“Finally I just want Buckeye Nation to know I am sorry for all the controversy and unrest I caused in the past couple days”, he wrote.
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Some of the most iconic moments of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry surfaced from 1969 through 1978, better known as The 10 Year War. It won’t be an easy assignment. “It takes a lot of courage to show up Sunday ready to go beat a good team up north”, Meyer said.
In fact, Meyer said he agreed with Elliott. “It’s just said and done and we haven’t really talked about it at all”. Instead he unloaded on his coaches, saying they “didn’t put us in position to win…”
This will be the first game in which Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh will face off in what many would consider the most intriguing meeting between the two teams since 2006. I asked for those plays to be called, and they weren’t. The loss to the Spartans was the Buckeyes’ most befuddling yet, bad enough that star running back Ezekiel Elliott announced he’d be eligible for the National Football League draft and threw Meyer under the bus for questionable play-calling during the game.
That’s not to mention Elliott’s postgame evisceration of the play-calling.
The Ohio State Buckeyes imploded this weekend, and though it’s not impossible for them to make the College Football Playoff with a lucky series of results across the country, it seems highly unlikely. A Penn State victory would send either MI or Ohio State to the title game, which would be a bitter pill for the Spartans.
“But what is Alabama’s best win?” has become the “But Ohio State lost to Virginia Tech” of the 2015 season.
“I guess you could say it was the flawless storm”, Dantonio said after Spartans’ kicker Michael Geiger hit a 41-yard field goal and then inexplicably transformed himself into a human windmill.
Like they have done every game this season, the Ohio State video and graphic team did a superb job with the hype trailer for the final regular season game of the year. “We gotta get better”. “As a team that works hard and gets to work when something like this happens, we are capable of doing it”.
Elliott also said after the game that he’s turning pro after this season, which was expected anyway. McQuiad nailed three 3-pointers against Kansas, and Harris is coming off a 10 point, seven rebound, four assist game of his own against Eastern Michigan.
Penn State (7-4, 4-3) at Michigan State (10-1, 6-1, No. 5 CFP). The two teams have met once on a neutral court, at the Madison Square Garden in 2005 as part of the Jimmy V Classic, and Michigan State won 77-70.
Saturday’s total is set at 45 points. Last season, Barrett suffered a season-ending dislocated ankle in the second half after rushing for 86 yards and two touchdowns and passing for 176 yards and a touchdown against the Wolverines.
After making a coaching change and bringing in former Wolverines quarterback Jim Harbaugh to turn around the program, the players have responded by winning nine of their 11 games and all but one of their conference matchups.
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And it’ll be a special occasion when Northwestern and IL meet for the Land of Lincoln Trophy, if only because the game will be played at Soldier Field in Chicago.
