{"id":735,"date":"2007-11-10T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/illinois-beats-bucks-28-21\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:40:38","slug":"illinois-beats-bucks-28-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/illinois-beats-bucks-28-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Beats Bucks, 28-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give Illinois all the credit, they came to play and ran the ball down the Buckeyes throat. Ohio State drops to 10-1 on the season and will play Michigan next week for the Big 10 championship and a Rose Bowl berth. Suffice to say, <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/ohio-stateillinois-preview\/\">my game preview was wrong where I predicted a 31-20 Buckeye win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Good<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first two offensive series. Picture perfect, well executed, and effective.<\/li>\n<li>Heart. Down two touchdowns, the team didn&#8217;t fold and continued to battle back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Bad<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first two defensive series. They were thinking rather than reacting and it set the tone for the rest of the day.<\/li>\n<li>Turnovers. The team could survive a shaky defensive performance if the offense was on. It couldn&#8217;t survive bad quarterback decisions and bad defensive execution in the same game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Ugly<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Officiating. It was so bad in this game, they ought to resign. Two missed Illini turnovers, offensive holding all day. Bad replay execution. I don&#8217;t know that with the Illinois was running it would have made a difference, but the refs are directly responsible for 7 points.<\/li>\n<li>The run defense. 65 yards per game coming in, they gave up 265 today.<\/li>\n<li>End of Game melee. That&#8217;s good for no one, I was disappointed and embarrassed to see the poor sportsmanship at the end of the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the outcome of this game, I&#8217;m proud of the season the Buckeyes have delivered. They barely lost to a very good Illinois team and had help from the refs spotting the Illini 7 points in the first quarter, the difference in the game. However, great teams overcome that sort of adversity and the Bucks weren&#8217;t up to the challenge this time. Illinois ran us over.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s time to regroup for next week and beat the Wolverines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give Illinois all the credit, they came to play and ran the ball down the Buckeyes throat. Ohio State drops to 10-1 on the season and will play Michigan next week for the Big 10 championship and a Rose Bowl berth. Suffice to say, my game preview was wrong where I predicted a 31-20 Buckeye [&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\/735"}],"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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}