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Posted: 10/17/2021 9:22 PM
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Use this thread to talk about anything game-related. For away games, we'll have a separate travel thread.

Date: October 23rd, 2021 1:00 PM

Opponent: Kent St.  (3-4, 2-1 MAC)

Site: Peden Stadium

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I said last week I thought Ohio could beat Buffalo and Kent State, and OU more than proved it could beat UB and should have won that game. Take the offsides away on the final kick and OU wins it. Period. I came away very impressed with how close this team is to turning it around. This team is much, much better than what its record indicates. And it's about to show.

After seeing Kent State get simply obliterated last week, I feel even better about Ohio beating Kent State. The Golden Flashes have looked nothing like the predicted East champs they were picked to be. Yes, they had a tough non-conference schedule, but they barely got past a bad BG team - at home - and they looked awful last week. They have also been destroyed coming out of halftime the last two games, allowing 28 third quarter points to Buffalo and 27 third quarter points to WMU in back-to-back weeks. That's beyond terrible. Oh yeah, and there's the fact that they simply haven't been able to beat Ohio as they've lost 6....SIX....straight to the Bobcats. The bottom line is, Kent State simply can't find a way to beat Ohio. The proof has been in the pudding for years now.

Ohio "could" be 3-0 in the MAC. Kent State can't say that. What's more, if and when Ohio does beat Kent State, Ohio will pull even in the MAC East with the preseason East favorite and would own the head-to-head tie breaker. Think about that for a minute. Ohio still completely controls its own destiny, and has shown me a ton in its three MAC games this season. I believe they can beat anyone in the MAC, and they've already shown they can in the games they've played. Kent State's defense doesn't stand a chance against Ohio's running game and Ohio's defense will keep their offense under control as a couple other MAC teams have done. I think Saturday is going to make a lot of doubters start to believe in what this team is capable of doing, and that run is about to get started on Saturday. Watch and see.
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Posted: 10/18/2021 8:02 AM
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What's that saying about the blind squirrel?
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I said last week I thought Ohio could beat Buffalo and Kent State, and OU more than proved it could beat UB and should have won that game. Take the offsides away on the final kick and OU wins it. Period. I came away very impressed with how close this team is to turning it around. This team is much, much better than what its record indicates. And it's about to show.

After seeing Kent State get simply obliterated last week, I feel even better about Ohio beating Kent State. The Golden Flashes have looked nothing like the predicted East champs they were picked to be. Yes, they had a tough non-conference schedule, but they barely got past a bad BG team - at home - and they looked awful last week. They have also been destroyed coming out of halftime the last two games, allowing 28 third quarter points to Buffalo and 27 third quarter points to WMU in back-to-back weeks. That's beyond terrible. Oh yeah, and there's the fact that they simply haven't been able to beat Ohio as they've lost 6....SIX....straight to the Bobcats. The bottom line is, Kent State simply can't find a way to beat Ohio. The proof has been in the pudding for years now.

Ohio "could" be 3-0 in the MAC. Kent State can't say that. What's more, if and when Ohio does beat Kent State, Ohio will pull even in the MAC East with the preseason East favorite and would own the head-to-head tie breaker. Think about that for a minute. Ohio still completely controls its own destiny, and has shown me a ton in its three MAC games this season. I believe they can beat anyone in the MAC, and they've already shown they can in the games they've played. Kent State's defense doesn't stand a chance against Ohio's running game and Ohio's defense will keep their offense under control as a couple other MAC teams have done. I think Saturday is going to make a lot of doubters start to believe in what this team is capable of doing, and that run is about to get started on Saturday. Watch and see.
Take away the offsides and we win...and we're supposed to feel good about that? The guy missed a chip shot...that's more on them than on our ability to get a single freaking stop on the most important drive of the game.

Please. This team blows.
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I said last week I thought Ohio could beat Buffalo and Kent State, and OU more than proved it could beat UB and should have won that game. Take the offsides away on the final kick and OU wins it. Period. I came away very impressed with how close this team is to turning it around. This team is much, much better than what its record indicates. And it's about to show.

