{"id":2686,"date":"2009-09-11T11:16:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2009-09-11T11:16:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:16:35","slug":"mark-it-down-buckeyes-beat-the-trojans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/mark-it-down-buckeyes-beat-the-trojans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark it Down: Buckeyes beat the Trojans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/09\/ohio_stadium.jpg\" alt=\"Ohio Stadium, the Horseshoe, on game day\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The University of Southern California (USC) will play Ohio State in a night game at the &#8216;Shoe tomorrow evening. If you read anything about this game, you&#8217;ll know the Buckeyes have absolutely ZERO chance of winning. They ought not even show up. After all, they lost in LA last year 35-3 (ouch!) and have lost their last 4 big, non-conference games.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a Buckeye fan and thus am not objective in this, but I like this game. I like the setup. I like that no one believes they will win. I like that their Freshman starting quarterback is talking smack. I like that they are -7 point &#8216;dogs at home. I like that nothing but mild respect is coming from Ohio State about this game. I like that the game last week against Navy was a tougher challenge than anticipated. I like that USC beat the snot out of a horrible San Jose State team building their confidence.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nYep, I betting I&#8217;m going to like the final score which will look something like this: 23-12 Buckeyes. And if I&#8217;m wrong, I&#8217;m wrong. But I believe the perfect storm is brewing and that the big game beatdown predicted won&#8217;t happen, at least in the way the pundits are predicting. GO BUCKS!<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Southern California (USC) will play Ohio State in a night game at the &#8216;Shoe tomorrow evening. If you read anything about this game, you&#8217;ll know the Buckeyes have absolutely ZERO chance of winning. They ought not even show up. After all, they lost in LA last year 35-3 (ouch!) and have lost [&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":[967,92,968,969,966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686"}],"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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}