Fact or Fiction....Iowa's Defense would hold Ohio St under 30 points

okeefe4prez said:
In Raleigh? Not a surprise if you wandered into the alumni club's game watch, which it sounds like you probably did if they had an inflatable mascot. There are a ton of OSU fans all over the South because the Ohio economy has completely cratered and a lot of the smarter people have left. The Triangle is a huge destination for science-type people from the Midwest. Ohio's population has gone from 10.6 million in 1970 to 11.8 million today, while Georgia went from 4.6 million to 10.5 million and NC went from 5 million to 10.4 million in the same period.

That said, OSU would outdraw Iowa by a factor of 4 or 5 to 1 in a title game in Indy.
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I would bet a 60 OSU / 40 Iowa split. Hawk fans would go. As we know, these chances don't come every year for us.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Wisconsin tried that, and had success for about two and a half quarters.

They were on pace to hold the Buckeyes to well under 30.

Then tOSU said enough messing around. We're not going to even give you a chance to punt the ball away. We're going to turn you over.

It went from 10-7 to 31-7 in a hell of a hurry.
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True. I don't necessarily disagree totally with anything you said. I guess I just feel like if we played, this is that sort of kirk game that makes no sense that were able to keep close when everybody thinks we'll get shell-shocked.
 
iloveyoularrystation said:
True. I don't necessarily disagree totally with anything you said. I guess I just feel like if we played, this is that sort of kirk game that makes no sense that were able to keep close when everybody thinks we'll get shell-shocked.
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Yes, there is a history of Kirk as an underdog turning those games into murky waters and occasionally stealing them.

Look at Penn State 2008 and 2009, Michigan 2016, and of course Ohio State 2017. He won in Madison in 2005 when Barry Alvarez coached his last home game.

In Stratego, even the lowliest piece on the board (the Spy) can take out the Marshall. In chess a pawn can become a queen if it reaches the end of the board.
 
They would, because our offense wouldn't be able to keep the ball for over 35 minutes like they often do.

We wouldn't be able to run, and we'd be in predictable passing situations against the likes of Chase Young. We'd have a lot of 3 and outs, which would allow the OSU offense many opportunities to score and wear down Iowa's D.
 
Hawkeyes5 said:
Wtf? Dude...say no to the shrooms!
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Offense would be 3 and out 90% or more of Iowa's possessions. Defense would wear down so good chance OSU would score 30.
 
We have moved the ball fairly well between the 20's. It's the actual scoring we haven't figured out.
I'm pretty sure we could hold them to under 30. Maybe not by much though or maybe exactly 30.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Yes, there is a history of Kirk as an underdog turning those games into murky waters and occasionally stealing them.

Look at Penn State 2008 and 2009, Michigan 2016, and of course Ohio State 2017. He won in Madison in 2005 when Barry Alvarez coached his last home game.

In Stratego, even the lowliest piece on the board (the Spy) can take out the Marshall. In chess a pawn can become a queen if it reaches the end of the board.
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Dude it might be that its been a long week and its thursday....but you just blew my mind. "What if C-A-T; really spelled DOG?!?!?!?!"
 
Hawks would do it easily for 2 1/2 quarters. Past that, no. Just no.

One reason I almost don't want to make it to Indy this year is because we would get rolled so badly, Citrus Bowl might decline taking us. Unless PSU were to go 11-1, in which case, they'd go NY6, and we'd get rolled in orlando by whichever $EC team we have to face.

Historically, we can stay with most $EC teams Outback or below. Our only appearance in Orlando was lightning-in-a-bottle/divine-providence type stuff. This year, especially, we aren't "Citrus Bowl-level" good.
 
Let us not overlook that OSU has played 2 good defenses. MSU and Wisconsin.
OSU scored 34 and 38.
It's extremely possible that we hold them to 30 or under. Infact if we could find the end zone, we might just have a ball game on our hands.
 
4thngoal said:
Let us not overlook that OSU has played 2 good defenses. MSU and Wisconsin.
OSU scored 34 and 38.
It's extremely possible that we hold them to 30 or under. Infact if we could find the end zone, we might just have a ball game on our hands.
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MSU and Wisconsin, like Iowa, are not good defenses. Those teams have "statistically" good defenses but routinely get boat raced against teams with good offenses in decent weather and benefit from the fact that in conference play the other teams regularly aren't going out trying to score 56 points.
 
okeefe4prez said:
Those teams have "statistically" good defenses but routinely get boat raced against teams with good offenses in decent weather and benefit from the fact that in conference play the other teams regularly aren't going out trying to score 56 points.
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The Pac12 teams Wisconsin regularly beat when they've played in the Rose Bowl would probably disagree.
With 60 seconds left in the first half of the Ohio St/Wisconsin game last Sat the Buckeyes had put up a grand total of 3 pts. 3. At home.
So yes, I'd put the odds of the Hawks holding them to 30 pts or less on a neutral field at better than 50-50.
 
okeefe4prez said:
MSU and Wisconsin, like Iowa, are not good defenses. Those teams have "statistically" good defenses but routinely get boat raced against teams with good offenses in decent weather and benefit from the fact that in conference play the other teams regularly aren't going out trying to score 56 points.
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48, 51, 52
That's what they put up against Nebraska, Indiana, Northwestern.
Wisconsin put 38 on MSU, OSU put 34 on them.


I think we could hold them to 30 or under.
 
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