WWMPD – Now What Would My PlayStation Do?

Another week, another set of simulations from the PS2. It’s not the best way to pick games, but then it has probably at least as much merit as the methods used by most of the betting public. That’s why sportsbooks make lots of money.

Ohio State at Michigan State – I am surprised by what happened here, but in a very pleasant way. I really, really hate Ohio State, so any time they lose it is a good thing. That makes this a great thing. Michigan State jumped out to a quick lead when Javon Ringer broke a long TD run, and they never really looked back. The final score was reasonably close – 35-31 – but Michigan State never gave up their early lead, and Ohio State made it respectable only by scoring the last ten points. Terrelle Pryor was just okay, not putting up any of the eye-popping numbers that we are going to have to get used to in coming years unfortunately.

Missouri at Texas – I think my machine has a man-crush on Chase Daniel. That’s the only way I can explain what happened here. Daniel threw for seven touchdowns. Yes, seven. Colt McCoy had a pretty gaudy day himself, but it was nothing next to the Mizzou super-stud and, if the game has anything to say about it, future Heisman winner. Needless to say, Missouri was able to pull out the win behind that showing, coming out 59-35. The PS2 doesn’t have much respect for either of these defenses. My favorite stat to come out of ths one was that Daniel was bombing so much that he was making his defense work – the Longhorns won the time of possession battle by quite a bit.

Michigan at Penn State – I simulated this game because I obviously don’t like myself much. As a Michigan fan, I know that this one is going to go badly, but I wanted to see just how badly. Pretty bad as it turns out. As we have seen before from Michigan, they got out to a good start, opening up a 10-0 lead. Like they did against Illinois, though, they pretty much stopped there. Penn State scored, scored, and scored some more, and ended up winning a wild one 48-24. The only saving grace was that Michigan didn’t turn the ball over 15 times in the game like they seem to be so fond of doing this year. Still, not good.