After seeing Kent State get simply obliterated last week, I feel even better about Ohio beating Kent State. The Golden Flashes have looked nothing like the predicted East champs they were picked to be. Yes, they had a tough non-conference schedule, but they barely got past a bad BG team - at home - and they looked awful last week. They have also been destroyed coming out of halftime the last two games, allowing 28 third quarter points to Buffalo and 27 third quarter points to WMU in back-to-back weeks. That's beyond terrible. Oh yeah, and there's the fact that they simply haven't been able to beat Ohio as they've lost 6....SIX....straight to the Bobcats. The bottom line is, Kent State simply can't find a way to beat Ohio. The proof has been in the pudding for years now.

Ohio "could" be 3-0 in the MAC. Kent State can't say that. What's more, if and when Ohio does beat Kent State, Ohio will pull even in the MAC East with the preseason East favorite and would own the head-to-head tie breaker. Think about that for a minute. Ohio still completely controls its own destiny, and has shown me a ton in its three MAC games this season. I believe they can beat anyone in the MAC, and they've already shown they can in the games they've played. Kent State's defense doesn't stand a chance against Ohio's running game and Ohio's defense will keep their offense under control as a couple other MAC teams have done. I think Saturday is going to make a lot of doubters start to believe in what this team is capable of doing, and that run is about to get started on Saturday. Watch and see.
I see our friendly green Kool-Aid drinker is at it again. I do hope you are right. I'll be there rooting for the 'Cats as usual. I watched some of the WMU-KSU game, and it looked competitve for awhile, and then WMU kind of turned it into a blow-out. WMU is probably the best team in the MAC right now. One ranking I saw a week or so ago had them like 35th nationally. They are the only team to beat Pitt so far this year. If by some quirk we still end up in Detroit this year, I'm afraid the result will be ugly. But, to the case at hand, I thnk we'll have trouble stopping Kent's short passing game. We may have about equal talent with them, but I give them a big edge in the coaching department. I hope I'm wrong, please pass OhioBobcat's Kool-Aid to me, I need to take a sip!
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Kent State probably can't find a way to beat Ohio, but Ohio will DEFINITELY find a way to beat Ohio.
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OhioBobcat wrote:expand_more
Ohio "could" be 3-0 in the MAC.
I could have been an astronaut.
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Have a bad feeling about this Kent State offense this week, thinking a very easy looking 30-40 points being put up. Ohio's defense always struggles with fast paced offenses and its going to be on show this weekend with Kent being one of the best at it. Particularly nervous about the lack of depth on the front 7, we're either going to have unprepared players subbing in the game, or lack of subs leading to exhausted play, either way it's going to lead to MORE missed tackles than usual. Hope I'm wrong on this and Kent continues to not be what was expected this year.
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GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
Ohio "could" be 3-0 in the MAC.
I could have been an astronaut.
When I was in junior high, they had us do something called the Iowa Test Battery, which told participants what careers they could pursue based on their manual dexterity. I was told I could be a surgeon -- or an undertaker. That's sort of the position Ohio is in.
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. . . either way it's going to lead to MORE missed tackles than usual.
Hmm . . . that might set an NCAA record. Today with computers they keep records of everything! ;-)
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. . . either way it's going to lead to MORE missed tackles than usual.
Hmm . . . that might set an NCAA record. Today with computers they keep records of everything! ;-)
Think we could already be close to an NCAA record at the pace of missed tackles this year!! At least how I feel when I watch it happening, would love to see a stat tracker of this compared to prior years and other teams.
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Is there any way we can just blame all of this on Sonny Sano? #SavesTime
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SBH wrote:expand_more
Is there any way we can just blame all of this on Sonny Sano? #SavesTime
That's a blast from the past!
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I criticized that man for a long time, but not once did he dress up like a cowboy.
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Interesting stat this week -- Kent has had 19 kickoffs in the three MAC games with only one touchback, and their average net yardage on kickoffs is 29.8, lowest in the MAC. That would put the opponents' average starting field position at their own 35. Their average kickoff is only 42 yds. In contrast, Ohio's average kickoff is 62 yds with an average net of 40.
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Pataskala wrote:expand_more
Interesting stat this week -- Kent has had 19 kickoffs in the three MAC games with only one touchback, and their average net yardage on kickoffs is 29.8, lowest in the MAC. That would put the opponents' average starting field position at their own 35. Their average kickoff is only 42 yds. In contrast, Ohio's average kickoff is 62 yds with an average net of 40.
So the takeaway is can’t read, can’t write, can’t kick?
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I criticized that man for a long time, but not once did he dress up like a cowboy.
I like to identify sentences out of context that would be great first lines to a novel.

