National college football writer, Matt Brown interviewed

[ProudUte]

Matt Brown was interviewed on the Zone this morning.  He knows college football, especially Ohio State since he graduated from there.  He is very high on Coach Whitt and the Utes.  He likes Utah’s chances in the Rose Bowl.  He said that the mood in Columbus is not good.  He pointed out that they are a bit spoiled and losing one game is devastating to them.  He did say that the young players are anxious to show what they have, so they will come ready to play.

One interesting insight he had is that OSU has not been great in the red zone.  They are excellent on long-scoring plays.  Utah plays a bend-don’t-break defense.  We do not allow a lot of chunk plays.  So, maybe this plays into our hands.  He pointed out that when OSU struggled scoring, it was because their red-zone offense did not deliver.  OSU always generated tons of passing yards but this did not always equate to points on the board.

[Ghost of the HEB]

I’m very curious to see what the corner situation looks like opposite of CP3. We’ve been good at limiting big plays this season, but we also haven’t faced a passing offense even close to Ohio State’s. Wilson and Olave not playing should help, but their actual leading WR (Smith-Njigba) is apparently still on track to play. OSU has like 40 5 star players on their roster, so their backups for Olave and Wilson won’t be scrubs. Their QB put up 38 TDs and only 5 INTs this season. If it wasn’t snowing in Michigan on 11/27, Ohio State is probably the 2 seed in the CFP right now.

For Utah to win this game the offense needs to show up in a big way. Obviously the offensive players understand this and have made multiple comments about how they know Ohio State will score a lot of points so they need to as well.

[EagleMountainUte]

Did you watch the Michigan vs tOSU game?  Snow had nothing to do with the final score. Michigan clubbed them.