[NU Sports] Say it ain't so.................

[DPENDERG at aol.com]

It's always fun to play the fantasy game "what if" but does anybody really  
think we have a good chance to beat the Bucks on Saturday?  I think they  have 
too much team speed and too many weapons for an upset.  We remember  that 
great upset win in 2004, but that was against a much weaker OSU team.   I'd love 
to beat the Bucks on Saturday, but Cats would have to play a  virtually 
error-free game and the Bucks would have to come in flat and  distracted. Because 
they have so much at stake now in the BCS standings,  the Bucks will play with 
motivation and purpose.  Tressel, I'm sure, also  has not forgotten 2004.
 
Our bowl hopes really rest on beating UM and Illinois.  The Blue are  
battered and down, but in their house in Ann Arbor, it will be no easy W for the  
Cats.  And the Illinois game will be war.  I just hope we emerge from  the OSU 
game without injuries and prepared to win those two games.  Without  those wins, 
we probably end up in Detroit. 
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