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Senior Analyst Written on October 17, 2008

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What the Interweb is saying: Bullet points–

Dr. Saturday talks about the Spartans proclivity to set themselves on fire.
Five Compelling Questions for Michigan State
David Mayo of The Grand Rapids Press thinks Ohio State lacks direction.
Spartan PBP announcer, George Blaha, thinks Ohio State has to pass to win this weekend: audio interview.
Adam Rittenberg says there is a lot to watch in this weekend’s game in East Lansing.
Speaking of Rittenberg, he picks Ohio State in a close one.
This should make you nauseous.

They have television on the Interweb now:

The Ringer that got away

Ohio State Run Offense vs. MSU

I know what you are thinking, “Michigan State’s defense is not very good so the Buckeyes should be able to score this weekend.” Well, that was the same thing you said last weekend and that netted the Buckeyes' nine offensive points.

I know Beanie had the flu, but I am getting tired of the offensive excuses. There is no reason that Pryor and Beanie should not be averaging 200 yards rushing per game. Where is the designed quarterback draw?

Ohio State does not need to be fancy or overly varied in play calling. They just need to execute a handful of basic running plays.

Beanie shredded the Spartan defense this season, and with Pryor alongside him, I cannot think of one reason why the yards should be any more difficult to come by.

Sure, Dantonio is going to come up with run blitzes but MSU is not a sack machine and a few missed tackles will dry up those blitz packages.

The running game is even more important for Ohio State because of the time of possession correlation to victory. Despite Brian’s loathing of this statistical category, there is a very real link in Big Ten football

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