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

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dragurd said:
Pretty much all I'm saying. Is if we beat TSUN the last few years and lost in the playoffs. No one here would be considering TSUN Elite and we'd be having the same arguement. It would have haha TSUN manball can't work at the elite level.

So at some point ELITE is a circular arguemnt that means win in the Playoffs.
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No. There's not some circular reasoning or goal post that's changing. There's a statistic: 1-7.

As in Ryan Day is 1-7 against Top 5 teams despite having all of the talent and advantages that Ohio State provides him.

If we make the playoffs, we are going to have to play multiple top 10 teams. 3 or 4 in a row if we want to win the whole thing. With a coach who is 1-7 and has lost every match-up against a Top 5 team since the 2020 season. It's been FOUR YEARS.

Boosters aren't raising and spending $20 million in NIL to help Ryan Day beat Iowa and Purdue.
 
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Back at my hotel. I haven’t read the game thread yet, but I have a couple of observations.

Helluva college football game, perfect weather, both teams played well. Gabriel, after having issues with pick-6s and red zone interceptions the last couple weeks, has no turnovers and was perfectly accurate on his deep throws.

The fumble in the first half really changed momentum and the stadium got louder after Oregon scored. I saw the scoreboard decibel meter hit 127 (edit - it hit 129) on tOSU’s final drive. The noise was a factor in two or three 5-yard penalties on the tOSU offense.

Haven‘t seen a reply of the OPI that ended up being the most important play/call of the game. But I knew it was going to be OPI as soon as I saw the flag.

It seems like a team trying to protect a lead, when they get called for too many men, should have the time for that play restored on the clock as well as the down being reset. Otherwise a team with a lead can put 27 guys on the field to burn a few seconds and happily give up 5 yards. If that clock had been reset to 10 seconds, the game would have been decided by a FG attempt of about 46 yards on the final play.

The expanded playoff makes a loss like this somewhat easier to accept.

If any pollsters drop tOSU below Bama tomorrow they should lose their place in the poll.
 
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daddyphatsacs said:
This one could’ve gone either way tonight. Here’s a positive I took from it. Oregon damn near played flawless tonight at home and won by 1 over a team who had two bad turnovers and many penalties. IF we clean that up we beat Oregonby 10 in Indy.

Oregon played to their ceiling and we didn’t. If and when this current OSU team can find their ceiling, the sky is still the limit. It’s on Day to help them find it.
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If, if, if. Sums up Day's tenure. This roster is as good as it gets on paper. Same shit. New year. Fuck this. People on here were predicting a blowout win, and if we had a coach worth a damn I would've agreed. But Day is a coward who coaches scared teams. He'll win 11 meaningless games yet again, and people will delude themselves into thinking he's turned a corner. Rinse and repeat
 
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after about a decade of dormancy, my john-cooper-era, we’re-about-to-do-some-dumb-shit on any given play that costs us the game sphincter-twitching halfway-distracting-myself and partly at-every-snap halfway distracting myself and fighting the urge to cover my eyes ptsd is back.

i thought it was just a fluke feeling the last three years against ttun, but yesterday’s game confirmed it for me that it’s back for real.

it’s a nauseating feeling… like a roller coaster ride that invariably ends with throwing up.

thanks ryan.
 
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We saw the drawback of adding the West Coast teams to the conference. It's hard to go all the way out there and win a football game. I don't know why they waited until Friday morning to leave. Thursday classes? No place to practice? NCAA needs to figure out conference alignments that make sense.

Regarding the 7 losses against top 5 teams, we know at least one of those will probably be vacated, assuming tcun was top 5 in 2022. If OSU wins the B1G championship, that's two victories against top 5 teams coming up. And I think OSU will be favored.
 
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DaiMonMoore said:
Doesn't matter. He didn't get a first down so clock still running and you can't really call a timeout within a second of a play ending.
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Considering the rule was changed a couple years so that the play is dead as soon as a QB commits to a slide ( thanks to Kenny Pickett's "fake slide") the TO was being called with 2 seconds left, which you most certainly CAN do. Even with 1 second left. Happens all the time.
 
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We played a good team and it showed who we are.

I'm just not seeing NC winning play from this team.

I thought bringing in Chip and having Knowles would do it, but I'm not truly seeing that Chip has made this offense that great at all. I thought we'd be way better by now. Knowles D has to get pressure to be at NC winning caliber, and be better all around. Team has not gelled.

Howard is really that much better than Brown and the others, or, did he just get the start because we brought him here for that reason? I guess we'll find out what we have down the stretch. Playoffs? Well, I hope so, we should be top 12. NC? Things have got to get way better.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Everyone wanted NFL lite. They got it. This is the first loss where I literally don't fucking care. (To be clear just sounding off, not arguing)
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Same here. I explained that to the wife last night. In the grand scheme of things, this loss means Jack Shit. Pretty much everyone around College Football was picking Oregon to win this one at home and the Bucks to win a rematch in Indy. I didn't like the way the D played, but it was a weird game all the way around and I wasn't pissed even as soon as it was over. Every one of the goals this team has are still there in front of them. Can this team achieve them? We'll see. That's why they the games. As usual, anyone expecting iss team to win every game by 3 scores and go undefeated is a fool. I was laughing at some of the pre-game score predictions here.
 
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