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Great write up ELA.  Lots of good stuff here.  One of Blough's biggest weaknesses is taking unneeded sacks (though I prefer that to forced picks like plagued him early in his career.)  I am hoping like hell for an upset but figure we'll see an entertaining shootout (unless wind gusts screw that up) with OSU's talent prevailing by 10 at the end.

Pathetic!

I think Buckeye coaches watched too much Texas Tech film

Can a team really give another team "their best shot" while giving other opponents less than that?

I just watched an OSU make mistake after mistake, penalties, alignment issues, not being able to run the ball, giving up on trying to run the ball ...  a Perfect Storm.

We see this happen every year to top teams, which is why going 13-0 is so rare.  Somehow, a team can "have a bad game" and get upset once a year, even a much better more talented team.

I view it more as a statistical event than something relating to motivation.  You don't quite make that first down, you have a crucial penalty, some WR drops a ball, then the team starts pressing, which is mental, and things spiral out of control.

And Purdue has a pretty good well coached team.  I hope they can keep their coach.  They were a team I "had my eye on" this year.  As noted, they lost 3 games that could have been wins.

teams always get upset, but my god that was worse than an upset. That was a beat down.

I was at an Eagles Concert in Cleveland and missed the game.

Quick question: How does a team throw for ~500 yards and only score 20 points?

Completely ineffective in the red zone. Think they were there four or five times and 6 points out of it

Completely ineffective in the red zone. Think they were there four or five times and 6 points out of it

I heard it was 4 trips to the red zone. An interesting thing about that is, even if each had been a TD+XP, it still wouldn't have been enough to win. That's nuttier than the blowout to me.