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Time: 11: 00 AM coup of sending
TV: Fox Sports One – Gus Johnson (Play by Play) and Joel Klatt (Analyst) with Jenny Taft (Sideline)
Last week: Minnesota lost at home to Iowa 48-31, Ohio State won at Indiana 49-26
Vegas wagering line: State of Ohio (-29.5)
Depth chart
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Five things to know
1. The Gophers take the road again this week for the second time this season by visiting the third state of Ohio. Minnesota is 7-44 against Ohio State and the Buckeyes have won the last 10 meetings. The last victory for the Gophers in the series was a 29-17 victory on the road on October 14, 2000. This match, which took place 18 years ago this weekend, was marked by a quick start for the Gophers , who lost 17 3 lead in the first quarter. Travis Cole 243 yards and two points, while Ron Johnson caught eight balls for 163 yards and a score. Tellis Redmon scored a goal and raised 118 yards in 30 carries and one kicker Dan Nystrom connected on goals of 23, 32 and 42 yards.
2 The injury virus has severely stung in Minnesota this year because the Gophers will not get the upper hand. Shannon BrooksRodney Smith and Antoine Winfield Jr. Saturday. Smith and Winfield are Winfield are absent for the season, while Brooks is still recovering from an injury suffered before the spring trials. Smith, who is also the current Minnesota forward, was injured in the final quarter of the second game of the season against Fresno State. Smith ranks seventh all-time in career yards with 2,959 yards and seventh in all-time yards with 4,073. Winfield Jr., who is the return of the team that returned to normal, was injured in the last quarter in Maryland. Winfield made 17 tackles this year and recovered a fumble. He also made a decisive interception against Fresno State and returned the match against New Mexico State with a 76-yard kick return. Minnesota will file a waiver to receive a sixth year of eligibility for both Smith and Winfield. Brooks was injured before spring training and his return to the field is not yet known. He occupies the 27th place in the history of the school with 1,728 rushing yards and has scored 17 touchdowns in 28 career games.
3 The Gophers have 112 players on the list and 58 of these players – or 51.7% – are freshmen. It is the highest number of the nation. Virginia comes next with 50%, followed by Wake Forest (49.1%) and UCF (48.03%). The Gophers have 78 undergraduate students (69.6% of the total), making it the tenth largest player in college football.
4 Minnesotians have paved the way for the Gophers this year. Zack Annexstad (924 passing yards, 8 touchdowns), Tyler Johnson (402 receiving yards, 6 touchdowns), Seth Green (5 TD in the race, 1 TD passing, 1 conversion pass in two points), Blake Cashman (34 tackles, 6.5 TFL), Carter Coughlin (5.0 bags), Thomas Barber (33 tackles, 1 INT, 1 fumble recovery), Kamal Martin (23 tackles) and offensive lineman Conner Olson, Sam Schlueter and Blaise Andries all come from Minnesota
5 Minnesota had 2,689 passes, yards and receptions, and 1,949 (or 72%) were produced by first-year students. The Gophers managed 982 yards and 959 (97%) of a freshman's arm. They rushed for 725 yards and 471 (65%) are freshmen. Minnesota has 982 receiving yards and 517 (52%) are the result of a freshman who caught the ball.
Ohio State players to watch
1) Dwayne Haskins, strategist: Haskins was amazing. The guy can make every pitch on the court and definitely has an NFL arm. When you give him time to throw, forget about it, he's a surgeon dissecting a defense. The fouls of the offensive are really not his fault, but he was neutralized with a lot of pressure and blitz at a time. For example, due to pressure from Penn State, the OSU's offense has slowed slightly in the first half, before adjusting and moving to a strategy quick-pass screen / heavy screen, which opened a little things. I think Haskins simply needs experience in such situations to be able to read better and make decisions faster when he does not have all day to defend himself. He has only started six games in his career, so he needs to keep improving in the mental part of the game.
2) Parris Campbellwide receiver: Campbell is a former high-school offensive midfielder converted to a collegiate receiver. It has not had many hands over the years, but seems to have improved significantly in this area since the end of the off season. Ohio State uses it on a variety of screen games, sweeps, pop passes and other methods to quickly get the ball, because when he holds it in his hands, he is one of the players the fastest in America. This year, he has taken more advanced routes and succeeded, which makes him even more dangerous for the opposing defenses.
3) Chase Young, edge: Young, meanwhile, is what you would dream of in a defensive goal. Standing at 6 feet 5 inches, 265 pounds, he is long, athletic, fast and strong. He was rookie number two in his class for a reason, and showed a great first step and burst to the running back or the quarterback. He must continue to improve the use of his hands and develop more advanced movements, but he may be a destructive crew, as he has shown against PSU.
