September 18th, 2021 at 7:12 PM ^
Theres a name I haven’t heard in years…
September 18th, 2021 at 7:12 PM ^
LETS GO *checks notes* GOLDEN HURRICANES!
September 18th, 2021 at 7:13 PM ^
This is the softest Ohio State team I have seen in years…
September 18th, 2021 at 7:16 PM ^
Jinxed ‘em.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:17 PM ^
Lots of tight games around the country today:
-Tulsa playing OSU close
-Alabama only wins by 2 over Florida
-Clemson and GT is only 7 to 3 in the 3rd quarter
-Oklahoma won by just 7 over Nebraska
-Cincinnati and Indiana was a super close game until near the end of the 4th quarter
Based on all this evidence, I don't think there is a "runaway" best team in the nation right now. It's pretty wide open this season. Just when we all wanted to give up on the idea of parity in college football... it pulls us right back in!
Oh and Wake Forest absolutely destroyed FSU. Wake is now 3-0. Watch out for the Demon Deacons! lol
September 18th, 2021 at 7:22 PM ^
One week of close games does not equate to parity as much as I wish it
September 20th, 2021 at 10:45 AM ^
It seems like this is more indicative of teams having bad years/games than it is other teams stepping up. It just hasn't looked easy for a lot of teams like it did in the past. I love to see it though, it's so much more fun to see any Top 10 team in a close game Q4.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:19 PM ^
Ryan Day is going to be shredded relentlessly by Ohio St fans all week.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:20 PM ^
LOL. OSU is going to win by three touchdowns.
Nice jinx job.
September 18th, 2021 at 8:13 PM ^
September 18th, 2021 at 8:42 PM ^
But they still have eight weeks to figure out how to fix it
September 18th, 2021 at 8:57 PM ^
And we will also have eight weeks to figure out how to hone our team as well
Improvement is not one-sided
September 18th, 2021 at 9:21 PM ^
The cynical part of me thinks that we have 8 weeks for all our key players to get injured. If we played them next week, I would be very optimistic, but 2 months is a long time for bad things to happen.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:22 PM ^
Was it a 7 point game when you posted this? Now 21 point OSU lead. You should be ashamed of yourself.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:23 PM ^
A pity it got away from Tulsa.
Still, kudos to them for keeping it close for the majority of the game.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:29 PM ^
Eh, let them be complacent with the “final score”. Anyone that watched knows what happened.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:24 PM ^
Announced crowd of 76,540 in Columbus today. Worst in 50 years.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:38 PM ^
LOL Ohio fans talking about xichigan in that thread is precious.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:42 PM ^
It’s going to get really interesting if they drop another game or two. OSU looks mortal for the first time since 2018 and it just happens to be the first year Urban is no longer on campus.
That may be a coincidence but how does Ryan Day handle that pressure? How does the team? They’ve been so good for so long will be interesting to find out.
September 18th, 2021 at 8:18 PM ^
And the big 10 East looks very tough this year. We are much improved, MSU just beat a ranked Miami (YTM) team very convincingly. IU is not a pushover. Of course Penn State and Wisconsin are always tough.
if I’m not mistaken OSU’s QB depth this season runs RS freshman, RS freshman, true freshman. This might be a tough year for them. They are certainly due for one
September 20th, 2021 at 10:51 AM ^
I'm sure I'm a little biased, but I have a hard time believing MSU's played anyone significant yet. Miami was ranked #12 preseason, I think that's the only reason they were ranked when they played MSU. We were ranked #13 when we played MSU last year and looked how that turned out. Watching Kenneth Walker III is a microcosm of the team - is he really that good, or are the defenders bad at plugging holes and tackling?
September 18th, 2021 at 8:46 PM ^
"that may be a coincidence"
(laughing emoji)
Meyer is a Hall of Fame dirtbag and Hall of Fame head coach. Ryan Day is certainly not the latter, anyway. We'll see about the former. Now that Urban is unavailable for consultation things seem less solid in Columbus...coincidence...
