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

How do you combat these looks? Quick pass and/or run at the dropping end?

Non white board?

- Win up front
- Offensive balance
- Run the rock
- 3rd and short situations

Keep these defenses from getting into situations where they can consistently throw complex looks at your QB. IU controlled the LoS quite a bit and the Bucks were routinely in 3rd and 5+

White board?

- Minimize IOL pressure
- Vertical stressors

Put the 1/2 field DBs in conflict. There's a classic concept that I loved watching Peyton Manning use - 4 verts.

Malik Willis threw a TD last week on 4 verts against a cover 2 look with a pressure bluff.

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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

Ok so people use numbers to be scary sometimes but let's think about this.

136 teams in FBS
105 players per team by rule
14,280 players
3,300 in portal now, could go up could stay flat, who knows?

That is 2.3% of the population. Sound a lot less eyeball grabbing that way doesn't it? Every team might not have the full 105? Ok, fine, fucking double it (you'd be over estimating) but let's double it.

"Over 95% of the D1 football players in 2025 are staying with their team" just doesn't have that same-whiny ass, look how bad everything is, the sport is collapsing, let's get the government involved, please click on my click bait- ring to it now does it?

MEANWHILE.....

32 head coaches changed jobs in the 136 team FBS universe.
That's 24% for those keeping score at home

but let's keep this tired ass narrative focused on the athletes that actually do the work, take the physical punishment and provide the fucking entertainment....somethings gotta be done!!! They are ruining the sport!!!
Players are at 23% - similar to coaches.
Some players are moving up and some are moving down. Same with coaches.

Plenty of issues with players and coaches, and Universities/NIL collectives/boosters. In the end, need to make some sort of professional league rules.
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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

On the Xs and Os standpoint. The same coverage that gave the offense fits against IU is something Miami has deployed at times throughout the year.

Like anything else, there's a certain anticipation and expectation to seeing this coverage. Hopefully Day and Co. have armed Julian with as much design and education as possible to combat the looks. Miami will run it until we show proficiency beating it.

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How do you combat these looks? Quick pass and/or run at the dropping end?
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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

The miami punks are calling us 'soft.' Typical baseless rhetoric.

If 'soft' means having a prolific offense, suffocating defense, and something they don't have; 'class' I'll take the false accusation of being soft all Day long.
They got tired of the "speed" narrative after '02 I think. They can tell themselves we're soft all they want. Once Reese or Downs lays someone out, the play on the field will speak for itself.
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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

The miami punks are calling us 'soft.' Typical baseless rhetoric.

If 'soft' means having a prolific offense, suffocating defense, and something they don't have; 'class' I'll take the false accusation of being soft all Day long.
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