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OUOhYeah2428
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Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/23/2013 1:00:11 PM

Early guess at the toughest games left based on what i have seen so far. Bobcats are very fortunate that we don't have to play Ball State or Toledo this year. Its also pretty surprising how bad the Eastern/Western/Central have played to this point. We are in a great position going into MAC play. We should be playing our best football towards the end of the season when it matters the most against BG and Kent. Feeling very good about this year despite the injuries.

1. @ Bowling Green - Only team i can see beating BG is Toledo. Hoping for an upset but not getting my hopes up.
2. Kent State
3. @ Buffalo
4. @ Eastern Michigan
5. Central Michigan
6. Miami (Oh)
7. @ Akron
8. Umass

MariettaCatFanatic
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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/23/2013 1:05:08 PM

OUOhYeah2428 wrote:

No MAC game is a gimme, but it terms of difficulty the rest of the way home...I see it like this:

1. @ BGSU - We're going to need everything we got and then some to win this one up there.
2. Kent State
3. @ Akron - This game makes me really nervous this year for some reason.
4. @ Buffalo - Always a struggle when playing in Western NY.
5. Central Michigan
6. Miami - Miami is bad this year and we have this game circled big time...going to a rough day for the 'Hawks.
7. @ EMU
8. UMass

GO BOBCATS!

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/23/2013 1:22:40 PM

I would rank them like this:

1. @ BG
2. Kent (only if Archer's back, which he should be; if not, #4)
3. @ Buffalo (#2 if Archer's out for the season) -- expect them to beat UConn this week
4. @ Akron (#3 if Archer's out for the season)
5. CMU
6. UMass
7. @ EMU
8. Fiami (worst team in the MAC right now, and I don't see them righting things in the next four weeks)

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We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/23/2013 2:49:38 PM

MariettaCatFanatic wrote:

4. @ Buffalo - Always a struggle when playing in Western NY.

This will be the 4th "At Buffalo" game we've played since I've lived in Buffalo. 2 have been on Saturdays, 2 (counting the upcoming game) have been week night games. We've lost both of the Saturday games, but are unbeaten in the (1) weeknight games.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/23/2013 10:21:38 PM

mf279801 wrote:

MariettaCatFanatic wrote:

4. @ Buffalo - Always a struggle when playing in Western NY.

And today I got my email from my Western NY OU pals for our bi-annual get together. Last two I've attended, both in November found us playing golf in absolutely perfect autumn weather. I'm hoping your weeknight trend continues with a win and the weather too-- the one in 09 was close--thank you Mr. Weller!

The Peden Beefs game in 2010 was memorable as stadium mismanagment had the opponents coming on the field just when the 110 was driving off from pre-game and my trombone playing son at point, kept his line driving right into the entering men in blue, oh my, the commotion that exchange casused. I believe some tempers were raised and my son got an earful from Dr. Suk for not making a better judgement in the charge off with traffic ahead! It was very good battle strategy by the Bulls because they caught the 110 split into two groups and smacked the band in the band's left flank. It's likely Buffalo coaches had seen the film on YouTube of the Band's pre-game routine and had scouts check it out as well. The skirmish had the makings of a slaughter ONLY because of this divide and conquer tactic with half the 110 not even aware that the extracurriculars had commenced. At least no horns were bent and now it is part of 110 legend, "The 2010 Stand Off at South Goal Post"!

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/23/2013 11:51:50 PM

Here's some nuggets to think about Ohio's performance against Kent State the last 4 years.

- Ohio is 1-3 against Kent State
- Ohio ha been outscored 86-40.
- Ohio did not score an offensive TD in the 3 losses.
- The final scores for the 3 losses were 20-11, 28-6, and 28-6.
- Ohio's lone win was 17-10 in 2011, in Athens.
- Kent State's record is 5-7, 5-7, 5-7, 11-3.
- Ohio's record is 9-5, 8-5, 10-4, 9-4.
- The loss in 2010 prevented Ohio from going to Detroit. Miami went instead.

The Kent game is the week after BG and will be the MACtion blackout game. We can't have a let down regardless of what happens in BG.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 8:29:15 AM

perimeterpost wrote:

Here's some nuggets to think about Ohio's performance against Kent State the last 4 years.

- Ohio is 1-3 against Kent State
- Ohio ha been outscored 86-40.
- Ohio did not score an offensive TD in the 3 losses.
- The final scores for the 3 losses were 20-11, 28-6, and 28-6.
- Ohio's lone win was 17-10 in 2011, in Athens.
- Kent State's record is 5-7, 5-7, 5-7, 11-3.
- Ohio's record is 9-5, 8-5, 10-4, 9-4.
- The loss in 2010 prevented Ohio from going to Detroit. Miami went instead.

