Here's a really interesting, if a bit old, article in a Cleveland newspaper. It's from July, so Braxton was still expected to play. (I didn't see this posted anywhere else--and I'm on this site a ridiculous number of times per day--anyway sorry if it's a duplicate.) Things I found interesting:
1) They have us pegged as their second most difficult opponent on the year.
2) That still only gives us an 11% chance of winning, in their eyes.
3) There's a 2012 video of Brewer in there from Texas Tech.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2014/07/5_questions_about_virgini...
I don't know where they dug up this Andy Bitter guy to interview... ;)
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Geee.... a newspaper in Ohio that gives Ohio State an overwhelmingly good chance of winning the game... Shocking.
Not that I don't think Ohio State is not the favorite, but with what they're missing right now and what they have to replace, and just how bad that defense (especially the secondary) was last year, I'd give us at least a 25-30% chance.
At this point it's almost obligatory....
Dumb and Dumber video will always get a leg for me.
11% is way too low. With new QB on each team, my percentage is 50-50%.
Never tell me the odds.
At least they respect that the Hokies are the second best team on their schedule.
Man, victory is going to be so sweet.
% are usually easily figured out by the point spreads. 11% is an accurate estimate for an 18 point underdog as we were at the time. If we drop to 10 point underdogs, that goes up to about 25%.
Here's a %, over 50% of their offensive players are new, id say that cancels out that 11% considering bud foster will wreak havoc on those guys.
Win or lose, percent chance tOSU fans will be sweatin' it at some point in the game:
