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Andrew Ruck
9/8/2025 12:57 PM
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As for beating the Buckeyes on Saturday, from the outside looking in it looks like an insurmountable task. However, go back to March 19, 2021 when the 2nd seeded Buckeyes took on the 15th seeded Golden Eagles of Oral Roberts University in the "Big Dance". Prior to that game basically the entire world outside of the good folks/alums from ORU thought this was going to be a cakewalk for the Buckeyes. Then the Buckeyes got embarrassed on National TV and ORU went on to take out Florida and lose in the last seconds by a bucket to Arkansas. Anything is possible though not really probable. Go Bobcats!
Basketball is a totally different story. Just get hot shooting and you can beat anyone. Football is so much harder, not only requiring a much deeper large roster, but the gameplay itself. Sure we can get 1st downs, but we need several of them in a row just to score. Not the same as dribbling down the court and hoisting it up.
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Mike Johnson
9/8/2025 12:58 PM
I don't expect an Ohio win. That said, I vividly recall the OSU game when entering the 4th qtr, Ohio led by 1 point. On OSU's first possession in the 4th qtr, Ohio forced a 3 and punt. I was watching with my late brother Gene whose son was an OSU wide receiver. Gene was visibly nervous and admitted his unease. Our punt returner muffed the punt, and an OSU player corralled it just before it went out of bounds deep in Ohio territory.

Were it not for that muff, I thought then and still do that an extra rush of adrenalin just might have enabled Ohio to hang on for an upset for the ages.
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bobcatsquared
9/8/2025 1:19 PM
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OSU could decide not to open up the playbook and keep it closer since Ohio is a backyard school.
I don't see Ryan Day holding anything back in this day and age of college football. Even if the opponent is a backyard school. Not with osu showing their class against Grambling by scoring a TD, already up 63-0, with 31 seconds left. When I read about this I thought WWGD (What Would Grobe Do?), WWSD (Solich), WWAD (Albin) in a similar situation. I feel confident they would take a knee and let the clock mercifully run out. Time will tell WWSD (Smith), but I would like to think his play calling would not include something classless like what Day did Saturday.
Last Edited: 9/8/2025 1:20:43 PM by bobcatsquared
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M.D.W.S.T
9/8/2025 1:29 PM
TWT wrote:expand_more
OSU could decide not to open up the playbook and keep it closer since Ohio is a backyard school.
Because Ohio is a backyard school, he could decide to win by 90.

I mean we're not exactly competing for recruits, but I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt he is going to "go easy" on a team recruiting in the same region. If anything it's an extra motivator to show depth players you dont want to go there.
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GoCats105
9/8/2025 2:18 PM
They have a bye week after this game before heading out to Seattle to take on UW. I highly doubt they'll be overlooking this game, especially since Ohio just beat WVU. Day now has something to point to and say "look what happens when you screw around with these guys."

That being said if any team from the state of Ohio is going to take down the Buckeyes, it may as well be us. What a story that would make.
Last Edited: 9/8/2025 2:19:17 PM by GoCats105
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cc-cat
9/8/2025 2:56 PM
kicker injury update?
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OhioCatFan
9/8/2025 2:58 PM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
OSU could decide not to open up the playbook and keep it closer since Ohio is a backyard school.
I don't see Ryan Day holding anything back in this day and age of college football. Even if the opponent is a backyard school. Not with osu showing their class against Grambling by scoring a TD, already up 63-0, with 31 seconds left. When I read about this I thought WWGD (What Would Grobe Do?), WWSD (Solich), WWAD (Albin) in a similar situation. I feel confident they would take a knee and let the clock mercifully run out. Time will tell WWSD (Smith), but I would like to think his play calling would not include something classless like what Day did Saturday.
The other coaches you mentioned are gentlemen. Day is not! He'd run up the score on his own mother. If Solich's Nebraska had been playing Grambling on Saturday the final score would have been something like 45-14, with the third team playing almost all of the second half. If Ohio does well, it's because of its own prowess not because Day decided to go easy on us.
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Brian Smith (No, not that one)
9/8/2025 3:21 PM
My biggest fear is Navarro trying to flank that speedy defense after fleeing the pocket and getting hit really hard over and over. I just don’t think he can or should try to do it. That limits him, but I don’t think it’s worth the hits he’d take.

