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Sugar Bowl: #3 Ohio State 49, #2 Clemson 28, Jan 1 in New Orleans

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LovelandBuckeye said:
Is this good?

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bukIpower said:
Last years team dominated even more than this years team IMO but theres really just 2 key differences. We kept swinging this year when Clemson scored and we scored touchdowns.

Sometimes I wonder if playing all blowouts last year hurt us in the Clemson game? We seemed to reel when we went through true adversity and it cost us the game.

Also maybe Clemson really did a number on us from a stealing signs stand point?

All I know is Ryan Day has absolutely worked Brett Venables two years in a row and I believe Brett is the best in the business for defense.
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To be honest with you I believe that this time around we did a better job in regards to our DLine + Backers vs their OLine, I mean midway through the 3rd Quarter their OLine looked like they wanted to just wave the white flag, the amount of pressure we generated on Lawrence was absurd, reminded-me of the Pats at Broncos AFCCCG back when Manning was about to retire, when Brady looked like he couldn't even count to two without getting someone in his face, and if you look up the stat sheets Etienne was pretty much a non factor in this game. But I do agree that on everything else we were probably just as good as the previous year, and I really believe that Shaun getting ejected was a major catalyst for their turnaround in that game. In regards to the last thing you said, I 10000% agree, what Day did to Venables was remarkable indeed, just shows how lucky we are for being able to replace two Hall of Fame coaches, with one that most likely is already walking in that direction.
 
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Abenaki said:
I don't know if there was anything that bad when I watched the replay Saturday morning, but I comment to my wife that they were skipping plays/drives "due to time constraints", but they managed to keep in entire stretches of pointless replay review, like Banks interception.
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That could have been the espn version, and those are terrible. The BTN version usually has every play, and almost nothing more.
 
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That, right there, is the exact type of play-call that often drives fans nuts. On an important third down, Ohio State went with a run while needing 9 yards to convert a first down rather than dialing up a pass with one of the nation’s best quarterbacks and best wide receiver duos. Do you remember when Sermon got a handoff on 3rd-and-8 from Rutgers’ 40-yard line and gained 1 yard earlier this year? Folks weren’t particularly thrilled.

Except this time going to the tailback worked.
 
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This is close to the most tinfoil-hat thing I'll ever write in these here Skull Sessions, but after consulting numerous individuals who know far more about football than I do, I think there's a shocking amount of evidence that suggests Ohio State did exactly what Golic described, sandbagging the hell out of the regular season and actually pulling out its entire playbook for the first time against Clemson.

Does Ryan Day really have big enough balls to show Clemson absolutely nothing useful on film the entire season and dedicate all his efforts to game-planning for the playoffs, knowing his talent can just coast him there? I'll let you decide that. But if that's actually what went down, Bama could be in deep shit, too.

Regardless of how it came together, the game plan and playcalling on Friday night was nothing short of pornographic.
 
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I've been seeing this a lot lately with media saying OSU basically prepared for this game the last month which is why we saw such domination.

That's just so disrespectful to the team and what they did to Clemson. Basically saying that without all the extra time spent it's probably a different story.

Yeah geniuses we prepared since November for a team we weren't even sure we would play. Yeah real smart. What if ND beat them again? You're telling me Ryan Day would purposefully keep the Northwestern game close because he didn't want to show film to Clemson which we weren't even guaranteed to play? Seriously GTFO...

Look at the freaking rosters from a recruit ranking stand point. We were the better team and we prepared harder the moment we found out it was Clemson. We didn't need extra preparation to eeek out a 21 point win. We were just flat out better.

Same thing for those college football nerds.. basically saying we won't be able to prepare ahead of time like we did for Clemson. Also talked about how Alabama basically shut everything down vs ND in the first half.

Give me a freaking break.
 
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