#3 Ohio State (1-0, 1-0) at Indiana (0-1, 0-1) Postgame

[medinabuckeye1]

The game kicks off at 3:30 eastern from Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana and will be aired by CBS.

The line is tOSU -30 with an O/U of 59 so Vegas expects roughly a 45-14 Ohio State win.

The Buckeyes lead the series 79-12-5 and it is actually worse than that. The Hoosiers won back-to-back games against Ohio State in 1987 and 1988. Those were Earle Bruce's last and John Cooper's first years respectively. Two years later they tied Cooper's Buckeyes in 1990. Since then Indiana is 0-28 against Ohio State with the average score being 38-16. The Buckeyes won 56-14 last November.

Questions for Ohio State:

• Will the offense rebuild or reload?
• Will the defense resemble a championship caliber unit?

Questions for Indiana:
Can they be competitive with the upper-eschelon B1G teams? In the pandemic year the Hoosiers beat PSU and M and pushed Ohio State but since then those three have absolutely bullied them, 2021:

• Lost by 47 to tOSU, 54-7
• Lost by 24 to PSU, 24-0
• Lost by 22 to M, 29-7

2022:

• Lost by 42 to tOSU, 56-14
• Lost by 31 to PSU, 45-14
• Lost by 21 to M, 31-10

[medinabuckeye1]

More series history:

Indiana went 5-0-1 in the first six with all but the last of those being before Ohio State joined what became the B1G. Even after that the Hoosiers won or at least tied the Buckeyes every few years up through Woody's first campaign. 

Through 1951 Ohio State had "merely" doubled up Indiana, 20-10-3. Since then this has been a ridiculously lopsided affair with Ohio State holding a 59-2-2 advantage from 1952 through 2022. Indiana's few wins have come during times of turmoil in Columbus:

• 1988, Cooper's first year
• 1987, Earle's last year
• 1951, Woody's first year
• 1947, Wes Fesler's first year
• 1943, Paul Brown's last year (also WWII and Ohio State had no scholarship players due to the war)

Those are Indiana's last five wins over Ohio State and all five were in the Ohio State coach's first or last year.

[Temp430]

Curious to see who the Buckeyes wheel out at QB.  If he's not great but just serviceable, Ohio State goes into the locker room at half time up 30+. 

[Mdot21]

Ryan Day names Kyle McCord the starter. Says Devin Brown will also play in the 1st half as well however. Looks like he might be going with Lloyd Carr's two QB Brady-Henson method in '99. 

[MrNubbz]

Damn Michigan slappies bad enough you been beating us now you're scooping us on buckeye news - usually Sam does that to me

Edit: well Mdot at least Day has more insight than Cooper with his Stanley Jackson/Joe Germaine debacle so see how it worx under game conditions

[medinabuckeye1]

Ryan Day names Kyle McCord the starter. Says Devin Brown will also play in the 1st half as well however. Looks like he might be going with Lloyd Carr's two QB Brady-Henson method in '99.

I'm interested to see how they each look in a live game situation tomorrow. 

[847badgerfan]

42-10 Buckeyes.

[Mdot21]

I'm interested to see how they each look in a live game situation tomorrow.

me too. but I don't think either is going to face much resistance. 

Ohio State will probably win like 59-10 or something like that.

[Mdot21]

42-10 Buckeyes.

they gonna score more than 42 imo

[Abba]

This is a very bad Indiana team, but I still expect the Buckeyes to be a little choppy on offense as the QBs figure things out.  I think this will be the best Buckeye D since 2019 (yeah, not saying much) and I think they'll completely shut down IU.  Buckeyes win 38-10.

[Honestbuckeye]

Tom Allen’s calling card is he will throw numerous defensive fronts at OSU that they haven't seen on film.  6 man fronts, 5 man fronts, Bear, 3 man fronts, the kitchen sink. 

Of course OSU wants to establish their run game to make things comfortable for an inexperienced QB.  Indiana will do everything they can to shut down the run- and they will run exotic blitzes on passing downs.  

Just like the last 2 times OSU opened with a conference road game ( they were down at halftime but pulled away late, and comfortably), I think it will be bumpy for a little. 

On Offense- Indiana will do everything they can to get the ball out quick.  A lot of dinking and dunking.  They do not want to put their QB under pass rush. 

No score predictions here.  Should be fun.  

[847badgerfan]

Everyone healthy for this one?

[MaximumSam]

Everyone healthy for this one?

Haven't heard anything. A couple depth guys have been hurt, but not aware of any starters who are unavailable.

[Honestbuckeye]

All good today.