Sept 23 | Ohio State

[Lberry]

Big game for Cam Hart. I've never been that impressed with him at corner, but if he wants to play his way into a day 3 pick, this is a statement game for him. Hoping he rises to the challenge.

 

[Reaper97]

It's going to be fun seeing our guys run out to a sea of red like Georgia and Nebraska.

Having said that, I think yiu guys are a bit overconfident. OSU has a significantly better roster. Crazy talent.

We can win but we are going to have to play near flawless.

OSU has had a massive talent gap over Michigan, much, much more so than over ND, & Michigan has beaten them down the past two seasons with playing far from flawless.

 

[irishff1014]

It’s Tuesday afternoon and I am already excited about this game. Let’s go! I have a feeling Freeman and staff are doing somethings much different this time around. I won’t be surprised if he doesn’t have a talk with the stadium staff.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Mr. Turtle, while I could easily tell you how wrong you are about your first point, you will see that for yourself on Saturday Night.

On the second point. This is simply not true if you are basing it off the 247 composite rankings. Notre Dame, again, per the 247 composite rankings, has higher ranked offensive line, runningbacks, tight ends. Ohio State has the higher ranked QB, but I will take Hartman over McCord everyday. OSU has the significant edge at receiver and it isn't close. OSU has the slight edge in overall talent all over defense.

They have a better roster. Calling it significantly better is objectively and subjectively incorrect unless you are only looking at receiver.

I have always followed Rivals. Here are the rankings from the past 4 years.

OSU ND
2023 - 4 11
2022 - 4 6
2021 - 2 9
2020 - 5 20

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Fan itinerary, special uniforms, dog and pony show.


I love it, but I hope someone in the locker room looks around and at least says

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[KPENN]

Big game for Cam Hart. I've never been that impressed with him at corner, but if he wants to play his way into a day 3 pick, this is a statement game for him. Hoping he rises to the challenge.

Good to know, Ding. Btw, he’s already “played himself into a day 3 pick”. Good post

 

[Lberry]

Good to know, Ding. Btw, he’s already “played himself into a day 3 pick”. Good post

Why not go 1st round with Kiser?

No need to get upset. I don't think Hart is currently a draft lock. He can be though and games like this and USC will be big for him.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Also, when it come to Ohio State, I'm in show me mode. They have been beating us handily since the 1990's.

 

[Reaper97]

Also, when it come to Ohio State, I'm in show me mode. They have been beating us handily since the 1990's.

They have played 5 times since the ‘30s.
I think you are being dramatic.

 

[dublinirish]

Detroit Sports radio is high on ND lol thinks OSU is still soft AF and ND will out physical them as Michigan has been doing last two years

 

[Reaper97]

Detroit Sports radio is high on ND lol thinks OSU is still soft AF and ND will out physical them as Michigan has been doing last two years

The difference, which benefits Michigan & sucks for ND, is that OSU doesn’t respect Michigan & tries to score 20 points on every play.
I remember last year OSU was leading early, controlling the game, with the ball, & kept trying to score on every snap. It’s like they were trying to score 100, instead of just winning the game doing what was working.

I remember Urban on the halftime show was sick, & pissed at the OSU game plan.
He felt the same way I did. OSU could have had a 10-13 point halftime lead, but the wanted it to be 50.
If they just played their game & went to half up 10, get up 17 early 2nd half, Michigan would have quit (like before). But instead, Michigan built confidence and OSU quit.

OSU doesn’t play ND that way. You saw it last year. They were really careful on D & ran a balanced, run first offense & slowly pulled away.
I wish they had the same gameplan against us they have vs Michigan the past two seasons.

 

[INLaw]

I was at both. There was so many Georgia fans it was sick. From a personality standpoint the Georgia fans were pretty cool, a number of them asked about gameday traditions and followed us around. Quite a few came to check out Trumpets Under the Dome. From a cleanliness standpoint they were the absolute messiest fanbase I've ever seen...the campus was littered with broken beer bottles and cans the likes of which I've never seen.

The only negative I had with a Georgia fan that day came during the actual game. A drunk blond coed behind me was constantly screaming profanities, she was kneeing me in the back, and she'd yell out "CHUBBY CHUBB CHUBB CHUUUUBBBBB!!" every offensive play, even when Sonny Michel was in. I think I documented it in the post game thread.

Did you know handle it properly? PIIHB style?

 

[NDpendent]

Good to know, Ding. Btw, he’s already “played himself into a day 3 pick”. Good post

Haha, at "Ding... " classic Ding

 

[Irish du Nord]

Also, when it come to Ohio State, I'm in show me mode. They have been beating us handily since the 1990's.

I miss when you just said inanities about the Dante Moore recruitment

 

[FWIrish4]

Good way to compensate for our complete inability to get our fans to wear green to the games.

Do you go to the games? Not being a dick, genuinely asking.

The specified Irish Wear Green games are very close to 95% green. Even last year against lowly Cal.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

The difference, which benefits Michigan & sucks for ND, is that OSU doesn’t respect Michigan & tries to score 20 points on every play.
I remember last year OSU was leading early, controlling the game, with the ball, & kept trying to score on every snap. It’s like they were trying to score 100, instead of just winning the game doing what was working.

