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<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) &#8212; Tulsa will be a huge underdog coming in to face No. 4 Ohio State Saturday in front of 100,000 fans in storied Ohio Stadium, but the Golden Hurricane won&#8217;t be lacking in confidence.</p><p>A good old-fashioned blowout will do that for a team. Nearly every aspect of Tulsa&#8217;s game was clicking last week when it pummeled San Jose State in its opener 45-10, showing signs that there could be major improvement from last year&#8217;s 6-7 squad.</p><p>Of course, Ohio State &#8212; which beat Bowling Green 77-10 in week one &#8212; will be a much tougher opponent, but Tulsa coach Philip Montgomery said his team played with maturity and emotion, and he expects players will carry that right into Columbus.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to be free,&#8221; Montgomery said. &#8220;We can&#8217;t go in there and be hesitant about what we want to do. I don&#8217;t want to walk off the field and still have bullets left, so we&#8217;re going to shoot them and see what happens.&#8221;</p><p>OFFENSE GALORE</p><p>Both teams showed they are loaded with offensive weapons. Tulsa running back D&#8217;Angelo Brewer rushed for 164 yards and three touchdowns last week on 22 carries. Quarterback Dane Evans, directing the spread offense, was 12 for 23 for 198 yards and a touchdown as Tulsa rolled up 512 total yards. The Golden Hurricane was 13th in the country in total offense last year.</p><p>&#8220;Very talented receivers, two NFL prospects at wide receiver, a returning veteran at quarterback,&#8221; Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said. &#8220;They just force you to play in space.&#8221;</p><p>Ohio State broke a school record for offensive yards by piling up 776 against Bowling Green. Quarterback J.T. Barrett passed for six touchdowns and ran for another.</p><p>Montgomery, a former Baylor assistant, recruited Barrett out of high school in Texas and knows how dynamic he is.</p><p>&#8220;He got them in and out of plays, he got them in and out of situations, threw the ball very effectively, and he&#8217;s a dual-threat guy,&#8221; Montgomery said. &#8220;I mean, he&#8217;s a guy that can pull it down and hurt you with his feet just as well as he can do it with his arm.&#8221;</p><p>BUCKEYES EXPECT MORE FIGHT</p><p>It was designed to be another tuneup game, but several Ohio State players said this week they expect Tulsa to put up more a fight than their week one opponent.</p><p>&#8220;I feel like we&#8217;re going to get some more experienced people,&#8221; cornerback Gareon Conley said. &#8220;I know a lot of guys had left from Bowling Green, and watching some of the film from Tulsa I know (they have) an experienced quarterback, so we&#8217;ve got to get ready for that. And they have a faster tempo.&#8221;</p><p>Said center Pat Elflein: &#8220;They&#8217;ve got better players. They run some more stuff (on defense), they&#8217;re going to blitz us more, so it&#8217;s just kind of like another step up from Bowling Green.&#8221;</p><p>BURROW SHOWS HIS STUFF</p><p>Meyer said he was pleased to see backup quarterback Joe Burrow get some significant playing time last week. Burrow, a redshirt freshman who likely is the Buckeyes&#8217; quarterback of the future, took over for Barrett in the third quarter for mop-up duty. He was 6 for 8 for 68 yards and threw his first career touchdown pass.</p><p>&#8220;He confirmed what we all thought and what he&#8217;s shown: He&#8217;s a tough guy who has talent, and it means a lot to him,&#8221; Meyer said.</p><p>Asked if he was confident Burrow could do the job if Barrett got injured, Meyer wouldn&#8217;t answer. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going there,&#8221; he said.</p><p>Injuries forced Meyer to use his second- and third-string QBs to win the national championship in 2014.</p><p>SMALL SCHOOL IN THE BIG TIME</p><p>Tulsa has the smallest undergraduate enrollment of FBS schools with 3,473 students; Ohio State is ranked third with 55,508.</p><p>With a capacity near 105,000, Ohio Stadium will host the largest crowd ever to see Tulsa play football. The Golden Hurricane played in front of 85,657 last year at Oklahoma.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett plays against Bowling Green during an NCAA college football game, in Columbus, Ohio. Tulsa will be a huge underdog at no. 4 Ohio State on Saturday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/web1_112363830-e6e68b351feb40469c7527f427b4526c.jpg</photo0><caption0>Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett plays against Bowling Green during an NCAA college football game, in Columbus, Ohio. Tulsa will be a huge underdog at no. 4 Ohio State on Saturday. </caption0><photoCredit0>AP Photo|Jay LaPrete </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By MITCH STACY</p><p>AP Sports Writer</p></bylineMeta></div>

Tulsa rides wave of confidence into matchup with Ohio State