildcats’ Week 9 matchup with the Buckeyes in Columbus. Williams is dealing with an injury that the school has not specified.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...ting-northwestern-cb-ruled-out-vs-ohio-state/
 
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Dont fret guys, I feel a serious ass whipping coming for the cats today. Buckeyes get back on track in a big way with new focus. I'm predicting a 5+ TD win today. 47-10 Buckeyes.

HERE WE GO BUCKEYES, HERE WE GO!!!!
 
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