FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Spence]

Spence,

Did you see the pregame shots of Johnson going into the dawg pound and them showing him love?  I never thought I'd see that...

Yeah, I threw up a little. Someone should have bounced a Milk Bone off his dome, for starters.

The Browns team is improving, their fans are going to crap.

[Ric]

kreds you may be right Marietta may have a better defense than Otterbein, but neither of us have seen both teams and going strickly by the stats after two games is dangerous especially when Mount Union hung over 700 yards on one team and history tells us they'll do it to the other as well when they play them.  So regardless of who is better and who isn't the stats are a bit skewed at this point in my opinion.  Also in my opinion, again only seeing one of the teams, so the other hasn't had the chance to impress or not impress me, Otterbein has two pretty good wideouts and two completely different QB's to run its offense.  Neither team is probably real good defensively so if Marietta finds itself offensively it will be a good game.

[Ric]

OK this question is on the honor system as it is simple to get the answer on the net but without looking answer me this...

Only two of the ten OAC teams have stripes going down the middle of their helmets.  Which are they?

Being honest I would have only gotten one.

[reality check]

Ric

Thought I had my two teams but one changed as of this season.  Good question, don't want to spoil it.

[runyr]

OK this question is on the honor system as it is simple to get the answer on the net but without looking answer me this...

Only two of the ten OAC teams have stripes going down the middle of their helmets.  Which are they?

Being honest I would have only gotten one.

Being honest I would say Heidelberg and Otterbein.
Being dishonest I would say Heidelberg and B-W.

[kcreds]

Ric: Going strictly on being a MU fan and seeing only Ott this year, I can appreciate your comments.

RC: Just for you I will clarify, if you are MU with a loss you still have a strong feeling you will be there in the end. At the beginning of the season, I would like the other teams to believe it too, at least until it plays out. By the way, I was impressed that ONU beat MU. I was equally impressed that Etta beat ONU last year.

[Wizardman]

The BW-Wilmington game's gonna be  fun to watch.
I mean, after Augie and Marietta this will be one be can relax a bit against.

[Presto]

never never never relax thats how you lose.  one week at a time jackets!

[Presto]

bw is one team with stripes not sure about the other.

[Presto]

lol nevermind i see runyr spilled the beans.

[Ric]

Northern's up 10-0 on JCU in the third, nothing yet on BW-Wilm or Cap-Heid.

[crusader26]

Northern's up 10-0 on JCU in the third, nothing yet on BW-Wilm or Cap-Heid.

Congrats to ONU with a school record 10 sacks on a 23-13 win against JC
Cap won 42-10

BW beat Wilma 34-0

Is anyone going to be able to contain MUC, as they lead 56-0 at the half against Musky??

[reality check]

Congrats to both ONU and JCU on a good football game.  Both defenses were pretty solid but ONU's sack machine was on a roll today. 

Kcreds

If you think Etta beating ONU last year was in the same league as ONU's win in Alliance to break the streak, then you've once and for all shown me that your homer-meter knows no bounds.  I certainly support my team but I can seperate the truth from complete fanaticism (most of the time).  And Marietta winning last year when ONU was in the midst of a losing streak and playing with at least three of its top athletes hurt or out while platooning at QB is not exactly Appalachian State/Michigan.

[DII/DIIIFan]

Just returned from the JCU/ONU tussle.

JCU will beat some good teams this year. They are a quality squad with two good running backs (Gingrich and Stover). The QB (Petruziello) has a good arm - maybe too good as he threw three picks today - each resulting from throws where he thought he could zip one in there - only to have the DB make a play. Nevertheless, he is clearly a quality QB. ONU's blitz packages caused a lot of mayhem (10 sacks) and kept him from throwing the ball downfield but a couple times all game.

Although the spread was only 10 points, the game wasn't that close. Up 23-0 mid way through the 3rd quarter, ONU went to a soft defense and JCU proceeded to run the ball repeatedly between the tackles. The Bears seemed willinging to give up some chunks of yards so long as the clock continued to run.

Anyway, several observations:

1. JCU is a solid team. It appears they will handily beat the bottom half of the OAC, and should at least be considered a possibility to upset a team like BW or Capital.

2. JCU has an excellent running game. If they would have stayed with it in the first half, they could have given ONU some problems.

3. ONU is quite deep this year - far deeper than the last couple years. They played two deep at almost all positions except QB (Pankratz), LT (Hunter), C (Smith), RT (Dunnington) on offense, and MLB (Trusnik) and CB (Gunter) on defense.

4. Dean Paul has taken a page from the Larry Kehres school of recruting superior athletes. ONU's special teams' tackles are repeatedly made by non-starters - usually freshman and sophomores with speed. It seems so many DIII teams' special team tackles are made by their starters.

5. Is the MUC - Muskingum half time score amazing, or what???

[runyr]

Final:
Otterbein   41
Marietta    23