The Kent game is the week after BG and will be the MACtion blackout game. We can't have a let down regardless of what happens in BG.

I remember that one. It was one long bitterly cold miserable game in just about every way.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 9:27:09 AM

MariettaCatFanatic wrote:

perimeterpost wrote:

Here's some nuggets to think about Ohio's performance against Kent State the last 4 years.

- Ohio is 1-3 against Kent State
- Ohio ha been outscored 86-40.
- Ohio did not score an offensive TD in the 3 losses.
- The final scores for the 3 losses were 20-11, 28-6, and 28-6.
- Ohio's lone win was 17-10 in 2011, in Athens.
- Kent State's record is 5-7, 5-7, 5-7, 11-3.
- Ohio's record is 9-5, 8-5, 10-4, 9-4.
- The loss in 2010 prevented Ohio from going to Detroit. Miami went instead.

The Kent game is the week after BG and will be the MACtion blackout game. We can't have a let down regardless of what happens in BG.

I remember that one. It was one long bitterly cold miserable game in just about every way.

That was the worst day for me as a Bobcat fan, and I imagine for others too. That same day, the basketball team got throttled by Kansas in Vegas.

C Money
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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 9:49:52 AM

shabamon wrote:

MariettaCatFanatic wrote:

perimeterpost wrote:

The loss in 2010 prevented Ohio from going to Detroit. Miami went instead.

I remember that one. It was one long bitterly cold miserable game in just about every way.

That was the worst day for me as a Bobcat fan, and I imagine for others too. That same day, the basketball team got throttled by Kansas in Vegas.

Yes. It was a holiday weekend I had to spend dealing with my wife's Kent State grad cousin, who doesn't even care about sports, but knows I did, and couldn't help be needle me about it. Worse than the 2011 MACC, I think. For that one, at least I could get drunk and kill enough brain cells to forget that the game even happened. 2010 Kent game, though, nope, must stay sober and be nice to wife's family.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 11:36:27 AM

shabamon wrote:

MariettaCatFanatic wrote:

perimeterpost wrote:

Here's some nuggets to think about Ohio's performance against Kent State the last 4 years.

- Ohio is 1-3 against Kent State
- Ohio ha been outscored 86-40.
- Ohio did not score an offensive TD in the 3 losses.
- The final scores for the 3 losses were 20-11, 28-6, and 28-6.
- Ohio's lone win was 17-10 in 2011, in Athens.
- Kent State's record is 5-7, 5-7, 5-7, 11-3.
- Ohio's record is 9-5, 8-5, 10-4, 9-4.
- The loss in 2010 prevented Ohio from going to Detroit. Miami went instead.

The Kent game is the week after BG and will be the MACtion blackout game. We can't have a let down regardless of what happens in BG.

I remember that one. It was one long bitterly cold miserable game in just about every way.

That was the worst day for me as a Bobcat fan, and I imagine for others too. That same day, the basketball team got throttled by Kansas in Vegas.

I was in Vegas that day watching the football game with a bunch of posters at Ceasars Sportsbook. Following that debacle, we headed over to the Orleans to watch the "game" against Kansas.

As an aside, the Best part of the night was my (now) 90 year old Grandmother telling the obnoxious Kansas fans behind us that Kansas was the dirtiest team shes ever seen in all her years watching basketball when they took out Tommy and DJ. She still refers to the Kansas basketball fans as classless. ha ha

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 12:00:15 PM

That game at Kent was the coldest college football game I can remember attending -- and the play on the field didn't help. The only worst game experience was last year at Miami.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 12:23:47 PM

Can't we just rank this as BG, then everyone else? Because really, every other team on the schedule has looked downright awful at some point:

Akron - Yeah, that mirage that happened up in Ann Arbor was nice, but let's not forget they only beat James Madison by two. And got throttled by UCF in the opener. And just lost by five, at home, to ULL.

Buffalo - These guys were my pick for possible MAC East buster, with guys like Khalil Mack and Branden Oliver back. So they played OSU tough, big deal. The next week Baylor took them to the woodshed. And then it took five OTs to score a whopping 26 points and get a win over, wait for it...Stony Brook.

Kent State - As others have noted, it all depends on the status of Dri Archer. Without him, their offense is borderline non-existent. Not sure how they scored 22 on BG in the first half of that game, but whatever Clawson said at halftime worked, because BG shut em out. Given that performance, they still only beat Liberty 17-10 and got absolutely worked by LSU and PSU. I know Archer is an amazing player, but I still don't think this Kent State team is anywhere near last year's.

Miami - The Redhawks are awful. And suck. And we lost last year, so we should be ticked off about this one. Need I say more?

UMass - I'm attributing last year's close win to the travel and getting a big head by beating PSU and Marshall and starting the year 4-0. This year shouldn't be close. UMass still has an FCS-level roster and it shows.

