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Game Thread BCS Championship Game, tOSU vs. Florida - Jan 8th

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That was pathetic. I'm not going to sit here and try to sugar coat this with Florida was a good team, or it was a good season or anything like that. It was a good season...it was a great season. But in the biggest game of the year, we played our worst. That was by far the worst I have seen Ohio State play since Jim Tressel came to Columbus. That was pathetic. Troy Smith was pathetic. The offensive line was confused and slow. The defense was sluggish and in a base zone which was never adjusted to compensate for how Florida was trying to attack it. Ted Ginn did more in 16 seconds then the rest of the team did in 59:44. Troy Smith is an amazing quarterback...and he played amazing against Michigan every single time. But this was the biggest game of his career, and he was flat out bad...no matter how bad the O-line played, or how good Florida's D played...he still was bad (maybe he's hurt, that's the only explination I can come up with).

No free passes. None of this...well they played good all year, or look what Troy did all season crap. They were amazing this year. Troy had an outstanding season...the best season for a QB in Big 10 history. That can't be taken away from him. But you can't ignore the fact, that for whatever reason...we looked like a MAC school today...and that's being nice.

You don't win all your games to play like this. Maybe it was 51 days, maybe it was leaving it all on the field against Michigan. I have no idea.

If your way to cope with this loss is to look at the big picture, then that's fine. If you look at the big picture, we have become THE elite team in the Big 10, we own Michigan, we are on of the best teams in the country in BCS Bowls, we had a Heisman QB, and under Tressel's six years we've been to the NC game twice, and won it once. That's AMAZING. It's been a great 6 years, and i'd take 6 more exactly like it!! But the title of this threat isn't "2006 season" or "Ohio State football: The Tressel Era" It's "BCS Championship Game." And in the BCS Championship Game, we EMBARESSED ourselves, the Big 10, the state of Ohio, and everything surrounding Buckeye football.

THAT WAS PATHETIC! FLORIDA IS NOT AN NFL TEAM. All they had to do was show up and they won that game. There is no excuse to play like that. We could have at least shown up...it's the damn NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! MAKE PLAYS!!! DO SOMETHING!!! I love Jim Tressel. And even though his record is 62-14...before this game I felt like he was 75-0 as far as getting his team to show up, play hard, and play like a Buckeye. Now I feel he is 75-1. I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING A BUCKEYE GAME TONIGHT. I don't know who the hell just played the Gators, but it wasn't the Buckeyes.
 
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OCBucksFan;711741; said:
I think the NCAA needs to reconsider the bowl schedules, there was at least a month off regardless of what conference you were in. That's silly, I understand taking a week or two for everyone to get healthy but 30+ days is just too much.
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Agreed completely. Waiting nearly two months between games is ridiculous. Why can't we just go back to when the big games were played on New Years Day? Oh right, the almighty dollar.:grr: Fucking television has ruined what was once one of the great traditions in CFB...New Years day bowl games. Television. I hate the world sometimes.

This is not me blaming the layoff for the loss at all. I don't care if that game was played January 1st, we were out played and out coached by a humungous margin. It's the coaches and players responsibility to stay prepared, but seriously...50 something days. It's not fair to either team.
 
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heisman trophy delivery

Who here agrees that the heismann should be given after all the bowl games are done.. i mean, to avoid eventual embarrassment, of course.

It's not only embarrassing for Smith, but also for OSU and the Big TEN Conference, of course. I thought that the Big Ten was much stronger than the SEC, but i guess i was wrong. Stop the excuses... a 41-14 loss is unacceptable, even if we haven't played for 51 days. We were the #1 team for fcuk sake.
 
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OSU justice;711783; said:
Who here agrees that the heismann should be given after all the bowl games are done.. i mean, to avoid eventual embarrassment, of course.