This is one of those sentences.
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. wrote:expand_more
I criticized that man for a long time, but not once did he dress up like a cowboy.
I like to identify sentences out of context that would be great first lines to a novel.

This is one of those sentences.
Literary POTY!!!!
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I said last week I thought Ohio could beat Buffalo and Kent State, and OU more than proved it could beat UB and should have won that game. Take the offsides away on the final kick and OU wins it. Period. I came away very impressed with how close this team is to turning it around. This team is much, much better than what its record indicates. And it's about to show.

After seeing Kent State get simply obliterated last week, I feel even better about Ohio beating Kent State. The Golden Flashes have looked nothing like the predicted East champs they were picked to be. Yes, they had a tough non-conference schedule, but they barely got past a bad BG team - at home - and they looked awful last week. They have also been destroyed coming out of halftime the last two games, allowing 28 third quarter points to Buffalo and 27 third quarter points to WMU in back-to-back weeks. That's beyond terrible. Oh yeah, and there's the fact that they simply haven't been able to beat Ohio as they've lost 6....SIX....straight to the Bobcats. The bottom line is, Kent State simply can't find a way to beat Ohio. The proof has been in the pudding for years now.

Ohio "could" be 3-0 in the MAC. Kent State can't say that. What's more, if and when Ohio does beat Kent State, Ohio will pull even in the MAC East with the preseason East favorite and would own the head-to-head tie breaker. Think about that for a minute. Ohio still completely controls its own destiny, and has shown me a ton in its three MAC games this season. I believe they can beat anyone in the MAC, and they've already shown they can in the games they've played. Kent State's defense doesn't stand a chance against Ohio's running game and Ohio's defense will keep their offense under control as a couple other MAC teams have done. I think Saturday is going to make a lot of doubters start to believe in what this team is capable of doing, and that run is about to get started on Saturday. Watch and see.
This is simply embarrassing. No one in their right mind that has watched this team can think they're anything more than the 1-6 team they are.

Mark my words. After Kent wins, you'll see a noticeable drop in engagement from the players paving the way to 1-11. 1-3 in the MAC all but eliminates any hope of a miraculous turnaround.

Playing in empty stadiums on cold week nights ... with a 1-7 team ... "televised" on the internet. Yep. This is only going to get worse.

