COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Bowling Green will be a four-touchdown underdog coming into
Ohio Stadium on Saturday, but new Falcons coach Mike Jinks said he welcomes the
chance to shock the world.
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off the mighty Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium, it would be a monumental inaugural win
for him as a college coach. A Texas Tech assistant for three seasons after a
long career in Texas high school football, the 44-year-old Jinks took the helm
at Bowling Green this season after Dino Babers was hired away by
Syracuse.Returning fewer than half the starters from a team that went 10-4 and
won the Mid-American Conference crown last year, the Falcons have their work cut
out for them. They have new starters at quarterback and tailback, a rebuilt
defensive line and must compensate for the loss of two of the three best
receivers from last year.Anything can happen, right?Ive been an underdog my
whole life, Jinks said. I kind of excel in those situations.So does Bowling
Green, it seems. The Falcons shocked two Big 10 teams last season on the road,
Maryland and Purdue, and stayed competitive against Tennessee in the season
opener. In 2014, they beat Indiana 45-42 at home.These are the games we ought to
want to be in, Jinks said. These are the opportunities that dont come too often.
There are 128 FBS schools in the country, and were playing at probably one of
the top five venues of all time. Not everybody gets those chances throughout a
college career, so its a trend that we hope to continue in years to come.Bowling
Green will take home a guaranteed payout of $975,000 for the trip to Ohio
Stadium.Some other things to know as the Falcons try to pull off the upset in
Columbus:QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, QUESTIONSThere may be as many questions about No.
6 ranked Ohio State as Bowling Green this season. The Buckeyes have the least
experienced team in the nation, losing 16 starters from last year. They have new
starters at tailback and wide receiver, and throughout the defense.I know what
were walking into, but you dont know what this 16 Ohio State team going to be,
and you dont know what this 16 Bowling Green team is going to be, Jinks said.
Thats the exciting part of it.DONT DISCOUNT THE UNDERDOGSOhio State players say
theyve learned not to look past any team. The Buckeyes needed a pick-six from
linebacker Darron Lee to bail out its struggling offense and squeak by MAC power
Northern Illinois 20-13 in what was intended to be a tune-up game early last
season.Scrappy. Very, very scrappy, offensive guard Billy Price said of BG. NIU
was a very good opponent. We expect the same thing. We cannot take an opponent
lightly no matter what conference, whatever team it is. Were going in there
respecting them just as much as we did Alabama or just as much as Oregon.Said
linebacker Chris Worley: A team like Bowling Green, you can never overlook them.
Theyre going to come here ready to play, and we know that. The team that plays
the hardest will win.SHADES OF 2014?Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said this years
teams reminds him of the 2014 team in terms of starting so many talented but
still untested players. That team ended up winning the national
championship.(Its) very similar, he said. And Im real excited about them. Im
trying to hold down the excitement because I really am. I cant wait to watch
them to play. This has been a good camp. Good people to work with.The biggest
unknown, he said, is how the young players will react to being in the stadium
with 100,000 of their closest, noisiest friends.BARRETT READY TO ROLLMeyer said
quarterback J.T. Barrett, who entered a training camp for the first time as the
undisputed starting quarterback, is playing as well as he ever has.Hes on top of
his game, Im proud to say, Meyer said. Hes a very good player, a very good
leader. Hes driving the car and hes never had that this time of year. The first
time he got a start, he certainly wasnt driving the car. He was in the front
seat somewhere, but he wasnt driving it. Now its his, and hes really doing a
nice job.---Follow Mitch Stacy at http://twitter.com/mitchstacyFor some of his
other recent stories: http://bigstory.ap.org/content/mitch-stacy
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perhaps has been a little fire. Or, in other words, the two teams would appear
to have at least spoken. And spoken is defined as one calling the other to
inquire, no more, no less. On the eve of a series which Angelo Mathews embarks
upon without his two best seam bowlers of the past 18 months, Sri Lankas captain
has called on the coaching system to raise its game.Sri Lankas quicks have been
among the most injury-prone in the world over the past few years, with several
spending up to 12 months in triage, and others regularly missing entire series
with recurrent complaints. While many of these injuries have been difficult to
avoid thanks to a busy schedule, Mathews said, there remained room for
improvement in player production.In addition to the absence of Dhammika Prasad
and Dushmantha Chameera, Sri Lanka are also without Shaminda Eranga, who was
recently suspended for an illegal action. The selectors have had no choice but
to pull two seam bowlers out of the ongoing A team tour of England, to replace
the absent frontliners in the national squad. With Suranga Lakmal also in doubt
for the first Test due to a hamstring complaint, either Asitha Fernando or
Vishwa Fernando may make their Test debut.The coaches in the back end have to do
a lot of work to produce players, and also try to get them fit, Mathews said. We
need more players coming through the ranks, so the coaches have a bigger job to
play for the next one-and-a-half years. If the fast bowlers are injured, we need
fast bowlers. At the international level, I cant go as a captain and say we dont
have bowlers. If we dont have them, we need to know how to produce them.Prasad
will now miss his third full Test series in a row, after having also withdrawn
from the New Zealand and England tours before the first Test. Chameera left the
England tour after the first Test, and legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay, who was
being prepared for Test entry in this series, has also now been ruled out thanks
to a finger injury.It has been a very frustrating few months, Mathews said. Not
only one bowler, weve lost so many. Vandersay is one of our key bowlers in the
spin department. Its very frustrating to see them going down. The workload has
been very high when they pplay all three formats.
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continuously, the body eventually gets tired. Its very hard to divide those
players when it comes to Tests, one-dayers and Twenty20s. We havent got a wide
range of choices to make and pick from. The bowlers who are fit - theyve got no
choice but to play all three formats.Actually, as back-up staff, we need to try
and look for more new players and get them ready and fit. We cant always keep
saying, the bowlers are injured, we havent got that many bowlers. We need to try
and find them if we dont have them.Of the bowlers that do remain however,
spinners Rangana Herath and Dilruwan Perera are expected to feature through the
series. Herath recently surpassed 300 Test scalps, and Perera has largely proved
himself an able second spinner in Asian conditions.I think the spinners will
have a lot of workload on this pitch, Mathews said. If its spinning or seaming,
weve got a couple of key bowlers in Rangana Herath or Dilruwan if it spins.
Theyve got enough experience. We have set up a few plans and hopefully we can
execute them.Sri Lankas batting appears more settled than the attack, with
Mathews confirming that Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal will bat at nos. 3 and
4, as they had through much of the tour of England. Openers Dimuth Karunaratne
and Kaushal Silva have also now played more than 25 Tests each, and are
currently unchallenged at the top of the order.Im actually happy with the
current opening pair, he said. Especially in England - in tough conditions - I
thought they put up some good efforts. All the batsmen lacked getting those big
hundreds. If we can be more consistent and convert those 30s, 40s and 50s into
100s and 150s, that would be ideal. Our opening combination is going to be the
key part in our batting unit. If they can get the shine off the ball and try and
send the bowlers into their second and third spells, that would be ideal.
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