CB posts a lot of great stats. One thing that might get lost in the rankings is just how far apart Ohio State is from the field on some of these. Ohio State is number 1 in total defense, 211.6 a game. We are the only team in FBS under 2000 total yards (1904). In order for Toledo (2093) or Oregon (2154) to pull even, we would have to give up over double what we currently are averaging per game. We have given up 65 points on the year, No. 1 in scoring defense at 7.2 PPG. Indiana is No. 2 at 12.1 PPG. UCLA would have to score 56 for Indiana to tie us.
Herb Jr. had his cross country banquet last night. Each year, they award a “most obviously a freshman” award. Last night, I heard the origin story of the award. In June conditioning, the runners meet at the high school and run different routes through the town of Montgomery. It’s a series of quiet, 1960’s and 1970’s homes with streets that aren’t busy. A few years ago, they were doing a run and a freshman got separated from the group. He never came back. The school started looking frantically for him by various cars in the neighborhood. They spent over an hour, then called the police, who began looking for him. No one could find him, and they called his parents. Eventually, the kid walked into a bank in Sharonville, on the other side of I-71, over 15 miles away. It was supposed to be a 3 mile run, but the kid missed his turn and kept running straight until he couldn’t run anymore. He ran an extra two hours, and 15 miles.
At this point, the only real criticism that can be leveled at Sayin is that he hasn’t had an opponent yet that has forced him to lead the team in a tight game or he hasn’t played in bad weather. Texas was 14-0 late into the 4th Q, less than 4 minutes left. Nothing else has been close. Sayin doesn’t run well, and telegraphs his hand offs on run plays. Pretty minor stuff. Two of his four inceptions were dumb passes into the end zone, but he’s also hitting 81% and beautiful on deep passes, so it’s minor again.
I like the RB spread, 25 Jackson, 20 West, 19 Peoples, 14 Donaldson, who was red zone again. WR Quincy Porter is redshirting, zero snaps. We didn’t rotate on the OL as much as I thought. Daniels missed the game at RT, but Moore played 66/78 snaps. Tshabola had 65/78. Van Sickle only got 13 and Onianwa 12. LJ rotated the DL well, 7 guys playing at least 20% of total snaps. DBs rotated too, 9 guys playing 20% or more snaps. LB Payton Pierce played 49% of snaps and led the defense in tackles. We beat these guys without WR Tate, RT Daniels, top backup OL Padilla, or DT Malone playing any snaps.
What seems to have happened to us over the past few years is we’d fill our class up with good croots and teams would target the #2-3 guy at a given position in the class. Hopefully we do a little of the same.
I finally watched the Breaking Bad pilot and am glad to say that it exceeded my expectations and that I’ll be watching the series.
You're dumb for waiting this long to watch. I'm also jealous. It's one of the 2-3 best shows of all time
Goose likes hating on popular things, I was the same way at times and dumb af. Was BB from day 1 though, had a bunch of goose level friends mocking me
It’s clear they don’t like what they see out of Padilla and the Rice guy at guard over Tegra. I wonder if they’ll give Ian Moore a shot when Daniels returns
Someone mentioned leaving Ian at tackle and kicking Daniels over to guard. I thought it was an intriguing option, but if they haven’t replaced Tegra by now they never will.
The unsettling news: Day did specify that Ohio State has no update on star wide receiver Carnell Tate, who dressed for action but did not play in the game against Purdue. Day said after the game on Saturday that Tate suffered from tightness and was held out for precautionary reasons
This continues to be the only thing I think could possibly keep this team from winning another NC. If the OL starts playing at the level they finished last season, nobody is beating this team.