The ball needs to be out of his hands quickly and incompletions are okay. I’m afraid he won’t be able to turn that competitiveness off. I have nightmares of watching Baker Mayfield in a Browns uniform make that mistake against fast defenses over and over, with the injuries to show for it.
Last Edited: 9/8/2025 3:24:32 PM by Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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spongeBOB CATpants
9/8/2025 3:24 PM
Day was born on 3rd base, however, his attitude clearly took a shift when old Lou Holtz hurt his feelings a couple years ago by calling them soft (plus a couple losses to Michigan). Living in Columbus, I still hear Day make comments about being tough and leaving no doubt. He will certainly look to run it up if possible.

Their program has some weird fixation on "us against the world" mentality as if they don't have the most resources available to them in all of football.

At the very least, I hope OUr guys come to play and don't allow them to run it up.

I also hope we force those that claim to be fans of both teams to pick a side. I'm sick of hearing this "house divided" BS. I can give a little slack to those with degrees at each but if you got your undergrad at OU, shame on you. I said what I said.
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Andrew Ruck
9/8/2025 3:29 PM
spongeBOB CATpants wrote:expand_more
I also hope we force those that claim to be fans of both teams to pick a side. I'm sick of hearing this "house divided" BS. I can give a little slack to those with degrees at each but if you got your undergrad at OU, shame on you. I said what I said.
There are a ton of those out there...but they aren't here on this board. Countless Ohio Alumni are up the ass of Ohio State.
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spongeBOB CATpants
9/8/2025 3:49 PM
Andrew Ruck wrote:expand_more
I also hope we force those that claim to be fans of both teams to pick a side. I'm sick of hearing this "house divided" BS. I can give a little slack to those with degrees at each but if you got your undergrad at OU, shame on you. I said what I said.
There are a ton of those out there...but they aren't here on this board. Countless Ohio Alumni are up the ass of Ohio State.
I only saw one buckeye jersey on Saturday in Athens which was a pleasant surprise. Dude must have felt some kind of stupid being the only one in a sea of green and blue/gold.
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TWT
9/8/2025 4:33 PM
M.D.W.S.T wrote:expand_more
OSU could decide not to open up the playbook and keep it closer since Ohio is a backyard school.
Because Ohio is a backyard school, he could decide to win by 90.

I mean we're not exactly competing for recruits, but I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt he is going to "go easy" on a team recruiting in the same region. If anything it's an extra motivator to show depth players you dont want to go there.
That would be wishful thinking but strategy wise there is less risk in putting the ball on the ground and trying to punish Ohio's Dline then going for big plays at least early. Last year against G6 competition the first half of the game didn't have OSU really running it up. Against WMU they did but not against Akron and Marshall.

Akron 3-17
WMU 0-35
Marshall 14-28

The possible idea I have is OSU mainly runs the ball to grind down the defense until a 21 point lead (say first half) then opens up the playbook once the game is safely in control and can risk a pick 6 for the opportunity to bury Ohio by 50 points. This is not like playing Texas where they'll have to fight for yards all day and need a misdirection shuttle pass to move the ball.
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Victory
9/8/2025 5:58 PM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
OSU could decide not to open up the playbook and keep it closer since Ohio is a backyard school.
I don't see Ryan Day holding anything back in this day and age of college football. Even if the opponent is a backyard school. Not with osu showing their class against Grambling by scoring a TD, already up 63-0, with 31 seconds left. When I read about this I thought WWGD (What Would Grobe Do?), WWSD (Solich), WWAD (Albin) in a similar situation. I feel confident they would take a knee and let the clock mercifully run out. Time will tell WWSD (Smith), but I would like to think his play calling would not include something classless like what Day did Saturday.
The other coaches you mentioned are gentlemen. Day is not! He'd run up the score on his own mother. If Solich's Nebraska had been playing Grambling on Saturday the final score would have been something like 45-14, with the third team playing almost all of the second half. If Ohio does well, it's because of its own prowess not because Day decided to go easy on us.
Solich was so this way in the extreme that there was a game in 2018 that I got upset with him. We played at WMU in 2018 and they were an above average MAC team and we were only about a 3 point favorite up there. We played well and they made mistakes and somehow we scored to go up 45-0 with about 1:00 left in the first half. Then WMU fumbled at the start of their next possession. Solich didn't just choose not to use his timeouts to go for a TD, he ran they ball and let the clock expire without kicking a FG. I was sitting there thinking, if the teams are remotely even on paper running up the score in the first half could never be a thing. We just proved that when two even teams play that a 48-0 half is within the realm of possibility. They could do it to us and if the chance arose they wouldn't have hesitated out of sportsmanship.
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bobcatsquared
9/8/2025 7:02 PM
Andrew Ruck wrote:expand_more
I also hope we force those that claim to be fans of both teams to pick a side. I'm sick of hearing this "house divided" BS. I can give a little slack to those with degrees at each but if you got your undergrad at OU, shame on you. I said what I said.
There are a ton of those out there...but they aren't here on this board. Countless Ohio Alumni are up the ass of Ohio State.
I have a BSJ from The Ohio University and an MEd from osu. I root for 3 teams every autumn Saturday - Ohio, ND, osu's opponent.

