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2025 Cotton Bowl: #2 tOSU vs #10 Miami-FL, Wed 12/31 7:30 ET at JerryWorld

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(You may have noticed a pattern to my activities this week) I just rewatched the Miami v A&M game, it is a true testament to the stupidity of the Miami fanbase that they’re coming out of that game riding high.

They were gifted field position on turnovers and special teams all day and didn’t do a single thing on offense. Beck looked atrocious and his stats were atrocious, even when compared to the opposing garbage QB to hold constant for the wind. They had three good runs on the final drive and now they’re man ball world beaters despite doing nothing on the ground in peak “do something on the ground” conditions for the first 55 minutes of the game?

And their vaunted defense let A&M drive right down the field to be on the goal line in less than a minute before another gifted turnover from A&M’s crappy QB.

10-3 pure domination!
 
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BuckeyesGunn said:
The miami punks are calling us 'soft.' Typical baseless rhetoric.

If 'soft' means having a prolific offense, suffocating defense, and something they don't have; 'class' I'll take the false accusation of being soft all Day long.
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They got tired of the "speed" narrative after '02 I think. They can tell themselves we're soft all they want. Once Reese or Downs lays someone out, the play on the field will speak for itself.
 
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RB07OSU said:
They got tired of the "speed" narrative after '02 I think. They can tell themselves we're soft all they want. Once Reese or Downs lays someone out, the play on the field will speak for itself.
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Lesmerises and Landis highlighted that outside of the OL, they are not a physically imposing team and called them ACC tough. That’s their identity in the ACC, let’s see how that works now (and as I noted above, they didn’t impose their will for 55 minutes against a paper tiger overly reliant on blitzing A&M team and had three nice runs on their final drive).

100 yards for Fletcher is okay in those first 55 minutes, but they resulted in three total points, even with gifted short fields, he wasn’t exactly grinding them when it counted for a vast majority of the game.
 
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Buckeneye said:
On the Xs and Os standpoint. The same coverage that gave the offense fits against IU is something Miami has deployed at times throughout the year.

Like anything else, there's a certain anticipation and expectation to seeing this coverage. Hopefully Day and Co. have armed Julian with as much design and education as possible to combat the looks. Miami will run it until we show proficiency beating it.

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How do you combat these looks? Quick pass and/or run at the dropping end?
 
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1926Buckeyes said:
How do you combat these looks? Quick pass and/or run at the dropping end?
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Non white board?

- Win up front
- Offensive balance
- Run the rock
- 3rd and short situations

Keep these defenses from getting into situations where they can consistently throw complex looks at your QB. IU controlled the LoS quite a bit and the Bucks were routinely in 3rd and 5+

White board?

- Minimize IOL pressure
- Vertical stressors

Put the 1/2 field DBs in conflict. There's a classic concept that I loved watching Peyton Manning use - 4 verts.

Malik Willis threw a TD last week on 4 verts against a cover 2 look with a pressure bluff.

 
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Buckeneye said:
Non white board?

- Win up front
- Offensive balance
- Run the rock
- 3rd and short situations

Keep these defenses from getting into situations where they can consistently throw complex looks at your QB. IU controlled the LoS quite a bit and the Bucks were routinely in 3rd and 5+

White board?

- Minimize IOL pressure
- Vertical stressors

Put the 1/2 field DBs in conflict. There's a classic concept that I loved watching Peyton Manning use - 4 verts.

Malik Willis threw a TD last week on 4 verts against a cover 2 look with a pressure bluff.

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Thanks! The first part definitely makes sense. Don’t have to telegraph passes. Hoping we see Bo get 20+ carries.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
Lesmerises and Landis highlighted that outside of the OL, they are not a physically imposing team and called them ACC tough. That’s their identity in the ACC, let’s see how that works now (and as I noted above, they didn’t impose their will for 55 minutes against a paper tiger overly reliant on blitzing A&M team and had three nice runs on their final drive).

100 yards for Fletcher is okay in those first 55 minutes, but they resulted in three total points, even with gifted short fields, he wasn’t exactly grinding them when it counted for a vast majority of the game.
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ACC tough. I like that!
 
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Buckeye86 said:
Lesmerises and Landis highlighted that outside of the OL, they are not a physically imposing team and called them ACC tough. That’s their identity in the ACC, let’s see how that works now (and as I noted above, they didn’t impose their will for 55 minutes against a paper tiger overly reliant on blitzing A&M team and had three nice runs on their final drive).

100 yards for Fletcher is okay in those first 55 minutes, but they resulted in three total points, even with gifted short fields, he wasn’t exactly grinding them when it counted for a vast majority of the game.
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Exactly why it’s ridiculous that people are like “oh shit Miami has the best OL”.

What the hell are people talking about? Outside of one run they basically had 200 yards of offense vs AM.

I’m sorry but if your losses are to SMU and Louisville while playing in a terrible ACC maybe just keep quiet until you see the game play out.

I won’t lie. I don’t feel good about this game for some reason. Maybe it’s because we are the big favorites but I felt similar before Tennessee and Texas last year. Shoot I even dreamed we lost the game last night. We can lose this game and I think there’s bigger odds than maybe most of us think (myself included after I originally thought it’d be a blowout).

I don’t know what to attribute the new found doubt too but who knows. All I will say is if we do the ordinary things we’ll be fine. No turnovers, limit penalties, don’t allow big plays in special team.

If you just make every drive hard on Miami I think we’ll win the game and be just fine.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
Lesmerises and Landis highlighted that outside of the OL, they are not a physically imposing team and called them ACC tough. That’s their identity in the ACC, let’s see how that works now (and as I noted above, they didn’t impose their will for 55 minutes against a paper tiger overly reliant on blitzing A&M team and had three nice runs on their final drive).

100 yards for Fletcher is okay in those first 55 minutes, but they resulted in three total points, even with gifted short fields, he wasn’t exactly grinding them when it counted for a vast majority of the game.
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Pate was railing against this narrative recently, adamant that they “don’t look like an ACC team.”

Very curious who is right.
 
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