bimmercandoASA FREE PLAY ON Ohio State -25 over Wisconsin, Saturday at 3:30 PM ET
Will Badgers score in this game? They were shutout 37-0 at home vs Iowa last week and OSU’s defense is a few notches better than the Hawkeyes.
OSU is allowing just 8 PPG on the season and teams are averaging 0.85 points per drive, both #1 in the country. Wisconsin’s offense has been brutal to say the least.
They are down to their 3rd string QB (transfer from Southern Illinois) and they can’t run the ball (116th nationally in YPG rushing). That makes it very tough to score and they’ve shown that can’t.
This team is averaging less than 7 PPG in Big 10 play and over their last 4 games they’ve had 45 offensive possessions and scored a grand total of 3 offensive TD’s. Just terrible.
And now they face the best defense they’ve seen this year. A defense that held Washington to 6 points, Texas to 7 points, and Minnesota to 3 points.
Offensively OSU isn’t great this year but they are still very good. They still rank 19th in the country in YPP and 23rd in scoring putting up 37 PPG. They shouldn’t need to do much on offense here as Wisconsin will do next to nothing on their offensive side of the ball.
OSU has scored at least in the mid 30’s in 4 of their 6 games and that should easily get it done here vs a Wisconsin defense that started out well, but has faded.
The Badgers have allowed 38, 27, 24, and 37 points over their last 4 games and 3 of those offenses rank 50th or worse (total offense) including Iowa who ranks 115th yet put up 37 points last week.
The Badgers put a lot of emotional effort into last week’s game vs arch rival Iowa and still got smoked. Nothing left in the tank here and OSU rolls big.