If Knowles were to be let go. Some names you guys like?

I guess I don’t get the infatuation with him other than the name? Watching the Miami/Louisville game and there dline is getting manhandled with no pressure. If he were to come with same results a lot of u will be on suicide watch, lol. The only reason why Miami is above average is 1 person, Cam Ward. I know he would be a great recruiter but can he develop?

Sorry for the late posting this week

Friday, October 18


Saturday, October 19

Ugh.

• Will Howard was pretty good today until late. He again had an underthrow to JJ, but he seemed to be in control throughout the game (obv that last drive is a different story). He's a redzone wizard. Obviously didn't love the bobbled snap on the one third down.
• Howard just has to know the clock better on that last drive. No excuse for that from an experienced quarterback.
• Trey was mostly good today. The one drive was especially great. He had the first down on the 3rd and 1 but for some reason tried to bounce it outside. They ended up punting.
• Judkins wasn't his usual self. Maybe the hand injury was partially responsive for the strip?
• Smart move snapping it so quickly after the Kacmarek "catch" on the opening drive.
• Chip had an up-and-down day. There were some cool play designs and some other stuff that just wasn't working. The one full house backfield play didn't work at all.
• Second drive was rough for the offensive line. There was a total miscommunication in pass protection. Then Donovan Jackson got completely smoked on the play where Judkins was stripped. Derrick Harmon made the play and Tegra was blocking him, but Jackson letting his man through was the bigger issue.
• Josh Simmons going out is probably going to be catastrophic. Michalski wasn't particularly bad from what I could see, but there were way too many penalties on the line.
• Receivers are still great. No concerns there.
• I thought they'd put time back on the clock after the illegal substitution on the last drive.

• The defense was terrible today.
• Denzel Burke had the worst game of his career. I won't even fault him for that first TD since he had good coverage and that was just a hell of a throw and catch. Everything else though? He was just flat out bad.
• Still concerned about the lack of pressure. I have no idea how many times they blitzed, but it was hardly noticeable when they did. Too many of those dumb delayed blitzes too.
• They did get some pressure on the opening drive of the second half. Oregon ended up punting. Weird!
• The defensive line rotation is still really annoying at times.
• Credit where it is due: Oregon's 4 and 1 play-action conversion was a great call.
• I don't have much more to say about the defense. It was just a gross performance. Rough night for Jim Knowles.

***I didn’t even mention Ryan Day at first when I absolutely should have. His handling of the game’s final moments was dreadful.

Just saw a stat that said that Georgia is the first team since 1990 something that was involved in two top 5 matchups as the road team in a single season.

Unless something wacky happens tomorrow, OSU will be the second next week.

Excellent piece guys. Love having Zack on to break down things in a very straightforward way. I find it really interesting that in all 3 plays pulled the back half is completely out of rhythm with the Dline...Seems pretty clear we know where the breakdowns are. That's not rumor, that's not looking into media's comments on Knowles and LJ either, that is just facts. Made me both angry and wanting to throw up that we so blatantly shot ourselves in the foot. It's inexcusable for those 2 parts of the defense to be in anything other than lock step. If I was Denzel I would be PISSED. He got screwed more than once by that.

JUST SAYIN'

WHAT SAY YE?

On full display last night.

Rambling, incoherent — incapable of staying on topic and ranting about his hatred, lust for violence.

All he had to do was go out there for 30 mins and act contrite and attempt to unify the country — yet failed so miserably to the point people could be seen leaving early.



People are really going to rally around this vegetable and allow him to sell US interests to the highest bidder?

Says everything about America’s problems that they remain the mainstream source of news.

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The #4 Buckeyes are now 5-1 after their close loss at Oregon. Let's take a look back and see what happened to previous Buckeye teams that began the season 5-1, going back to 1971.

1971: The #6 ranked Buckeyes lost game 2 to visiting #10 Colorado 20-14 in a season that Woody's boys struggled to a 6-4 record. They also lost to #3 TCUN 10-7 and finished the season unranked.

1977: The #4 ranked Buckeyes lost a heart breaker on a last second field goal to #3 Oklahoma 29-28 in one of the most exciting games ever to be played in the Horseshoe. They finished the season 9-3 and ranked #11 with losses to #5 TCUN 14-6 and a 35-6 butt whooping at the hands of Bear Bryant's #3 Alabama squad.

1980: The #2 Buckeyes unveiled the shotgun formation against #11 UCLA in game 4 of the 1980 season, then promptly lost 17-0. Shotgun shelved! This was the first year of Ole 9-3 Earle's string of 6 straight 9-3 seasons as the Buckeyes finished the year ranked #15. Along the way the beat #20 Arizona State 38-21 and lost to #10 TCUN 9-3 and #10 Penn St. (pre-B1G days) 31-19 in the fiesta Bowl.

1984: The 1984 Buckeyes finished 9-3 and ranked #13 after the then #2 ranked Ohio State went to unranked Purdue in game 5 and lost 28-23, in a game where Mike Tomczak threw a ball out of bounds to stop the clock on 4th down, thinking it was only third on the last, possibly game winning, drive. So, stop picking on Will Howard. These things happen. Games of note that season were a 45-26 win against #14 Iowa, a 21-6 victory against unranked TCUN, and a 20-17 loss against #18 Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl.

1985: Another 9-3 record for Earle led to a #14 final ranking in 1985. The #5 Buckeyes lost game 4 at unranked Illinois, 31-28, but later that season pulled one of the greatest upsets in Ohio Stadium, beating #1 Iowa, 22-13, in a driving rainstorm. Unfortunately, they lost to #6 TCUN, 27-17, before beating #9 BYU in the Citrus Bowl, 10-7.

