Sucks that the team now has to game plan for both Miami and A&M. Rather than just planning for Ole Miss. The 3 spot and 5 spot are probably the easiest paths to the semis.

So much this, OH Sports Fan. To paraphrase Kendrick Lamar, sometimes you just got to pop out and show Hoosiers. Instead, we played/coached like we played against Rutgers, Penn State, etc.

Do we know which bowl OSU is in for that quarter final?

First blush - Ohio State is probably playing Cryami.

I think Ole Piss can take down UGA too. Not that they will, but they can. Maybe.

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embarrassing only to the extent that all we've heard for the last 8 months is how much of a savant sayin is at reading the field and reacting instantly and the whole iron sharpens iron trope.

not taking anything away from IU... they were very good.

i'm not an x's and o's guy, but what i saw was a lot of shifting and stunting on the D line. maybe that was just eye candy, but i didn't notice stuff in the secondary that drew my eyes.

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I'll be interested to see what the film break down guys show. I saw it a little but it's hard on tv.

Mostly going by how many times I saw Sayin double pump/pull it down.

Usually they kill zones. Last night they couldn't. It's a mix of all of it imo, Sayin was exposed a bit but a veteran DC and a very veteran defense did what most teams just can't do so I'm just not all that worried about it. Sayin has shown an ability to learn and he competed last night, his numbers were great.

He, along with the entire team, just got beat by the slimmest of margins at a few critical inflection points in the game. It's the style both coaches play, someone had to win it, someone had to lose it.

Gizmo said:

or didn't want a ND TAMU rematch

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Would have had ND-Oregon.

Wow, they gave us the 2 seed. that's respect.

OHSportsFan said:

Miami in. ND out.

Thank Woody. I thought ND with a devoted and healthy Jeremiah Love running attack and feasting secondary would be a threat.

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Can’t believe they left them out, but I agree that their offense is maybe the most dangerous although the defense is good not great.

Really wanted the 3 spot. Seem to be protecting UGA by not letting them jump up the spot after the win.

You think they would have flipped Tulane and Miami

Zem said:

The committee wants a cryami-OSU Rematch.

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or didn't want a ND TAMU rematch

Oh shit. Miami has a great D line. Ole Piss would have been a much easier game.

The committee wants a cryami-OSU rematch.

Just dumb to flip them today, based on nothing.

Holy shit. Miami?!

BUCK3YE5 said:

I think the coaches drank the rat poison about this game not mattering. The offensive gameplan and redzone playcalling especially leads me to believe they were not serious about winning this game. Not an excuse by any means but it just didn't make sense otherwise.

The way the game played out was eerily similar to the Michigan game last year, but for like the opposite reason.

Bizzaro world. I cannot fucking wait for these conference championship games to no longer exist.

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I definitely think this game mattered and they wanted it, but I agree that the gameplan and prep was not as good or in-depth as Indiana’s. Might be cope, but I think they wanted to see what Indiana did and if they could use their regular season gameplan to win!thinking this was game 1 of 2. Now they have film and Sayin got through it and settled down.

@Mike80 makes a great point about this being a defensive version of ‘24 Oregon.

The big concern is the OL. I’m confident that everything else can be much better in a rematch.

buckeyemania11 said:

Can we never "trust the kicker" ever again?

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I mean, if you have an actually good kicker, yes. But Fielding isn't it.

Notre Dame or Jizz Jars.

Really Bama at 9

Can’t believe we got the 2 seed. Would have rather had the 3 playing ole miss than any of the other teams in the 7-10 spots.

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