It's not only embarrassing for Smith, but also for OSU and the Big TEN Conference, of course. I thought that the Big Ten was much stronger than the SEC, but i guess i was wrong. Stop the excuses... a 41-14 loss is unacceptable, even if we haven't played for 51 days. We were the #1 team for fcuk sake.
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Oh for chrissakes.:shake: I don't see anybody here making excuses or saying a 41-14 loss is acceptable. Pretty much everybody is saying we got our asses beat by a damn good football team. Sober up or get some rest. Life will go on.
 
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Just a quick note....

For all the talk the Florida couldn't cover all our speedy receivers it actually looked like we were the ones afraid to man up hence we went to the zone. We never brought the wood once and gave up the crossing and underneath routes almost all night.

The abandonment of the running game did not help and forced us to be one dimensional.

It just looked that the teams switched places just before the game and Florida played like OSU had all season and the Bucks looked like they had never been to a BCS game before. I live in the South and have watched many a UF game and Florida played about as well as they could play. They certainly did not play that way during the season, but they had key injuries throughout the year and the layoff allowed them to get healthy.

If this game was played on December 18th OSU wins, however give Meyer time to scheme, Florida time to get healthy and OSU to get rusty and we saw the perfect storm. OSU seemed shocked that Florida was not the bumbling idiots they they had shown all year. It looked like we were expecting for them to self destruct and to their credit they never did.
 
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To sum it all up, tOSU just did not play their game at all. We didnt play Buckeye Football, and we made too many mistakes.

We have to move on and look forward to next year....even though its hard because we could have won that game....DAMNIT
 
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buckeyeboy;711579; said:
My thoughts on what went wrong:

1. Our coaching staff dropped the ball. On defense, we were content to rush 3-4 guys all night long, which put no pressure on Leak, even though all week long everyone knew that Leak could be pressured into making mistakes.
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Bingo.

Every single scouting report talked about how easily Leak got rattled when pressured... and somehow we didn't manage to rattle him all night long. Part was poor execution, but I think it was primarily weak-minded playcalling on the part of Heacock/Tressel. At some point, you have to decide "enough is enough" and put some serious pressure on Leak.
 
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If we're looking for a reason why we looked so bad last night, these numbers tell the tale.

Rushing ATT YDS AVG LG TD
Antonio Pittman 10 62 6.2 18 1
Chris Wells 2 9 4.5 7 0
Brian Hartline 1 5 5.0 5 0
Troy Smith 10 -29 -2.9 13 0

Pitt was averaging 6 a carry. Beanie's 2 carries got 9 yards. Why were we not running the ball?

I can understand a gameplan going foul early. But there were no adjustments. Florida's pass rush was coming a break neck speed.

No draws
No screens
No slants

Defensively, we never switched to cover1 to take away the short routes. Leak ate us alive just throwing under the canopy.

Absolutely frustrating night.

It almost seemed like a trip to pick up a trophy and a football game broke out.

We looked unprepared and uninterested
 
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Urban Meyer has earned himself a lot of my respect. He recognized immediately that "bend-but-don't-break" has been the MO of this defense and that high-percentage/low-risk plays can and will move the chains. And they executed nearly perfectly. They took what we were going to give them and when they got into the red zone, they continued to make it work.

And the blitz schemes they ran absolutely killed our line. Overloading the right side of our line on a couple of occasions worked splendidly. We have LT, LG, and C blocking two guys on the left while the RG, RT, and RB are left to try to handle 4 men on the right. Even when we brought a receiver in motion across the formation and kept him in for extra protection, they still had mismatches with a WR trying to handle a safety or LB and Troy just couldn't get it to an open man fast enough. On a couple other occasions, the line was so lost trying to figure out who was coming that they left the blindside DE unblocked.

They dominated us down low on both sides of the ball. The speed and athleticism of the DE's was remarkable.
 
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The game was definitely won in the trenches. Both the offense and defensive lines never really showed up. Our entire defense played on it's heals all night, afraid of giving up big plays to their trickery and our offense.......well it didn't even show up. I'm puzzled why we didn't try to establish some kind of run game early. None the less......great game by Florida.......just wish they would have got a chance to see our best.
 
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