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The entire point of Scipio's article is that our O-line only won the battles in the ground game that Ohio State’s gameplan allowed them to win. Were we getting push and opening holes in the red zone when Ohio State stopped giving us light boxes? Not really.
Unsurprisingly, I got flamed for this take by the sunshine pumpers back in July. Also unsurprisingly, it turned out to be correct. There's no one in our RB room right now that opposing defenses are especially worried about.
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No coach gameplans for a specific number of yards. You are fixated on the ridiculous notion that Sark had the better gameplan because Texas had more total yards.
Defenses play bend but don't break all the time. That entails giving up lots of yards but relatively few points. And it was obvious that Ohio State was not interested in having Sayin aggressively challenge our secondary. He took a shot when he saw Tate had completely beaten Guilbeau. They took which was given, which wasn't much but was enough given other circumstances.
We absolutely did not have the better gameplan.
Ohio State was inviting us to run the ball between the 20s all game. They kept a relatively light box and went exotic in the backend to confuse Arch, then tightened up in the redzone to shut down our run game and put the pressure on Sark and Arch to execute. Baxter and Wisner ran hard but we did not have the better gameplan just because we had more total yards. And I strongly suspect Day has figured out that A) Sark will go through stretches where he abandons the run for the pass even when the former is working, and B) Texas can be counted on to leave points off the board in the redzone.
On offense Ohio State purposely played conservatively with runs and quick passes. Our defense did well but they produced zero turnovers, zero sacks and just 1 TFL all game which was exactly what Ohio State needed to win with our offensive struggles on the other end. They didn't let our defense generate any big momentum-turning plays and they didn't risk Sayin making a big mistake.
He's had two No. 1 overall prospects in their respective recruiting classes at QB so far. Is that not enough? I suspect it would be for Ryan Day and Kirby Smart.
Hard to take this post seriously when you make no mention of our continued redzone ineptitude. I'm sure year 5 is when we'll finally figure it out, right?
Feels like we were sold a bill of goods this offseason on Arch and the WR corps. Mosley's injury should not have been enough to cripple our entire intermediate-to-downfield passing attack.
Zero sacks and zero turnovers was a bit surprising, but tOSU played conservatively on offense for the most part and didn't do anything stupid. Our defense has almost no margin for error thanks to our continued offensive ineptitude. Just two lapses (Guilbeau vs. Tate and Hill missing on 4th and 1) shouldn't have been enough to tilt the game, but they were.