Cotton Bowl ...Texas vs Ohio St

[Box and one]

Ohio St -6 over Texas ****
Think common opponent has nothing to do with tonites game. Ohio St I think has the better defense although Texas D is awesome. Both teams have good coaches and coordinators and have their strategies all figured out. It will be cold in Dallas tonite and think Ohio St can play better in a colder atmosphere Think Ohio St offesne is a little better then Texas's offesne and Ohio St has better balance on Off and Def. The QB from Ohio St Howard is 0-3 vs Texas from his days at Kansas State. Ewers who played his freshman year at Ohio St was a roommate of Ohio St top Def lineman . Think Day was in jeopardy of his job a few weeks ago but think with his QB and tandem rb's and the best wr in college football in Smith it will make trouble for the Longhorns defesne . Both off and def lines are outstanding. Think the way Ohio St dismantled its two playoffs opponents and although Texas did win but struggled somewhat . I think Ohio St is the most balanced team in the playoffs and with Smith and Ebuka and Rb's that can break one it might be a little to much for the Lonhorns D to match up Texas is so athletic on defense think they might have a problem stopping the Buckeyes because of their balanced attack passing and rushing the ball.I have said that I think the Texas defesne gets over looked because everyone is always talking about Ewers and Manning .But Texas defesne recently has give up more yardage then all season. I think with the two Ohio St wr;s and 2 running backs and Howard who has played vs Texas 2 times [ did lose both} gives them the edge . Plus the weather in Dallas is different then what we have here in Austin . Ohio St is the favorite and think there passing defesne and rushing defense will slow down Ewers and the Longhorns Hate going against the Longhorns but think Ohio St is the best team around esp. after seeing what they did to Oregon Ohio St wins and covers today at the Cotton Bowl

 

[LonghornMM]

Nice write up, Box. FYI the game is indoors at Cowboys Stadium. Weather is a non-factor.

 

[oxnardca1]

Hey Box, you took the words right out of my Mouth, in your writeup. Ohio St is playing their best ball, right now. That loss to Michigan, really LIT a fire in them.
LonghornMM, is Spot On, about the ideal weather conditions, in Jerry's World, but outside it does appear to be frigid! I see the Buckeyes POWERING into the finals!
Texas is known for their defense, as the season has progressed, but to both ASU and Clemson, they gave up a lot of points.
Last night, I sat out on wagering, but the game was great.
How the Irish pulled it out was crazy!

Best of Luck my Brothers

 

[Box and one]

my bad game is indoors not outside sorry thanks longhorn

• Pope Francis blessed the Fighting Irish before the game. Many years ago my HS team was playing a Cathloic power house They had a 7'0 kid from Sweden who ended up at BC and broke some records . I was short of ankle tape and went into the opposing teams lockeroom before the game The entire team was kneeling as a priest with a handle was spreading holy water to the entire team I interrupted and ask for some tape and said to the Priest can I get a drop of that He looked at me after I said I'm Catholic and ignored me But we upset the Cathloic powere house and boxed and one their giant. After the game I saw the priest and said I'll go to church on Sunday and get real Holy water. Think we held their kid to under double digits and he was a big time player avg over 30 pts a game. He was 3rd in the state in scoring avg and used a tuna boat defense on him. At lunch we used to have Tuna boats which consisted of bread, tuna melted cheese and another piece of bread. All week in preparing to "box " a post man " Their player was the Giant[Tuna} mine were the bread and melted cheese We had a 5'5 pt gd front him to eliminate the bounce pass to him and a 6'5 player behind him . All week you could hear me saying in the gym " who has the cheese and where is the bread". It's funny I can remember stuff like that but don't remember where I parked my car at Costgo's yesterday
  Posted by box and one on Jan-10 11:10 AM

 

[DoMyDermBest]

Hope you're wrong Box. Hook 'em.

 

[Real_Vision]

Just saw a 50.5 on one of my books.

This is what my first admittedly rather lengthy post was about… you can’t pay your best friend $100k to tell you this isnt gonna be high scoring, the actions there, but more movement lower today. Saw it as high as 56 or 56.5 days ago somebody likes the under. Someone besides me that is.

The paradox is now its dropped too low lol

In fact at 47 or 48 i want over

 

[BeanRothstein]

Just saw a 50.5 on one of my books.

This is what my first admittedly rather lengthy post was about… you can’t pay your best friend $100k to tell you this isnt gonna be high scoring, the actions there, but more movement lower today. Saw it as high as 56 or 56.5 days ago somebody likes the under. Someone besides me that is.

The paradox is now its dropped too low lol

In fact at 47 or 48 i want over

I like it to. im waiting to see it jumps back up a little. Currently 51.5 at DK

 

[Real_Vision]

I like it to. im waiting to see it jumps back up a little. Currently 51.5 at DK

Earlier i posted the team totals i saw, 29.5 and 22.5, and the number was still 53.5. When the team totals are below the number, i do not play the under.

Think i’m going to take texas team under, maybe texas first hlf or qtr money line, and take some overs live.

Now the dropping total feels like its trying to trap us in an under where each team has 35 at half.. like its making it impossible to take it, but definitely projects a tone that one needs to be on that side. Then crush you lol

 

[oxnardca1]

my bad game is indoors not outside sorry thanks longhorn

• Pope Francis blessed the Fighting Irish before the game. Many years ago my HS team was playing a Cathloic power house They had a 7'0 kid from Sweden who ended up at BC and broke some records . I was short of ankle tape and went into the opposing teams lockeroom before the game The entire team was kneeling as a priest with a handle was spreading holy water to the entire team I interrupted and ask for some tape and said to the Priest can I get a drop of that He looked at me after I said I'm Catholic and ignored me But we upset the Cathloic powere house and boxed and one their giant. After the game I saw the priest and said I'll go to church on Sunday and get real Holy water. Think we held their kid to under double digits and he was a big time player avg over 30 pts a game. He was 3rd in the state in scoring avg and used a tuna boat defense on him. At lunch we used to have Tuna boats which consisted of bread, tuna melted cheese and another piece of bread. All week in preparing to "box " a post man " Their player was the Giant[Tuna} mine were the bread and melted cheese We had a 5'5 pt gd front him to eliminate the bounce pass to him and a 6'5 player behind him . All week you could hear me saying in the gym " who has the cheese and where is the bread". It's funny I can remember stuff like that but don't remember where I parked my car at Costgo's yesterday
  Posted by box and one on Jan-10 11:10 AM

At least you know where are you keys Box.... I lose mine all the time!!
Again..... Great Story!!!
Thank you for sharing!!!!

 

[ejthree]

Silly kid may have cost us points there, damn...

 

[Real_Vision]

Now its becoming clear why the line movement suggested texas and the under.

They broke out the offensive face mask already. This is one of those NASTY unders