{"id":268,"date":"2007-01-04T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2007-06-07T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T15:10:28","slug":"ohio-stateflorida-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/ohio-stateflorida-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State\/Florida Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nUnlike the prior OSU\/Michigan game preview (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=213\">a series of 7 entries<\/a>,) this is going to be short and sweet because I don&#8217;t have many spare cycles to burn at the moment.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFlorida can win if they:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pressure Troy Smith consistently with 4 linemen\n<li>Stop the running game\n<li>Jam receivers at the line of scrimmage\n<li>Don&#8217;t turn the ball over\n<li>No special teams gaffs\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conversely, Ohio State can win if they:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run well between the tackles\n<li>Protect Troy Smith from pressure\n<li>Play assignment defense to twart the &#8220;gadget plays&#8221;\n<li>Pressure Chris Leak\n<li>Get all skill players involved on offense\n<\/ul>\n<p>What will happen? I don&#8217;t know. But I do know that Tennesee, a team that Florida beat on the road by one point, was hammered by a so-so Penn State team in their bowl game and that Arkansas, a team Florida beat by 10 in the SEC Championship game got whacked by a good Wisconsin team. Much noise has been made in the press about SEC &#8220;speed&#8221; and that it will cause a mismatch for OSU. Don&#8217;t buy that, the two games above demonstrate the Big 10 can hang with the SEC.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn paper, I&#8217;d say this is a mismatch in OSU&#8217;s favor, but games aren&#8217;t played on paper. I worry about the Buckeyes being favored, consistently reminded of how &#8220;good&#8221; they are, and that they should win. We&#8217;d better hope the fire is there. On the flip side, Florida has the motivation of the underdog and no one is giving them much chance. Florida is a very good football team, they&#8217;ve got a good chance to win the game. That being said, I just can&#8217;t see it happening without bizarro turnovers (like the two errant snaps in the OSU\/Michigan game) with the combination of offense, defense, and special teams the Buckeyes have fielded this season. Then again, I thought Michigan would take USC to the cleaners in the Rose Bowl and it didn&#8217;t quite work out that way&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPrediction: Ohio State wins a tough game, 27-16, somewhat closer than the score indicates. I can easily see this game in doubt in the 4th quarter. In the end, I trust that the coaching staff will have the team prepared and that the team will execute their game plan and adjust as required. It&#8217;s going to be a great game no matter what, there is no way to be disappointed when your team has a chance to win the national championship!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nIf you liked this entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=268&#038;phase=2\">Digg It!<\/a><br \/>\n4 days until OSU plays for the national championship<br \/>\nOhio State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 record: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/oob;_ylt=ApiRDtt7p8MTZpktFXDiDqUcvrYF\">12-0<\/a> Next up: Florida 1\/8\/2007<br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=4512735&#038;s=143441&#038;i=4512704\">Bangin&#8217;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/haystak\">Haystak<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ohio+state\" rel=\"tag\">Ohio State<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/florida\" rel=\"tag\">Florida<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/national+championship\" rel=\"tag\">National Championship<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\">Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the prior OSU\/Michigan game preview (a series of 7 entries,) this is going to be short and sweet because I don&#8217;t have many spare cycles to burn at the moment. Florida can win if they: Pressure Troy Smith consistently with 4 linemen Stop the running game Jam receivers at the line of scrimmage Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}