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.”

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?

I wonder what their NIL donors are thinking? Or are they just on board with the “everyone is out to get us” mentality?

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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This is part of my point - perfection is great and all, but when you rely on perfection, it's a low probability of success/low efficiency tactic.

On 1st down, it's not an awful playcall. On 3rd and 1, down 3, in the red zone, it's a godawful playcall.

With opt.outs, I kind of expect this to become common.

Mike80 said:

We can think whatever we want - we're just fans. I can promise you Ryan Day doesn't think he's infallible.

If Sayin is the player we all think he is, he'll take this in stride as part of his growth as a QB. As good as he's been, as you said, he's just a freshman in experience. And it was about time SOMEONE pushed him to make adjustments, even TCUN didn't do that.

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I 100% agree Day doesn't think Sayin is infallible. Day basically took Sayin’s mind out of the game in the second half. Most plays they cut the field in half for him, or he literally had 1 read. ( he could have also run, which would have won us the game....)

You don't run like 5 or 6 boots for the first time all year, with 1 maybe 2 reads if you don't think your qb is a little out of his league. Why the fuck they ran those single read plays ( I actually think they were run/pass options and if Sayin runs on the second one we win) on 3rd and 1 in the red zone, I honestly have no idea.

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.

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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I can. That guy just chameleons into whoever is paying him. You'd think he was born Marcus O'Brien the second he took that job.

I’m in the “Thanks for everything, good luck at USF” camp.

Indiana may have had an advantage in game prep last night since they had Purdue the week before when we had The Game, and they may have had less distractions during the week.

We’ve got 24 days to get ready. I’d prefer the same full-time group concentrate on aTm and Miami, with some GAs assembling film study and analyzing tendencies for future possibilities UGA, Indiana, Oregon, and Texas Tech. And the winner of Ole Miss and Tulane after that game happens.

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?