Fiesta Bowl: Pryor Offense, Texas Longhorns Scouting Ohio State Buckeyes Offense

  Scipio Tex writes at Barking Carnival and his archive and more 2009 Fiesta Bowl information can be found here . Pryor Offense Ohio State’s offense is three yards and a cloud of musk. It’s a playful body spray that smells like 3rd-and-4; a cologne called Bleak Industrial Town that offers a hint of freshly cut grass, burning ottomans, and lugnuts. The numbers: 28.2 points and 339 yards per contest—don’t exactly leap off of the page, but Jim Tressel has a fairly large case of don’t-give-a-shit when it comes to statistics or style points. Tress is a conservative cat and he’ll only give his offense over to a playmaker when that player has compiled enough trust to sponge bath Mrs. Tressel. The Buckeyes had a number of contests this year in which they were totally worked over by an opposing defense, gaining less than 300 yards of offense against four teams: Ohio, USC, Purdue, and Penn State. Some of that is attributable to legitimate ... (link)