Central Michigan - Well they went to a bowl game last year, but that's about all the good I can say about the Chips. I would say if this game was in Mt. Pleasant that I would be slightly worried for a letdown. But it's home and it's homecoming, and we don't lose many of those under Frank. (7-1 by my count)

Eastern Michigan - It shouldn't be hard to win a game in front of 1,500 fans. Especially knowing half of them will be ours. I thought Ron English was on his way to turning this team around, but last week's drubbing by Ball State proved that wrong.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 1:19:27 PM

GoCats105 wrote:

Buffalo - These guys were my pick for possible MAC East buster, with guys like Khalil Mack and Branden Oliver back. So they played OSU tough, big deal. The next week Baylor took them to the woodshed. And then it took five OTs to score a whopping 26 points and get a win over, wait for it...Stony Brook.

Khalil Mack scares me. If the interior of our line has not improved by that game, he will be living in our backfield. And Buffalo gave Baylor as good a game as anyone has this year (not that that is saying much). They were only down 2 scores at the end of the 1st quarter (Lou-Mo was down 35-0 at the same point).

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 3:12:57 PM

C Money wrote:

GoCats105 wrote:

I agree. But, I would hope we'd be able to score enough to outgun their terrible offense.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/24/2013 3:21:12 PM

If history teaches us anything about MAC games it is that any team could beat any other. The Bobcats will need to be ready for each game. They could win them all, but they could lose any of them, too. I think in the end it will come down to BG-Ohio, but it starts with the Zippers.

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/25/2013 3:50:09 PM

Looking back over the last 4 years Ohio is 23-9 in conference play. Unlike Temple who couldn't beat a winning team, Ohio's biggest problem seems to be losing games we have no business losing. Here's a list of our losses over the last 4 seasons-

2009 (7-1)
L 20-11, Kent State (5-7)

2010 (6-2)
L 20-13, Toledo (8-5)
L 28-6, @Kent State (5-7)

2011 (6-2)
L 38-37, @Buffalo (3-9)
L 23-20, Ball State (6-6)

2012 (4-4)
L 23-20, @Miami (4-8)
L 26-14, Bowling Green (8-5)
L 52-27, @Ball State (9-4)
L 28-6, @Kent State (11-3)

We've already mentioned the horrible Kent State losses, including the one in 2010 that prevented a trip to Detroit, but how about the other loss that season, at home to Toledo. Ohio had 4 turnovers, including 2 INTs within our own 25. Toledo scored 2 TDs, one was a drive that started on our 5yd line, the other one started on our 2. Just terrible.

Then there's @Buffalo (3-9) in 2011 and @Miami (4-8) in 2012. Their only other wins were against an FCS team, a 1 win Akron team, and for Miami, a one win UMass. Awful.

Add to that an inexcusable loss on homecoming in 2011 and a sharknado level of destruction of our kicking game against Bowling Green last year and you've got about 6 or 7 losses in the last 4 years that make absolutely no sense.

if history tells us anything its that we should expect at least one dumbfounding loss again this year.

Last Edited: 9/25/2013 3:51:30 PM by perimeterpost

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/25/2013 6:20:29 PM

perimeterpost wrote:

...if history tells us anything its that we should expect at least one dumbfounding loss again this year.

I wouldn't say expect one, but I would say, be wary of one. The team needs to stay focused on winning one game at at time, and not "look ahead at the Schedule".

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/25/2013 9:06:01 PM

Looking ahead to next year....

8/31 Bye Week
9/6 @Kentucky
9/13 @Marshall
9/20 Idaho
9/27 Eastern Ilinois

Home MAC games- Akron, Buffalo, Bowling Green, MAC West crossover
Away MAC games- UMass, Miami, Kent State, MAC West crossover

Not much in terms of home opponents. Maybe we'll get NIU for a home MACtion game. Stinks that one of our bye weeks is wasted with a week 1 bye. Hopefully it will be productive with a new QB1 under center.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/26/2013 7:03:31 AM

perimeterpost wrote:

It does put us at a slight disadvantage to those who play Labor Day weekend next year, but it makes it more like a normal year when we have only one bye. With Labor Day coming so early this year and next (9/2 & 9/1) the season is actually expanded by one week, making an extra bye available. When it happened in '02 & '03 schools were allowed to schedule an extra game; we played 12 each of those years, but only 11 each of the next two years. 12-game schedules didn't become the norm until '06. I'm surprised the NCAA didn't allow all schools to schedule 13 this year and next.

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RE: Looking ahead at the Schedule

Posted: 9/26/2013 9:28:29 AM

I'm locking this thread. The only game that matters is the next one vs. 'kron.

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