Hello Buckeye fans. Life has been busy for a while, so I apologize for the lack of posts.
Wow, what a game in Madison! The trip to Madison has always (or at least in my memory) been a tough test for the Buckeyes, and this trip was no different. The hitting was outstanding, with players going down left and right. The big question mark for the Buckeyes was Terrelle Pryor - could he be the QB that Ohio State needed him to be? We knew that Beanie would have a big game. He, once again, showed himself to be one of the best players in college football.
Terrelle was not amazing, but he was great when he needed to be. The last drive was reminiscent of Troy Smith's drive to beat the Wolverines in 2005. He made the big plays when they needed to be made. It also always helps to have Wisconsin linebackers looking clueless on the 11 yard line. :-) What was that? Wisconsin's defense, other than the first drive, looked great the whole game, and just fell apart on Pryor's TD run. We'll take it.
Pryor showed glimpes of brilliance. He also showed thathe is a freshman. To beat teams like Michigan State, Penn State and Illinois, we are going to have to have more of the brilliance and less of the freshman.
If you can believe it, Ohio State is still hunt for the national championship game. In the next few weeks, a lot of the top teams play each other and will start knocking each other off. For example:
October 12th:
#1 OU vs. #5 Texas (Dallas)
#17 Oklahoma State at #3 Missouri
#4 LSU at #11 Florida
October 16th:
#9 BYU at TCU (watch out Cougars)
October 18th:
#1 Oklahoma at #16 Kansas (bye, bye Kansas!)
#13 Vanderbilt at #10 Georgia (bye bye Vandy - your run will end on this date and then against Florida, but a 10-2 Vanderbilt is a possibility - can you believe it?)
#12 Ohio State at #23 Michigan State - both have one loss, and the loser will be done.
October 25th:
#10 Georgia at #4 LSU (if Georgia loses they are done)
#17 Oklahoma State at #5 Texas
#6 Penn State at #12 Ohio State
#7 Texas Tech at #16 Kansas
November 1st:
#5 Texas at #7 Texas Tech (if Texas beats OU, both teams could be undefeated still by this point)
#10 Georgia vs. #11 Florida (Jacksonville) - these two will play for the East title and the right to play the LSU-Alabama winner for the SEC title. The loser's season ends.
If Ohio State is able to win out, they will rise in the polls. They will have to hope for some key upsets to rise high enough to get back into the BCS title mix, but it's happened before ... not so long ago either. :-)
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