December 21st, 2021 at 1:46 PM ^
I'd actually rather OSU come out looking like world beaters, making our demolition of them that much more impressive.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:48 PM ^
By the time the Rose Bowl is played we'll either have beaten Georgia or not, so this shouldn't come into play.
This is a terrible matchup for OSU, which is hilarious.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:49 PM ^
Always want OSU to lose.
And when they lose, always wish they lost by more points than they did.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:57 PM ^
There was a time or two when they were playing ND or MSU when I had mixed feelings.
December 21st, 2021 at 6:15 PM ^
My wish in those games is that both teams beat the sh!t out of each other. Seriously.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:51 PM ^
As long as they lose, I don't care how they look.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:06 PM ^
Ohio State can win and look great or lose and look bad. It doesn't matter. Michigan is in the playoffs, and whether or not they advance to the finals depends only on the game Michigan has to play.
In other words, I'm rooting for Utah.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:13 PM ^
I feel otherwise. Any bit of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) surrounding that program after all these years of good fortune is desirable IMO.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:24 PM ^
OSU losing is always better for Michigan. Also would be the first time they had back-to-back losses in who fucking knows how long.
Would serve well to show that maybe Day is losing his touch a bit as Urban’s players graduate/declare for the draft.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:54 PM ^
Since 2011. Lost two in a row against Michigan State and Nebraska, then four consecutive with Purdue, Penn State, Michigan, and Florida. Also lost to Miami (YTM) two games before Michigan State.
December 21st, 2021 at 3:27 PM ^
I'd love to see the morale on that team if they lose the Rose Bowl and then open next year against Notre Dame with a loss. That team already turning into a bunch of selfish 17-year-old millionaires (which is hilarious) and losing would just be so toxic for everyone involved.
December 21st, 2021 at 11:10 PM ^
Yes please.
Their fan base would implode like the spoiled assholes they are.
Let recruits see what their dark side can be.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:29 PM ^
That could play into the whole "we were sick" narrative... not that it matters (scoreboard and so forth).
December 21st, 2021 at 2:46 PM ^
While I get that, I actually want to see Utah destroy OSU and humiliate them on national TV. That's would be a much more pleasurable outcome, imo.
December 21st, 2021 at 3:04 PM ^
Vile, vile blasphemy to ever root for OSU. And, if another team can run it down their throats, all the better for the fragile little psyche. They can spend the following 11 months wondering whether their cute little passing game will save them when the Corum hammer comes to town.
December 21st, 2021 at 3:12 PM ^
Not me. I want them to lose every game until their recruiting tanks, the coaches are fired, and they are back to a mediocre program.
December 21st, 2021 at 3:35 PM ^
I'm indifferent. They're in the rearview mirror. Michigan is on to bigger and better things. Don't get me wrong, beating them is the highlight of the season, short of winning a national title. But what happens to them at this point, to me, is irrelevant.
That being said, if they lost in some soul-crushing, debilitating, "I'm going to question the nature of my very existence" kind of way, I'd be all for watching that to happen. Hell, I'd pay to see it, too. I'd love for them to have their own muffed punt returned for a TD on the last play of the game that mentally sets their program back five years.
December 21st, 2021 at 4:20 PM ^
Yeah, no, I always want them to lose (unless it directly helps us of course). I want them to lose the Rose Bowl. Hell, I want them to lose at rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock.
Everything. All the time.
December 21st, 2021 at 7:00 PM ^
No. Winning the Big Ten is impressive enough. I want to see OSU finish with three losses and Day take the heat.
December 21st, 2021 at 9:17 PM ^
Nah, fuck that. They need a period of misery.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:51 PM ^
Alas, another offensive matchup that leaves no other tactic but to simply "let" them in the end zone.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:51 PM ^
I dunno. I'm more in the camp of wanting OSU to win every game except The Game. I grew up during the Cooper years, and I still remember the joy I felt in 1993, 1995, and 1996 when we ruined OSU's would-be undefeated seasons (especially 1996, when they would have won the national championship if it wasn't for their loss in The Game). In recent years, I drifted into the camp of wanting OSU to lose every game since it felt like we couldn't beat them. But since we finally slayed the dragon this year, I'm back in the camp of wanting them to win so I can feel like we beat a good OSU team.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:54 PM ^
No fanbase deserves to have their team go through an extended downturn, of actually being mediocre at best, than that of Ohio State. That team needs to wander the desert for the better part of a decade.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:20 PM ^
Just a decade?
December 21st, 2021 at 2:27 PM ^
agreed. 40 years of wandering sounds familiar and particularly appropriate for them.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:22 PM ^
True. There's that.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:46 PM ^
Thank you!!! To have a fanbase as disgusting and horrible as OSU's be as spoiled as they've been the last 20 years? Fuck that. It's much better when bad things happen to bad people.
