Scarlet and Gray rosters....

Coach Jim Tressel said that Pryor will not wear a black "no contact" jersey Saturday, but he didn't answer questions about restrictions on Pryor. Which most likely means he won't play much. Pryor was the first draft pick selected by seniors for the Scarlet team. Here are the list of the players and what team they are on.



*Rosters are courtesy of the Columbus Dispatch.


SENIORS (PRE-DETERMINED)
SCARLET

OL Connor Smith

OL Scott Sika

OL Bryant Browning

OL Josh Kerr

WR Grant Schwartz

WR Dane Sanzenbacher

WR Garrett Hummel

WR Tony Harlamert (OUT, INJURED)

FB Adam Homan *

K Devin Barclay

DE Cameron Heyward

LB Ross Homan

CB Devon Torrence

S Tyler Moeller (OUT, INJURED)

S Aaron Gant

* Not a senior but placed on honorary coach John Reed's team because Reed was Homan's coach at Coldwater High School

GRAY

OL Justin Boren

OL Andrew Miller

OL Chris Malone (OUT, INJURED)

WR Taurian Washington

WR Ricky Crawford

RB Brandon Saine

LS Jake McQuaide

DT Dexter Larimore

LB Brian Rolle

CB Chimdi Chekwa

S Jermale Hines

DRAFT
(Once a position is opened all players from that position are chosen before going to the next position; Scarlet won coin toss for first pick.)

QUARTERBACK

SCARLET: Terrelle Pryor

GRAY: Kenny Guiton

S: Joe Bauserman

G: Justin Siems

CENTER

G: Michael Brewster

S: Corey Linsley

G: Jack Mewhort

DEFENSIVE TACKLE

S: John Simon

G: Garrett Goebel

S: Adam Bellamy

G: Evan Blankenship

S: Jon Lorenz

G: Dalton Britt

SAFETY

G: Nate Oliver

S: Orhian Johnson

G: Zach Domicone

S: C.J. Barnett

G: Jamie Wood

S: Nate Ebner

G: Vincent Petrella

TIGHT END

S: Jake Stoneburner

G: Reid Fragel

S: Spencer Smith

G: Nic DeLillo

S: Bryan Corkery

RECEIVERS

G: DeVier Posey

S: Chris Fields

G: Joe Cech

S: James Jackson

G: Chris Roark

OFFENSIVE TACKLE

S: Michael Adams

G: J.B. Shugarts

S: Marcus Hall

G: Sam Longo

DEFENSIVE END

G: Nathan Williams

S: Solomon Thomas

G: Melvin Fellows

S: Keith Wells

G: Stewart Smith

S: William McCary

G: Green

CORNERBACK

S: Dominic Clarke

G: Donnie Evege

S: Corey Brown

G: Taylor Rice

S: Drew Matthew

G: Travis Howard (OUT, INJURED)

STRONG-SIDE LINEBACKERS

G: Etienne Sabino

S: Jonathan Newsome

G: Tony Jackson

S: Chris Maxwell

G: Dan Bain

WEAK-SIDE LINEBACKERS

S: Dorian Bell

G: Jim Hastings

S: Andrew Sweat (OUT, INJURED)

FULLBACK

G: Zach Boren

S: James Georgiades

MIDDLE LINEBACKER

S: Storm Klein

G: Jordan Whiting

TAILBACK

G: Dan Herron

S: Jordan Hall

G: Carlos Hyde

S: Jermil Martin

G: Jaamal Berry

S: Bo Delande

PUNTER

S: Ben Buchanan

G: Derek Erwin

KICKOFF

G: Drew Basil

LONG SNAPPER

S: Makridis

G: Garrett Dornbrook

Ohio State looses to Purdue...Is this Pryor's fault??

After an ugly battle Ohio State lost to Purdue on Saturday 18-26. It wasn't necessarily a blow-out game. Ohio State still did have a chance in the 4th quarter but when your QB throws 2 interceptions and fumbles the ball two times what are the odds of that? I know I said in a previous post that I was going to try not to bash Terrelle Pryor well...I think he should be treated the same as Boeckman was last season (which would be like dirt). I don't think that I'm even going to waste my time summarizing the game or finding post game notes. We already know what happened Ohio State lost and that’s pretty much all that matters right now. I know I focus on last season maybe a little too much. But the fact that Boeckman got benched after Ohio lost to a #1 ranked team in country and the fact that Purdue wasn't even ranked and Pryor is going to remain the starter! Well that bothers me. I know that people like to pretend that it was all Todd's fault but it wasn't. So I ask myself why isn't Pryor being treated the same way that Boeckman was last year? Tressel has never explicitly said what Pryor provides that Boeckman did not. To quote one of his statements "We probably don't have enough time, nor would I share every little reason or rationale for any personnel decision ... It was just a decision based upon our compilation of data and we felt we needed to go that direction." Tressel also blamed Boeckman for not reading a backside blitz and getting rid of the ball quicker against the Trojans. I wonder what he has to say about that now? For some reason Coach Tressel would stand by Terrelle no matter what. I'll never understand why Coach tressel made the terrible decision that he did. Simply put Pryor is not the QB Jim Tressel or anyone else tried to make him out to be. Coach Tressel made everyone believe that Pryor was this great player with all this talent who never made any mistakes. Which is false. If Pryor wants all this credit and if he wants people to idol him then he better get with it. He should be benched. That's what Tressel did to Boeckman and Terrelle performed worse on Saturday then Boeckman ever did in the short time that he started.





I found those quotes from Tressel in an article on the Morning Journal website here's the link if you would like to read it it's a GREAT article! http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2008/10/16/sports/mj129332.txt

Ohio State Wins Big Time VS. Toledo Rockets!!

Ohio State vs. Toledo post game notes.


SERIES NOTES

Ohio State leads the all-time series with Toledo, 2-0. Ohio State won the first meeting in 1998 in Columbus, 49-0.

The Buckeyes are 26-1 against members of the Mid-American Conference.

Toledo has been shutout in both games vs. the Buckeyes and outscored 87-0 in the two meetings.


OFFENSIVE NOTES

Quarterback Terrelle Pryor is 10-2 as Ohio State's starting quarterback. Pryor recorded career highs with 17 completions, 27 attempts and 262 yards. He also rushed 12 times for 110 yards, including a career-long 43-yarder in the third quarter. It marks the second 100-yard rushing game of his career.

Terrelle Pryor had 372 yards of total offense, the first time an Ohio State player has had 300+ yards of total offense since Troy Smith had 328 against Michigan in 2006

Terrelle Pryor hooked up with Toledo native Dane Sanzenbacher for a 76-yard touchdown on Ohio State's first offensive possession both were career longs for Pryor and Sanzenbacher.

Terrelle Pryor has accounted for 24 of Ohio State's 41 offensive touchdowns (58.5 percent) since becoming the starter in the fourth game of the 2008 season (16 passing, 7 rushing, 1 receiving).

Wide receiver Dane Sanzenbacher caught five passes for a career-high 126 yards and a career-high two touchdowns. He is averaging 26.7 yards per catch this season.

Running back Dan "Boom" Herron has rushed for at least one touchdown in seven-consecutive games. He finished the game with 42 yards on 15 carries and one touchdown.

Freshman running back Jordan Hall saw his first game action on offense, running 7 times for 44 yards.



DEFENSIVE NOTES

Ohio State has held opponents to fewer than 21 points 41 times since 2006, the best among FBS teams. Ohio State is 39-3 in those games.

Ohio State's defense has allowed fewer than 10 points 21 times since the start of the 2006 season.

Ohio State's defense allowed just three first downs and 77 total yards in the first half against Toledo's potent offense that came in averaging 558 yards per game. The Buckeyes held the Rockets to 210 yards of total offense, more than 300 yards below their season average.

Toledo did not run a play in Ohio State territory until the 4:26 mark of the third quarter.


SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES

Redshirt freshman Ben Buchanan saw the first action of his career at punter. His first punt traveled 51 yards. On the day he punted three times for an average of 42.7 yards.


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

Former Buckeye All-American and current strength coordinator Jeff Uhlenhake was today's honorary captain for the Buckeyes. Uhlenhake was a 10-year NFL veteran and was a four-year starter at offensive guard for the Buckeyes from 1985-88.

Junior offensive lineman and Cleveland native Bryant Browning was today's offensive captain for the Buckeyes.

The Buckeyes made their first appearance in Cleveland since the 1991 season when Ohio State defeated Northwestern, 34-3, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. The Buckeyes have played a total of 16 games in Cleveland in its history.

True freshman wide receiver Duron Carter made his first career start along with J.B. Shugarts and Devon Torrence.

Ohio State looses to USC

Yes I know we're all aware of what happened last week against USC @ the Horseshoe. And I'm sure nobody or at least any Ohio State fan wants to hear anymore about it. It was a close game and I'm sure from kick off up until USC scored that game winning TD. Every Ohio State fan thought they OSU was going to win.

Well unfortunately that didn't happen.


While you were watching the game did anything look familiar to you? When I saw Terrelle Pryor throw that interception I immediately thought of last year when Ohio State played USC and Boeckman threw that interception to Rey Maualuga. To this day that video is shown all over the Internet. When I went to look on youtube for the video of Terrelle Pryor throwing that interception on Saturday. I couldn't find anything! Not a thing! And don't even get me started on rude comments that Brent Musberger said about Boeckman. I don't want to say the kind of things about Terrelle that people said about Todd last year. So I'll stop before it's to late!

Tomorrow...Ohio State vs. USC!

It's finally here! Tomorrow we will have the chance to watch Terrelle Pryor prove himself. This game will say a lot about coach Tressel choice to bench Todd Boeckman. Here's a little history to explain what this game means.

The numbers themselves are staggering ...



-More than 300 all-time First-Team All-Americans

-Almost 150 NFL total First-Round Draft picks

-Close to 60 combined College Football Hall of Famers

-46 total Rose Bowl games

-18 combined recognized national titles

-7 Heisman Trophy winners ... each!

Ohio State and USC. Is there a better combination of talent and history? That's debatable, but come Saturday the only number that matters is 1 ... as in 1 more classic clash!

Here's a look at the series ...

SERIES RECORD Southern California leads the all-time series with the Buckeyes by a 12-9-1 count. The first meeting between the two schools was a 13-12 USC home victory in 1937. The latest meeting at Ohio Stadium came in 1990, a 35-26 USC victory in Columbus. Ohio State's last win was a 42-21 victory in the Rose Bowl following the 1973 season

The winner has averaged 25.3 points per game during the series, with the losing team averaging 8.6, making the average margin of victory 16.7 points. Seven of the previous 22 meetings have been shutouts. Six games have been decided by a touchdown or less. The home team has won nine of the 15 regular season matchups.

Ohio State is 50-24-2 overall against the Pac-10; the Buckeyes have faced every conference school at least twice in football. In regular season games, Ohio State is 44-17-2 against the Pac-10.

The OSU-USC Series:

1937 at USC 13, Ohio State 12
1938 USC 14, at Ohio State 7
1941 Ohio State 33, at USC 0
1942 at Ohio State 28, USC 12
1946 Ohio State 21, at USC 0
1947 USC 32, at Ohio State 0
1948 at Ohio State 20, USC 0
1949 Ohio State 13, at USC 13
1954 Ohio State 20, USC 7*
1959 at USC 17, Ohio State 0
1960 at Ohio State 20, USC 0
1963 at USC 32, Ohio State 3
1964 at Ohio State 17, USC 0
1968 Ohio State 27, USC 16*
1972 USC 42, Ohio State 17*
1973 Ohio State 42, USC 21*
1974 USC 18, Ohio State 17*
1979 USC 17, Ohio State 16*
1984 USC 20, Ohio State 17*
1989 at USC 42, Ohio State 3
1990 USC 35, at Ohio State 26
2008 at USC 35, Ohio State 3 *Rose Bowl

Jack Tatum - Saturday's honorary captainDefensive back 1968-70

Jack Tatum was one of the dominant defensive players and most intimidating forces in college football during his career at Ohio State. A three-year starter, a two-time All-American and the national Defensive Player of the Year as a senior, he was known for his tenacity and fierce style of play. The 6-1, 208-pound Tatum came to Ohio State as a running back, but moved to defense in the spring of his freshman year. He was a mainstay of the defense for the next three seasons as OSU rolled up a 27-2 record and won the 1968 national championship, two Big Ten titles and played in two Rose Bowls. The Oakland Raiders selected him in the first round of the 1971 NFL Draft. In his nine-year career, he was named to the Pro Bowl three times and was a member of the 1976 Super Bowl champion Raiders. He was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame in 1981 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

USC Coach Pete Carroll Connected with OSU

Pete Carroll, current USC head coach, was an assistant for the Buckeyes in the 1979 season under Earle Bruce. Carroll, who coached the defensive backfield helped guide the Buckeyes to the Rose Bowl that season, ironically losing a tight 17-16 decision to USC. Read Carroll's bio from the 1979 season below.

1979 Season Glance

Former Ohio State player and assistant coach Earle Bruce is named head coach. The Buckeyes finish the regular season 11-0 and come within a point of a national championship, falling 17-16 to Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Bruce is named the Big Ten and national coach of the year in his first season.

Here's a link if you want to read a little more about the players and this game--
http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=987019