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Game Thread tOSU @ Illinois, Sat 11/14 @ 12pm ET, ABC

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URBAN MEYER SAYS J.T. BARRETT IS SET TO START AT QUARTERBACK SATURDAY AT ILLINOIS, THE RIGHT MOVE FOR OHIO STATE AS IT PRIMES FOR THE STRETCH RUN

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Urban Meyer knew what everybody was getting ready to ask him, so he went ahead and answered the question on his own.

"I'm sure the first one will be on quarterback. So, if J.T. has a good week of practice, he'll get to start against Illinois," Meyer said Monday.

Ohio State's head coach is of course talking about J.T. Barrett, who served a one-game suspension Saturday against Minnesota for an OVI citation received early Halloween morning. Cardale Jones led the Buckeye offense to 21 points in a 28-14 victory against Minnesota, but re-inserting Barrett into the lineup is the right move.

Meyer knows it, too.

"It's never an easy call because one guy had his 11th win, 250 all-purpose yards. Started off slow and accurate on a few passes, finished fairly good," Meyer said. "Made some good plays for us and is invested in our program. It's never easy. But I think it's the right thing at this time."

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...at-quarterback-saturday-at-illinois-the-right
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I've thought most of the spreads this year have seemed high. This one seems really low, troubling?
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It's all troubling this time of year


If I wasn't emotionally invested I'd say it's probably more due to linesmakers making an adjustment for OSU's terrible ATS record (3-6) but I fully expect to be sweating this one until it's over from some reason. Hope to Woody I'm wrong.
 
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DON'T SLEEP ON ILLINOIS: ILLINI HAVE PLENTY OF FIGHT IN THEM

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Long before The Game was Ohio State’s annual final game, the Buckeyes closed the regular season each year with this Saturday’s opponent, Illinois. The Buckeyes haven’t had too much trouble with the Fighting Illini during Urban Meyer’s tenure at Ohio State, going 3-0 with a combined score of 167-81. But history shows us that it would be unwise to overlook Illinois with the two schools from the Mitten State looming on the November horizon.

The first meeting came in 1902 and the Illibuck Trophy—once an actual live turtle, of course—tradition started in 1925. The wooden turtle goes to the winner of this traditional rivalry game, which hasn’t felt much like a rivalry since 2007.

According to the college football data warehouse, Ohio State is 66-30-4 in the all-time series against Illinois. If you count the 2010 vacated game, which totally happened (I know this, because I watched it), the Buckeyes improve to 67-30-4. But some of those 30 losses were crushing, inexplicable defeats to inferior teams.

The best example of that is the Buckeyes’ 2007 loss in Columbus, 28-21. It was the only regular-season blemish for a team that went to the National Championship against LSU and quite possibly would have won the title if not for the complete lack of awareness that Beanie Wells was still on the Ohio State football squad after the first quarter of that game. The 2007 loss was a frustrating, maddening groin kick that featured an obvious fumble by Illini running back Daniel Dufrene that somehow got missed by the officials, just before Illinois scored its opening touchdown.

It also featured a whole lot of Juice Williams running up the middle for three to four yards every time, somehow squeaking out first down after first down against the heart of the Buckeye defense. As I said, it was maddening and frustrating. Williams regressed significantly over the course of his college football career and never again looked like a mixture of Tom Brady and Herschel Walker.

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The 1994 game saw Ohio State enter with only one loss—a 25-16 road defeat at No. 25 Washington—and yet the Fighting Illini, who would finish 7-5 (4-4 in the B1G) won 24-10 at the Shoe. Bobby Hoying threw three interceptions and Johnny Johnson completed 16/21 for 224 yards and two scores. You don’t remember Johnson and neither do I, and neither does anyone else, but he won that day and the Buckeyes would lose again at No. 1 Penn State and then not again until the Citrus Bowl against No. 6 Alabama—by one score.

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...-illinois-illini-have-plenty-of-fight-in-them
 
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