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2020 Game 1 “Expert” Picks: Nebraska @ Ohio State ————— CollegeFootballNews.com https://collegefootballnews.com/2020/10/ohio-state-vs-nebraska-prediction-game-preview Why Nebraska Will Win Is this when the offense starts to kick in? Adrian Martinez won the job back, Dedrick Mills is a good back to work around, and despite a few too many issues last year, this year’s offensive front should be a plus. The firepower is there. The receiving corps is way young, but it has the potential to be way good as long as Martinez gets time to work. The running game that was among the best in the Big Ten with over 200 yards per game and it needs to be explosive from the start. The Huskers ran for 184 yards in the meeting last year, and no one ran for more until Wisconsin hit the 200-yard mark in the Big Ten Championship. However … Why Ohio State Will Win Ohio State got run on by the Huskers last year … and won 48-7. There’s still a huge question mark about whether or not the Nebraska offense can consistently keep things moving against a defense with Ohio State’s athleticism and speed. The power isn’t there to blast away, and the Buckeye linebackers can run and run some more to keep Martinez and Mills in check. The bigger problem for Nebraska is on the defensive side. There’s size up front, but can anyone get into the backfield to bother Justin Fields on a consistent basis? The OSU offensive front should be among the best in the country, and it’ll be up to the rotation of Oklahoma transfer Trey Sermon and Master Teague to take over the game early on. Fields will be Fields and push the ball down the field, but the Buckeyes can be balanced against this Husker D. What’s Going To Happen Ohio State will press too much out of the gate and have a hard time getting going, and then the second quarter will happen. Just when it seems like Nebraska is about to have a breakthrough moment, the Ohio State explosion will happen with a huge run to take over the game before halftime. The Buckeye defensive front will take over in the second half. Ohio State 41 - Nebraska 17 ————— 247Sports https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Predictions-college-football-best-Week-8-games-Alabama-Tennessee-Baylor-Texas-Ohio-State-Nebraska-153301466/#153301466_7 Chris Hummer: I have no doubt Ohio State wins this game. The Buckeyes are a great, motivated team. But a small part of me thinks Nebraska manages to keep this close enough. These teams are coming in cold, the Buckeyes will want to get reps for some of their backups and Scott Frost is incentivized to keep his starters in as long as needed – another OSU blowout is going to kill the Huskers on the trail and further harm Frost’s reputation. Given all of those factors, I like Nebraska to pull out a backdoor cover Ohio State 48 - Nebraska 24 Bud Crawford: Four touchdowns is a scary line if you're backing the Buckeyes here, but Ohio State is 3-1 against the spread in its past four games against the Huskers. Ironically, the closest game over that stretch was last time these teams met in Columbus. Ohio State's offense won't be full-throttle in Week 1, but it'll be enough to cover against a Nebraska squad that will have trouble scoring. Ohio State 38 - Nebraska 10 ————— ESPN FPI https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401247293 Ohio State - 95.4% Win ————— DRatings https://www.dratings.com/predictor/ncaa-football-predictions/upcoming/3#scroll-upcoming Ohio State - 89.4% Win ————— Bill Connelly SP+ https://twitter.com/ESPN_BillC/status/1318899991776120833?s=20 Ohio State 41 - Nebraska 19 ————— Big Red Wrap-Up http://netnebraska.org/media/media.php?bin=NET&vidgroup=50012862&jwsource=cl Mike’l Severe: Ohio State 42 - Nebraska 24 Jay More: Ohio State 38 - Nebraska 20 ————— More to come!!!

Over. O/U the number of times we force OSU to punt (1.5) in the opener.

Now that we have an answer, should we lock this thread up? Or wait until kickoff of the first game.

All of the Big Ten fans right now...

I'm probably waiting on the PS5/Series X since it looks like there is nothing I want for launch, and I'm finally gonna upgrade my sandy bridge machine from 2011! Gonna bring the 1070 over for now, and jump on the 3xxx series when they drop next quarter. I'm just deciding between a 9600K or 10600K 10600k: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/R4fPRk 9600K: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mt2VMc

Waiting for Desmond Howard to demand that Michigan gets kicked out...

I wonder if the vote last night actually did happen, it leaked before it was announced, and now that everyone is blasting the conference, they're going to "really vote this time" tonight.

4-D chess man....

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It's plausible, but I'd say it's more likely to be caused by college kids in that community throwing parties and acting like college kids.

The conference isn't cancelling because of COVID. The university presidents are scared to death of the players unionizing.

Meanwhile at the Big Ten Headquarters...

He ain't wrong.

It's embarrassing.

Nobody knows. It's insane that all these "power people" making millions of dollars, had zero plan, and still have no idea what they're doing. They literally buried their heads in the sand, and hoped for a miracle. What the hell was Kevin Warren thinking that led him to release the revised schedules on Wednesday, and come out and support it saying he would feel safe, and yet 4 days later, it's all going up in smoke? You can't tell me the B1G wasn't talking to the presidents... What have these guys been doing since March?

Tallahassee is really more like Alabama.

Scott Dochterman from the Athletic wrote a good article discussing the scheduling tweaks and stuff they had to do to make this year work (we hope). My question is, if the Big Ten is adjusting future schedules... can they go ahead and fix the Black Friday series with Nebraska/Iowa? It makes no sense to do Nebraska/ Minnesota & Iowa/Wisconsin on Black Friday for just 1 season.