Ohio State vs Michigan Game May Be Swan Song For Hoke
By Charles Jay
When the Ohio State Buckeyes meet up with the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday at high noon, there won’t be a Big Ten championship on the line. For the Buckeyes, it could be something much bigger, while for the Maize and Blue, it could be something much……different.
Vietbet customers noticed that the Buckeyes did not get off to a good start to the 2014 campaign, as the very depressing news that Braxton Miller, the senior quarterback, was going to be sidelined for the entire season with a shoulder injury, but for Urban Meyer, that just meant he had to plug in another player. Maybe it was not as simple as all that, but JJ Barrett has unquestionably made it look that way. A redshirt freshman, Barrett has stepped in and progressed so nicely that he has assumed the place that Miller was presumed to have in the Heisman Trophy discussion. And he has this team lurking around the fringes of the four-team college football playoff rankings, sitting in sixth position at the moment. Could this Buckeye team, which performed so unimpressively against Virginia Tech in the season’s second game, while Barrett was just getting his legs under him, so to speak (going 9 for 29), actually wind up competing for a national title?
In the college football betting odds that have been placed on this Noon ET game by the folks at Vietbet, the Buckeyes are prohibitive favorites in this game being held at Ohio Stadium in Columbus:
Ohio State Buckeyes -21
Michigan Wolverines +21
Over 51.5 points -110
Under 51.5 points -110
Barrett has been nothing short of sensational. He has been 65% accurate through the air, with 33 touchdown passes and just ten interceptions. He has also gained 849 yards on the ground, with ten more scores. In a sense, the fact that Barrett, who never took a collegiate snap before this season, has been able to make the transition so seamlessly really has to be a testament to Meyer and his spread option offense.
Meanwhile, Vietbet patrons can see an interesting situation is occurring with Miller, who was ranked the top senior quarterback prospect by the people at the National scouting service (which is employed by the NFL) and actually would like to come back and play next season. He has been the Big Ten’s offensive player of the year two years running, and Meyer has postured as if he could compete for the job in the event he returned from injury. But that night not be so clear at the moment, and the word is that Miller may be considering a transfer, perhaps to a place like Oregon, which will lose Marcus Mariota after this season. Miller could play as a graduate student without having to sit out any time.
About as unsure as Miller’s future is that of Michigan coach Brady Hoke, who got some immediate results when he took the job (winning the Sugar Bowl during his first season), but has been through hell this season. The Wolverines have lost home games to Utah, Minnesota and Maryland, and there has been controversy surrounding a quarterback, Shane Morris, who is known to have played in that Minnesota game while showing the effects of a concussion. That led to the resignation of athletic director Dave Brandon.
College football bettors are aware that Michigan isn’t even bowl-eligible yet, and ranks 111th in the nation in offense. But Vietbet customers know they have done the job on the defensive side. The Wolverines rank ninth in the nation in total defense, and are yielding less than three yards a carry. It appears unlikely that Ohio State can just move the football at will. But Devin Gardner has been awful throwing the football, hitting just 24 of his 48 passes in the last two games and possessing a ratio of right TD’s to 14 interceptions on the season.
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