Jaxbuck said:

I don't have a clean plays per game source so I looked at the box scores from last years playoff games and just added the pass attempts plus the rushing attempts. If that somehow misses any other plays then forgive me but here is what I found

Team: pass attempts/runs/total

Tenn: 31/33/64
Oregon:57 total plays, I had it backwards.
Texas: 33/24/57
ND: 21/41/62

60 plays per game

The average plays per game in '25 was 64 according to this site and if that's site data is correct, the overall plays per game in 2024 was 62.8.

So not so sure the sped things up from last playoffs narrative holds water. Also, if this data is correct, you guys who are arguing faster = success need to reconcile 2025 being a slightly faster year than 2024.

Unless all of this is way off, the tempo hasn't materially changed.

The outcome did.

EDIT

This site has it easier to find and lists plays per game.

I would also add they ran 59 plays against Miami and 56 against IU.

57.5 plays per game in 2025, against 60 plays per game in 2024 playoffs.

2 plays per game isn't the story folks.

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Jaxbuck said:

I don't equate poor execution by coaches (gameplan) as a condemnation of the efficiency approach as a strategy.

There was a lot Day and company could have done better this year and in the past.

You said it though, my advocacy stops at playing the game in a way that puts the odds in your favor. Once that is done, if you fuck it up then you examine what you fucked up.

I do thing context is important. He's fresh off a NC and everyone was swinging from his nuts all season. Now he had a bad result and people want to chance the approach. Some of these same people were asking if this is the best OSU team of all time mid season so

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While it may have been technically correct, I don't think any of us needed the Sugar Bowl to include a final second that felt like half an hour. To recap:

• Ole Miss kicked the game-winning field goal with 6 seconds left on the clock.
• The Rebels kicked off, which ended with an attempted lateral by Georgia hitting the end zone pylon for a safety
• The officials ruled there was 1 second on the clock when that happened, forcing Georgia to attempt a free kick following the safety
• Georgia recovered an onside kick.
• Because Ole Miss never touched the ball on the free kick, the clock never ran. A second remained on the clock.
• This gave Georgia one more offensive play down 39-34.
• Instead of attempting a Hail Mary, the Bulldogs opted for a short pass and about 800 laterals before Ole Miss got the stop.

Again, most of this is not the fault of the refs in a technical sense, but I think we all would have been better off if none of it ever happened.

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SEREbuckeye said:

Locked in for ‘26

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pnuts34 said:

I think OSU has been in the club. They’ll pay guys competitively based on how much they play and how they’ve excelled. But they won’t be strong armed. We’ve hardly seen any starters leave, the guys leaving are mainly in year 3 or later and haven’t really contributed.

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