Comments on: Week #6: Purdue Open Thread

By: sportsMonkey

sportsMonkey — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:42:35 +0000

SYR – nice jorb. Although, who’da thunk 88 of those yards would come on the final drive with 10 secs left!

By: Sylvester-Yon Rambo

Sylvester-Yon Rambo — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:05:05 +0000

It should be noted that I correctly picked the EXACT amount of yards that Purdue would get against us…..272…….I am the greatest ever.

By: sportsMonkey

sportsMonkey — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:20:32 +0000

boilerdowd – what el Kaiser said, man; welcome to MotSaG. Looking forward to hearing more from you as the season goes on.

For the record, I believe that OSU will be down at halftime. OSU’s only put together one game when it played with fire in the first half (against NW). Watch OSU go into halftime down by a TD.

Just like against Washington, though, OSU will play better in the second half. The Boilers better put up a few TDs in the first half to have a chance to win. I don’t think that will happen, though… Purdue’s first team is talented, but I don’t think they’re deep enough to play a full four quarters against a really physical team.

OTOH, this game reminds me more of 2005 than 2002, when a brand new OSU QB (Smith) lost the first of only three losses in his career. Tressel’s D allowed Kyle Orton to come back in the fourth quarter of that game, so anything definitely can happen when you’re playing at the ‘Aide at night.

By: el Kaiser

el Kaiser — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:51:26 +0000

@Boilerdowd – thanks for stopping by, fellow B10 blogger. I know I don’t need to say it, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. That game in 2002 was a nail biter. So who knows? It may be closer than we think it will be. I just don’t see that happening.

@E – Good points. Ohio State has definitely been a much better second half team (except against NU) so if it’s at all close at halftime, OSU should be able to close the door in the 3rd quarter.

By: E

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:28:39 +0000

There are a LOT of unknowns in this one, and most bloggers have laid all of those out (can Purdue stop OSU’s O, and just how good is OSU’s D and Purdue’s O). So it’s difficult to tell how this one will actually play out;
-if Purdue plays like they did against Notre Dame, then it will be a one sided affair (probably along what el Kaiser predicts)
-if Purdue brings their A game and OSU plays like it did against Minnesota (or if they regress to earlier performances), then your prediction will probably come to fruition
-if both teams play well then it will probably be more like Monkey’s prediction

Personally I think this will be a tight game until 2/3rds of the way through the 4th quarter when Painter is picked off by the OSU secondary to seal the victory (think the OSU v. PSU game last year).
OSU – 27
PU – 17
(though it will have been 20-17 prior to the INT, or something like that)

By: Boilerdowd

Boilerdowd — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:42:54 +0000

Let’s hope Tressel & the Bucks have given as little respect to Purdue as many Buckeye fans seem to (though I doubt they have).

Better OSU teams have nearly been beaten by worse Purdue teams at Ross-Ade (2002) than the above prognostications.

Purdue 27
OSU 24

Regardless of final score, it will be closer game than Kaiser & Rambo believe.