{"id":604,"date":"2007-09-15T16:29:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/buckeyes-bite-huskies-33-14\/"},"modified":"2007-09-15T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T23:29:52","slug":"buckeyes-bite-huskies-33-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/15\/buckeyes-bite-huskies-33-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckeyes bite Huskies, 33-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my preview, <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/ohio-statewashington-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" >I predicted the Buckeyes would prevail 27-10<\/a>. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/boxscore?gid=200709150065\" target=\"_blank\" >they won 33-14<\/a>, though 6 and 7 points respectively were scored in garbage time in the 4th quarter. Jake Locker is a player, in time, he&#8217;s going to win UDub many games. He needs some experience, some more supporting players, and defensive support to bring his game to the next level.<\/p>\n<h2>The Good<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The much maligned offensive line came to play: 220 yards passing, 263 yards rushing, and 0 sacks.<\/li>\n<li>The defense bent, but didn&#8217;t really break giving up 348 yards, but forcing 4 turnovers.<\/li>\n<li>Beanie amassed 134 yards on 24 carries with a touchdown.<\/li>\n<li>Hartline and Robiskie showed up.<\/li>\n<li>Zero turnovers (2 dropped ints by UDub.)<\/li>\n<li>Despite trailing at halftime, they came out swinging ratcheting up the intensity level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Bad<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Todd Boeckman in the first half, he had two throws that should have been picked.<\/li>\n<li>The kicking game, 1 missed and 1 blocked field goal &#8211; multiple bad snaps.<\/li>\n<li>Penalties and mental mistakes, in particular false starts and late hits.<\/li>\n<li>Giving up the late touchdown in the 4th quarter &#8211; the D took that series &#8220;off.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Surrendering 256 all purpose yards to Jake Locker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Ugly<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Officiating was lousy, Ohio State should have had a roughing the passer, 15 yard face mask, and a fumble recovery for a touchdown called against them. The false start penalty on the 4th down call was phantom on OSU. The spots were uniformly bad. And Washington wasn&#8217;t called once for holding despite tackling Buckeye defensive linemen all afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>ESPN&#8217;s presentation of the game. The announcers missed calls, the network cut away from the action for meaningless updates on other teams. Too much extraneous activity and &#8220;dancing cheese&#8221; &#8211; I much prefer the fledgling Big 10 Network as they keep it about the game you&#8217;re watching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was a quality win over a much improved Washington Huskies team on the road in a hostile environment. A strong performance with many teaching opportunities as the Buckeyes roll into Big 10 play next week against Northwestern. <b>GO BUCKS!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my preview, I predicted the Buckeyes would prevail 27-10. In fact, they won 33-14, though 6 and 7 points respectively were scored in garbage time in the 4th quarter. Jake Locker is a player, in time, he&#8217;s going to win UDub many games. He needs some experience, some more supporting players, and defensive support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}