Analysis of Minnesota’s chances against Ohio State

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MNVCGUY said:
Didn't watch the video but pretty safe to assume that for us to get the W against Ohio State we will have to play perfect and get some breaks along the way.

Ohio State and Oregon (and to a lesser degree Penn State) are just playing on a different level.
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Play loose have fun and put the pressure on them.

Shock the world!
 


I think we have a chance. I'm not counting on a win, but if we let Drake air it out like the 2nd half, then I don't hate our chances. If Darius was playing, different story. Even Turner. Let's not count ourselves out before we even take the field. Our defense has me worried though. We came through when we needed to against Rutgers, but that first half, we made Athan look really really good. LET ER RIP!
GO GOPHERS!
 


Biggest wins in recent memory for me are at Penn St 1999, Ohio St 2000, Wisconsin 2018 and Iowa 2023. Believe!
 


MNVCGUY said:
Yep....upsets can and do happen.

The funny part will be that if we lose there will be fans in here melting down about it and saying it was the last straw :)
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You know "us" fans too well. 🤣

We are why this gif was created...
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tOSU coming off a West Coast trip and headed to ranked Illinois next week. Sets up nice for us to cover.
 


We have no one, and I mean no one that can cover their wide outs really no chance in this game. Hopefully PJ recognizes this and runs the ball 60 times to save Lindsay.
 



Could be a trap for OSU. OTOH, a less than mobile Drake will be seeing a fierce pass rush a confusing defense with multiple disguised looks. Ask Arch Manning how difficult that is. Ohio States defense is next level with Patricia as def. coach. He is a great defensive coach but sucks as a head coach. Ohio State is fortunate to have the money to pay him
 

My old ball coach in the late sixties, an ex Marine before he started to coach, always said "that's the reason you play the game", meaning that newpaper columnists, pundits, fans can write or talk about the game, but the outcome is determined on the field by the players. He also was a proponent of "never give up". We won the New Jersey State Championship in 1967 for our class because the team never gave up, and won it on a fourth down, three yard plunge with less than two minutes to go to win the game 13-7.
 

gopherbadgerman said:
He was playing well. But we were losing with him playing great. Would have had a better chance for sure.
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I covered this a couple of months ago, if Mo doesn't go down, we score on that drive and there isn't a 14 point swing in OSUs favor following a subsequent turnover. We had them reeling and were in position to take that game. Mo's injury sucked the wind out of the stadium.
 

Defense needs to tackle better or Drake could throw for 500 yards and it won’t matter.

If Ohio State’s runners are watching film of our last game they’re gonna be drooling…
 



mngg11 said:
I covered this a couple of months ago, if Mo doesn't go down, we score on that drive and there isn't a 14 point swing in OSUs favor following a subsequent turnover. We had them reeling and were in position to take that game. Mo's injury sucked the wind out of the stadium.
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-reads post-

-schedules another therapy session-
 


UpAndUnder43 said:
Gophers would have beat tOSU the game Mo tore his Achilles. Because they didn’t have an answer for Mo. the OL was wearing them down. Dominating TOP had Stroud, Olave and Wilson as spectators.

I believe this with every fiber of my being.

This team ain’t that team and this tOSU isn’t that tOSU.

PJ and Co need to take the second half game plan and run it back. Lindsey deserves a chance to win the game. Ohio St isn’t as good offensively. I think the gophers can score with them if they let Drake play how he can.
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I'll disagree with your first statement. The Gophers were down 10 when Mo went out and OSU took a total of 6 plays to score their last 3 TDs. They could do whatever they wanted through the air in the 2nd half.

I agree that this OSU offense is nowhere near as good as that one. I think our passing game gives us a chance in any game this season.
 

mngg11 said:
I covered this a couple of months ago, if Mo doesn't go down, we score on that drive and there isn't a 14 point swing in OSUs favor following a subsequent turnover. We had them reeling and were in position to take that game. Mo's injury sucked the wind out of the stadium.
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I totally agree it sucked the wind out of the place.
 