September 18th, 2021 at 9:08 PM ^
I mean I don’t believe it’s a coincidence. That’s all I could think about during that Oregon game. I wonder how much Urban was doing behind the scenes.
They also lucked out with the Justin Fields transfer. Big 10 East looks legit this year. How is the rest of the team handling Ewers being a millionaire just by stepping foot on campus? Any cracks in that foundation? God I hope so. To see that team Miami themself would be so amazing.
September 18th, 2021 at 9:45 PM ^
Well, I'm going to enjoy their return to mortality. It will take a few seasons for everything to fall apart though. t(tm)OSU fans have for a decade or more deluded themselves about their superiority. I know these folks...they base their small self worth upon that belief. They know their bagmen bought their teams and have been very, very successful but just willfully ignored this as they won. Times change though.
To be clear, every advantage that t(tm)OSU has enjoyed with their bagmen supporting a fakeNIL environment over the past 30 (or more) years is now a flat field. I think Quinn Ewers would have gotten a million dollars ten years ago if their boosters thought he was worth it (hey Terelle Pryor's improper benefits!). Today all the elite schools will develop a program for player NIL development and under the table improper benefits will become less of a factor.
As to Ryan Day, what has he proved when Urban Meyer isn't around? I'll wait for the #OSUAnon bots to comment (lol).
September 19th, 2021 at 12:28 AM ^
Their fan base put Day on the hot seat after losing his first regular season game to a top 15 team. One loss to Michigan and it falls apart after this season.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:29 PM ^
With two timeouts available, Tulsa just ran one offensive play in the game’s final 50 seconds. Amazing how coaches do not seem to understand that time on the clock is more important than having timeouts in your pocket.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:39 PM ^
Could have something to do with being down 3 TDs to OSU with 50 seconds left.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:46 PM ^
They were running a hurryup offense and substituting frantically. They just didn’t want to call a timeout and wasted nearly half a minute between plays.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:41 PM ^
Let’s use our TOs with zero chance of winning and risk injuring someone. Seriously?
September 18th, 2021 at 7:50 PM ^
Then why run a hurryup offense there?
They weren’t trying to kill the clock. They were trying to move the ball while saving their timeouts.
September 18th, 2021 at 7:44 PM ^
Maize-out in Ann Arbor looked better on TV than white-out in Happy Valley.
September 18th, 2021 at 8:02 PM ^
Wow, only 76,000 fans?! Is that for real?? What kind of fair weather fans have they become down there?!
I had to laugh when they were all calling for their DC's head after the loss to Oregon. They lose one non-conference home game, first in something like 3 years, and they're already crying about it and wanting blood.
September 18th, 2021 at 8:41 PM ^
Haha yeah especially considering that OSU football is the pinnacle of their personal and professional lives. 76k is low for them.
September 18th, 2021 at 9:39 PM ^
Yes,people who were complaining about Michigan fans being unhappy after a win should check out some OSU boards
September 18th, 2021 at 8:09 PM ^
as usual OSU looks mortal at the beginning of the year.
It would be so nice to play them early early despite the end of the year tradition
September 18th, 2021 at 8:27 PM ^
September 18th, 2021 at 8:09 PM ^
as usual OSU looks mortal at the beginning of the year.
It would be so nice to play them early early despite the end of the year tradition
September 19th, 2021 at 10:27 AM ^
I agree. Their biggest advantage over us is depth. We have to thread the needle just to put ourselves in a position to beat them at the end of the season. Meanwhile, they can get an injury at a key spot in the middle of the game and have another world beater ready to earn himself free beers for life in Columbus.
I really hate playing them last game of the season every year. It can turn a successful season into a failure and ruin any forward momentum that the team created over the course of the season. Plus, with their insane recruiting and early departures, catching them before they’re fully “reloaded” might be helpful.
September 18th, 2021 at 9:17 PM ^
Wow! UVA just took the lead before the half at UNC. They were down 24-7 last time I checked.