An obvious solution to the cognitive dissonance that is sure to afflict Warinner throughout the remainder of the football season would be for Ohio State to extend the teen a scholarship offer and watch him accept.
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Ohio State (2-0) climbed to No. 3 in this week’s Associated Press poll after a 48-3 victory over Tulsa on Saturday at a rain-soaked Ohio Stadium after destroying Bowling Green 77-10 in its opener.
Well Sooners fans, Oklahoma will have the chance to play in front of not one, but two such players this Saturday in Norman, and the game’s outcome could very well be the difference between a solid class with no five-stars or a top-3 class with two of them.
The Buckeyes are slight favorites on Oklahoma’s renovated field, making them the first visitors picked to win at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 16 years. This is the type of game between giants that players and college fans circle on the calendar.
The reason for numerous lingering concerns stems from the simple notion that Houston’s offensive style is very similar to that practiced by Ohio State. The Oklahoma Sooners have rebounded from their 1st loos of the season to Houston 33-23.
“It (Ohio State’s defense) has been good”.
Ohio State: 105 weeks as the No. 1 team in the AP poll, first in the nation.
The defense returned only three starters from last season, but playmakers are emerging all over the field for the Buckeyes, who have given up 13 points in two games and seven of those came on an interception return for a touchdown. “I talk about competition and having to do your job, but I feel comfortable with him going forward”, Bobo said in explaining the decision.
“I’d love to tell you it’s an easy fix”, Fitzgerald said. I remember taking over after recovering a mid-fourth quarter fumble around midfield and just feeling the wind behind us and telling the guys in the huddle that we were going to go score and get out of town with a tie. A vast majority of Oklahoma’s 2017 commits will be on hand for the Buckeyes game, and reportedly the group is very good at extolling the virtues of #SoonerSquad17. “That’s what we did today and hopefully we can do it again tomorrow”. “So I’ll tell (Pat Elflein), he’ll tell that to the guards and they’ll tell that to the tackles, so I think that’s something that’s going to help, and I’ll do my best to be loud”. It may have been against the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks but a win is a win.
The Buckeyes’ offense, meanwhile, got off to a slow start against Tulsa. The Ohio State defense has yet to allow a touchdown.
As the half was coming to a close, the rain started to really come down. But this year they face a good Oklahoma team right away, and this game will show what J.T. Barrett and the Buckeyes are truly made of early in the season. Now, faced with a passing “attack” that’s last nationally in completion percentage and pass efficiency as well as 126th out of 128 teams in yards per game, Bobo has decided the future is now.
But in college football, not everything goes as planned. They’re a historically great program just like we are. “I think they have a really basic defense”, Kendall said of the Buckeyes. “It’s guys doing what they’re supposed to do when they’re supposed to do it and coaches coaching them better”. Part of the intrigue Saturday night will be seeing how the Buckeyes’ D matches up against No. 14 Oklahoma’s dual-threat quarterback and a cast of other elite offensive weapons.
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The now No. 14 Sooners will host the now No. 3 Buckeyes, rather than the third ranked team hosting the sixth ranked team like it would’ve been. “Every game is a playoff game for us now”. “We’ve got to establish the running game”.
