Orange Bowl Open Thread

Submitted by MGoGrendel on

Tajh Boyd vs Braxton Miller.  Lots of offense expected. 

Let's hope Clemson's offense shows up for their bowl game this year.

 

Line: OSU -2.5

Over/Under: 71.5

 

Edit:

2014 Orange Bowl final score

Clemson: 40

Ohio:  35

 

Big night for Clemson offense

Sammy Watkins. 16 receptions for 227 yards (an Orange Bowl and Clemson record) and two touchdowns. What a beast!

Tajh Boyd also set an Orange Bowl record with 486 total yards.

I heard this was the first time Ohio lost when they score 35+ points.  (insert sad panda here)

bronxblue

January 3rd, 2014 at 9:50 PM ^

Who has honestly said that the only reason the team struggled this year is youth?  

And frankly, some young kids did play well.  Ross had a good year, and Gedeon showed promise as a true freshman.  Stribbling was around a lot of balls, and when in phase made some nice plays.  Countess returned as a RS sophomore off a torn ACL to earn all-conference honors.  Butt emerged as a very good TE toward the end of the year, and Funchess is probably the 1st or 2nd-best returning WR in the conference next year.

People around here are mad about the team underperforming, but there is player development that flies against the meme so it is being ignored.  That's as bad as whatever fabricated "excuses" people keep railing against.

bronxblue

January 3rd, 2014 at 10:07 PM ^

Yeah.  This team isn't where people expect it to be, but the idea that it is full of underperforming players is patently false.  I am not sure how the player development will look in years to come, but so far I think the team is improving incrementally and, one hopes, that will increase as the infrastructure around them becomes more stable.

Victor Valiant

January 3rd, 2014 at 9:43 PM ^

Bosa just got rolled up on. Could be serious he's still down. Looks like they are looking at the lower leg.

 

EDIT: Walked off under his own power limping slightly. Random Observation: He walks with his toes pointed super far inward. Forgot what the term for that is.

Section 1

January 3rd, 2014 at 9:45 PM ^

What would you do, if you were a star collegiate player, and Matt Millen said that you'd be a great player "at the next level"?

Would you quit football?

Section 1

January 3rd, 2014 at 9:57 PM ^

than he was as a General Manager.  He looks stupid.  He sounds stupid.  Of all of the dumb hirings that the William Clay Ford family and the Detroit Lions Football Club have made, I'd rate Matt Millen as the dumbest.  Russ Thomas was really a very very good GM, compared to Millen.

I think of everyone at or from Penn State in an even lesser light, just by association with that idotic meathead Millen.  This broadcast team (Joe Tessitore and Matt Millen) is one of the worst on television.

I wish there were a way we could get Millen on Penn State's search committee for a new head football coach.