Ohio State is so G.D. lucky
Yes, Ohio State is a great team. But they are also god damned lucky, which is highly annoying because they don't need to be lucky as well.
There were about 21 points of swing due to quirky flukes that went Ohio State's way.
Michigan misses an extra point. Only 1 point, but an omen of things to come. Dobbins drops the ball, and it bounces right back up into his hands as he is in stride. OSU then scores on a drive that could easily have been a turnover at a time when Michigan's offense was rolling. At the 10-yard line, Shea takes his eyes off the snap for 200 milliseconds, which results in a drop, and a lineman's foot kicks it right to a f-ing Ohio State guy. Ohio State then drove for a touchdown instead of Michigan scoring, which they probably would have done at that point. Defense finally stops an Ohio State drive. Then an offsides on a punt gives OSU back the ball, and they go on to score. DPJ is targeted, clear as day on the replay, that would have kept a Michigan drive alive, and refs overturn the call on the field. A run on 4th down is stopped when there is actually a nice big hole for once.
Yes, yes . . . I know Ohio State is a great team. I know that fluky things happen in games. I know that several of these are mistakes by Michigan. But, damn it, it seems like every fluky little thing went Ohio State's way.
November 30th, 2019 at 10:48 PM ^
Except for the Dobbins dribble fumble, those were all Michigan mistakes not OSU luck. All self-inflicted bullshit due to mental weakness. You didn't even mention the dropped TD pass and numerous other drops.
November 30th, 2019 at 10:56 PM ^
I forget if it was in the Preview or FFFF, but it was explicitly mentioned that Day's offense is extremely efficient at converting on big swing plays. That's exactly what happened.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:37 PM ^
Yeah, too bad we'll never see a UFR, but Hudson had a rough day....
November 30th, 2019 at 10:49 PM ^
Have another one dude.
November 30th, 2019 at 10:53 PM ^
Hudson’s offside on the punt and the subsequent OSU touchdown 2 plays later ended any legitimate shot at winning. It’s been at least 8 hours since that penalty and I’m still beside myself with anger.
November 30th, 2019 at 10:59 PM ^
Really?
November 30th, 2019 at 11:00 PM ^
It felt like Khaleke was trying to will a win in his final shot at the Fuckeyes which I think hurt him because he seemed to have a really bad game
November 30th, 2019 at 11:09 PM ^
Yep won’t miss him or Big Play Metellus.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
Dude, sorry but you’re an asshole.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:43 PM ^
I would bet that if they cared what your opinion is of them, they would likely feel the same about fans like you.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:49 PM ^
I thought TheCube said after the Penn State game that he was done with the season, moving on to basketball. Thank God he returned from his retirement to give us more hot football takes.
November 30th, 2019 at 10:53 PM ^
Hudson’s offside on the punt and the subsequent OSU touchdown 2 plays later ended any legitimate shot at winning. It’s been at least 8 hours since that penalty and I’m still beside myself with anger.
November 30th, 2019 at 10:57 PM ^
OK. Whatever. They've been LUCKY for 8 straight and 15 out of the last 16. Yep, it's luck
November 30th, 2019 at 10:57 PM ^
One or two seasons is lucky. After dozens of seasons . . . they are just better.
Say it with me: "THEY ARE JUST BETTER."
The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. They are better, so what are going do about that?
November 30th, 2019 at 11:17 PM ^
Hopefully pay 17 year old football stars to play for our team. But we won’t, because Michigan thinks they are above that. Gotta hope the incoming new rules level the odds in our favor somewhat.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:26 PM ^
I'm so tired of this take. Ohio State is not paying their players like you think they are, not anymore than we are. we are so incapable of saying we got our ass beat by better coaching and players. THAT is what happened. NOT because Ohio State is paying players. Winning breeds winning, winning makes 5 and 4 star players run to schools like theirs. FFS they have 3 of the top 5 ranked WRs in next years class.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:34 PM ^
They may not be paying them in the sense of a salary, but the fact that they’re clearly getting extra has been evident as recently as. Chase Young’s bogus two game suspension
November 30th, 2019 at 11:43 PM ^
I really don't think you have any idea how deeply deeply corrupt Ohio State football has always been going back to Woody and the no-show summer jobs.
They spent much of the Tressel era fending off the NCAA and somehow came out of it.
But practice time!
December 1st, 2019 at 12:22 AM ^
" somehow came out of it ...." Has the NCAA ever given a shit about cheating and criminal acts ?
December 1st, 2019 at 9:23 AM ^
According to someone who should know, Ohio State boosters have set up a system ; OSU coaching staff has plausible deniability, since they’re not directly involved.
December 1st, 2019 at 10:29 AM ^
I think you could say this at ALL major CF schools. Anybody that thinks otherwise is delusional.
December 1st, 2019 at 11:11 AM ^
Why do some people have this refusal to see that OSU gives players benefits that uofm doesn’t. It’s so obvious. I’m sure things happen at uofm that are shady, but their isn’t an organized effort to get top recruits. It’s more rogue agents who would pay the kid regardless of where they go to school. It’s mostly agents looking out for themselves not players.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:43 PM ^
Have you ever made a post that didn't include this take?
November 30th, 2019 at 11:18 PM ^
Luck is the residue of skill. Heard that somewhere.
