| Kickoff: | 8:00PM ET |
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| Previews: | 11W, OHD, BC |
| Favorite: | OSU (-18) |
| Television: | Big Ten Network |
| Radio: | OSU Football Affiliates |
| Weather: | Overcast, but dry |
A Saturday night date with the Hoosiers. If all goes according to plan, the Buckeyes will continue to build momentum and iron out kinks on their way towards becoming a scary dangerous team.
I'll be looking for a couple of things. First is the obvious storyline of Saine getting the captain nod and earning his first career start after a couple of weeks of hard running and a slight tweak of Herron's ankle. This is the fifth game of the season and the team still doesn't have a running back that can claim a 100 yard outing. Blasphemy.
The offensive line, while appearing to gel at times the past two weeks should get a pretty good edge test from Middleton and Kirlew tonight. As in this is likely the best pair of defensive ends they've seen. Is this the game Mike Adams makes a name for himself -- in the film room at least?
If it's not Adams, it will be interesting to see if another youngster uses this game to announce his presence. As a redshirt freshman in 2003, Santonio Holmes showed up in Bloomington for game eight of the season with two catches for 37 yards. He went off to the tune of six catches for 153 yards and two touchdowns. The following season, a green Teddy Ginn did this to the IU.
Finally, I really want to see Anderson Russell step up and have a great game. I'm hoping he just needs to get his head right and he'll bounce back tonight filling in for Coleman. If this team wants to have a big season, they will likely need Russell's services down the road.
What are you guys looking for?
Comments
Let's go Bucks! Don't be part of the mantra today of these crazy close games. Let's hear the gameday crew run down the close games with so many teams and then say "Ohio State absolutely rolling over IU tonight."
The Big Ten Network game intro is the lamest thing I have ever seen. How does that get past the people that it has to get past?
Mike Adams gets another start at RT. Brew Crew is operational.
Flatts is kinda shitty, but they're our shitty Rascal Flatts.
Actually, I take it back. The Velveeta sponsorship is even more lame.
Saine with some long runs to start.
TP with the homage to Ty Moeller on the eye black today.
He has looked good.
All he does...
You know Pops loved that.
Great hands by lil Carter.
Loved how D dot Carter was soo concerned about handing the ball to the ref after the TD. Likely a combination of JT and dad in his ear.
That kid is the truth
Russell with the recovery!
If the fumble stands, great play for Russell's confidence.
Silver bullets!!!!!!
Anderson Russell with a nice recovered fumble. Let's kindly reign in the hate now fellas, shall we?
Sigh. Lousy BTN being unavailable here. Just saw the highlight on ESPN, though, it was a nice catch, and yes, I think most guys after dropping the ball like that would've just left it there. So polite!
Tp looks like he trying to stay in the pocket a little longer tonight.
damn big 10 network, i missed two plays
WTF? BTN come back from commercial and it's
third down? They need to concentrate on the production rather than trying to push the queso.
Andy Miller got a serious tan in Bloomington, didn't he?
Wow, gift first down there. Newsome banged up on the play -- hopefully just wind.
Worst broadcast ever so far.
Andy Miller. Jonathan Newsome. It's not that hard, BTN.
False start - everyone drink
how can espn or cbs or whoever else manage to get it right for like 119 teams or whatever, but the BTN can't even know 11 teams...
Let's not do this. We'll all be hammered by 9.
darn, i haven't seen that yet, now i'm pre-pissed, lol
Might as well be identical twins.
This must be a damn important drive for 2 TOs.
Darrell Hazell looks to be calling some plays again.
Back foot, arm punt.
lol sideline awareness
Sheessh!
Hazell was stylin' and profilin' with his jacket tucked into his khakis.
I made the girl go out and buy some Rotel and Velveeta, so I guess those annoying commercials work.
Aaron Pettrey, close your grip a bit to get the nice little draw down the fairway.
Next time, take the delay of game so Pettrey can kick from 40+ where he's comfortable.
Must have cheese....must root for Tennessee
I was about to say the same thing. 40+ Pettrey is a beast. Any closer and all bets are off.
well, since there's no way for me to watch the game here in japan i'm just gonna stare angrily at the espn gamecast and hope that the BTN broadcast is really really terrible
Does anyone know if TheFan broadcast syncs with today's broadcast? These guys sound like they were picked up on the side of the road and they're paying them with food.
Agreed, although you gotta love Mason using the "Silver Bullets" moniker.
i have a sudden urge to "come to Penn State!"
OK - I won't complain any further. Good morning.
http://www.thebuckeyebattlecry...
instructions on how to watch, that's how i'm watching it too
Anyone know who's D that is out there?
Well, this is surprising.
