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Game Thread #2 tOSU at #3 Oregon, Sat. Oct. 12, 7:30 pm ET, NBC

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osuvictory1 said:
This game kind of reminds me of 2005 OSU vs Tex. Hard fought close game, with some notable mistakes and the clock killed OSU. However, with that game we lost in our own hostile environment, and people didn't want to throw Tress on the stake.
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Two rather large differences:

1. Day doesn't have the track record JT had in year 6.

2. The fanbase has grown far more spoiled/complacent. When bad things happen, people lose their shit.
 
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Mike80 said:
Two rather large differences:

1. Day doesn't have the track record JT had in year 6.

2. The fanbase has grown far more spoiled/complacent. When bad things happen, people lose their shit.
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I agree with this. This year Day needs to make up some of the knock on him by at least beating Scum. I think at least that will cool things down.
 
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osuvictory1 said:
and people didn't want to throw Tress on the stake.
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Uh. Sure they did. Both for how he handled the QB thing in that game and coming off an awful 2004 where certain high profile alumni were trying to get him fired (and urban Meyer hired) in the wake of the Maurice Clarett debacle/scandal.
 
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Buck I in Mich said:
Remember when everyone crucified Day for running the ball against Georgia in the final moments, and setting up a long field goal that we missed? 45 yards is not close enough on the road in college.
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Sure. I expected a couple of runs to center the ball, ideally picking up 1 first down along the way. The play with the OPI on Smith was the throwing version of what I expected on the ground. Candidly, I’m probably more OK with the call to throw there given Simmons was out.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
100% thought that this was intentional. I’m actually surprised they didn’t do it again and just say ‘whoops… did we do that again? Sorry. (Not sorry).”
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… and for that matter, I think that this play exposed a huge hole in the rule book. If teams don’t start doing this somewhat intentionally from time to time, I’ll be surprised.

There _should_ be the option for the offended team to have the time put back on the clock.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
… and for that matter, I think that this play exposed a huge hole in the rule book. If teams don’t start doing this somewhat intentionally from time to time, I’ll be surprised.

There _should_ be the option for the offended team to have the time put back on the clock.
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1sttime 5 yards and nio clock loss 2nd 15 and no clock loss would fix it likely
 
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GuiFMRS said:
I've been on the fire Knowles bus a long time ago so I won't say it surprises me the slightest those stats, but damn when you put them on paper.....
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You've been mostly only riding the "post after a loss" bus for a long time. Including Caleb Downs' thread, repeatedly, despite that not being a loss.

You've been here since 2018. When would you say you have been enjoying OSU?
GuiFMRS said:
Oregon just proved it is, Texas might be, Georgia perhaps, Bama perhaps. But I really don't think our focus should be the National Championship. We've got something to prove the last Saturday of November. Do that and what happened today and what happens in December/January will be an afterthought.
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Oregon and Texas have bragging rights. I don't know what that has to do with his point.

If OSU is this flawed, then how does Oregon prove it's up there with some of the best teams in decades based on being fortunate to beat an OSU team with no defense and 40% of an offensive line.

Also. the bama team that barely avoided consecutive losses to 3-2 doormats Vandy and SC is perhaps as good as the Saban era Bama teams, with unparalleled success in the last 75 years of CFB and the greatest coach in America. A dynasty built on defense (and later offense too), compared to a team that looks like 2012's OSU offense combined with 2018 OSU's defense.

Georgia has looked shaky throughout and doesn't have anywhere near the stability at the QB position that Stetson gave them.

Also their UGA defense played wildly worse than OSUs in their top 3 matchup vs Bama, and they did it against a QB who only remembers how to throw how to throw a football 50% of the time. And doesn't want to be a running QB despite being so dominant when he does.

That's without getting into how the locker room is going in Athens.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
… and for that matter, I think that this play exposed a huge hole in the rule book. If teams don’t start doing this somewhat intentionally from time to time, I’ll be surprised.

There _should_ be the option for the offended team to have the time put back on the clock.
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If you have "too many men on the field" normal 5 yard penalty.

If all 12 (or more) take part in the play, then make it a 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and reset the game clock as if it were a dead ball foul. Easy fix. (So it will never happen.)
 
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jwinslow said:
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You've been mostly only riding the "post after a loss" bus for a long time. Including Caleb Downs' thread, repeatedly, despite that not being a loss.

You've been here since 2018. When would you say you have been enjoying OSU?Oregon and Texas have bragging rights. I don't know what that has to do with his point.

If OSU is this flawed, then how does Oregon prove it's up there with some of the best teams in decades based on being fortunate to beat an OSU team with no defense and 40% of an offensive line.

Also. the bama team that barely avoided consecutive losses to 3-2 doormats Vandy and SC is perhaps as good as the Saban era Bama teams, with unparalleled success in the last 75 years of CFB and the greatest coach in America. A dynasty built on defense (and later offense too), compared to a team that looks like 2012's OSU offense combined with 2018 OSU's defense.

Georgia has looked shaky throughout and doesn't have anywhere near the stability at the QB position that Stetson gave them.

Also their UGA defense played wildly worse than OSUs in their top 3 matchup vs Bama, and they did it against a QB who only remembers how to throw how to throw a football 50% of the time. And doesn't want to be a running QB despite being so dominant when he does.

That's without getting into how the locker room is going in Athens.
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I've been enjoying Buckeye football ever since 09, even through some tough loses I've never not enjoyed being a Buckeye. Winning and losing is part of life and therefore sport, but of course I post more after loses because usually there's more to dissect than with wins, and let's be honest with the amount of talent we have in the roster 8 or 9 wins are guaranteed regardless of how well or poorly we've played. Not everything is perfect when we win and we don't need to burn everything to the ground when we lose, I will admit that I've let my emotions get the best of me in past situations, but it frustrates me that with this amount of talent we get to see the same problems and errors with the team, when the difficulty slider is turned up a couple of notches.

As for the other comment, as I explained in a following post I was merely talking talent wise. Even though teams like Georgia and Bama are weaker than in previous years, they still have rosters with great talent all around, which unfortunately for us have been the type of teams that we haven't been able to consistently and convincingly beat the past 2/3 years.
 
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