BuckeyesGunn said:

I'm not saying the others will get 5 sacks on us, or disrupt as many plays, I'm simply saying the IOL is weak and vulnerable.

Now it will become a bigger focus of our opps.

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Oh no doubt. It has been all year.

It still takes a pretty damn good team to exploit it (to a degree that matters) and none of the teams in our bracket are as good as IU at it.

Jaxbuck said:

The right question is can someone else do it consistently enough to overcome all the things the OSU offense can do to them.

IU is better than anyone else in the bracket and they barely had enough in them to do it.

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I'm not saying the others will get 5 sacks on us, or disrupt as many plays, I'm simply saying the IOL is weak and vulnerable.

Now it will become a bigger focus of our opps.

I still can't get over this. This should be a major black mark on their program.

BuckeyesGunn said:

Oh, I definitely agree that others will be able to do this as well, unless we address this and come up with a few fixes.

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The right question is can someone else do it consistently enough to overcome all the things the OSU offense can do to them.

IU is better than anyone else in the bracket and they barely had enough in them to do it.

Woody1968 said:

Fuck Notre Dame, but I don't see how the committe can justify a 3 loss Alabama team that got boatraced.

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Bumping Bama would mean 3 teams that finished below them in the SEC would pass them by. At that point, teams like Bama should just say ‘no’ to the CCG.

buckeyemania11 said:

Texas A&M is tied for first in the country in sacks per game and Cryami is 12th.

Overall I don't think their defenses are very scary but they can and will get after the QB

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Oh, I definitely agree that others will be able to do this as well, unless we address this and come up with a few fixes.

TampaBuckeyes said:

If Indiana lost by 3 then they might not have dropped.
If Bama beat Georgia then Georgia would have dropped.
It’s just putting the winner over the loser.

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With a LOT of SEC SEC SEC Bias thrown in.

LordJeffBuck said:

Please explain this to me:

#1 Ohio State loses its CCG by 3 points and drops in the CFP standings....

But #9 Alabama loses its CCG by 21 points and doesn't drop in the CFP standings.

How is this fair?

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If Indiana lost by 3 then they might not have dropped.
If Bama beat Georgia then Georgia would have dropped.
It’s just putting the winner over the loser.

BuckeyesGunn said:

I've been told no other playoff team (other than IU) is able to do that to our o-line.

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buckeyemania11 said:

Texas A&M is tied for first in the country in sacks per game and Cryami is 12th.

Overall I don't think their defenses are very scary but they can and will get after the QB

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I just put some data up in the 2025 offense thread, go check that out.

LordJeffBuck said:

Please explain this to me:

#1 Ohio State loses its CCG by 3 points and drops in the CFP standings....

But #9 Alabama loses its CCG by 21 points and doesn't drop in the CFP standings.

How is this fair?

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Some losses just mean more?

BuckeyesGunn said:

I've been told no other playoff team (other than IU) is able to do that to our o-line.

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Texas A&M is tied for first in the country in sacks per game and Cryami is 12th.

Overall I don't think their defenses are very scary but they can and will get after the QB

Some perspective after last night using a mix of BCFtoys (what you have done on the field) CFB graphs data (how you have done it):

SUMMARY TABLE — DEFENSIVE QUALITY (OSU SIDE ONLY)​

IU is far and away the best defense we will face before a possible rematch with it.

None of:
-Georgia
-Miami
-A&M
-Ole Miss
are even close.

Indiana:
best early-down efficiency
top-tier drive denial
elite finishing drives allowed
elite available-yards suppression
elite FEI stability
best red-zone constraints
best suited for OSU’s style (this is the killer)

Georgia/Miami/A&M simply cannot replicate the same "structural discomfort" IU can create.

buckeyemania11 said:

They are gonna have to come up with some wrinkles that make the opponent pump the breaks on just teeing off on the Interior Oline

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I've been told no other playoff team (other than IU) is able to do that to our o-line.

Woody1968 said:

Fuck Notre Dame, but I don't see how the committe can justify a 3 loss Alabama team that got boatraced.

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I can.

They beat that team at that team’s stadium earlier this season.

Didn’t Coach Tressel used to talk about trying to be here and there? And how you can’t do both.

And I can’t recall who Hartline’s coach was at OSU (sarcasm font).

Regardless, this gives Day an excuse to be heavily involved in the game plan development the next few weeks.

Tanner said:

Just watched the play in the red zone where Sayin sprints to his left and has to throw an absolute dime to Smith and Smith has to do something special for it to have any chance. That's what we've got?

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If he didn't sprint and throws it as soon as he breaks that's probably an easy completetion don't know why they added a sprint to let them get time to get under it.

RuGettinIt said:

Ha ha referees already helping the Chiefs. BS call takes away a TD. Now a BS call on a 4th down conversion.

Can they be anymore blatant

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Texans hand offsides is offsides.
Chiefs helmet offsides is OK.
Right …

Ha ha referees already helping the Chiefs. BS call takes away a TD. Now a BS call on a 4th down conversion.

Can they be anymore blatant

They are gonna have to come up with some wrinkles that make the opponent pump the breaks on just teeing off on the Interior Oline

BB73 said:

It’s disappointing. Two short TD passes on a couple of those red zone possessions and he’d be the clear favorite.

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Even just the last one. He was driving to put it away late

sigh

Gunlife said:

Like you said, now Saying is no longer a heisman candidate that is this freshman sensation, he is a imbattled QB with a chip on his shoulder. The rest of CFB better watch the fuck out, cause Day, Saying and Smith are coming for blood.

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This is something I am almost good with, they need to change the Heisman it shouldn't be while there are still games to play. IMO it definitely affected Troy Smith. Not that we would have beaten Fla that year anyway.

If I still lived in Ohio and my money was going to these polecats, I'd be LIVID.

BigWoof31 said:

Used to be the “anytime, anywhere” team.

Would have loved to have seen them play Texas in a bowl game on NYD.

Sark and his boys are going. I can’t believe Marcus Freeman would bail like this

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More the AD’s move with Marcus just nodding “Yes.”