![]() There were people upset about the tone deafness of Ohio State, not seeing how this wasn’t appropriate-given the Urban Meyer and Zach Smith situation from a month ago-and there were people upset that people were upset, because that’s just what people do for some reason. There’s Jason’s piece on it, Holly Anderson wrote a good piece on it, as did Nancy Armour of USA Today We didn’t cover it in it’s own piece on here, because none of us had a super strong reaction to it, and because frankly, SBNation and several other sites had it covered pretty well. Ohio State’s official football accounts (Twitter, Instagram, and presumably Facebook, though I’m not on there so I can’t say for sure) posted their weekly pregame graphic, and some folks got upset about it. If you’re out of the loop, I’ll catch you up super quick. If you were on Twitter at all over the last few days, I’m sure you saw what this is in reference to. But it was not a smart fit for Ohio State’s situation as a program” - Jason Kirk, SBNation With that much talent, it should be a big season for the Wrestling Buckeyes after their second place finish last year, behind only Penn State. Between them, Joey McKenna sits at second in 141, Micah Jordan comes in at second in 149, Ke-Shawn Hayes in sixth in 157, Te’Shan Campbell is 13th in 174, and the star of the team, Myles Martin, sits atop the 184 class. Seven Buckeyes are spread across numerous weight classes, from Luke Pletcher at fourth in the 133 class to Kollin Moore at third in the 197 class. With the 2018-19 season set to start against Navy in early November, seven Buckeyes were named to national rankings today, and while I don’t know much about wrestling, that seems pretty good. Myles Martin leads the way, tabbed as the country’s top 184-pounder entering the season.” - Ohio State Buckeyes dot comĭespite one of the best wrestlers in the world, Kyle Snyder, graduating last year, the Ohio State wrestling team looks to be in an excellent place this season. ![]() “Seven Buckeyes can be found in the FloWrestling preseason national rankings, the official rankings of the Big Ten Network. The piece is absolutely worth a read, and while it focuses on how Penn State could upset Ohio State, it serves as the second best preview of the game, behind ours of course. Since hiring James Franklin, Penn State is 2-2 in such games, losing to Ohio State in 2014 but beating them in 2016, and losing to Michigan in 2015 but beating them last year. Penn State is just 7-7 in whiteout games since they started doing them in 2004, and while that average record is probably a result of playing great teams in those games, it is interesting that it doesn’t seem to have a huge impact.īill does go on to mention that the White Out has seemingly worked more recently, especially when the Nittany Lions are underdogs, which makes a lot of sense, because Penn state has been, well, good recently, after not being good for a couple years. When those loud people all wear white, it can become a very foreign experience for road teams.Īccording to SB Nation’s resident genius Bill Connelly though, that may not be as big a deal as it seems. I wrote about it, as have many others, with the main point of each article being basically that Penn State is a good team, and they have a large stadium, with lots of loud people in it. Lots has been said in the past week about how difficult it is for a team to go on the road and win at Happy Valley against Penn State. “Compared to the spread, Penn State actually underachieved by an average of about 1.8 points per game before the last two seasons the Nittany Lions failed to cover five of seven White Out games between 20.” - Bill Connelly, SBNation
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