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muffler dragon said:
I question the constitution of the Lunatic fringe. The lack of chutzpah is alarming.
Seems like people chose to Bitch Up and Choose Positivity. :shake:
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Excuse me sir. Some of us were behind enemy lines. Neck deep with them everywhere. Adults, kids, babies. I had limited access to my home away from home here. My constitution, like Thumps ass sphincter after Taco Bell should not be questioned
 
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Not entirely certain this is a fair comparison, what with Texas being #1, and tOSU #3, but did it seem to anyone else that Sayin was a bit more prepared than Arch? Pressure on both, Manning with one more year of time in grade at QB, but Sayin seemed like he was more in control of his game and himself. Since everyone ballyhoos Sark as a QB whisperer, as well as Ryan Day, my (probably unfair conclusion) is that Day is the better QB whisperer. I get that pressure is on Sayin to perform here, but no less so at Texas, where football is more (believe it or no) a religion. Great win and Go Bucks!:banger:
 
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I'll put this here; the transformation of CFB to NFL-ish has affected me much quicker than I thought could ever happen.

I never stressed that Texas game leading up all summer because I knew it didn't really matter for playoffs (we weren't done if we lost) and neither are they.

It was fun, a win is always better than a loss, we got to see all the new players and coaches etc but it felt like a week 1 win in the NFL. Nice, but there are miles to go.....

anyone else?
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I'll put this here; the transformation of CFB to NFL-ish has affected me much quicker than I thought could ever happen.

I never stressed that Texas game leading up all summer because I knew it didn't really matter for playoffs (we weren't done if we lost) and neither are they.

It was fun, a win is always better than a loss, we got to see all the new players and coaches etc but it felt like a week 1 win in the NFL. Nice, but there are miles to go.....

anyone else?
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100% agree. I felt my heart beating harder on a couple of the 4th downs, but that was it. No yelling at all, no frustration. It felt more like a pre-season nfl game because it matters even less than a regular season nfl game.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I'll put this here; the transformation of CFB to NFL-ish has affected me much quicker than I thought could ever happen.

I never stressed that Texas game leading up all summer because I knew it didn't really matter for playoffs (we weren't done if we lost) and neither are they.

It was fun, a win is always better than a loss, we got to see all the new players and coaches etc but it felt like a week 1 win in the NFL. Nice, but there are miles to go.....

anyone else?
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Same.
I didn't stream the game yesterday. Instead, I listened on 97.1 with Keels. Don't know when I'll pay to watch games this year, but it'll be a bit. Just feel different in general. I'm not dissatisfied with the Buckeyes. More just a state on the CFB in general. Hell, it may be some apathy after seeing our team win the NC months ago. Just not hyped up anywhere near my previous state.
 
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muffler dragon said:
Same.
I didn't stream the game yesterday. Instead, I listened on 97.1 with Keels. Don't know when I'll pay to watch games this year, but it'll be a bit. Just feel different in general. I'm not dissatisfied with the Buckeyes. More just a state on the CFB in general. Hell, it may be some apathy after seeing our team win the NC months ago. Just not hyped up anywhere near my previous state.
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Yeah, I am not dissatisfied at all but it's just easier for me now to record the game, check the score and watch if they win, delete if they should lose.

I think it's a mix of OSU being at an absurdly high level where you really only wonder about 2-3 games a year and also the playoff-ification of the regular season. It just doesn't mean as much.

People cautioned this back when they started talking a playoff system post BCS. CFB had the single greatest regular season in all of sport (because there was no real post season). As soon as you added any kind of playoff to it, you watered it down. The only question was to what degree.

I feel like we have hit the "weaker than circus lemonade" level of watered down.
 
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muffler dragon said:
This is it. And yet, there's the expectation by the powers-that-be that we should pay elevated prices for <70% return on that investment. All I can do right now is shrug.
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Those prices will come crashing down when complacency kicks in and we lose to fucking Grambling.

Fire Day now just to get it over with
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I'll put this here; the transformation of CFB to NFL-ish has affected me much quicker than I thought could ever happen.

I never stressed that Texas game leading up all summer because I knew it didn't really matter for playoffs (we weren't done if we lost) and neither are they.

It was fun, a win is always better than a loss, we got to see all the new players and coaches etc but it felt like a week 1 win in the NFL. Nice, but there are miles to go.....

anyone else?
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You're not wrong
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I'll put this here; the transformation of CFB to NFL-ish has affected me much quicker than I thought could ever happen.

I never stressed that Texas game leading up all summer because I knew it didn't really matter for playoffs (we weren't done if we lost) and neither are they.

It was fun, a win is always better than a loss, we got to see all the new players and coaches etc but it felt like a week 1 win in the NFL. Nice, but there are miles to go.....

anyone else?
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I care a lot about OSU's place in the history of the game, and a lot of that history involves great consistency and not as much top end success as there should be (1969, 1973, 1996, 1998, 2015, etc.), so to me these games mean a lot in that context. Also, while this game was hardly life or death, I do think that losing it would have left us with a more than negligible chance of missing the playoff, and I have virtually no stress about that now. I also am always more chill for a while after a natty resets the program clock. And even more so in this case since Day is young, has now proven that he can do, and seems to be hungry for more right where he is. I'm no longer sweating that he's not the guy and that ten years without a natty might turn into twenty before we know it.

I do loathe the diminution of value of the regular season, and agree, despite what I said above, that the level of tension is down a lot for games like this for me, but these playoffs also give us a lot of opportunity to burnish our overall long-term legacy sooner rather than later, and I'm all for that. For example, beating Tennessee, Texas, and Texas again, puts a big dent in a lot of unfortunate OSU-SEC history. Repeat this year and I'll make a pretty damn compelling case that only Alabama sits above us on the all-time program hierarchy (that's arguable right now, but one more run like last year makes the argument a lot stronger).
 
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