It’s the final game of the year. There is no backing out now. The time has come to lay it all on the line and make our Rose Bowl predictions. Picking bowl games is usually about figuring out which team actually wants to be there, but in this case, that appears to be both teams — and ties no longer exist, so we must choose a winner.
In this episode of the Buckeye Weekly podcast, Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr preview this week’s Rose Bowl game. They also take a look at the stories that came out of the week’s worth of interviews they have had with players. Quarterback Tate Martell was very vocal about his future and the fellas definitely talk about that.
Meyer’s final game as the Buckeyes’ head coach is also his first in the Rose Bowl stadium. For a guy who grew up in Ohio watching the game every New Year’s Day, it’s a Mecca of college football. So the trip has turned one of the most established coaches in the nation back into a kid again.
The Rose Bowl hype trailer is probably a little unnecessary. It’s not too hard to get people from the midwest fired up for the Rose Bowl, of course. But you’ll probably be glad they made it anyway.
The Ohio State football team paid a visit to the site of the Granddaddy of the Them All on Sunday. The Buckeyes held their pregame Media Day, answering questions about the Rose Bowl and the Washington Huskies.
NFL defenses are populated with former Buckeyes, which tells you in any given season, you can expect to see plenty of talent wearing the Scarlet and Gray. This year, that talent has produced one of the worst statistical defenses in Ohio State history. The Buckeyes have allowed 25.7 points per game this season, which was 10 points…
The Pac 12 has long had a history of great quarterbacks, and that includes players like Washington State’s Gardner Minshew and Oregon’s Justin Herbert this season. The Washington defense has faced both of those quarterbacks, but they have yet to face anybody like Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins. Haskins leads…
The 2019 Rose Bowl matches up two of the best coaches in all of college football, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and Washington’s Chris Petersen. Petersen has compiled a 139-32 career record, which works out to an .813 winning percentage. That’s the second-best of any coach in FBS, but only the second-best in the 2019 Rose Bowl, too.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but there’s going to be a lot of Buckeye fans at a place where Ohio State football will be played. Known for being some of the best-traveling fans in any realm of entertainment, a large number of Buckeye fans have begun heading west. Based upon data from Vivid Seats, it appears…
