On Saturday, unexpectedly I had a treat when I turned on my TV a little before 6 pm. As I scrolled down the list of channels to see which games were televised, at the bottom it showed three games on a channel marked E. Ohio vs Jax was one of them. I wondered if that might have been a new arrangement that would have YouTube TV airing ESPN+ games.

That meant that I got to see both the Nebraska and Jax games. This question arose: How do you think Ohio's lines - OL and DL - will fare against the top remaining opponents?

It is a recent thing. From a YoueTube support site: "Subscribers to YouTube TV's base plan or standalone Sports package automatically receive full access to ESPN Unlimited content without paying an additional monthly fee."

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Yes, I don't know if all of that goes into it or what all else does. I would imagine something like passes completed, if it is taken into account, probably doesn't have a lot of effect since the result of that shows up as yards gained. Having, as I said, messed with this sort of thing a little bit as a freshman in high school or so, and obviously at that point I wasn't going as deep as someone like Connelly probably is, I still feel pretty comfortable stating that the 185 difference in total yardage was by far the big thing here. You almost never win with that. I'd bet that turnovers are the second biggest component of a formula like this. Again, just based on some linear regression type of things that I did when I was about 14. This was before the internet and before I had access to a spreadsheet or anything like that....Pulling stats out of USAToday and doing calculations with a handheld calculator and notebook paper..... But yeah, If you tell me that you lost the yardage battle by 185 and don't tell me anything else about the game my first guess would be that you lost by 20 points, and knowing some other things that I have learned about football since then I'd say, yeah, knowling nothing else, I'd give you about a 15% chance to win.

Thanks, I think I'm on the same page now with you and Ted on this stat. I was truly mystified at first. I'm also impressed with your early mastery of statistics. Were you a math major at OHIO? If so, what vintage? My father was a math professor, who retired in the 1980s.

No, not a math major. I had classes from six different math professors in the mid-nineties, but I probably never met your father.

Nope. No details at all in the presser. Marty B. Asks incredibly lightweight questions. No analysis whatsoever.

Thanks for that information. You wouldn't have had classes from Dad, but undoubtedly you did have classes from professors that he recruited when he was chairman of the department, a posiiton he held more than once. Do you remember the names of any of your math professors?

I took the main calculus sequence which was 4 classes under the quarter system, differential equations, statistics, matrix theory, and introduction to proofs. I had two professors twice. Unfortunately, I can only remember the last name of one of those two. It was Vanko.

EDIT: I found this page on the university website.
I know for sure that I had Eliot Jacobson, Robert Vancko, and Winfried Just

I believe that Dad hired Dr. Just, not sure about the other two, though I know who they are. Every year we are invited to the "MathFest" that they have in spring because we get to meet the recipient of the graduate student scholarship that's in Dad's name.