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Game Thread #2 Ohio State vs #3 Clemson, 8 pm ET, Dec 28th in Glendale, AZ

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desert_buckeye said:
10 conferences plus the independents … leaves plenty to choose from. Hell I would have preferred the MAC over the BS I saw last Saturday
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AAC would have been fine as well. I know they don't get the same airtime as the Power 5, but when I've watched their conference (UCF) games I can't think of too much fuckery with the calls.

But really, the NCAA needs to have organized officials. They can afford it, and there needs to be some accountability that's visible.
 
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scarletmike said:
AAC would have been fine as well. I know they don't get the same airtime as the Power 5, but when I've watched their conference (UCF) games I can't think of too much fuckery with the calls.

But really, the NCAA needs to have organized officials. They can afford it, and there needs to be some accountability that's visible.
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I bet Texas or Florida HS have better officials.
 
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I guess my only thought is that OSU did not play their best game. And honestly, it is now obvious that Dobbins and play action is crucial to this offense. Maybe we all knew this but against the best athletes and teams the weakness or key to a teams success becomes more pronounced.

Additionally, the rest of the D-line needs to pick it up. While I think Young spent way to many plays just running up field and not taking a tighter path to the QB, he was doubled and triple teams almost every play. The last few games it was obvious teams had decided to make sure he did not beat them. And the rest of the defensive line did not pick up the slack or seize the opportunity to get to the QB.

With all that said, Clemson's Lawrence was the best player on the field that night and was the difference. Without him making plays Clemson might have been shut out. Which just proves that a freakish play maker at QB is how you tilt the field in these big games.

I am not going to lie. I am disappointed. I was really looking forward to an LSU vs OSU Final.
 
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Since this has become major National fodder (and all over the place here), I figured it deserved it's own thread. Article:

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-col...-shouldnt-have-been-overturned-223515191.html

No surprise the B1G supervisor of officials also said this but I thought it was interesting the National Coordinator of Officials said it. He's on his way out (being replaced by SEC Officiating Supervisor Steve Shaw lolololol) so he's probably like, fuck politics. I'm going to say what I want.





Mods: Don't know if it's worthy of one but since it keeps coming up and since semi-final game thread is gone, maybe this would be the best place to post updates. If something already exists, feel free to delete.
 
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Greyshirt said:
I guess my only thought is that OSU did not play their best game. And honestly, it is now obvious that Dobbins and play action is crucial to this offense. Maybe we all knew this but against the best athletes and teams the weakness or key to a teams success becomes more pronounced.

Additionally, the rest of the D-line needs to pick it up. While I think Young spent way to many plays just running up field and not taking a tighter path to the QB, he was doubled and triple teams almost every play. The last few games it was obvious teams had decided to make sure he did not beat them. And the rest of the defensive line did not pick up the slack or seize the opportunity to get to the QB.

With all that said, Clemson's Lawrence was the best player on the field that night and was the difference. Without him making plays Clemson might have been shut out. Which just proves that a freakish play maker at QB is how you tilt the field in these big games.

I am not going to lie. I am disappointed. I was really looking forward to an LSU vs OSU Final.
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I’ll go to my grave thinking tOSU should have moved Young around and used line stunts to make him harder to find. Wade play was best d play call regardless of the Tgt.
 
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Tanner said:
Don't look at the film clip of the last play posted by Ted Nguyen on twitter that shows the play was probably a touchdown if Olave doesnt break his route for reasons unknown if you don't want to barf
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Just came here to post the same thing. Scrolling twitter, saw the all-22 breakdown and...woo boy. I gotta stop doing that to myself.

It hurts.
 
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LitlBuck said:
After looking at the clip, I do not think that it was Chris's fault at all..
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There is plenty of DB help (and a lot longer airtime) for the route Chris switched to. There was nothing but air and a possible hit from behind (but not likely) if he maintains the route.

These things happen, it was just extraordinarily unlucky that he did it during the throw to allow the defender to not follow him.
 
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Rewatched the first 1.5 quarters .. mistake don't do it.

I cannot tell you how much worse it hurts to watch it again. We should've been up 28 to 0 to be honest. Once Wade went out it just changed everything obviously.

That said us not scoring TDs is what really ruined everything. I agree with Bill Greene Clemson was on the verge of collapse had we punched in at least 1 of those TDs.

What also struck me was UFM Meyer saying we clearly were owning the LOS which I agree with.

Preventing the big play and not capitalizing really flushed this one.

So yeah don't rematch the game right now you'll just be enraged how it was even close let alone how we lost.
 
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Tanner said:
Don't look at the film clip of the last play posted by Ted Nguyen on twitter that shows the play was probably a touchdown if Olave doesnt break his route for reasons unknown if you don't want to barf
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Don't need the clip to know.

We had Olave 1:1 with a safety. Olave wins that a very high % of the time....except when he makes a mistake and breaks the route off.

sigh
 
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jwinslow said:
There is plenty of DB help (and a lot longer airtime) for the route Chris switched to. There was nothing but air and a possible hit from behind (but not likely) if he maintains the route.

These things happen, it was just extraordinarily unlucky that he did it during the throw to allow the defender to not follow him.
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Pretty much. Clemson had some Les Miles sold his soul to the devil luck there
 
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