I'll be curious if Ohio ever recovers from the decision to hire Albin.
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Mark my words. After Kent wins, you'll see a noticeable drop in engagement from the players paving the way to 1-11. 1-3 in the MAC all but eliminates any hope of a miraculous turnaround.
Mark my words. After Kent wins, OhioBobcat will come on here and let us know how close the Bobcats are from being undefeated in MAC play and that we still have a shot at Detroit.
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Mark my words. After Kent wins, you'll see a noticeable drop in engagement from the players paving the way to 1-11. 1-3 in the MAC all but eliminates any hope of a miraculous turnaround.
Mark my words. After Kent wins, OhioBobcat will come on here and let us know how close the Bobcats are from being undefeated in MAC play and that we still have a shot at Detroit.
Ha!
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Mark my words. After Kent wins, you'll see a noticeable drop in engagement from the players paving the way to 1-11. 1-3 in the MAC all but eliminates any hope of a miraculous turnaround.
Mark my words. After Kent wins, OhioBobcat will come on here and let us know how close the Bobcats are from being undefeated in MAC play and that we still have a shot at Detroit.
I have every faith that our football team could get to Detroit: round trip tickets (Athens > Detroit > Athens) for MAC Championship weekend are $83 on Greyhound at the moment
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Mark my words. After Kent wins, you'll see a noticeable drop in engagement from the players paving the way to 1-11. 1-3 in the MAC all but eliminates any hope of a miraculous turnaround.
Mark my words. After Kent wins, OhioBobcat will come on here and let us know how close the Bobcats are from being undefeated in MAC play and that we still have a shot at Detroit.
I have every faith that our football team could get to Detroit: round trip tickets (Athens > Detroit > Athens) for MAC Championship weekend are $83 on Greyhound at the moment
Ypsilanti is less than 45 minutes away from Detroit.
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I said last week I thought Ohio could beat Buffalo and Kent State, and OU more than proved it could beat UB and should have won that game. Take the offsides away on the final kick and OU wins it. Period. I came away very impressed with how close this team is to turning it around. This team is much, much better than what its record indicates. And it's about to show.

After seeing Kent State get simply obliterated last week, I feel even better about Ohio beating Kent State. The Golden Flashes have looked nothing like the predicted East champs they were picked to be. Yes, they had a tough non-conference schedule, but they barely got past a bad BG team - at home - and they looked awful last week. They have also been destroyed coming out of halftime the last two games, allowing 28 third quarter points to Buffalo and 27 third quarter points to WMU in back-to-back weeks. That's beyond terrible. Oh yeah, and there's the fact that they simply haven't been able to beat Ohio as they've lost 6....SIX....straight to the Bobcats. The bottom line is, Kent State simply can't find a way to beat Ohio. The proof has been in the pudding for years now.

Ohio "could" be 3-0 in the MAC. Kent State can't say that. What's more, if and when Ohio does beat Kent State, Ohio will pull even in the MAC East with the preseason East favorite and would own the head-to-head tie breaker. Think about that for a minute. Ohio still completely controls its own destiny, and has shown me a ton in its three MAC games this season. I believe they can beat anyone in the MAC, and they've already shown they can in the games they've played. Kent State's defense doesn't stand a chance against Ohio's running game and Ohio's defense will keep their offense under control as a couple other MAC teams have done. I think Saturday is going to make a lot of doubters start to believe in what this team is capable of doing, and that run is about to get started on Saturday. Watch and see.
This is simply embarrassing. No one in their right mind that has watched this team can think they're anything more than the 1-6 team they are.

Mark my words. After Kent wins, you'll see a noticeable drop in engagement from the players paving the way to 1-11. 1-3 in the MAC all but eliminates any hope of a miraculous turnaround.

Playing in empty stadiums on cold week nights ... with a 1-7 team ... "televised" on the internet. Yep. This is only going to get worse.

I'll be curious if Ohio ever recovers from the decision to hire Albin.
You're going to be very surprised come late Saturday afternoon. Ohio has been in EVERY conference game for the last 6 years. It has won a lot of those games, a number of them in blowout fashion, and yet has never been beaten by more than 7 by any....ANY.....conference foe. Which means, Ohio has been in EVERY single MAC game over the past 6 years - including this season. I'm willing to bet there are less than 5 teams in the country (including Ohio) that can say the same. If Ohio was getting throttled by MAC teams like say, how Kent State did last week to WMU, then I could understand the skepticism. But they're not, they're in every single game with a chance to win.
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Mark my words. After Kent wins, you'll see a noticeable drop in engagement from the players paving the way to 1-11. 1-3 in the MAC all but eliminates any hope of a miraculous turnaround.
Mark my words. After Kent wins, OhioBobcat will come on here and let us know how close the Bobcats are from being undefeated in MAC play and that we still have a shot at Detroit.
I was wrong. OhioBobcat didn't even wait until after Saturday's game to come on here with his green koolaid ramblings about OUr Bobcats.
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