Defeating the Buckeyes in Columbus will be no easy task. We just didn’t realize how important until now. Provides more motivation to us.
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“People not giving us the respect, we like being in the situation we’re in”.
“I don’t talk to our football team about redemption”, Dantonio said.
A crucial part of this game rests on the shoulder of Connor Cook the star quarterback for MI State. After that 24-17 loss to the Longhorns, Oklahoma has blasted its last five opponents, scoring over 55 points a game and putting up 618.0 yards of total offense.
Of course, cheering for the Buckeyes against the Spartans would be choosing the lesser of two evils.
J.T. Barrett seems to have settled the QB controversy over Cardale Jones after a 28-3 win over IL last week. MI State is coming off an embarrassing loss against Nebraska last week. Close games with Northern IL, IN (minus Sudfield) even Western MI who hung around IN that game until the fourth quarter.
With the passing attack producing a season-low 121 yards last week against Maryland, MSU’s rushing unit came through with 141 yards, seventh best out of 10 games but still good enough to secure a 24-7 win. He leads the FBS with 15 straight 100-yard rushing games.
“It’s big time, both stopping Elliott and Barrett”, linebacker Darien Harris said. “As far as who they are, in terms of what concepts they use, they do a great job in terms of keeping it fresh”. “I haven’t felt real good yet about this team, but we’ll come back and get after it and hopefully we’ll be a better team on Tuesday”. “I don’t think we have yet to put our best game in front of us, play our best game, where we’re hitting on all cylinders”. TCU still has a chance to win the conference, however, needing to win out and Oklahoma State to lose its final two games, which are both at home. Oklahoma can clinch its ninth Big 12 title and make a strong claim for a playoff berth, with a win Saturday and another victory at rival Oklahoma State next week.
The visiting team has covered the number in 6 of the past 7 games between the two teams. Every team with playoff or major bowl game hopes is entering the most important stretch of the season, for the Buckeyes; the playoffs begin now.
“All the goals are right in front of us”. They wanted to chase a national championship, but there was redemption to be had as well.
When it comes to slotting teams in playoff spots, schedule strength is a big factor. “It’s time for us to knock off a BCS-type of program”, Cross said. That’s all you can ask for. The object is to get to the championship game.
UT-Arlington: The Mavericks shot only 61 percent from the charity stripe in their first two games, but they made 19 of 22 (86 percent) against the Buckeyes.
“That’s the only things that we can control right now”. Sometimes you honor senior classes and you honor them because I guess you have to honor senior classes, and other times you honor senior classes because of the contributions to a great university and a great football program are kind of over the top, and this one is.
MI State got run over at OR and then trucked by Ohio State.
“Being from OH, I have a lot of friends that I went to high school with that attended the university”, said MSU senior quarterback Connor Cook. “My shoulder is good”, Cook said at a press conference.
“Obviously the MI game is always bigger”, Allen said. “I’m sure we’ll work on that leading up to our next game”.
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“With the guys that we have on our team from MI when we play the University of MI, so it’s just going to be that much more fun and just provide that much more motivation for me to go out there and leave it all on the line”.
