Gizmo said:

I know. It was dumb to jump to 12 in the first place. Should have tried 6, and now we'd be talking 8.

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It woulda gotten to 12 and 16 at some point anyways.

buckeyemania11 said:

The number of teams is never going to decrease.

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I know. It was dumb to jump to 12 in the first place. Should have tried 6, and now we'd be talking 8.

Telekinesis said:

This is all true, but I’m still proud of how our guys finished. They didn’t quit and still had Miami fans nervous as hell in the second half.

Bama got completely ran off the field and embarrassed.

Still hurts, but the Buckeyes never gave up or folded against anyone. They kept swinging.

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I don't know, social media says it was a blowout.

Gizmo said:

Need to "expand" to 8. Too many teams already don't belong, and that would get rid of one team having a longer layoff.

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The number of teams is never going to decrease.

Captain Buckeye said:

Nah more is better. Miami doesn’t get in this year, we don’t get in last year if under the 4 team model.

I don’t like the long wait though from the last game of the year until New Years Eve.

Go to 16 teams but fix the layoff.

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oh well, sucks to suck. Win your conference and get invited to the dance. I said this before last year, and still stand by it. Either that or blow it all up, no bowl games and like 32 teams, 2 from each conference (no CCGs) with however many at large it takes to fill it up. If bowl games don't matter anyway, and CCGs already barely matter, just do away with them and use that week for the 1st round. Army Navy needs to move to rivalry week. Navy should have been playing for the whatever conference they're in, anyway. Maybe they get in the playoff instead of Tulane if that game isn't after selection sunday. Lot of stupid shit for "tradition" and a lot of stupid shit that butts head with tradition. Like MIke Ehrmantrout says, "no half measures".

I’m pulling for the kid - never want to see anyone fail. But this stat is pretty alarming

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brodybuck21 said:

CJ left it all out there

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These kids give their all for the team and the university. It always pisses me off when fans think a player has to be from OH or attended OSU for multiple years to have an emotional investment in the program. This kid got to OSU literally a year ago, and he's sobbing like a baby. And the fact that he played against his hometown school nonetheless

ORD_Buckeye said:

Byes are going to have to go away. 7 of 8 isn't a statistical aberration.

And oh yeah, SEC is 0-2 against ooc teams while the B1G is 2-1 and went belt-to-ass in the only head to head match up.

Last year, the B1G was 5-3 against ooc teams, and the sec was as 2-3. Head to head was 2-0 for the B1G.

It looks like the 12 team playoff is finally going to kill the SEC Uber Alles narrative.

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Preseason polls still help the usual suspects keep the SEC DOMINANCE narrative going. We all know how this works, a handful of SEC teams get over ranked in preseason, then other SEC teams beat them to become over ranked as well and they all hold up as "quality wins" to ESPN and co at the end of the year even when those teams end up with 4+ losses. It's a never ending predictable cycle.

I'm waiting for the articles about how the SEC got "screwed" having to play games against each other in the 1st round and the quarter finals and how that means these playoff results aren't meaningful. When in reality they should be thankful that they got gifted 1 semi final team by getting to play each other. Ole Miss and UGA both woulda last to any other quarterfinal team outside of Bamas corpse

bigdog3300 said:

Interesting. Not one of the 27 kickers ranked by 247, but Kicker Training has him as the highest uncommitted kicker. Has a long of 41 yards this season. He does have an unusual name though, which is a bonus for kickers.....

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Kickers with names that sound like soccer players are always good.

It's science

Gizmo said:

Need to "expand" to 8. Too many teams already don't belong, and that would get rid of one team having a longer layoff.

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Nah more is better. Miami doesn’t get in this year, we don’t get in last year if under the 4 team model.

I don’t like the long wait though from the last game of the year until New Years Eve.

Go to 16 teams but fix the layoff.

ScriptOhio said:

Duke's Mayo Bowl
ESPN
8:00 PM
Wake Forest (8-4) vs Mississippi State (5-7)

In the 2025 college football season, several 5-7 teams declined bowl bids, including Florida State, Auburn, UCF, Baylor, Kansas, Rutgers, and Temple, primarily to focus on player development and the transfer portal, disrupting bowl-filling efforts for games like the Birmingham Bowl. These teams often expected their season to be over and had already moved on, making it difficult to field a team, unlike some bowl-eligible teams that also opted out due to coaching changes or playoff snubs.

Birmingham Bowl: Georgia Southern (now 7-6) 29 defeated Appalachian State (now 5-8) 10.