1. Find the way to slow down Dwayne Haskins
Frankly, I do not really think that Minnesota, or any other team left by Ohio State on their regular season schedule, will be able to do that, but I still have to talk about it.
Haskins, the Ohio state quarterback, was named offensive player of the week in the Top Ten category for three consecutive weeks. An already talented player therefore plays with a heater in the home match against Minnesota.
These last three weeks?
– 71% achievement
– An average of 343 passing yards per game
– 14/3 hit the interception ratio
Phew.
It should be noted that Minnesota High School took a step back last week, allowing Iowa and Nathan Stanley to roll more than 300 yards and four goals.
I would say that the Gophers will have to put pressure on Haskins, which they do if they try a shot, but I do not think the Minnesota defense will be able to generate a lot of pressure.
The Ohio State's offensive defense line ranks among the top 15 nations, while Minnesota's defense ranks in the top 25 in terms of pressure. Robb Smith's defense has represented two sacks in two Big Ten games, which ties them for the last time in the Big Ten.
I do not anticipate starting play of this defensive line on the road at Ohio State, and this is not good news for this Gopher anti-pass defense.
2: Find a way to slow down Ohio State's defenders: I really hope that at the end of this match, Annexstad will be united for Nebraska next week.
In six games this season for the Buckeye defense, they have accumulated 50 (!!) tackles for defeat, 22 sacks and 13 extra hits for the quarter that were not sacks. To put this in perspective, the Minnesota defense has 28 tackles for defeat and eight sacks on the year.
I will also note that this Golden Gopher offensive gave 16 tackles for defeat and nine sacks in the first two matches of the Big Ten. They will now face Ohio State, who will be at home.
The reason I'm so worried about Annexstad is that the Minnesota offensive is a "non-calendar" one, which continues to put them in a third, long situation. Gopher's fouls are in third place this year with an average of 8.4 yards, a 116th-place finish in college football. The Ohio State defense is very good at placing the teams in third and long positions, with the average distance at the third fold that their defensive faces is 8.5 yards.
In these "transmission" situations, the Minnesota offensive line drops 8.6% of these matches, which is among the top 25 in college football. In these same situations, the state defense of Ohio comes home with an absurd rate of 16.7%, making it the third best university footballer.
This has also been without potential overall # 1 choice Nick Bosa in good health.
With Daniel Faalele Beginning his career with a proper tackle, and the rest of the offensive line struggling to find consistency in passing protection, Brian Callahan's unit faces another difficult task: blocking Chase Young, Dr. Mont Jones and the rest of these athletes for the Buckeyes.
I'm expecting Minnesota to maintain its tight position regularly to help, not to mention the attacking midfielder in an attempt to save Annexstad, but that means Johnson, Bateman and Autman-Bell have to open.
3: Find great games: If you want to win in the Big Ten as a sloppy on the road at 30 points, you must have big games in attack, defense and special teams.
By SB nation, the most correlated statistic to victory in a football game is to win the battle of explosiveness in which the team that wins this specific margin wins 86% of the time.
The Minnesota attack in the game Big Ten has induced two games over 30 yards. TWO. Of the 51 half-point keys, Gopher half-pointers haveroduced ONE wear more than 15 meters. Yuck. If an element of the Buckeye defense is likely to be the subject of a big game, there is a unit among the last five in all of college football to prevent the Big Plays, but this Gopher offense is the 119th of country to produce Big Plays. If this happens, the Annexstad Deep Bullet must be ready Saturday.
In Big Ten, the Minnesota defense has awarded 12 games over 20 yards and five games over 30 yards. They know their opponent is Buckeye and has produced more than 49 points in four of his six games. Robb Smith's defense, which has not had a turnaround against Maryland, has generated two losses last week against Iowa, and this figure will have to be even higher if Minnesota gets angry.
For the special teams, I do not anticipate the return of Minnesota from a kickoff because the state of Ohio is the first unit in this country, limiting returns to less than 16 yards. I would say the kick return game could do something, but Minnesota has returned a six-yard kickoff since Antoine Winfield went down.
I'm also curious to see which version of Gopher punter Jacob Herbers is in Columbus.
Is it the one against Maryland that had an average of 47.0, with four kicks in the 20 and three over 50 yards?
Is this the one from last week against Iowa that posted an average of 37.8, with a punt inside the 20 and a zero out of 50?
Reversing the situation matters, and I hope Herbers will be able to help him for his defense on Saturday.
From the argument loaded with statistics that I have outlined above, you can understand that I do not expect a thwarted Gopher. Too many statistics go in the wrong direction for the Gophers and too much for the Buckeyes. Minnesota has won twice at Columbus since 1949. That's two wins in 69 years in the horseshoe.
With the current trend of Gopher Defense, Minnesota is announcing it as a long day.
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