Come on Brian Rolle, get on your horse!
welp, looks like the shutout streak is over
I thought they outlawed stick um
barf
Review that fumble.
okay, kind of glad i didn't have to watch that
Ridiculous catch by Doss. Shutout streak over. C'est la vie.
BTW, can someone teach the BTN how to superimpose their bottom line? They resize the entire picture without preserving the proportions every time it pops up.
Upheld.
If we don't come back with 7 I'll be ticked.
Did he just say "Buckeyes lead by 7"?
Very disappointed so far. Seems like our defense didn't respect IU's offense with all this wussy tackling.
First play of the ensuing drive prediction: off-tackle
Can't get the game in Germany as well...Gamecast for me...
"Buckeyes lead shrinks by 7"
weird wording, but whatever
"Shrinks the... Buckeyes' lead by 7" or something along those lines
Small gets it done!
probably didn't, but indy is much improved over the last few years. they still mostly stink, but they aren't a glorified 1-AA team anymore
If this is HD, it must be raining pixels.
Who needs Flash Thomas? I kid (kind of).
These announcers can't even talk. Than the picture goes to atari mode
Wow, ripping off ESPN's commercial format. It just annoys me even more since the B10 Network only comes in "Standard Definition" on Comcast out here. It seems like I'm watching ESPN Classic, at times I'm hoping Spielman slams a RB to the not-yet-existing Fieldturf.
Sanzenbacher is SOLID this year.
Way to punch them back in the mouth
Bill Lynch: YOUR SOUL IS MINE
Ho hum, right down the field for a TD. I love it.
Gotta score first.
I was about to point that out earlier. The feed is doing that thing is does with the parquet floors during BTN HD hoops broadcasts. Evidently they bought their HD cameras out of the trunk of some dude's car.
yaaaaaaaaayyy! i bet that was fun to watch
lol
Or did they? This online stream is like 2 minutes late. :(
Wow. That's exactly what we needed. Great job all around.
Easy.
BuckNasty, is your signal grainy as hell? I get stuck with all of Paterno's wrinkle's in clarity, but the grass is from Madden's first game during gameplay.
I try to imagine it's being broadcast from an iPhone. Because if it were, then this looks really good.
jeez offense - you could have given the D more time to rest...
i kid i kid
Fear the Rolle when he's blitzing.
That was an excellent open field tackle by Russell.
Those Ind. back ups looked like they were doing a circle jerk
Me too.
He's having a pretty decent game so far.
long time listener, first time caller...
hope yall don't mind if i stick around tonite.
/dogsitting with nothing else to do
Yeah, same thing. Zombie's come in clear, Buckeyes... not so much.
Beers are in the cooler. Help yourself.
Long time listener... not so often caller myself. I'm stickin' around too!
terrelle pryor is a cool dude
how was saine not down?
No fumble, he was on his knees.
nm.
Gamecast with Elevenwarriors for the color...
That's some Harvin-esque change of direction.
Pryor's going to have 300 yds rushing tonight. 100 forward, 200 laterally.
Hold on to your gum coach!
+1
+1 for the comment and for lynch's epic gum toss last week.
qb draw qb draw qb sneak qb draw cover eyes with left hand throw wildly downfield
Back to playing for FG's
Ok, weaken the grip a bit so you don't draw too much.
If these missed FGs come back to bite up .... ouch, head....hurts.
Pettrey's on the fix
wtf is up with pettrey?
pettrey i am gonna punch you in the back of the head
Some get him an 8-iron he can hit straight.
wait, what?
+1
/im a golf addict...currently seeking help
Paging Devin Barclay/Ben Buchanan. We need a short kick specialist.
Pettrey's off, but I'd rather him get all his"suckiness" out in this game then when we need him!
Get the misses out of the system @ IU...
i don't think that's how it works, but i hope you're right
There's a support group for it, we meet at the range
No kickoff I guess
BTN is failing hard
I've only played once this year. My hands are shaking from withdrawal.
Really? That's definitely how it works... I think?
hello, my name is spencer and i have a bag full of putters that don't work...i mean, im an addict.
so what's the atmosphere at the game like? a night game at indiana sounds silly to me, like a dog wearing a dress, so i can't really imagine it
Pretty sedate, not exactly rowdy.
Yea... they were way late coming back from a commercial earlier. WTF? And I'm in VA so I'm paying for this?
uh...can we get some coverage in the flats please? PLEASE?
The the movie Idiocracy included a CFB game, Indiana's ridiculous arm-swinging cheer would've been in it for sure.
It appear's that they're using TiVo to telecast this game and it's replays.
INT!!!!
Todd Denlinger's soft hands to the rescue.
great INT. love the bigguns getting their hands on the ball.
How do you not see Todd f'in Denlinger in all white in front of you?
Playing a lot of Cover 3. Preventing the deep threat, but they're nickel and dime'ing the pants off this defense.
