Surprising to see that Ole Miss has the second most wins in the history of the Sugar Bowl.

10 - Bama
7 - Ole Miss
6 - LSU
6 - Oklahoma
5 - Georgia
4 - Tennessee
4 - Florida State
4 - Ga Tech
3 - Ohio State
3 - Nebraska
3 - Notre Dame
3 - Florida

Seemed to take a big step back this year. Hopefully just a sophomore slump and he lives up to the promise he showed his frosh year

Their only playoff/bowl wins so far are Tulane, and then against themselves

Ahh, I forgot about scUM. But are they really a P4 team?

brodybuck21 said:

I can vouch for this

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brodybuck21 said:

I can vouch for this too

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I just googled him….he’s a kicker and runs a 10.6 100??? That is crazy

Wtf happened?

Thanks for everything CJ!!

Fungo Squiggly said:

He caught that pass inbounds, too. They blew not one but TWO calls on that play. In still extra salty about that because I could see it was complete from the upper deck behind the endzone.

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Not only did he catch it inbounds, it wasn't even close.

BuckeyeNation27 said:

Anybody who ever brings up Zach Smith always posts it with a caveat. You'd think that would be enough of a big red flag, and yet....

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Smith also claimed Hartline wasnt a great WR coach/recruiter. Seemed like sour grapes because that was the guy that replaced him. Smith wanted credit for the WR turnaround.

The Oline coach is a legit hire for them. For sure.

I know it's unlikely but....Sean Lewis as OC would be fantastic. Crushed it at Kent State, great first year and overachieved at SDSU. He's in a good spot, his buyout is 5M so it won't happen, but damn that'd be nice.

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VaTech or Cincinnati, perhaps? He’s a better thrower than Lincoln Kienholz but probably not a better runner.

OregonBuckeye said:

This was also an OL replacing 2 1st round picks and the Rimington award winner. IU and Cryami have aggressive, nasty front 7's too. Let's not overreact to the last 2 games

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Miami definitely has a talented D Line. Bain being the most talented, obviously. It didn't look like he needed to be prime OSU Chase Young out there. He was just going in a straight line at the QB, and we just let him do it. I KNOW he's good, I just didn't see it last night.....the same way I wouldn't see how great LeBron is against a bunch of 6th graders.

“PAWWWWWWLLLLLLL!”

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.

OregonBuckeye said:

Well, he hasn't played. Not sure how anyone can accurately rank him. But he certainly has the physical tools to be great.

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Just sayin': Yeah, you're right and the only time he did get to play it was a disaster, i.e. 2023 Cotton Bowl.

Not so much of a criticism as an adjustment I think he'll understand and make this next season.

College ball is necessarily different from the NFL. A LOT of NFL teams operate under the 4 minute offense (so does Ohio State in a lot of previous seasons). Teams that can dink and dunk all the way down the field without fucking up (like last night) are very rare. I want to say the longest pass attempted by Beck last night was under 25 yards (full disclosure, I didn't see most of the 4th quarter).

The adjustment is, as @Captain Buckeye stated - if your offense is chewing clock, and you're not getting off the field defensively (playing softer zones, not getting off the field on 3rd down, etc) - then BOTH teams are chewing clock. That will work 90% of the time when you have a team as powerful as Ohio State BUT when the other team can play that way like Indiana and Cryami did, then the system works against itself.

The adjustment has to be to attack more in those situations. When Ohio State did that last night on defense, they got several stops in a row.

Patricia is the best defensive coordinator Ohio State has had since Fickell or Dantonio. I'm certain he will figure it out.

Since I don't see a Bama thread....
This guy says---- That whoopin lasted almost as long as my Alabama Career!

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Johnson finished #6 most impressive from day1 of practice:

Eli Johnson is one of the more physically impressive defensive backs on hand at Under Armour this week. The 2027 Ohio State commit really sticks out when watching the Team Roses DB group. He has outstanding size, looking all of 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds, maybe even closer to 200 pounds. He’s a smooth and twitchy mover at that size. Made easy work of DB drills and once Team Roses went to 11-on-11 action, he closed quickly for a pass breakup over the middle. There’s several highly-touted jumbo safeties on hand here, including Notre Dame signee Joey O’Brien and Oregon signee Jett Washington. Johnson stacks up with those two, just from a stature and frame perspective. He certainly looks the part and is a safety that is very developed physically and had some impressive. flashes on Wednesday.

RuGettinIt said:

When your dogs haircut cost 2X yours

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IDK, man. When my kids and I talk about what they pay for haircuts my head spins like the exorcist. I don't even like spending $30 and they are talking b/w 80, and $120.... Shit, every two weeks and now it is a shitty car payment.

With the season now complete, it’s back to the recruiting grind for Ohio State’s coaching staff​

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Landing Jacobs this week was huge for the 2027 class, but the only thing better than one elite defensive line target out of Georgia for the Buckeyes would of course be another, and so far so good when it comes to Justin Weeks.

The No. 179 player nationally and the 22nd best edge rusher in the class per the 247Sports Composite, Weeks has well over 20 offers to his name, but has made it clear Georgia and Ohio State are the schools that at least currently are sticking out the most for him and his recruitment.

OregonBuckeye said:

It happens tho. Tywone Malone this year for example

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Right and Ty was fine but he wasn’t a first rounder either.

I wonder what the disconnect was here