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FORMATION NOTES: So I heard you like doing cocaine and then doing more cocaine and then coaching a football team's defense.

OSU, like Illinois, was +1 in the box on standard downs the whole game. Unlike Illinois they did not almost always have a safety who would not be on the screen in the above shot. Otherwise: OSU ran their 4-2-5 virtually the whole game, sometimes with one "deep" safety and sometimes with two; this alignment was especially aggressive with the deepest guy at 7 yards but 10 was not uncommon.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Keegan returned at left guard and Barnhart stayed on at RT. Jones got in for maybe a half dozen snaps as a bonus OL. It appears that general opinion on Barnhart is considerably higher than I expected—he was an All Big Ten honorable mention to both the coaches and media—so maybe I've been a bit pessimistic about his play.

Obviously there was quite a bit of involuntary rotation at RB. Corum tried but could not go; M turned to Stokes. Stokes had a couple issues on his first carries, so Edwards got the large bulk of the remaining work. Stokes did reappear for some snaps in the second half. Gash got in for a goal line play action that went to Loveland. Mullings got two snaps, which I probably do not have to tell you.

Colston Loveland was TE1 in this game. Schoonmaker returned but basically only got in on multiple TE sets. WR rotation was pretty tight, with Andrel Anthony and AJ Henning getting scattered snaps as Wilson, Bell, and Johnson got the vast bulk of PT.

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