How good is Ohio?
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:48 pm
I certainly hope the BG football team is NOT looking ahead to Ohio, but I'm going to take a peek ahead here. I'm a little unsure of exactly how good OU is. Let's review ...
Week 1, OU beat Penn State, under a new coach and as the first game after all of the mess in Happy Valley. Great, great win for OU and the MAC, but it would have been a loss if it weren't for some key plays, including a big reception off what should have been a PSU pick.
Week 2, OU has a hard time putting away a pretty bad NMSU team until the fourth quarter. Great, great halftime adjustments and second half execution change a close OU lead into an OU blowout.
Week 3, OU sneaks past Marshall. They held Marshall to 24 points who later scored in the forties on Purdue.
Week 4, OU beats the crap out of Norfolk State.
Week 5, OU barely, I mean barely, beats UMass. The MAC has a ton of parity and it showed. Everybody knew going into that game that OU was the best team in the conference and UMass was the worst, yet they were only three points apart. OU had to rally to win. By no means at all were they dominant, especially considering they allowed UMass' QB to pass four TDs.
Week 6, OU is down by 14 to UB and rallies to win. The rally was started by a huge kickoff return for a TD. UB is a decent team, although they can't pass worth a damn, but they should, should be nowhere near a team that is halfway to a perfect season.
So how good is Ohio? Are they dominant but right now in a bit of a lull? Are they good but not great? Are they OK and lucky? My take, at least as of now, is that they are a very, very well coached team and execute extremely well. They do not have a talent level significantly higher than anybody else in the MAC, but between playing very well and nearly mistake free, having a great game plan, and having a pretty veteran team, OU continues to just win. I think they are overall the best team in the conference but I don't expect them to dominate anybody in the conference. I also think they chances of them being undefeated when we meet them are pretty good. Their next three opponents are Akron (we just beat them), that team down south (our next opponent), and Eastern Michigan (our opponent right before OU), so we will have a really good feeling going into that game how each team stacks up.
Go Falcons!
Week 1, OU beat Penn State, under a new coach and as the first game after all of the mess in Happy Valley. Great, great win for OU and the MAC, but it would have been a loss if it weren't for some key plays, including a big reception off what should have been a PSU pick.
Week 2, OU has a hard time putting away a pretty bad NMSU team until the fourth quarter. Great, great halftime adjustments and second half execution change a close OU lead into an OU blowout.
Week 3, OU sneaks past Marshall. They held Marshall to 24 points who later scored in the forties on Purdue.
Week 4, OU beats the crap out of Norfolk State.
Week 5, OU barely, I mean barely, beats UMass. The MAC has a ton of parity and it showed. Everybody knew going into that game that OU was the best team in the conference and UMass was the worst, yet they were only three points apart. OU had to rally to win. By no means at all were they dominant, especially considering they allowed UMass' QB to pass four TDs.
Week 6, OU is down by 14 to UB and rallies to win. The rally was started by a huge kickoff return for a TD. UB is a decent team, although they can't pass worth a damn, but they should, should be nowhere near a team that is halfway to a perfect season.
So how good is Ohio? Are they dominant but right now in a bit of a lull? Are they good but not great? Are they OK and lucky? My take, at least as of now, is that they are a very, very well coached team and execute extremely well. They do not have a talent level significantly higher than anybody else in the MAC, but between playing very well and nearly mistake free, having a great game plan, and having a pretty veteran team, OU continues to just win. I think they are overall the best team in the conference but I don't expect them to dominate anybody in the conference. I also think they chances of them being undefeated when we meet them are pretty good. Their next three opponents are Akron (we just beat them), that team down south (our next opponent), and Eastern Michigan (our opponent right before OU), so we will have a really good feeling going into that game how each team stacks up.
Go Falcons!