With our other MN sports teams being marginal it would be an amazing upset. Not likely but hoping we have a healthy DT n PJ allows DL to continue to showcase his talent.
 


FredCoxRocks said:
I was there. That game was painful. We got many invites to tailgate with the Ohio State fans...they were all pretty nice, but I really think they just felt sorry for us.
A side note... I can check Ohio Stadium off my list and will never go back. Sure, it's huge and it's cool to see that many people packed into one stadium, but otherwise it's a dump. Yeah, I said it.
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Sounds like my trip to Happy Valley for the white out. Cool to be there but otherwise it's pretty much a dump plus nothing around it as far as entertainment. Middle of nowhere.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
I'll disagree with your first statement. The Gophers were down 10 when Mo went out and OSU took a total of 6 plays to score their last 3 TDs. They could do whatever they wanted through the air in the 2nd half.

I agree that this OSU offense is nowhere near as good as that one. I think our passing game gives us a chance in any game this season.
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I know one thing for sure, glad we are catching them early in the season while their offense is clearly not hitting on all cylinders.

OSU the past few years is interesting.....great team.....tons of talent.....but they don't tend to put up eye popping scores on offense. They win a lot of games by a comfortable margin but the final score often isn't a blowout.
 

Certainly Ryan Day knows that his team could come in flat and will work to keep it from happening. But the Coach is not the Team so you never know.

Really think the Gophers need to gameplan aggressive like Cal did and open it up. As the Cal QB said, his coach said they were going to have to air it out against us from the get go.

Of course tOSU will eventually wake up but if we could just be up a TD early (by some miracle) then it might knock them off balance long enough to hold...at least through the first half.

Fully expect a 3 TD loss but you never know. Ski U Dreamin'...
 

SeaBee_Gopher said:
I've watched a lot of Ohio State football this year. It likely would take close to 40 points to beat them and multiple mistakes on their part.
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I don't think it would take 40 points to beat them because they've been pretty low scoring for such an elite team so far this year. The biggest problem has been scoring any appreciable amount of points against them. If you take out their game against an FCS team (a shutout against Grambling), they've given up a total of 22 points against 3 FBS teams, a 7.3 average. Two of those opponents were power conference teams and the third (Ohio) likely is the best MAC team. So, we would look pretty good in comparison if we scored two touchdowns but they surely would score more than that against us.
 


We need to do something PJ’s teams rarely do: start quickly. If the Gophs start out confused and listless, as against Rutgers and Cal, the game will be definitively over in the first ten minutes. OSU’s defense has been suffocating this year: allowing 5.5 points per game. There is no way to tip toe to victory against them. The Gophs will have to use every weapon and use them often. Variety and creativity. Try to catch OSU sleeping or disengaged early to make it a 60 minute game.
 
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One of the things that stood out in the OSu/Wash game was OSUs 3 tight end alignment. They used it a lot in the 2nd half. They appear to have 3 good TEs. This forces the defense to either single cover Jeremiah Smith or put a linebacker on one of the TEs. A really tough ask. The buckeyes have some RB named Bo Jackson who looked pretty good. No relation to the real Bo Jackson
 

MNVCGUY said:
Yep....upsets can and do happen.

The funny part will be that if we lose there will be fans in here melting down about it and saying it was the last straw :)
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Yeah, I’ll be avoiding the in game thread for sure.
 

Gophers chance in winning against tOSU - slim and none and slim is out of town.
 

All this analysis is worthless. The Gophers have beaten The Buckeyes many times when the so-called experts wrote them off.
 

There have been a lot of upsets this year in college football. The Gopher have a chance but I wouldn’t bet on it. How will Drake react with a 105,000 screaming Bucknuts drowning out his audibles. Arch Manning had trouble with that. OState uses a lot of defensive alignments with last second switches. Confusing for a young QB.
 

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