• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Game Thread 2017 Cotton Bowl: OSU vs. USC - 12/29/17 @ 8:30 ET (ESPN)

There was a guy at her side coaching her on how to do it. She did it exactly the way he suggested. May have to go to the video and see if it was Tim Beck.

Save you time. It wasn't him. He couldn't teach someone to hit the ground if they were aiming at it.
 
Upvote 0
I don't think it was caused by too much money so much as too many years.

Re: Ewing Buick GMC has been serving the greater Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area for decades.

Hey, as long Urban and the staff got their "courtesy" Cotton Bowl Buicks to use, you should give Gail Ewing a break.....

Cotton%2BBowl%2Bcoin%2Btoss.png


.......besides she's probably still in mourning after her husband JR died......:slappy:
 
Upvote 0
Don't really know where else to post this, but...........the media is slowly coming to the mistaken conclusion that (not only tOSU but the B1G in general) we didn't "really play anybody". Nothing but PC horse [Mark May]. Screw 'em. GO BUCKS!!!!! :urban2:
 
Upvote 0
Looking forward to hopefully seeing some offensive scheme changes next year with (presumably) Haskins at quarterback. Reading Fulton's latest piece it was another case of the offense functioning at a pretty low level when plan a) is taken away. That happened too many times the past few years. Not even saying it was JT's fault necessarily, I would just assume the offense would look a little different with someone with a different skill is playing quarterback.
 
Upvote 0
Looking forward to hopefully seeing some offensive scheme changes next year with (presumably) Haskins at quarterback. Reading Fulton's latest piece it was another case of the offense functioning at a pretty low level when plan a) is taken away. That happened too many times the past few years. Not even saying it was JT's fault necessarily, I would just assume the offense would look a little different with someone with a different skill is playing quarterback.
Year 2 with offensive coaches with established track records of competence can't hurt either.
 
Upvote 0
Agreed. Something like 19-3 lead lost. Then a bunch of terrible coaching decisions so they couldn't come back.

Even more delicious was that they had first and goal at the four yard line with two minutes to go in the third quarter, and threw a pick in the end zone to start a comedy of errors that resulted in five turnovers in the final seventeen minutes. It was GLORIOUS.
 
Upvote 0
FILM STUDY: HOW THE TROJANS MADE IT TOUGH TO MOVE THE FOOTBALL IN THE 2017 COTTON BOWL

90060_h_0.jpg


"For the most part, I think they did a lot of what we saw on film." - USC linebacker Cameron Smith following the Cotton Bowl.



Ohio State fans hoping to see their favorite team light up the scoreboard in the final act of the 2017 campaign must've been disappointed. Despite building a 24-7 lead at halftime thanks to three USC turnovers, the Buckeyes failed to grow that margin throughout the duration of the contest, leaving some to actually express gratitude to the playoff committee for sparing the team from another potential embarrassment similar to last year's Fiesta Bowl debacle.

While Urban Meyer's offense certainly performed better in this year's bowl appearance, it failed to live up to the billing as one of the top ten units in the nation, one that averaged 506 yards-per-game. But while OSU also got out to a big, early lead in their previous game, the Big Ten Championship victory over Wisconsin, the Badgers' top-ranked defense eventually slowed the Buckeyes' explosive attack in the second half. Yet the Trojans, who feature only the 68th-best defense in the land, somehow held the team from Columbus to 172 fewer yards in the Cotton Bowl.

Though the Ohio State defensive line was largely credited with the victory, sacking star USC quarterback Sam Darnold eight times and forcing him into the aforementioned turnovers, the Trojan defense accomplished their goal through a variety of means. As noted by Smith, the Buckeyes tried to establish the tight zone run, the foundational concept upon which much of the system is based. However, USC defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast unveiled a new wrinkle that kept star center Billy Price from helping his guards with the critical combination blocks on the nose tackle that make the play go.

Instead of lining up in their traditional spots behind the defensive line, Smith (#35) and WILL linebacker John Houston (#10) regularly lined up directly over both of Price's shoulders in the 'A' gap. Sometimes one or both would blitz (with an occasional safety blitz, as seen below), but other times they'd drop back at the snap into a traditional alignment.



As a result, Ohio State offensive linemen had trouble identifying their keys and were often left in one-on-one battles with quicker USC defenders looking to shoot a gap.

Despite tallying over 1,400 yards in his first year on campus, freshman running back J.K. Dobbins was largely held in check due to this tactic. In the worst performance of his young career, Dobbins tallied only 39 yards on 13 carries while fellow back Mike Weber managed only 18 yards of his own on the ground.

Taking a cue from Notre Dame, who ran all over the Trojans back in October, the Buckeyes found some success with toss sweeps from compressed formations. Pulling linemen and cracking wideouts gave Dobbins, Weber, and even quarterback J.T. Barrett some opportunities to pick up yardage outside.



Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...-to-move-the-football-in-the-2017-cotton-bowl
 
Upvote 0
Don't really know where else to post this, but...........the media is slowly coming to the mistaken conclusion that (not only tOSU but the B1G in general) we didn't "really play anybody". Nothing but PC horse [Mark May]. Screw 'em. GO BUCKS!!!!! :urban2:
For the record, Sagarin has 5 B1G teams in top 15 and 1 SEC team. Bucks #12, Auburn #3.
Massey has 6 B1G and 3 SEC, Bucks #6. SEC teams boosted by CFP games.
 
Upvote 0
Back
Top