This is going to be a lot like the Mich – OSU Game of the Century of the Week a couple years back. Lots of offense. I really think our D is going to have a tough time containing Wells and Pryor. As with any shootout, it’s going to be a matter of who hits the target the
most. PSU 38, OSU 35

PS-I’ll be in Spain watching the game at 3am. And, yes, my hot wife will be watching too.

who could have our baby at any moment….I am PRAYING it isn’t tommorow. I already told her if he comes during a PSU game his name is going to be Joseph Paterno

to the point that I’m really not getting any work done right now.

As for the game, I think we’ll be able to tell pretty early on how this game will turn out. I think turnovers will be key, and I really hope our secondary can pick some of TP’s punts out of the sky. I also really hope that Clark remains levelheaded and calm, and doesn’t turn the ball ove himself.

I really just have no idea what to predict with this one I could see it being a 17-14 type game, a 45-35 type game, or even a 45-10 type game, with the scores being reversable (except I don’t see us getting blown out if we do wind up losing).

I’m going to hope that we stop them on their first drive and at LEAST get a FG out of it, but hopefully a TD. I’m also gonna hope that we play relatively mistake free football, and that Joe learned his lessons about playing conservative on the road.

With that said, I’m going to say 35-17 Penn State wins, passing one more “first test” and ending one more “losing streak”.

Ohio State isn’t even close.

The Lions roll 42-17.

Game starts out close, gets ugly in the second half. Best game of the year by far by the defense. TP gets rattled, stays rattled. Sorry, son, you picked the wrong State.

and abandoning his homer ways.

How Kirk Herbstreit.

Predictions are evil anyway – but that negative energy is out there now – and we’ll all have to squeeze our thumbs extra tightly to make up for it.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/cory_mccartney/10/23/osu-psu/index.html?eref=T1

PSU. We are going to have to sweat this one out…(hopefully not)

Shame on you Mike, have a glass of blue and white kool-aid and come back to us.
PSU 42
OSU 13

Start with USC 35 OSU 3:
+10 to OSU for a healthier/improved offense
- 7 to PSU for playing in the ’shoe
- 7 to PSU for starting slow
+7 to OSU for pick-six or easy points off a turnover
+3 to PSU because we have Kevin Kelly
+2 to PSU from chasing Pryor back in to the end zone

Mike, even with a few bad breaks we can still win this one.
We Are …

This game won’t be as close as the final score will suggest.

Thousands of Penn State fans will buy tickets to Miami in the middle of the 4th quarter.

I’ll go 27-17 PSU, but I really don’t like it. If it’s close, my gut tells me we lose, if it’s not, well, I see it being like the other OSU.

Mike, your mother sounds like a lovely, intelligent woman.

Let’s see, Ohio State beats MIchigan State (aka Javon Ringer) by forcing 5 turnovers, and now they are national title contenders. Ohio State has done NOTHING to impress me this year. They will be exposed for what they are. Much like Auburn, who people still had ranked ahead of us even after they beat Mississippi State 3 to freaking 2.

Ohio State people want to believe that because they’ve faced USC, they’re ready for us. Um, you got bombed in that game. So what if they’re as good or better than us? They fucking smoked you. Now shut up and get a group together so you can spell your fake state’s name.

Let’s not forget that our mediocre, crappy o-line, Anthony Morelli in his fourth start team was beating the Ohio State team that went to the title game at halftime. We can get it done in Columbus.

Get up State. 27-13 PSU.

Check it:

Penn State beat Oregon State by 31 (45-14); Oregon State beat USC by 6 (27-21); USC beat Ohio State by 32 (35-3). Add ’em all together (31+6+32) and you get Penn State as 69 points better than the buckeyes.

And yes, yes, I know, that score sounds hot.

I met my (hot) wife, who is from Ohio, in 02, and pretty much since them Ohio has fucked me in every way possible. OSU beating PSU, OSU losing in the nat’l championship game, Ohio fucking me in the 2004 election, and culminating with a bird shitting on me in an indoor mall in columbus in August (no lie).
I am hoping that is the culmination. I can completely see OSU winning this game, but you can make a solid argument that they have had a better top to bottom roster in pretty much any game (especially the ones that they won) in the past 14 years. I think the NFL defections finally have caught up with them. I am going with my head, not with my gut.
PSU 29, OSU 22. Lots of field goals.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3660580

Think I’ve created a monster here.

I’ve asked this in a few places, but still haven’t gotten any answers. I don’t mean to bombard with the same question, but since I’m going to the game tomorrow, and currently don’t have a ticket, I’d like to buy one as close as possible to the PSU section as I can. I’ve been told that 6A, 8A, and 31B and 33B are “visitors” seating, but every time I find a ticket in those sections it is a “student” ticket or “upgraded” from a student ticket, and I really don’t want to be surrounded by their student section. Perhaps I’ve just been looking at the wrong rows, I dunno. But yeah, if anyone here is going, and could post their section that would be GREAT!

But I would have to go with us at 28-20. Some big stops, and one or two questionable calls make this an edge of your seat game. We’ll have to try our hardest, but we can do it.

Mike going against the squad almost made me cry though.

she is ugly as sin.

psu 27
osu 20

and Columbus burns……

Lou Holtz and Mark May both just picked OSU to beat PSU.

CFN on the game:

“What will happen: Ohio State usually doesn’t do well when it has to deal with the higher ranked teams of similar or better talent. This will be the exception. This is a fantastic Penn State team with the skill and the mettle to play for the national title, and yes, this is a Big Ten team good enough to win it against an SEC team, any Big 12 team, or USC, but for the first time all year, Clark will have to come through in the clutch, and he won’t be able to do it.”

“We have no evidence to prove this, but we’re just pulling this out of our ass, so who cares?!”

Please, someone get this to Daryll Clark.

I’m brewing 12 – 0 beer… Just made a batch of 12%abv brew to be opened on Nov 22nd.

I’m confident on this one. Pryor won’t know what hit him!

PSU 35
OSU 14

That sounds like black and pink.. Hmm… I do know somoene that does a cranberry seasonal, I should mix that with my stout!!

I woke up this morning to find that my dog, Nittany, had thoroughly chewed a red (scarlet) pen that had grey casing, leaving a big red stain on the carpet (that I was mostly able to clean up).

Let’s hope our Nittany Lions can also rub those Scarlet and Grey’s into the ground as well!