• New here? Register here now for access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Plus, stay connected and follow BP on Instagram @buckeyeplanet and Facebook.

Latest activity

Forum list Hot Threads

Latest activity

 Posts Social Questions
plum diamonds buckeye planet

2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

BB73
The Buckeyes will enter the CFP quarter-finals at the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, TX on New Year’s Eve.

They will face the winner of the first round game held on Sat 12/20 at noon ET with the Miami Hurricanes at Kyle Field to face the Texas A&M Aggies.

What: Cotton Bowl
Who: Ohio State vs. TBD
When: Wednedsay, Dec. 31
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Where: AT&T Stadium
Tickets: SeatGeek, StubHub or VividSeats
Click to expand...

Georgia Bulldogs (2021-2022 National Champions & Excellent Drivers)

Jaxbuck
pnuts34 said:
Something tells me this kid isn't representing himself, and he probably has some big city lawyers himself. I mean he had a deal for $500k
Click to expand...
He will spend 75-100k of that on lawyers if they can settle quick.

He goes into a 2-3 year drawn out fight and it’s gone (because remember he lost at least 1/3 of it to taxes)
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

buckeyemania11
Fungo Squiggly said:
I get that he missed a short one yesterday and had the two bad misses against UM last year, but the talk about him being bad is really puzzling.

Last year in the playoffs, he went 4-5 on field goals with the one miss being the long one at the end of the half versus Tennessee. And two of those makes were from 46.

This year, he was 15-17 before yesterday and 1 of those misses was from 50+.

That’s about as reliable as you are going to get.

People are acting like we’ve had Nuge kicking for us for the last 20 years and that simply is not true.

2005: Huston was 22-28 and was 0-2 from 50+
2006: Pettrey + Pretorius went 9-13 but were 3-5 from 50+
2007: Pretorius was 18-23 and 1-1 from 50+
2008: 22-27, 3-5 50+
2009: 21-30, 2-4 50+ — Pettrey missed 2 from inside 30 and 2 more from inside 40. He had a terrible time with those short, sharp-angle kicks. It was dreadful.

And so on. Remember 2016 when Durbin missed two short ones against UM?

It fucking sucks that he missed that kick yesterday, but he has NOT been a bad kicker. And I think it’s crazy that people think he has.
Click to expand...

He's shown that he will choke in pressure situations though even 30 and under yarders in big games you are holding your breath with him which is not good.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

Fungo Squiggly
OregonBuckeye said:
He rarely is ever asked to kick deep. Making 30-40 yard kicks in blowouts where there's no pressure is nothing to brag about. He has completely choked on gimmes in big moments that have cost us games, plus he hasn't made a 50+ yarder in his career. He is a bad kicker, mostly because of what's between his ears. And you're right, our kicking game has been woeful since Tressel which is unfathomable and unacceptable.
Click to expand...
Those years I posted were under Tressel. And almost all were statistically worse than Fielding from inside 50. I didn’t even addressed all of the missed XPs over those years.

Hell, the only clutch field goal I can even remember since Nugent was the OT winner against Iowa in 2009, I think.

Tresa gets a lor of revisionist history on ST thanks to Nuge and Ginn. I’ll certainly grant that punting was much better under him. Thank god since we ended up punting so much more often than we do now.

I’m not giving him a pass on blowing those field goals, but what kicker since Nuge has been better? It feels like he’s getting the OSU treatment here — when OSU wins, no big deal, it wasn’t a “big game”. When OSU loses, “look, they still can’t win the big game!”. He gets no credit for making both his kicks against PSU and Oregon and Indiana last year and those kicks in the playoffs — those obviously weren’t “big kicks” since he made them. They sure would have been important if he’d missed them, though.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

B1G CCG: #1 tOSU vs #2 Indiana in Indy, Sat. Dec 6th, 8 ET on FOX

Mike80 said:
I don't think Day was holding anything back last year or last night. I think people expecting a repeat of what we saw against Tennecheat and Oregon in the Rose Bowl is not indicative of what this team is this year - hell it wasn't even really what we saw against Texas or Notre Dame either last year. They have the talent to do it but it's not their comfort zone. I think a lot of things last night were matchup driven as well - whatever IU's game plan was, they executed it almost to perfection, especially in the first half. And it wasn't really exotic either - get pressure on the QB early, take away his quick reads and make a young guy go through the progressions in the biggest game of his life to date. And the hell of it is, Sayin still was pretty damn good (21/29, 258, 1 TD, 1 INT).

Their comfort zone is doing the normal stuff at such an efficient rate that it accumulates - @Jaxbuck said something like do the right thing 3% and 4% better all game long and it adds up - and that's exactly what these guys are.

Indiana did a hell of a job taking away some of those normal things, and Ohio State - no matter the reason, let downs from TCUN, not the more solid game plan, distractions with the coaching and recruiting stuff, whatever - took too long to adapt and adjust. They DID adjust, but it wasn't fast enough and it wasn't quite to their typical level of efficiency.

But in the end, I don't think they really held anything back. IU deserves the credit. This was a hell of a learning experience for Ohio State and now they have 3 weeks to absorb it, grow from it and get better going forward.
Click to expand...
I think our problem is Sayin had a near 80% completion percentage all year. So we thought he was infallible. We forgot how hard it is for a freshman to play at this level.

Guys Sayin is a first year starter, Indiana made sure to try and rattle him. They did. He still has a lot to learn. He has all the personal talent and talent around him to win the NC, but he's going to have to improve his read speed, and pocket presence.

This isn't a knock on him BTW, it's just the truth. OSU has a STUD qb. BUT he is still a freshman.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

Jaxbuck
Fungo Squiggly said:
I get that he missed a short one yesterday and had the two bad misses against UM last year, but the talk about him being bad is really puzzling.

Last year in the playoffs, he went 4-5 on field goals with the one miss being the long one at the end of the half versus Tennessee. And two of those makes were from 46.

This year, he was 15-17 before yesterday and 1 of those misses was from 50+.

That’s about as reliable as you are going to get.

People are acting like we’ve had Nuge kicking for us for the last 20 years and that simply is not true.

2005: Huston was 22-28 and was 0-2 from 50+
2006: Pettrey + Pretorius went 9-13 but were 3-5 from 50+
2007: Pretorius was 18-23 and 1-1 from 50+
2008: 22-27, 3-5 50+
2009: 21-30, 2-4 50+ — Pettrey missed 2 from inside 30 and 2 more from inside 40. He had a terrible time with those short, sharp-angle kicks. It was dreadful.

And so on. Remember 2016 when Durbin missed two short ones against UM?

It fucking sucks that he missed that kick yesterday, but he has NOT been a bad kicker. And I think it’s crazy that people think he has.
Click to expand...
I agree that recency bias makes it feel worse than it actually is then again. Dude is shaky in the big games.

We’ve lost two games over the past calendar year, by 3 points each and he’s missed chip shot FG’s in each.

That makes an impression more than the makes in September.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

OregonBuckeye
Fungo Squiggly said:
I get that he missed a short one yesterday and had the two bad misses against UM yesterday, but the talk about him being bad is really puzzling.

Last year in the playoffs, he went 4-5 on field goals with the one miss being the long one at the end of the half versus Tennessee. And two of those makes were from 46.

This year, he was 15-17 before yesterday and 1 of those misses was from 50+.

That’s about as reliable as you are going to get.

People are acting like we’ve had Nuge kicking for us for the last 20 years and that simply is not true.

2005: Huston was 22-28 and was 0-2 from 50+
Click to expand...
He rarely is ever asked to kick deep. Making 30-40 yard kicks in blowouts where there's no pressure is nothing to brag about. He has completely choked on gimmes in big moments that have cost us games, plus he hasn't made a 50+ yarder in his career. He is a bad kicker, mostly because of what's between his ears. And you're right, our kicking game has been woeful since Tressel which is unfathomable and unacceptable.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

DubCoffman62
Jaxbuck said:
Trying to mimic March Madness is a mistake imo.

Different sport. Cinderella doesn’t work and we shouldn’t be making space for them in the big boy bracket.

Give them their own tournament. See how many people want to watch that shit.
Click to expand...
We've gone from two teams playing for the championship to a 12 team playoff. We've become March Madness.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

SEREbuckeye
dragurd said:
Here is my thing why is it in texas? Don't we get second choice of venue to put it wherever we like?
Click to expand...

The other choice was the Orange Bowl, which would have been Miami’s backyard.

But no one shows up to their games as it is so I’m not sure that’s really a home field advantage just because they lose there often.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

K Jayden Fielding (All B1G, National Champion)

Fungo Squiggly
I get that he missed a short one yesterday and had the two bad misses against UM last year, but the talk about him being bad is really puzzling.

Last year in the playoffs, he went 4-5 on field goals with the one miss being the long one at the end of the half versus Tennessee. And two of those makes were from 46.

This year, he was 15-17 before yesterday and 1 of those misses was from 50+.

That’s about as reliable as you are going to get.

People are acting like we’ve had Nuge kicking for us for the last 20 years and that simply is not true.

2005: Huston was 22-28 and was 0-2 from 50+
2006: Pettrey + Pretorius went 9-13 but were 3-5 from 50+
2007: Pretorius was 18-23 and 1-1 from 50+
2008: 22-27, 3-5 50+
2009: 21-30, 2-4 50+ — Pettrey missed 2 from inside 30 and 2 more from inside 40. He had a terrible time with those short, sharp-angle kicks. It was dreadful.

And so on. Remember 2016 when Durbin missed two short ones against UM?

It fucking sucks that he missed that kick yesterday, but he has NOT been a bad kicker. And I think it’s crazy that people think he has.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

DubCoffman62
MGMT said:
Okay who the fuck wants to watch JMU against Oregon? Like fucking why? What the fuck is that shit? You could have had ratings off putting ND in there and I’d absolutely watch it. But no, let’s televise a 57-5 ordeal and give Oregon a bye for losing to the only good team they played all season.

Yeah k
Click to expand...
Yeah, I don't get it but don't forget that Tulane beat USC in a bowl a few years back and programs like Boise State and Gonzaga (in basketball) made names for themselves being giant killers. For all we know this could be JMU's moment to rise to the next level and become one of the NKOTB.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0
Load more

Filter

Latest winning wagers

Back
Top