December 1st, 2019 at 9:02 AM ^
Luck is where preparation meets opportunity
November 30th, 2019 at 10:58 PM ^
We got ran by a much better team. The end.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:00 PM ^
The real luck is that they seem to strike gold on every coaching hire and the NCAA has their back on transfer waivers and limiting suspensions to be basically meaningless.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:27 PM ^
We look like a bunch of ignorant cry babies when we bitch about Fields transfer. I mean unless we want to admit that we got lucky getting Shea to have immediate eligibility, they used the same damn lawyer. it is what it is.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:57 PM ^
Shea was leaving a program getting nailed by the NCAA. Fields just thought a guy at Georgia was mean to him.
December 1st, 2019 at 1:05 AM ^
I got beachfront property in Nebraska to sell you if you think Shea did not have a clue about Ole Miss's corruption with his brother on staff. Ask yourself how an admitted lifelong UM fan growing up in Toledo ends up at Ole Miss?
November 30th, 2019 at 11:00 PM ^
Stop crying and go to bed.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:04 PM ^
You morons. I'm not saying luck is why Ohio State won. I specifically said that they are a great team.
What I said is that is annoying for them *also* to be so damned lucky.
And I said I understand that several of those quirky flukes were Michigan mistakes.
For F's sake -- do you guys have reading comprehension problems?
November 30th, 2019 at 11:04 PM ^
Plus the Buckeyes lucked out when the ref saw two Michigan linemen untying and removing Dobbins' shoe.
December 1st, 2019 at 12:08 AM ^
That incident was hilarious. Unfortunate, but hilarious.
December 1st, 2019 at 12:10 AM ^
That was fvcking embarrassing. Was that the plan for slowing down Dobbins??
December 1st, 2019 at 12:28 AM ^
That's what helped make it hilarious.
Not just one guy, but two guys working together to untie his shoe and take it off. And did you see Dobbins' reaction? It was such a hilarious "What in the hell?" reaction.
I like two things from the game. One was the great Michigan offense in the 1st half. It was a thing of beauty -- oh, that it could have lasted through the 2nd half. The other was The Great Shoe Incident of 2019.
December 1st, 2019 at 1:29 AM ^
I have to agree, that shoe-shit was pure comedy gold! What tmf were they thinking lol.They may have thought that they'd loosen his laces and maybe he'd not notice and turn his ankle next play?
December 1st, 2019 at 9:06 AM ^
Haha wolverweenies the gift that keeps on giving!!!
Wow- true blue Michigan men there LOL
Buncha buffoons
November 30th, 2019 at 11:06 PM ^
Michigan fucked this one up.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:12 PM ^
Nope, it was LUCK
November 30th, 2019 at 11:13 PM ^
The luckiest part about OSU is the fact Justin Fields is even playing this season. Obviously he should've been forced to sit out. This SHOULD have been a down year for OSU with their QB being Tathan or Chugnov but of course that didn't happen.
Oh no some baseball player allegedly said a racial slur to him before the season and its so bad he had to wait to lose the QB battle with Fromm and then transfer......oh but its also not bad enough to where his sister also had to leave Georgia because she's still there. Fucking NCAA
November 30th, 2019 at 11:16 PM ^
Or the article talking about him settling in at OSU and him saying he still missed Georgia.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:29 PM ^
that was literally like the first week he was there, add context, he said it all changed about a week after being there.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:24 PM ^
Their starting QB would have been Matthew Baldwin who was coming on and who Day was high on but transferred out as soon as Fields transferred in
November 30th, 2019 at 11:31 PM ^
STOP with this bullshit, we got Shea Patterson to be eligible immediately when in all honesty HE should have sat for a year. It's embarrassing to read people on here acting like the rules should apply differently for us than others. They used the same damn lawyer and the dude knows how to game the system
December 1st, 2019 at 12:20 AM ^
Well, Shea did probably have a legitimate beef with getting lied to in recruiting about a very-important issue that directly affects recruiting.
Fields' reason is rather lame, but it was smart to go for that, and I would work the same angle as he did if I were him.
I'm of the opinion that all players should should be able to transfer and not have to sit out a year, at least for one transfer.
December 1st, 2019 at 4:07 AM ^
Shea and Fields situations were completely different
Shea was lied to by Ole Miss coach about potential penalties the program was facing and had evidence of it in texts.
Fields claims somebody said something mean to him
November 30th, 2019 at 11:14 PM ^
As I say elsewhere...all we can ask is that they play their best game of the year vs Ohio State. But they almost never do. That hints at this game being approached wrongly by the coaches.
I suspect that Michigan just can't fully appreciate the benefits of being an underdog. The main one being that you've got little to lose. With Michigan you don't get that. Michigan rightfully were a massive underdog in this game, but I bet they went into this game feeling a burden of obligation instead of the hunger of an underdog.
December 1st, 2019 at 12:10 AM ^
I wonder about that, too -- the burden vs. "let's just go for it".
I must say, though, a lot of the 1st half on offense was pretty damned awesome. I was hoping that would continue into the 2nd half. I was, till near the end, hoping for another touchdown or two.
November 30th, 2019 at 11:14 PM ^
We did a lot of stuff to ourselves and the game plan was to NOT do those things to ourselves. Yet, we did. And we lost. Even worse than last year. At home this time.
I'm drained. I felt a lot more angst and fire after losing last year. Now I am starting to accept the reality that we could be on the losing side of this for a bunch more years.
They get better players than us, year after year. They want the win more than us, year after year. This right here is not a recipe for success for the Maize n Blue.