1991: John Cooper's 5th team finished the season 8-4 and unranked after losing game 5 at #20 Illinois, 10-7. They also lost to #4 TCUN 31-3 and #16 Syracuse in the Hall of Fame Bowl. They did not beat a ranked team that year.

1997: The #7 Buckeyes lost game 6 at Happy Valley to #2 Penn St, 31-27, on their way to a 10-3 season and a #12 final ranking. Along the way, they beat #11 Iowa (23-7) and @ #21 Michigan St (37-13), but unfortunately lost to eventual 1/2 national champion TCUN, 20-14, and #4 Florida St, 31-14, in the Sugar Bowl.

2000: Coop's last team lost game 6 at home against an unranked Minnesota team coached by Glenn Mason, 29-17, on the way to another 8-4 record and unranked finish. They did go into Madison and beat #24 Wisconsin, but lost to #16 Purdue (31-27), #19 TCUN (38-26), and unranked S. Carolina (24-7) in the Outback Bowl.

2003: Coming off a national championship season, the expectations were high. But in game 6, the Buckeyes travels to Madison, and lost to the #23 ranked Badgers, 17-10. But, the season wasn't all bad, as the Bucks beat #17 Washington (28-9), #24 NC St (44-38) in three overtimes, #9 Iowa (19-10), #11 Purdue (16-13), and #8 Kansas St (35-28) in the Fiesta Bowl. Sadly, Jim Tressel lost his only game against TCUN, 35-21. The Buckeyes ended the season 11-2 and ranked #4.

2008: The Buckeyes ended 2008 at 10-3 and ranked #9 after losing game 3 in Los Angeles to #1 Southern Cal, 35-3, in a brutal loss. But they did rebound to beat #18 Wisconsin in Madison (20-17), #20 Michigan St in East Lansing (45-7) and unranked TCUN (42-7). They lost 13-6 at home against #3 Penn St, and in a strange twist, the #10 ranked Buckeyes lost to #3 Texas in a nail biter (24-21) and actually moved up one spot in the final poll.

2009: The Buckeyes again lose to #3 Southern Cal, this time at home in game 2 (19-15). The only other loss was a 26-18 shocker at unranked Purdue. On the upside, The Buckeyes beat #11 Penn St in Happy Valley (24-7), #15 Iowa (27-24), unranked TCUN in Ann Arbor (21-10), and Chip Kelly's #7 Oregon (26-17) in the Rose Bowl, to finish 11-2 and ranked #5.

2014: Insert picture of Urban hoisting the national championship trophy here.
(If you don't know what happened this season, please remove yourself from this site)

2017: The Buckeyes lost to #5 Oklahoma (31-16) in the Shoe as Baker Mayfield planted the OU flag on the Block O, angering all Buckeye fans. But the team finished 12-2 and ranked #5 by beating #2 Penn State (39-38) in an amazing comeback in Ohio Stadium, #13 Michigan St (48-3), at unranked TCUN (31-20), #3 Wisconsin (27-21) in the B1G Championship Game, and #8 Southern Cal in the Cotton Bowl. The other loss, that kept OSU out of the playoffs, was a 55-24 embarrassment @ unranked Iowa. In spite of that, the Buckeyes finished the season at 12-2 and ranked #5.

2021: It's those Ducks again. Game 2, #12 Oregon 35-28 over the Buckeyes. Just like this recent game, the defense could not stop Oregon's offense. It was very familiar. But CJ Stroud has his breakout game on the way to being a two time Heisman Trophy finalist. The Buckeyes did go on to beat #20 Penn St (33-24), #7 Michigan St (56-7), and #10 Utah (48-45) in the Rose Bowl. They lost to #6 TCUN 42-27 in Ann Arbor, thanks to the help of Connor Stalions. Ryan Day's team finished 11-2 and ranked #6.

How will the Buckeyes finish this season? Only time will tell.

I recently went my favorite restaurant for breakfast and was greeted by new menus with significantly higher prices. An individual egg was now going for $1.99?
Seems high to me?
What are you experiencing?

(eye roll)

White conservative saviors rushing in to save America from the...i don't know...handful of trans girls that want to play sports and even fewer who play at any high level.

@BuckWi03 already using the means tested lines about "saving women's sports" and tasking everyone else.

Hilarious exchange:
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THIS IS ABOUT ATHLETICS, only government can save us!

No wonder the field sucks

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I've been told by a good source close to Pettijohn that the five-star Ohio State linebacker commit will visit Texas for its showdown against Georgia this weekend. I've also been told that there is no consideration of a change in his commitment status with the Buckeyes.

"He won't be doing any flipping," the source said.

Vote YES to end racist and intentional gerrymandering by a GOP that draws maps like this.

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scUM getting pummeled by the NCAA...
please merge with the *ichigan 2024 thread please.

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We saw him against one of Florida's top teams and he worked well against both the run and the pass, as per usual.

I hate this loss with every inch of my fiber, but looking at it, as bad as our defense played, we still could have won. We win if that bullshit PI call wasn't called on JS. Oregon probably played their best and still barely won, at their own place. We're still getting alot of respect from all over only dropping 2 spots to #4.

Couldn’t help but think of this last night. 4th quarter drive in The Rose Bowl. 4th down. JSN shoves his defender and comes back to the ball for a game saving first down. No flag

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