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HC Ryan Day (B1G Coach of Year, B1G Champion, National Champion)

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Uptempo also affects the defense. Going uptempo lessens the time that the defense has to read your intent and adjust accordingly. Slowing the game down has its own advantages.

I think you need to do both, perhaps even in the same drive.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
OSU plays per game and points per game since '21

Season Plays/Game Points/Game
2021 71.7 45.7
2022 68.3 44.2
2023 66.0 30.2
2024 62.8 35.7
2025 64.0 44.8
just to keep things in perspective, he hasn't slowed down that much.

His PPG swings are bigger than his plays per game trend which again, speaks to efficiency not play volume.

People can also go do their own research on the topic you will find a ~.70+ level of correlation between EPA and Points per game. A much lower ~.20ish correlation between plays per game and points per game.
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We are at 34.9 points per game this season.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
There is no getting around odds so feel free to believe whatever you want. The cold reality is that in football, every possession you give your opponent without increasing your lead is a gift of win probability to them. Even if you have the better offense, defense, athletes and coaching.

“more plays” is not universally good—it is good only when:
they are offensive plays
they are efficient
they consume clock
and they turn into points

Anything else is just giving the opponent another coin flip—and upset math lives off of coin flips.

Again, the problem Saturday night was not a lack of opportunity to make plays. It was a lack of execution. They did not produce points.

Going forward, nothing else needs change. Day has beaten talented teams before with the exact same fundamental structure. His approach is not the problem, it was just one outcome.
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I agree with you generally and will agree with you completely if you consider dubious offensive personnel groupings, very little pre-snap motion to help Sayin make reads and or confuse the defense, and dubious situational play calling on high leverage downs as part of lack of execution. I tend to read "lack of execution" as, we put the players in an optimal position but they blew the implementation, and I think there were numerous occasions in which they were not put in an optimal position. Day's overall strategic approach may be the right one, but some of the tactics did not seem necessary or helpful in implementing that strategy. E.g., you don't need 3-4 TEs on the field to play slow. I do think they'll play it differently next time and that while they certainly tried to win, they thought they could do so with a basic game plan. Like you, I also give Indiana a lot of credit for being an old, salty team that played its balls off and made us pay for our hubris in thinking we didn't need anything special for them, but I still think that they're the gambler and we're the house.
 
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