In the late 1970s, I would play high school football games Friday nights, go to Grandview Heights High School Saturday morning to watch game films, then walk with some buddies to the horseshoe for a 1 p.m. kickoff. We had no tickets but always found a way into the stadium. However, I have never been, nearly 50 years ago to this day, a buckeye fan.
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Victory
9/8/2025 8:43 PM
Back down to 31.5 points on ESPNBet. It brings to mind an interesting question. Which closing line will be bigger? This week's game or next week's game?
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Mike Coleman
9/8/2025 11:00 PM
Not sure about K, but I did watch the replay today and see that Fries and Dukes were full participants in the postgame celebration, so hopefully that means they are good to go Saturday.
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KyleWvr13
9/9/2025 12:00 AM
I will be thrilled if we scored 14 before the 4th Q. Over the moon if we get 21.
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OhioCatFan
9/9/2025 12:16 AM
bobcatsquared wrote:expand_more
I have a BSJ from The Ohio University and an MEd from osu. I root for 3 teams every autumn Saturday - Ohio, ND, osu's opponent.
We have more in common than either of us would like to admit: BSJ, Ohio; MA, OSU; Ph.D, Ohio. I was told by one poster on this board that I was practically an immoral person for not rooting for OSU since I had a degree from The Big Farm, as the grad students in the now-defunct OSU J-school used to call it back in the late 1960s. I have a good friend, an usher in my wedding, who was a very good friend of the late Steve Hayes, Woody's son. Out of respect for my friend and Steve, who I got along with very well, I've been a little more muted in expressing my feelings on this issue in recent years. But at a very visceral level I still feel much the same.

In your list, I'd substitute, Marshall for UND, but I usually do root for the Irish.
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M.D.W.S.T
9/9/2025 9:06 AM
Andrew Ruck wrote:expand_more
I also hope we force those that claim to be fans of both teams to pick a side. I'm sick of hearing this "house divided" BS. I can give a little slack to those with degrees at each but if you got your undergrad at OU, shame on you. I said what I said.
There are a ton of those out there...but they aren't here on this board. Countless Ohio Alumni are up the ass of Ohio State. [/QUOTE]Double Alum. You won't catch me in scarlet and grey.

[QUOTE=KyleWvr13] I will be thrilled if we scored 14 before the 4th Q. Over the moon if we get 21.
2-3 reasons to get rowdy? Sign me up.
Last Edited: 9/9/2025 9:07:38 AM by M.D.W.S.T
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OhioCatFan
9/9/2025 10:45 AM
The Elephant in the Room: What's Rufus have up his sleeve for this one?
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colobobcat66
9/9/2025 11:06 AM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
The Elephant in the Room: What's Rufus have up his sleeve for this one?
I hope it’s not another cheap shot. As an alum, I’m not proud of that at all.
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BillyTheCat
9/9/2025 11:08 AM
colobobcat66 wrote:expand_more
The Elephant in the Room: What's Rufus have up his sleeve for this one?
I hope it’s not another cheap shot. As an alum, I’m not proud of that at all.
+1 and I’m sure if Rufus was attacked the same folks wouldn’t find it funny.
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BillyTheCat
9/9/2025 11:08 AM
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/ohio-football-head-coach...
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STVCastle
9/9/2025 11:30 AM
I think Dan Aulbach has way too much time on his hands if he has to create bulletin board material like this.
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Deciduous Forest Cat
9/9/2025 11:34 AM
colobobcat66 wrote:expand_more
The Elephant in the Room: What's Rufus have up his sleeve for this one?
I hope it’s not another cheap shot. As an alum, I’m not proud of that at all.
This is a fair assessment, but on the other and equal side is how awesome it is when sacred cows are tipped. I agree with both sides. Mascot fights have been a thing since time immemorial. Yuckeye pearl clutching afterward was hilarious. But it was a stain on our athletic department that a non student showed up in the Rufus costume to pull that stunt.
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