Just sayin': When 5-7 gets you into a bowl game (needless to say) there are just too many bowl games.

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I believe the first game of the day features another 5-7 team (playing a 6-6 team). Rice and Texas State or some such critter?

knuckifyoubuck said:

OSU, IU, and Oregon would have been so sweet. I'll get over it, but very disappointed still in how we played and how the ball bounced on NYE. No cope about bye weeks or anything else, just raw dogging my dissapointment realizing we got our shit shoved in by Miami lol fucking bullshit

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This is all true, but I’m still proud of how our guys finished. They didn’t quit and still had Miami fans nervous as hell in the second half.

Bama got completely ran off the field and embarrassed.

Still hurts, but the Buckeyes never gave up or folded against anyone. They kept swinging.

Need to "expand" to 8. Too many teams already don't belong, and that would get rid of one team having a longer layoff.

billmac91 said:

I’d think Oregon will be big players for Koi as well….Id love to see us get involved, but agree it will be an expensive acquisition.

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He can’t cost more than Downs right? I’d think this is the player where it’s worth it.

Normally I don’t want higher priced guys. But if they’re sure fire starters then you have to make that call.

Just roll over a portion of the money set aside for Downs. Important player here and you’re right Oregon you have to believe will come after him too. Everyone will.

Just have to hope our prior relationship with him and our defensive style for the safety position will entice him. I think it will and I think he’ll likely be paid nicely too.

If he’s back I will be rooting for him but I’ll know we are at a disadvantage over other top 50 teams.

billmac91 said:

There’s “the best you got” in practice, which it sounds like he consistently wins.

And then there’s “the best you got” in clutch moments.

I think we all concede he’s a talented kicker in non-clutch moments. MaCafe, who is big on kickers, had great things to say about him from camps he’d been too (big leg for smaller size kicker)….

All that said, the sample size is large enough to know he’s not it. We brought in a transfer portal kicker from the MAC, and he didn’t get any run in-game presumably bc Fielding “out-kicked” him in practice.

I don’t now, at a certain point, don’t you have to make a change?? You can never truly replicate in-game situations on the practice field.

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Oh I agree with you. You can’t put Fielding back out there to hit kicks when it matters. I’m shocked he hit that kick at the end to get the natty (almost missed that btw).

At this point you have to go get a kicker who has shown the ability to hit from 40+ in a game consistently. Then who cares what practice looks like because Fielding being good in practice doesn’t help when you need a game tying 27 yard field goal.

Mike80 said:

I'm not going to crush the kid - unlike about 60% of the non-BP Buckeye fanbase, I don't get my jollies screeching about kickers.

Literally no one in the locker room feels worse about it than he does.

I do have some concerns about 'staying with your guy' too long but that's a Ryan Day problem, not a Jayden Fielding problem. There's putting people in a position to succeed or fail, and then there's trotting a guy out who has shown a propensity for not getting the job done. Everyone has their ceiling and their limitations, and it's ENTIRELY on the coaches to find them, understand what they are, and do what's best for the PROGRAM and the PLAYER.

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No point in “crushing” him or anything.

The fact of the matter is he isn’t good enough to be kicking here and Day’s refusal to address the kicking game has cost us dearly for years, and a lot of “what-ifs.” That’s really all that needs to be said.

It needs to be a priority this offseason and, nothing personal, Fielding cannot kick another game at OSU. (I have no clue his eligibility or if this was already a foregone conclusion and I also do not care)

I trust that that will be the case.

I feel like the lack of player rotation isn’t just a Hartline thing but a general philosophy of Day. He’s seemingly never been big on getting guys in. Slowing the offense down killed opportunities for players to get time in.

It's a shame that Hollywood doesn't make this kind of quality entertainment anymore. Pavia might have a future after football.

Greyshirt said:

I prefer to keep it 12 teams but first 2 rounds are home games for higher seeds. Additionally, the quarters should be played before Christmas. Way too long of a break.

What advantage did OSU get by being a top 4 seed? They played an away game at a half empty stadium. Again the whole set up is about money and not the actual game of football.
The teams with byes should have a home game and it should be mid December. Then all 4 teams have a 2 week layoff until the New Year Days bowls. Then the Final Game around Jan 8-10

This seems so simple and logical to me

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Id be ok with this. You move the first round up to the week after CCG and the next round to the Saturday before Christmas. Then you’ve got 8-12 days off before the new years semis.