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

[Dr.Don]

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.

As has been proven in college football, previous games have NO prediction of future outcomes. Play the damned game and find out.

 

[GophersInIowa]

I always get a kick out of people who talk about how a guy has put up big numbers against bad teams. Would it have been better if he only averaged 100 yards a game against those opponents? Plus Michigan is good against the run, they just aren't a good team overall.

And, with any research at all, he could have found out Cobb wasn't 100% in the TCU game.

We're going to try and shorten the game by running the ball a lot. The less Ohio St. has the ball, the better. Cobb will get at least 20 carries unless he gets hurt or Ohio St. gets up big right away.

 

[stocker08]

 

[GopherVictory]

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

Hats off to Thee, West St Paul!

^ 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...

Welcome to my tortured world.

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..."

I hate that commercial so much.