Cleveland Plain Dealer: Gophers RB under 50 yards, Buckeyes over 50 points

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per the Plain Dealer's "Outrageous Predictions" column:

Doug Lesmerises says that Minnesota running back David Cobb will be held to fewer than 50 rushing yards

Cobb ranks ninth in the nation, averaging 133.9 rushing yards per game. Against Middle Tennessee, San Jose State, Michigan and Purdue, Cobb averaged 33 carries and 201 rushing yards per game. Those teams are a combined 16-22.

Against 8-1 TCU, Cobb carried the ball 15 times for 41 yards and didn't have a run longer than 14 yards.

The Horned Frogs are the comparison for the Buckeyes, not the rest of the Golden Gophers' schedule. Cobb has 1,205 rushing yards this season, which already topped his 1,202 total of a year ago. Though Michigan State's Jeremy Langford ran for 137 yards against the Buckeyes last week, Cobb won't do much because Minnesota doesn't have a passing game to threaten the Buckeyes and get them to back off stopping the run.

Ari Wasserman says Ohio State will score more than 50 points

After Ohio State moved the ball up and down the field with ease against Michigan State – the best team the Buckeyes will face during the regular season this year – it's hard to imagine that Minnesota's defense is going to slow it down.

This has been a very popular outrageous prediction for me, and aside from the Penn State, it has come true most of the time.

Barring a snowstorm, I think the Buckeyes drop 50 as they continue their quest up the College Football Playoff poll.

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/11/outrageous_predictions_for_ohi_6.html

Go Gophers!!
 

Outrageous Article said:
Barring a snowstorm, I think the Buckeyes drop 50 as they continue their quest up the College Football Playoff poll.
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So there's only about a 30-40% chance they'll score 50+?
 

I hope it snows like F#*#ing cat and dogs!! Make it a S$%tty as possbible for the game. Let's make this a classic big ten game. Run-Run-Run the ball!!
 

Bulletin board material. Love it.

GO GOPHERS!!!
 

I agree Dr. Don. Let Cobb read this every day and twice game day morning. Get him pissed.

I don't know where they are getting this from. MSU was running all over them until they got behind and abandoned the run. As long as we don't get behind like in the TCU game Cobb will get his yards. He could have 50 by the end of the first quarter if we get a turnover or a 3 and out by tOSU.
 


Now I hope conditions are decent, we hold the Pot Leaves under 21, and Cobb runs circles around everyone and we win handily just to humiliate these obnoxious windbags.
 

50+ on the road, in the cold, against a good Gopher defense? I'll take that bet.
 





Fun times in Cleveland! (that vid is one of my favorites, all-time on YouTube - and I watch it before every Detroit Tigers series at the Prog)

Agree with CRG - 50+ points on the road? I'll take that bet as well.
 

Read the comments after the article. If I were a Gopher football player and read that stuff, I know exactly how I'd feel about this game.
 


Hilarious! I don't know what's worse: the gal bustin' a move or the K-Mart clip (complete with grocery cart in snowbank).

Bottom Line: when it comes to crappy promotional videos, we win!!
 



^ Many, many moons ago, I lived in WSP, in WSP... This video makes it seem so much better than I recall, in WSP, in WSP... Damn U GopherVictory because of you I'll never get that awful song, out of my skull, in WSP...
 

If Ohio St holds Cobb to under 50 AND scores 50+ I will get an OSU tattoo.
 

tmvander said:
If Ohio St holds Cobb to under 50 AND scores 50+ I will get an OSU tattoo.
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Hmmm. I think the chances of us getting blown out are slim but IF we are getting blown out I may start cheering for this...
 

MNGoldenGophers1 said:
^ Many, many moons ago, I lived in WSP, in WSP... This video makes it seem so much better than I recall, in WSP, in WSP... Damn U GopherVictory because of you I'll never get that awful song, out of my skull, in WSP...
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Haha! I was thinking the same thing about that dang song! It's like listening to KFAN, I can't go a few minutes without hearing the song: "1-877-Kars for Kids...K-A-R-S Kars for Kids..."

Go Gophers!!
 


Bulletin Board Material...

Is for guys over 40 who never played, or sucked if they did.
 

bottlebass said:
Hmmm. I think the chances of us getting blown out are slim but IF we are getting blown out I may start cheering for this...
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Seriously. If we get blown out at least I'll have a sweet thread on Sunday with some great pics.
 


I can easily see Cobb getting held under 50, it's not like we haven't seen this offense have it's issues. Illinois did a pretty darn good job outside of one play. But the way we play, the plodding offense and all of that. I don't know how they get to 50 honestly. They could destroy us and I don't see them getting past 42 just by virtue of our slow playing ways. We'd have to turn it over quite a bit, but I feel like we won't see the 5 TOs like at TCU in this one.
 

gosh based on their views why even bother playing the game?
 


OK, so anything is possible, but Michigan has the 9th ranked rushing defense in the country right now giving up 103 yards per game. We put up 206 against them. We'll be able to run the ball, but how much yardage we get, and what difference that makes is TBD.

Only reason we were held to such low yardage at TCU was the disaster of the beginning of the game. We don't fall behind by 3 TDs, Cobb would have had more yards. We simply didn't run that much. If tOSU gets up big early, we may be in the same situation.

I too, suggest we play the game anyway and see what happens.
 

Anything is possible. The truth nobody is talking about is that nobody knows if we'll get good Moose or bad Moose. Bad Moose losses to Illinois and looked helpless against TCU. Good Mitch led an efficient, patient and explosive offense against Purdue and Iowa. If we get good Mitch then we'll hit on some throws to either keep OSU honest or make them pay for not being honest. Bad Mitch means they stack the box and wait for us to screw up since even when it's humming our running game doesn't have enough speed to be explosive. If we get bad Mitch the game won't be close and Cobb is getting shut down
 

MNGoldenGophers1 said:
The Hokies are the comparison for the Gophers, not the rest of the OSUs' schedule.
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Cobb will have 50 yards in the first quarter and the Buckeyes will score under 30. Bank it.
 

I expect Cobb will get over 50 easily. But at the same time, OSU's strength defensively is against the rush and the Gophers rely on the run game heavily, to the extent that teams can load up on defending the run at times when playing the Gophers (something you can't really do when playing MSU). OSU's strength is not their defense but you don't want to get too predictable against them.

OSU's offense has been very strong lately, there has only been one game over the last 8 weeks that they really struggled offensively, the PSU game. Personally I felt watching it that PSU played way above their average in that game but they don't have the #1 rush defense in the country by accident, they can put the clamps on a lot of teams when they put their mind to it. If the Gophers can play D about as well as PSU did, then the 50-point prediction will look foolish. But if you put the shoe on the other foot and look at how the Gophers gave up nearly 300 yards of rushing against Purdue, an objective reporter might believe that OSU will be able to run the ball on the Gophers fairly well because Purdue was able to & reason that if you can't stop the run it can be a long night defensively.
 


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