Ohio State XXL

Question

Their is so much pressure on everybody in the Michigan building. They are telling kids to lie to the ncaa. That got Partridge fired. It’s thick around the team right now.

This team is ready to crack. Last week we saw some of the cracks. That could have been apparent against Penn state but Franklin is an idiot and screwed that game up totally with his lack of coaching.

If OSU loses this game it will be 100% on the OSU staff. If OSU comes out aggressively and get the leads this Michigan team will crack.

They won’t quit. Not ever. They are tough kids. But they have been through so much and the outside pressure is absolutely affecting this team in a negative way.

Against Penn state they got the lead and ran out the clock the whole second half. No stress and no danger of losing. They just out physicaled penn state as they’ve done to OSU before.

But there is only so much juice in the tank for any player at any level. Michigan is on empty.

If Day opens it up and comes out firing his offense and makes it a game where Michigan has to expend a ton of energy trying to keep up that Michigan will be the team that dies in the 4th quarter not OSU again.

Playing with the lead will either make Michigan as it did against Penn state. Or break them. OSU has more weapons with Henderson and Harrison. The key for Day is not putting McCord in a position to fail in a lot of third and longs against the Michigan defense.

Ohio state has more nfl guys on the field and more weapons on offense. The last two years OSU has been soft against Michigan both physically and mentally. But I think that has changed here and they match that physicality and go above it.

Ohio state has had enough of this crap and they will play a great game. They haven’t played great against Michigan for a while.

Ohio state is more talented and Michigan is ready to crack in a pressure spot.

Ohio State wins this one outright by double digits. 70% on the points, 30% on the ML

DrGame · Accepted Answer

J.J. McCarthy has completed 12 passes in his last six quarters of action and OSU is the best pass defense in FBS. He went 12-for-23 for 141 yards, 0 TDs, 1 INT vs. Maryland. While the Terrapins are not necessarily known as a dominant defense, this performance does shed some additional light on what type of performer McCarthy might be against above-average defenses. The Terps are the No. 43 passing defense in the country, they were only the fifth such team that McCarthy has faced so far this season. In those games, he has gone 68-for-95 (71.6%) for 838 yards (167.6 per game), 6 touchdowns, and 4 interceptions. McCarthy can complete passes — he is third nationally with a 73.8% completion percentage — but, his yardage output tends to be very low against quality passing defenses.

Currently, Ohio State is the No. 1 passing defense in the country, allowing only 144.3 yards per game.

While McCord hasn’t been as prolific a passer this season as Stroud was before him, he’s thrown for 564 more yards (2,899 to 2,335) and four more touchdowns (22 to 18) with the same number of interceptions (four each) as McCarthy this season. McCarthy has had a higher completion percentage (73.8 to 66.4) and more passing yards per attempt (9.9 to 9.1), and he doesn’t have the benefit of throwing to Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka. But McCord has been the better quarterback leading up to The Game, throwing for 547 yards and five touchdowns over the past two weeks while McCarthy has just 201 total passing yards with zero touchdowns and an interception over Michigan’s past two games. HARD TO HAVE GOOD GAMES WHEN YOU DONT KNOW WHAT DEFENSE IS COMING AT YOU!

Like Allar the Buckeyes passed up on him as they did McCarthy. J.J. McCarthy grew up dreaming of playing for Ohio State. The Buckeyes chose Kyle McCord instead.

McCarthy was the fifth-ranked quarterback in the 2021 recruiting class while McCord was the sixth-ranked quarterback in the cycle, per 247Sports’ composite rankings, but the Buckeyes chose McCord over McCarthy when they accepted his commitment in April 2019. McCarthy committed to Michigan less than two weeks later. It’s time for the Buckeyes to prove they made the right decision.

DrGame · Answer