The ABCs of this game - saw it in a location without Internet service, so these impressions have had time to simmer a while.
A. - Is for Ass-Kicking. This was, as Musberger once opined, an old fashioned Buckeye butt-whipping. After the Buckeyes responded to the Penn State TD with a long 80-yard drive of their own, highlighted by the long pass play to Small, this was, for all intents and purposes over. Huge night in the trenches by the O-line. The D-line did it's job by getting pressure on Morelli, who, inevitably, coughed up the ball or made hurried and errant passes. The late kick-off return for a Touchdown gave our final scoreline of 37-17, but it was further apart than that for most of the night. I really have to watch the replay of the TD return to see if we had put in 2nd stringers. It is either that or AJ Wallace is A) all world, and B) under-utilized - a perennial problem at Penn State it seems.
B - Is for Bullshit. B is also for Brian Robiskie, against whom the bullshit call of no catch, let alone no TD was given "upon further review."
C - Is for Chameleon. I'm beginning to believe that is Jim Tressel's favorite animal, for his continued changes and improvement to the Ohio State Offense show his willingness to let the team take on the expression of the players best abilities.
D - Is for dumbest high-school prom night special effect wasted on a national audience. All that White, and so many failed drives for Penn State. Drives of 4, 5, 7 and 6 plays ended in Punts, a pick 6 put the end to a 2 play drive, a fumble which [strike]Worthington[/strike] Washington picked up from the ground halted their last 6 play drive.
Skipping forward somewhat ...
P - Is for Punt, the most important play in football as I recall hearing. Yet Ohio State eschewed this hallmark of the strategy for the entire game - electing instead to cap each but 3 of their drives with scores. (Two of the three such non-scoring drives were end of half and end of regulation).