TURD DURLINGER!
How did Denlinger make that read? That was sweet!
1 game suspension! Do it!
Dirty
Beanie clearly taught TP a thing or two about the SOAJ
Maybe we should kick a FG from the 38 to get Pettrey's confidence back...
Seriously. LOL
Zone blitz
Stolen from Rob Oller's Twitter feed: Pettrey's misses have taken away half of Tressel's playbook.
Nice
is saine hurt?
You mean SAOJ? :-)
hshahaha fullback pass, hilarious
Hahaha, nice.
Shankapotomus
Er, yeah. Thanks.
Also, nice grab by Baby Boren
Boren!!!
If he is, these guys will never tell us
Fullback touchdown = everyone has to finish their drinks.
There is some delay in my comments from Germany...
this is MUCH better.
feeling good...feeling the flow. it's all in the hips.
Now I get it, only freshman are allowed to score 6 pts tonight.
The deep onside kick!!! Coach must have read my flashback post on Monday.
this makes me smile
Ridin' the bull, Boren?
Pick 6 before half
Posey scored earlier, didn't he?
so chappel's dree brees-esque birthmark is giving him actual passing prowess?
na.
I'd like to second that, Saine was killing it earlier
I hope btn remembers that there are two halves in a college football game.
we don't care for facts around here...
am i allowed to be snarky since im new?
these announcers are ridiculous - no attempt at impartiality
Glad to see the beating off hand motion is a play call for the Hoo Hoo Hoosiers. (That play is "throw the ball way behind your receiver", for those wondering)
Chappell definitely fears Thaddeus Maximus.
this will be preeeeettyy lame if we give up points before the half
Forgot he's a soph - they grow up so quick
hahaha, not just allowed, it's appreciated
Evil Tressel...come out
errr.... expected
no, this is not a good time for evil Tressel
Supposed to be a right leg injury for Dexter, btw.
lets just hope it's a quad strain or something...hope he's not gone for long.
stat-wise, good first half for the offense. 96 passing yards isn't all that great, but 183 rushing yards is awesome and it looks like the coaching staff finally figured out how to use our collective rushing ability
i feel shaky about our defense just because they gave up their first points in 10 quarters.
i suppose it could be worse..
Shutout=over... time to hang a hundred on 'em! It's the only way to not drop in the rankings!
No?
Those big boys all have jacked up legs. It's hard not to think they all played with injured knees every week to some degree. DonJoy must make a killing from BigTen linemen alone with those knee braces.
I would say you're overreacting, but given the way we've been treated in the polls lately...
just hope saine isn't hurt
I'm worried too. He was nowhere to be seen after the first quarter.
also if larimore is down that's a big loss. we can cover for him, but he's probably our second best DT
I like Larimore at NT though, he's held strong in a tough assignment. I dig Dexter, hate to see him go down.
Well, we've been talking about the DL depth all season. Time for it to show up. But I agree; big loss. I think Denlinger will mostly make up for it.
Hazell needs to call plays full time. I can see a pattern in the OSU offense. If were using the same play on the same drive over and over again such as the zone read and read option then we gotta mix it up a bit. Different formations, downfield stuff, over the middle, throw the RB. etc.
yeah, denlinger and simon are both more than capable, but you hate to see a starter go down even with the kind of depth that we have on the d-line
Sorry for the silly question but why's the status of young Jamaal berry ? Redshirt?
red eyes i think.
/tip your waitresses
//try the veal
He's apparently a little nicked up and the staff is (understandably) hesitant to give him PT/potentially burn his redshirt
probably, he's semi-injured and we haven't really needed him as of yet because of depth. but if saine is hurt, we've got a gimpy herron and marcus williams and that's about it for RBs. Tressel really doesn't seem to want to burn berry's redshirt, but if you gotta, you gotta
hiyooooo
Thanks. Lmao red eyes. Spencer
I'm being sarcastic, but you get my point!
Small thread-jack, but Bup3, how's Japan?
Which seems odd these days; if he's that great he'll be gone in 3 years of elligibility anyways so the whole redshirt thing of past seems barely needed in retrospect anymore. It's not like we have recruiting issues, we get backs every year.
I'm not going to be mad about seeing one of those kids get another year with our strength & conditioning staff, as well as top notch nutrition.
The throw to the fullback about made me cream my pants.
pretty good, i'm in kyushu so it's still way too hot but it seems like summer is about to release its death grip sometime soon. also there's a chick from dublin over here so i improbably have someone to watch OSU games with. except this week, i hate you BTN
Hazell in '09!
lets go d...get a 3 and out.
Why are we leaving guys so wide open on the outs?
Good to hear. I think you can stream games internationally, but I don't believe it's free.
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