I remember Urban on the halftime show was sick, & pissed at the OSU game plan.
He felt the same way I did. OSU could have had a 10-13 point halftime lead, but the wanted it to be 50.
If they just played their game & went to half up 10, get up 17 early 2nd half, Michigan would have quit (like before). But instead, Michigan built confidence and OSU quit.

OSU doesn’t play ND that way. You saw it last year. They were really careful on D & ran a balanced, run first offense & slowly pulled away.
I wish they had the same gameplan against us they have vs Michigan the past two seasons.

Good point. OSU had me thinking the previous year’s loss was an anomaly until it wasn‘t. Be interesting to see if Hartline follows your advice now that he’s the play caller.

I think it’s fair to see that OSU has the more talented roster overall from starters to depth. How do they compare roster-wise to scUM? The Skunkbears didn’t seem to be affected by recruiting rankings these past two matchups vs OSU.

EDIT: read your earlier post where you addressed the OSU & scUM talent gap.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

Do you go to the games? Not being a dick, genuinely asking.

The specified Irish Wear Green games are very close to 95% green. Even last year against lowly Cal.

That’s what‘s so funny…fans expect the stadium to be 100% their team’s colors. Look at every stadium w/ name teams and there will be a segment (small or large depending on the game) sitting together w/ opponents’ colors. Even CMU had a segment of fans in the visiting section.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

Is it simple enough to abide by the old adage “whoever wins the trenches, wins this game”?

ND has elite tackles (hopefully Fisher is back to that level now) but breaking in new guards.
According to some of the ND pods I’ve listened to, OSU’s D is better than last year but is still susceptible to the run game between the tackles. Very athletic and are use that athleticism sideline to sideline vs spread offenses or teams trying to beat them to the edge?

OSU is breaking in some new OL as well so can they establish the run and keep McCord upright?
ND’s front lacks a Foskey this season or I would really like their chances to get McCord off schedule. But…maybe ND has been keeping the schemes vanilla despite bringing the blitz more often than not? Can Bothello finally have a break out game? I thought he’d be good for at least six sacks this season but he’s currently on pace for three. I know sacks aren’t everything but if there’s one kid I expected to be vying for the leader in sacks this season, it’s Jordan. Gotta think JJB is hyped for this game & wants to show OSU what they’re missing.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

Yea, I was watching some video on youtube and these two “bucknutters” (which is how they refer to themselves. I kid you not.) were very comfortable. One of them was not particularly worried about Hartman.

Which to be fair, if I’m Ohio St. I probably should be arrogant. ND hasn’t won shit yet. It’s go time for us, not flex time.

Yeah my Buckeyes buddies have already chalked this game up as a win. They don’t deny it could be closer than they expect but they simply harken back to the two losses w/ Holtz, one w/ Weis, one w/ BK & one w/ MF. They’re the one fanbase that could fit in perfectly w/ SEC fan bases & in some cases out douche them.

 

[irishnd31]

Easily some of my worst experiences in cfb fandom have been with Ohio State fans. Easily. And many of them despise Notre Dame, so it’s perfect.

They can ALL eat a full bag of cock

 

[Irish#1]

Got dang what a hype video

I pulled it from an OSU site. Lol

 

[NDohio]

Yeah my Buckeyes buddies have already chalked this game up as a win. They don’t deny it could be closer than they expect but they simply harken back to the two losses w/ Holtz, one w/ Weis, one w/ BK & one w/ MF. They’re the one fanbase that could fit in perfectly w/ SEC fan bases & in some cases out douche them.

Interesting. All the Buckeye fans I work with are very worried about this game. Their confidence level is super low and think this might be ND’s year.

 

[NDohio]

That is interesting, but it might be PTSD from Michigan. I think some of them don’t trust Day.

Yep. Most of them are not convinced Day is a good big game coach.

 

[Ophiocordyceps]

That hype music was lame. Sorry Cruise.

 

[Irish#1]

Easily some of my worst experiences in cfb fandom have been with Ohio State fans. Easily. And many of them despise Notre Dame, so it’s perfect.

They do despise the Irish. I was perusing one of their sites and it was pretty much “F” overrated Notre Dame.

 

[tko]

OSU is our kryptonite. We need some breaks to bring this one home.

 

[irishnd31]

They do despise the Irish. I was perusing one of their sites and it was pretty much “F” overrated Notre Dame.

They are a witty yet classy bunch of ass holes. Absolute worst.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

Interesting. All the Buckeye fans I work with are very worried about this game. Their confidence level is super low and think this might be ND’s year.

I only have a few but they are either very cocky or passive aggressive when talking about ND. They’re more accustom to getting crap from SEC fans.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

OSU fans on Eleven Warriors are basically predicting a OSU win of 10 or more points.

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Nice. Anyone know who that was performing “Dangerzone”? Didn’t sound like Kenny Loggins.

 

[arrowryan]

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