Ohio State Set to Dominate Akron with Powerful Offense

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00:00We start with a matchup in the state of Ohio today for Ohio

00:10State and they are a hefty, hefty favorite. More than six

00:13touchdowns against the Zips from Akron. It is a new era in

00:19Columbus. Ryan Day remains, enters year six at the helm

00:22fully of the Buckeyes but his former college head coach at

00:26New Hampshire and the former UCLA head coach, now the

00:30offensive coordinator at Ohio State. His name, of course, is

00:34Chip Kelly. Joe, what does the offense look like today for

00:38Ohio State who checks in not only as the big ten favorites

00:41but the number two team in the nation entering 2024. I think

00:44a very run-heavy offense today. Even though they bring in Will

00:48Howard from Kansas State, I think they're gonna look to run

00:50it. That was a weakness of Ryan Day and that offense last year

00:53with Travion Henderson. They only average 139 rushing yards

00:57per game. You have Travion Henderson coming back along

01:01with Ole Miss transfer, Quinshawn Junkins. That was an

01:03eleven hundred yard rusher. Average seven yards per rush

01:06with fifteen touchdowns on the ground. They should absolutely

01:10dominate the point of attack. They're four and all all-time

01:13against Akron. Won those games by an average margin of victory

01:16guys of thirty-one and a half points per game and since 2009,

01:21Kevin, Ohio State against Mac opponents. Fourteen and oh

01:25straight up. They've won those games by an average margin of

01:28victory of forty-one point seven points per game but oh by

01:32the way, the last four times they've played Mac opponents,

01:34the average margin of victory of six is sixty-one and a half

01:37points per game. I can't see any way Ohio State doesn't blow

01:41out Akron today. Alright, so how I'm betting this game is

01:47very simple. I don't really even need to give the necessary

01:51notes to back this up. Yeah. But I will though you won't

01:55really care about them. Travion Henderson and Quinshawn

01:58Junkins and at any time touchdown score parlay. I bet

02:00it minus 126. It's moved down to minus 120. II don't know

02:06really how it loses because if the if I can steal that

02:09breakdown from a good buddy of ours, it's they will do

02:13whatever they want to Akron and this running back room is

02:17incredible and fascinating in the age of the transfer portal.

02:21The idea that Quinshawn Junkins would go to Ohio State

02:25while Travion Henderson is not leaving and create this

02:28situation is an oddity. I don't know if he needed to get out of

02:33Ole Miss. I've heard some rumors but again, he didn't he

02:37could have easily gone to Oregon and would have been a

02:40lead back with still all the opportunities in the world but

02:44I think that we're at least for now hearing nothing but

02:47positivity. Great relationships rooting one another on and I

02:52think we're going to see Ryan Day make sure they both get

02:56into the end zone. Plus history says they will both easily get

02:59into the end zone. Last year, Akron plays Kentucky. Both

03:02lead backs get into the end zone. Two years ago, they play

03:05Michigan State. They had a running back with three

03:07touchdowns, another running back with two touchdowns and

03:09another running back with one and that same year, they played

03:12Tennessee whose top two's backs and Wright and Samson both

03:15scored twice. They both might score twice. Minus 120 for them

03:19each to score once. Yeah. Yes, please. The Buckeyes average

03:23thirty and a half points per game offensively a season ago

03:26which for most teams in college football would be a heck of a

03:29year in terms of putting up points on the scoreboard. In

03:32Columbus, it's a disaster. It was the first year since 2012

03:37that Ohio State averaged less than thirty-five points per

03:41game. Yes, it is a high standard but Chip Kelly is in

03:45to change all of that. We know a lot about Chip Kelly both in

03:48college football and in the National Football League with

03:52the Eagles and one thing that Chip Kelly does very well is

03:55mobile quarterbacks and running the football. Will Howard, the

03:58Kansas State transfer is the starting signal caller for the

04:01Buckeyes this year. I want to not even use UCLA the last

04:06couple of seasons. Top fifteen rushing offense in the country.

04:09238 yards per game which was sixth best back in 2022. I

04:13want to go back to when Chip Kelly was last in offensive

04:16coordinator in college football. That was 0708 at

04:20Oregon. Jeremiah Masoli had more than 700 yards as the

04:25quarterback for Oregon. In 2008, they had the second best

04:29rushing offense in total with more than 280 yards per game.

04:35But Garrett Blunt was there at the time. This is what Ohio

04:40State is going to look like this season and they still

04:43might have the best wide receiver room in the country.

04:46Emeka Egbuka, Cornell Tate, and maybe the best wide receiver

04:50or best true freshman in college football this year in

04:53Jeremiah Smith and Kev, you talked about this last week as

04:56we were breaking down our college football playoff

04:58predictions. It might not even matter because the Buckeyes

05:01defense is going to be one of the very best in the country

05:04this season. Ohio State enters as the second ranked team in

05:08the country, a plus 145 favorite to win the Big Ten.

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