Let them go through a RichRod coach and then a Hoke coach. It's loooooong overdue.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:58 PM ^
A Bobby Williams and John L Smith period on top of that would be nice too.
December 21st, 2021 at 3:44 PM ^
No kidding. What american fanbase is more spoiled that OSU football fans? They barely ever have a bad season and whenever something bad does happen they seem to bounce back from it. Bama fans know the years before Saban, Clemson fans before Dabo, OU fans before Stoops, etc. OSU fans have been spoiled for decades. They need a 3-9 year
December 21st, 2021 at 4:38 PM ^
Actually, what they need is a series of 7-5, 6-6, 5-7 and even 8-4 years. The fan base would go nuts.
December 21st, 2021 at 4:56 PM ^
That fanbase is on the verge of meltdown after 10-2.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:47 PM ^
May we crush the Buckeyes. May we see them driven before the us, and hear the lamentations of their alumni.
December 21st, 2021 at 4:21 PM ^
I would love OSU to experience the exact same thing Michigan did from 2004-2020.
December 21st, 2021 at 4:48 PM ^
I think they are the only ones, other than maybe Oklahoma, that have not endured that kind of stretch in recent history.
Michigan, ND, Texas, USC, Florida, even Alabama pre-Saban (which I know feels eons ago but it really was only less than 15), everyone has gone through some period of mediocrity in recent history. Everyone except OSU and Oklahoma to a lesser extent. They've just been in an unending golden age and its infuriating. But that's what happens when you hit grand slam after grand slam on each football hire you make.
December 21st, 2021 at 7:05 PM ^
Oklahoma was mediocre right before Stoops, IIRC.
December 21st, 2021 at 1:52 PM ^
Bet they mysteriously get a lot of covid cases
/s
December 21st, 2021 at 1:55 PM ^
When we played them, I didn't count 11 Warriors on their defense.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:16 PM ^
Well done sir.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:18 PM ^
December 21st, 2021 at 2:07 PM ^
I want them to lose so that they will maybe only sign 11 five stars every year instead of the usual 15.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:07 PM ^
May Ohio State handle Utah's offense as poorly as the Donner Party handled the Sierra Nevada.
(i'm a terrible person.)
December 21st, 2021 at 2:45 PM ^
With steak sauce?
I'll see myself out...
December 21st, 2021 at 2:07 PM ^
I'm kinda disappointed that you merely linked and pushed us to 11W, without even a quick summary. It's the lazy way to post, but it sure does happen a lot.
However, I swallowed my pride and did the reading for you. Essentially, 11W says the Utes run an offense very similar to Michigan's - pro set with a diverse and powerful running game. The basic run plays have enough window dressing to slow the LB's, which allows OL to flatten them. Says that's the same thing that Oregon did, also, and to expect Utah to have the same game plan.
It's not a very in-depth article, they use clips to show the different ways Utah will attack but there's no detailed explanation like we get with the game previews, FFFF, and Neck Sharpies/Fly Over.
The best thing, though? This Ryan Day quote:
“They just stayed on schedule the whole time and that was the recipe I’m sure they had to win the game, and we weren’t able to stop that, and that’s really very disappointing,” Day said after the Michigan game. “Especially when you know they’re gonna do it."
That's just beautiful, and such high praise...
December 21st, 2021 at 2:23 PM ^
You deserve all the points for clicking on the link so we don't have to.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:39 PM ^
the tl;dr is "Utah hit hard, OSU scurred."
December 21st, 2021 at 2:44 PM ^
It's such a gloriously weird feeling to hear an OSU coach implicitly admit and lament the fact that they lost to Michigan because he was outcoached.
December 21st, 2021 at 3:00 PM ^
We're used to hearing opposing coaches say they knew what Michigan was gonna do, it's just rare for them to follow that up with "and there's nothing we could do about it."
December 21st, 2021 at 3:40 PM ^
True, but that context is crucial here: I read Day's comments to be saying that he knew OSU had vulnerabilities, he knew that Michigan prepared an excellent gameplan to exploit those vulnerabilities, Michigan stuck with its gameplan and executed it to perfection, and there was absolutely nothing OSU could do about it. That's a heart-warming feeling.
This wasn't an instance in which we just ran the ball down OSU's throat because we always try to run the ball down everyone's throat and this time it just happened to work against OSU. Rather, we ran the ball down OSU's throat because we knew the weak spots in OSU's armor, we aimed for those weak spots, and we were successful. In fact, we designed our running game from the get-go to exploit OSU's porous D-line and suspect run defense. Ryan Day was aware of all this, and yet he couldn't do anything about it.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:54 PM ^
there are many, many reasons to not lionize bo schembechler.
i did like his offensive approach, though: "here's what we're going to do. we're going to smash you in the mouth, over and over, and by the 60th minute you will wish you had gone into a different sport."
that's what utah is planning to do to ohio state.
December 21st, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^
This is a superbowl for Utah and an exhibition for OSU, that's always hard to overcome.