Ohio State at Texas
The ESPN College Gameday Game of the Week.
The most anticipated matchup of the early college football season pits the defending National Champion #2 Texas Longhorns at home in Austin against the #1 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. Neither team has ever lost a #1 vs. #2 matchup. The second part of this home-and-home series is sure to be a slugfest.
This game is almost impossible to call. Both teams have clearly lost big playmakers from a year ago. Most notably Mr. Vincent Young and Mr. AJ Hawk. However, the Buckeyes are returning two genuine Heisman candidates at QB (Troy Smith) and WR (Ted Ginn Jr.) as well as an arsenal of other offensive weapons.
*source: www.dispatch.com
The Longhorns are no slouches and definitively squared away their #2 ranking following the big win over North Texas in which they conceded only a single score. The new QB in Austin is a redshirt freshman name Colt McCoy who is deemed to have shaken off any jitters he may have had as a starter by putting up 178 yards with 3 TDs passing and adding a rushing TD. The weapons appear to still be there for Texas as well.
The biggest questions for both teams will be defense. OSU lost 9 starters from last year. The talk around Columbus has been that the defense is still stacked, but last week they gave up 171 yards rushing to Garrett Wolfe of Northern Illinois. To show my bias and that of the Columbus papers, this was the result of a fresh crop of young defensive players being moved in and out of the lineup to get them some snaps.
If Texas wants to win this game the defense is going to have to stop Ted Ginn Jr. The secondary suffered a blow this week when the shut-down CB Tarell Brown was suspended from the game after an arrest for possession of mary-jane and a handgun he was holding in his lap. Will they stop the fastest man in the NCAA?
I say throw out the spread in this game and pick the winner: O-H-I-O.
posted by Crummy @ 10:49 PM
9 comments
9 Comments:
I have more faith in the dream team than in the freshman. I think Ohio State might have the upper hand on this one.
Don't count out Texas, they still have alot of offensive weapons, they just don't get the hype. Texas's defense is to much for Ohio and playing at home, Go Horns
I think you forgot to mention the loss of one of Ohio St.'s most notable offensive weapons from last year: Mr. Santonio Holmes.
Quiet down, Joey C.; you finished second-to-butt-nekkid-last in Week One, and TEXAS will win this weekend.
Holmes was certainly important to last year's team and I did not forget to mention him. I merely stated that Young and Hawk were the MOST notable losses from last year. This year's team retains all the other offensive weapons.
Texas is definitely not counted out in this game, they are the defending National Champions and Coach Brown is God by another name in Austin.
granted im not the biggest mack brown fan in the world (remember him whining his way into the bcs 2 years ago), but at home no way does texas lose this game. ohio state would have to reinstate david belasario, the greatest drunk-driving-quarterback of all time, to have a chance
Hook 'em. The Horns win by 7.
Paris Hilton, forget Matt, Hello belasario
Paris got a DUI last night in LA.
I believe it is Steve Bellisari who is from south Florida.
So is Willie Williams, doesn't mean he can break the law better then an a Youngtown hero
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