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

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bukIpower said:
Normally I'd say you're right... but we've played every other week now for basically a month now which they haven't. Also they missed spring ball too..



Yes they've played more games but then again we now have more game film on them too with a better idea of who they are.

Also we have played without our offensive coordinator before... have they? No.

Who's played more will have very little to do with who wins this game.

Win the turnover battle and win at the LOS.
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Clemson had 9 spring practices, the Buckeyes had 3

The inescapable implication of the rest of the post is that game film et al are more important than 40% of spring and half a season’s worth of development

agree to disagree

If Ohio State wins we will both be happy, but we will still disagree. Ryan Day is at a big disadvantage and winning this game will impress the hell out of me.
 
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NYE mood:
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DaddyBigBucks said:
no math for this one

I don’t bother with the spreadsheets when I know they’ll tell me the same thing my eyes do

missing most of spring and half the season has left this team less than fully prepared for this challenge

The only mystery in all of this to me is that the talking heads all seem to agree that the lack of games is an advantage for the Buckeyes. As much as I wish it were true, I consider this to be the ultimate in “group-think” stupidity.

I think Ryan Day is a very good coach. If the Buckeyes win this game, he will have proved he is much better than I think he is.
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Being the first Buckeye coach/team to register a victory against the cheating tigers would be both impressive and utterly stunning...especially in a year nobody gives tOSU a shot...reminds me of the title matchup against the canes.
 
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PRESSER BULLETS: RYAN DAY AND DABO SWINNEY OFFER THEIR FINAL THOUGHTS AHEAD OF OHIO STATE AND CLEMSON’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF REMATCH



RYAN DAY
  • Despite being an underdog for only the third time since 2016, Day says that doesn't provide any extra motivation for Ohio State: “Our guys are excited for this game no matter what. ... You're in the CFP and playing for a national championship. We don't need much more motivation than that.”
  • Day says last year's loss to Clemson was “fresh in our minds” and used as motivation, but he says the motivation of that loss became a bit less important as the Buckeyes' season came into question during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Day: "The highest motivating thing for us is we'll have the opportunity to tell a great story."
  • Day on Ohio State being healthy and at full strength for the game: “Full strength is a floating target.” Said the players who were out for the Northwestern game are “working their way back into it ... but to say 100 percent, it's different this year.”
  • J.K. Dobbins was the bell cow back in 2019, so the split between Master Teague and Trey Sermon has "been different," Day says. And after an up-and-down season for both, Day believes they're both getting into a rhythm: "To see the way (Trey) ran in his last game was awesome."
  • With Swinney having ranked Ohio State No. 11 in his coaches' poll, Day admits that he's happy Swinney was not on the College Football Playoff selection committee, but he didn't directly answer Swinney having ranked them outside the top 10.
  • He believes winning the line of scrimmage is of utmost importance for Ohio State to have a chance to win.
  • Being out of routine on a daily basis in such a routine-based sport, Day says it has hurt the program for not being able to "look guys in the eyes and tell them what's coming next." He says they are no longer taking anything for granted and that they "have a lot to still be thankful for."
  • The Buckeye defense is confident it has figured things out since the Indiana game: "It's a great question. How do you know when you've only played six games? The only way you find out is by playing. ... But we go against each other in practice every day. ... There's been great improvement in that area, but the real test will be tomorrow."
  • Day on being the underdog: "Those are peoples' opinions. What matters is that we got out and play."
  • On the importance of Justin Fields to bounce back and play his best game against Clemson: "I don't think we've, as a team, played our best game yet. ... I'm not sure Justin has, either, but that's the challenge. But that's everybody." He says it will be a collective effort but that Fields is "gonna have to play well, certainly, and he knows that."
 
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