Indiana vs. Ohio State Football Analysis by Coach Terry Bowden

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00:00To the more key matchup, our college football today, game of

00:08the week, which is number five, Indiana, and number two, Ohio

00:12State. Coach Bowden, you were sharing with us just in the

00:14commercial break, you know, the guy leading the Hoosiers to this

00:17generational and historic season personally, and very well.

00:21That's Kurt Cignetti.

00:24Yeah, that's right. That's why this this season just isn't

00:26something that just popped up there. He is an outstanding

00:29coach. His father, Frank Cignetti, was my dad's offensive

00:33coordinator at West Virginia. When I played there, and then I

00:37played, then his father became the head coach, and he was my

00:40head coach. I've known Kurt Cignetti since he was five years

00:43old. But I'm telling you, his father was a genius offensive

00:46coach. Kurt has been prepared to coach all his life. In this

00:49game, I would imagine, I think he's the better field coach on

00:53the field today in this football game. He's been doing it a long

00:56time. He's 63 years old, and he knows what he's doing with that

01:00football team. On the other hand, I look at the talent

01:03level. You know, Kurt went out there and got his NIL money and

01:06got a bunch of G5 players that are really, really good. But

01:10Ohio State took about 20 million and got the best players in the

01:13country. And that's the other thing, too.

01:16Yeah. So, Coach, as we look at the key matchups in this game,

01:20and we see it here, a double-digit spread in favor of

01:23Ohio State at home in Columbus. Some have poked holes in the

01:27resume of Indiana based on how easy the slate has been this

01:31season. But you know Coach Cignetti very well. As they

01:35enter this game as a double-digit dog, how will Coach

01:38Sig have his Hoosiers ready to play today?

01:42Well, let me tell you what he'll do. He knows he's the

01:44underdog. He knows he's got to pull something off. He had a

01:47week off. You watched him to put a wrinkle in here. Change of

01:50tendency. Do something that they're not expecting him to do.

01:54And if he can get seven to 10 points out of just playing

01:57differently, he'll try to get that. Whereas Ohio State says,

02:00hey, we're the better team. Let's just play our game. They

02:03better not do that, but they better have their own wrinkles.

02:05But I think Cignetti will take advantage of the off week and

02:09try to grab a couple of points. Then he's got to win the

02:11turnover battle to have a chance here because the bottom line is

02:14Ohio State still has more talent and they'll still probably do

02:18enough. But I'm taking Indiana with the points right now.

02:21Coach, when you look at Ohio State, they're all American

02:24center. McLaughlin went down one in the Achilles tear. They're

02:27going to have a backup does have experience. How much pressure

02:31does that put on the center, obviously in the offensive line

02:34to have continuity in this matchup? They have had an extra

02:37week of preparation. Looking, heading into this, they did

02:41play Northwestern, but how much pressure is on this offensive

02:44line today?

02:45Joe, I think that's a good point because next to the quarterback,

02:48the center is the most important position on the offense. He

02:51makes all the calls of where the pressure is coming from what the

02:54lineman have to do. Everything's on his shoulders up front. And

02:58when you lose your center, that's next to losing your

03:01quarterback. So that's why I'm picking the under. I think the

03:03talent will overcome it. But you got to remember, I think

03:06Indiana, I think is the number one rush defense in the country.

03:09They play great defense, not just great offense. And so

03:13that's going to keep the score down. But like I said, overall

03:16talent, there'll be a big play too many playmakers on the team

03:19at Ohio State. And Indiana has still had a tough had had a

03:23easier schedule. But it's not their fault that Washington

03:26wasn't very good. Michigan wasn't very good at Nebraska

03:29wasn't big wasn't their fault that these teams that are

03:31usually really good weren't that good.

03:33It's also the quality of how Indiana has been steamrolling

03:37past that inferior competition this year, coach.

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