Week 2 Big Ten Season

Here's hoping that the Illinois game is nothing like the rest of the Big Ten season. Way too much drama against an opponent that doesn't deserve to be in the game that long! And with Indiana coming off of a near-victory against UM, ugh.

The weekly awards went to Zach Boren (yes, the FB) for OLine, Boom Herron on Offense, and Brian Rolle on Defense. The Attack Force player was Cameron Heyward and special teams POW was Ben Buchanan. Only 3 defensive players and 2 on offense graded out winning performances.

With great anguish, Jim Tressel announced what we had feared - Tyler Moeller will miss the remainder of the season with a torn pectoral muscle. He will have (or has had) surgery this week. Tressel noted that they already filed preliminary paperwork to get him a 6th year (hardship) explaining that an earlier injury to Tyler's pec muscle did not properly heal while he re-habbed from the head injury. Moeller will be sorely missed.

Tressel also reported that the quad injury of TP continues to heal/improve, noting that probably no player with the ball in his hands that much is 100% after 5 games. That might be coach-speak for a more serious injury - or less. I take news on the quad with a grain of salt given last season where the "knee" led to the eventual news that TP needed knee surgery. It will be telling how often TP carries the ball in the next game - Tressel continues to say that TP is scripted to carry the ball maybe 8-10 times per game. Makes me wonder also how Denard Robinson will hold up throughout the season carrying the ball probably 75% of the time (or more).

This week's Indiana squad should come in confident on offense, but devastated on defense. With the game in-hand, the Hoosiers could not hold off Robinson who clearly was going to tote the rock on the final drive. His one 40+ yard pass play was key, however. I continue to wonder if Robinson is that good or his opponents to-date, that bad. I'd like to see him rack up 100-200 yards on the ground against a stout rushing defense. Then, we will know a heck of a lot more.

The game vs Indiana tees up at noon eastern this Saturday.

GO BUCKS from JennyBucks!