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morbitzerker
Putting in PDX
Getting drunk and watching the first half of this one late night is.... 
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Look man when you have that many uniform combinations you start to lose track. Probably just thought they got another mascot or something
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Watching this again, cuz why not?
The first 4 Buckeyes TD drives took exactly 3 minutes. A total of 3 minutes for 28 points. If there was ever evidence of what a useless stat that time-of-possession is, that‘s it.
Also, Dan Lanning punted 2 or 3 times when he should have gone for it. The Buckeyes were racking up points, and he decided to keep giving the ball back to that offense. Thanks, Dan.
In the middle of the second quarter, average yards per pass attempt: Buckeyes: 18.2, Ducks: 3.5. I dont think I’ve ever enjoyed a quarter and a half of football as much as this Rose Bowl.
The first 4 Buckeyes TD drives took exactly 3 minutes. A total of 3 minutes for 28 points. If there was ever evidence of what a useless stat that time-of-possession is, that‘s it.
Also, Dan Lanning punted 2 or 3 times when he should have gone for it. The Buckeyes were racking up points, and he decided to keep giving the ball back to that offense. Thanks, Dan.
In the middle of the second quarter, average yards per pass attempt: Buckeyes: 18.2, Ducks: 3.5. I dont think I’ve ever enjoyed a quarter and a half of football as much as this Rose Bowl.
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Captain Buckeye
Assistant Coach
Watching it live I thought Oregon was throwing the game with as many bad decisions as they were making.
Watching it over the last few months and I sort of still feel the same way lol.
I get the fear that they’d get stopped and give us great field position if they went for it on 4th and failed but the alternative was a 1 play 65 yard touchdown down drive anyways
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Foy anybody looking to re-watch or record thus game, it will be in ESPNU at 1 pm ET on Monday. A 3-hour slot.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
My Favorite Things Episode 23: It Was 34-0 in the 2nd Quarter
The 2024 College Football Playoff was a reckoning where "Ohio State on Paper" abruptly transformed into Ohio State in Reality.
My Favorite Things Episode 23: It Was 34-0 in the 2nd Quarter
If you think about it, the Oregon Ducks are a lot like the Indiana Hoosiers.Oh yeah, that's the stuff right there - scorching hot magma right from the jump. Some clarification for this take - if you think about it from Ohio State's perspective then the Ducks and Hoosiers become shockingly similar over the course of history.
The Buckeyes are 81-12-5 lifetime against IU. That's an extra-crispy 85.2% winning percentage which includes a 30-2-1 record in Bloomington - a significantly higher clip than the one OSU enjoys at home in the Horseshoe. Why do Ohio State fans refer to Bloomington as Columbus West? That's not even the main reason. Different column.
Over the past 75 years IU has beaten Ohio State thrice. The Hoosiers got Woody in his first season, Earle in his last one and Coop the year after that. Comparatively, Phil Knight's sneaker empire's third win against the Buckeyes has not yet taken place.
The 2024 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Playoff WAS A reckoning WHERE "Ohio State on Paper" ABRUPTLY TRANSFORMED INTO Ohio State in Reality.
Cropdusting Oregon with the Power Five's most peasantacious program's odious history might seem disrespectful. However, Ohio State enjoys an 83.3% winning percentage against Oregon away from Columbus. That doesn't give Eugene a Columbus West designation, and it's not only because of fewer meetings.
It is because a full third of Ohio State-Oregon events have been what football enthusiasts refer to as consequential, Game of the Century-adjacent clashes in a sport where every meeting between ranked teams feels historic.
Below is the series history heading into the 2025 Rose Bowl Game, which doubled as the national quarterfinal of the newly-expanded College Football Playoff. Consequential.
OHIO STATE vs. OREGON SINCE THE INVENTION OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL
| YEAR | WINNER | SCORE | HISTORICALLY CONSEQUENTIAL? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | OHIO STATE | 10-7 | 1958 Rose Bowl (yes) |
| 1961 | OHIO STATE | 22-12 | No.2 OSU declined a Rose Bowl invitation, forfeiting a shot at the national title (no*) |
| 1962 | OHIO STATE | 26-7 | Played in Columbus the week before the Michigan game (!) (no) |
| 1967 | OHIO STATE | 30-0 | Game played at Oregon (no) |
| 1968 | OHIO STATE | 21-6 | Undefeated national championship season; must credit 1961 postseason (no) |
| 1983 | OHIO STATE | 31-6 | Home opener; non-conference schedule was Oregon & Oklahoma #80scocaine (no) |
| 1987 | OHIO STATE | 24-14 | Non-conference schedule was WVU, Oregon and at LSU #80scocaaaaaaaine (no) |
| 2010 | OHIO STATE | 26-17 | 2010 Rose Bowl (yes) |
| 2015 | OHIO STATE | 42-20 | 2014 College Football Playoff title game (yes) |
| 2021 | OREGON | 35-28 | Game played at Ohio Stadium (no) |
| 2024 | OREGON | 32-31 | Conference game played at Oregon (no) |
| 2025 | ??? | ????? | 2025 Rose Bowl & CFP National Quarterfinal (yes) |
Early 1960s Ohio State faculty had grown weary of the university's burgeoning national reputation as a "football school" and decided to do something about it.
Following the undefeated 1961 regular season, they seized the means of postseason production and refused the Rose Bowl invitation on OSU's behalf, sending Minnesota instead of the Buckeyes to Pasadena to beat the shit out of UCLA.
This move cost the program more than just another Rose Bowl ring and North End Zone banner. Recruiting was negatively impacted, since Ohio kids in the early 1960s dreamed of playing in California bowl games on New Years Day; the ones they grew up watching on 12-inch black and white television sets under gray skies.
Woody responded by
That celebrated recruiting class included legends like John Brockington (NY) Bruce Jankowski (NJ) Jan White (PA) Tim Anderson (WV) and Jack Tatum (NJ) who were part of a wider net cast in earnest during the years which followed that academic forfeit.
More players began showing up on campus without any childhood dreams of playing for the Buckeyes. If you're curious about the lasting effects, take a look at the current roster. John Cooper merely turbocharged what Woody brought to the recruiting room following the homebound winter of 1961.
Oh, this would have happened anyway. I don't know, reader. I've met quite a few native Ohioans who believe childhood indoctrination is a competitive advantage and every recruit from everywhere else has too many risky carpetbagger tendencies to be trusted with a silver helmet. It took football-hating professors to force the issue.
In conclusion, the 1961 OSU faculty parlayed its distaste for football into a vengeful bureaucratic gesture which ultimately resulted in *checks notes* Ohio State becoming an intergalactic football powerhouse which not coincidentally is now too academically selective for most Ohioans to attend anymore.
From the bottom of my heart: Thank you, nerds.
Detour concluded. Let's get back to cropdusting the Oregon football program.
Take one last look at that chart above through Duck eyes to appreciate how Ohio State's wins in this series felt like ancient history during the buildup to the 2025 Rose Bowl.
Oregon's wins were the two most recent games. The law of small numbers strikes again - sure, let's call that a trend. Both meetings involved the same Ohio State head coach who entered the 2024 postseason carrying a personal brand albatross which squawked incessantly about how winning important games was just outside of his skillset.
The Buckeyes' nine wins in the Oregon series were about as relevant as Rutherford B. Hayes' hemorrhoid cream. History is a vast container. It can be what you just ate for breakfast a few hours ago, but also what happened back when dinosaurs played chicken with meteors. Chickens are dinosaurs, by the way. Different column. Our hypothesis:
The Oregon Ducks are a lot like the Indiana Hoosiers.
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