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Date: September 1st, 2013  3:30 PM

Opponent: Louisville  (0-0)

Site: Papa John's Cardinal Stadium

TV: ESPN

Radio:  Ohio Radio

Webcast: WatchESPN

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Ohio Injury List (status is my interpretation based upon media reports):

WR Landon Smith - Out (shoulder)
OL Mark Smith - Out (hand)
CB Larenzo Fisher - Out (disciplinary)
TE  John Tanner - Out for season (shoulder)
TE  Davon Henry - Out for season (shoulder)

EDIT: Added Landon Smith injury

Here's to hoping work doesn't schedule me for this game.  24-17

Where's the tailgate action going to be for this one?

Do they actually refer to it as "The John"?  If so, they need to get Austin Peay in there.

Let's hope the injuries don't continue, but I don't see these injuries as threatening to cause the same sorts of problems as last year. So far the injuries are focused on tight ends, with four TE's gone. Tyler Knight (hip) and Dereck Robak (back, concussions) both announced that their playing careers are over. It may also be over for Tanner, for whom this shoulder injury is simply one more in a series of shoulder injuries. Davon Henry is having surgery, and is gone for the year.

That leaves three seniors, and 2 true freshmen. The Seniors are Troy HIll, who hasn't played much because of injuries of his own in the past, and two players that transferred in as Graduate Students with a year of eligibility left, Anthony Talbert  from NC State and Alex Asher from NC. The true freshmen are Mason Morgan and Troy Mangen.

If there are more losses at TE, there are also several players slated to be defensive ends that were recruited as TE/DE's, one of which is Casey Sayles, who is already taking snaps with the offense as well as defense. There may also be other DE's that could make the move, if needed. Also, I remember one year when there were a lot of injuries at TE they moved an offensive Tackle out to TE, which gave them another blocking TE.

Here's an SI article on Louisville. No mention of Ohio in it, other than the indirect implications of referring to Louisville's schedule as "Puffs Plus".

Injuries do happen in football. Most keep a player out for a week or two, but usually they don't end the season. The injuries to Lechner and Powell seem to be injuries of a common type, ankle sprains. When you have all those big bodies banging around in all that traffic, ankle injures are going to happen, unfortunately. Neither injury is supposed to be overly serious, and both of them may be available by Louisville, and if not for Louisville, they should make the game the next week. Wyatt's injury is worse, and if he isn't redshirted, he will still miss at least a few weeks.

The injury rate this year seems pretty normal. There weren't any serious injuries that I recall from Spring football. Fall camp has had the two TE injuries, plus a lot of typical injuries that take a player out of action for anywhere from a day or two to a couple weeks. There is only one more scrimmage left, I think, and we may see another injury or two before we're done, but hopefully no more season ending ones.

What made last year unusual was not so much the number of injuries, it was that so many of them were season-ending. I've never seen anything like that before, ever. Normally you may see a few season ending ones, but double digits? Never.

Only one new injury today. Following current trends, naturally it's a tight end. Casey Sayles is out with a quad/groin injury, per Arkley, but it isn't believed to be serious.

Someone rolled into his ankle, and sprained it. It isn't expected to be serious, long term. He may or may not be available against Louisville.

My seats are in 202. From pictures I have seen from past games at Louisville, this seating chart seems accurate with regards to where away fans are in the stadium...

that us the least symetrical stadium I have ever seen, it looks like a mad architect designed it.

FYI- Purdue is playing at Cincinnati on Saturday at noon.  My son and I are going to hit that game on our way down.

I have a friend who is looking for two tickets in the Ohio section.  Let me know if anyone knows of any. 

For sure.