Buckeyes trash Penn State 63-14

ESPN's Mark May predicted that Penn State coming off a win over michigan and a bye week would pull an upset over Ohio State.
This is not unusual for May,who picks against the Buckeyes almost every week as part of his pro wrestling schtick and what else was usual?
Yep,Ohio State wins and delivered their best all around performance of the year in whipping the Nittany Lions 63-14.
Braxton Miller accounted for five Buckeye touchdowns and Carlos Hyde rumbled for 147 yards to go with two scores as the Lions were sent whimpering home with the worst loss in 114 years.
The now 8-0 Buckeyes (4-0 Big 10) will travel to Purdue next week...

Olentangy Observations

1) Carlos Hyde is one bad bully.
I've claimed that Jordan Hall has the most talent of any OSU Back,but Hyde is making me doubt that.
Since missing the first three games,Hyde has shown not just power,but a surprising amount of speed as well and that makes him a dangerous man for defenses.

2) Braxton Miller-five touchdowns and 300 yards plus of total offense.
Miller was at the top of his game with his arm and feet and Penn State had little chance in stopping him.
This almost looked like a man against boys...

3) Pivotal play was early when Penn State drove down the field after the first Buckeye touchdown and Christian Hackenberg underthrew Jesse James in the end zone.
Corey "pitt' Brown looked like Andrew McCutchen under a fly ball in gathering the interception and it was never close after that....

4) Noah Spence was dominant in notching two sacks,a forced fumble and more pressures than I can type.
Spence is from Harrisburg.PA and was motivated for the game as one could see.
Spence is beginning to live up to his high school hype and is maturing as a pass rusher as he just ran around the befuddled Lion tackles.

5) Loved the touchdown by Dontre Wilson where he left a Penn State defender twisting in the wind.
Considering the speed of Wilson combined with moves that make fast guys look clumsy,Wilson has the chance to be the next Reggie Bush at the college level..

6) Dominant line play sent Penn State down the road to disaster.
When you get pushed off the ball in the running game and then cannot protect your quarterback,you are not going to win many games and often that is the first ingredients in a blowout...

7) Things went so well that I am running out of things to singles out,but one more player stood out in Devin Smith.
Seems like every week,Braxton Miller has a different go to guy and Smith might be the best rounded of the pass catchers...

8) C.J. Barnett has become much more of a hitter and leader since the injury to Christian Bryant at safety and Barnett's interception was another backbreaker to Penn State
It has been Barnett,not Bradley Roby that has been the most well rounded performer in the secondary...

9) Now for a few words on Penn State.
First of all,anyone that doesn't wear blue and white should have never picked Penn State to win this game.
This was,after all, a team that has lost to Indiana,but they must have been impaired by the win over michigan,who was also undefeated,but that game was at State College,which is a great environment to play in and can carry a lesser team to upsets.
This game was in Columbus and I saw no way Penn State could win unless Ohio State beat themselves.
Anyone (Mark May) that thought otherwise was deluding themselves...

10) Penn State will be tougher next year in State College in the aforementioned environment,but fans of the Nittany should get used to these types of whippings (especially on the road) for a while and it will get worse.
They may have gotten some of those scholarships back,but the issues with talent and especially depth are only going to become progressively obvious over the next few seasons.
WE ARE mediocre... Somehow does not have the same ring to it...

11) Why have I been so hard on the Lions today and last night on Facebook?
Most that know me know that isn't generally my style,but the delusional "we are" bunch struck a nerve entering this game with their smack talk,ridiculous predictions and arrogance from a program based on a lie.
That lie has nothing to do with Jerry Sandusky,that lie goes back to the days of entering the conference.
After years of being the bully of the Mid-Atlantic against programs that were not built to compete against a team with the resources of Penn State,their fans expected to hit the Big Ten with a wave of dominance.
They found out that the league had Ohio State,michigan and Wisconsin waiting for them,not Maryland,Syracuse and Temple and the Lions settled in on the level of Iowa, every few years with a title winning squad,but usually in the upper/middle of the pack and that is not what they bargained for.
I know Penn State fans like to look at Ohio State as a rival,but really we don't think of you as such,but hang in there guys with Maryland and Rutgers on their way,it can be just like old times!
As in picking a rival that you can dominate and feel good about yourselves......

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