Ohio
State fans are being
encouraged to wear scarlet shirts, bring scarlet ponchos for the rain, and wave
white terrible towels during the prime time game on Saturday night. Add in the
night atmosphere, the BCS implications of the game, and ESPN College Gameday
broadcasting from outside St. John’s
arena and the whole city should be in a frenzy when the 8:00 pm kickoff occurs.
By Steve Patterson
Red-Out Saturday
At his weekly press conference Head
Coach Jim Tressel discussed wearing Scarlet for the game this weekend and the
atmosphere that should be exciting for all fans throughout the day. “And
speaking of wardrobes, we wanted to make sure we made it loud and clear that we
need to be wearing red on Saturday. We need to make that place a sea of red and
Bill Livingston even brought another prop.” Coach Tressel said while wearing a
very untraditional red jacket.
Hopefully the rain will not limit
the red-out on Saturday night. “And someone mentioned that there was like a 40%
chance of some showers, so I need to remind you on the wardrobe, bring your red
poncho with you to go over your red sweatshirt so we don't all of a sudden get
all dressed in our red and then throw some other color over top of our red.” He
said.
National Implications
Coach
Tressel also discussed the national attention the game will demand. “The fact
that the world is at the end of their football watching day and they all get to
sit back and watch us play is exciting.” Head Coach Jim Tressel said about the
game Saturday night in the Shoe. “There will be great energy. I don't know that
we'll know the difference between whether Gameday was there or not, but it's
exciting to have the attention.”
“It's exciting to be recognized. It
will be neat for our students that they'll go to the Gameday thing all day long
and get to scream and yell and have fun and just the environment, the energy,
it's a neat thing to have that on your campus and I'm proud of our guys for
earning that situation because they didn't name that back in August, they just
named it this week, where's the best game of the week and here we go.” Head
Coach Tressel said about the student body getting ready for the game and
College Gameday deciding that the Penn
State game is the best
game this week in the country.
Nittany Lions Should
be Affected
The noise
level should be loud Saturday night and hopefully the crowd will make play
calling for the Nittany Lions difficult. “I expect it to be loud and fun and
energetic and I hope it's very difficult for the away team to hear.” Coach
Tressel said. “That would be one of my goals. I hope all they see is red and
Bill's towels waving next to the red. I hope it's a tough environment. Now,
good teams enjoy that too when they're away from home. I know we've enjoyed
going into those scenarios. But it doesn't make them easy.”