I think you actually nailed the men's BB team identity, Chase: No offense and no defense. In other news, way to go Buckeye ladies! Thanks for carrying the torch.

Agreed. Skip Bayless is little more than a professional agitator, but nothing he wrote was even remotely controversial or tone-deaf for the situation. Unfortunately, in a world where personal value is measured in Likes and Re-tweets, virtuous knee jerk reactions to his thoughtful post are what matter. Comprehension and critical thinking are way down on that list now. Sad.

Enough talk and hype and “pissed off” and “disrespected” and “loose” and “100%” and yadda-yadda-yardda… 

Play hard and smart or UGA will run you out of the building.  

I'm a lifelong Pirates fan. Trust me, no one who follows or is affiliated with the Pirates is pissed. The right word is "resigned", especially the POS owner.

This is my mindset as well and IT SUCKS. When they're clicking, this team is a monster, but their collective pants wetting against TTUN, at home no less, suggested that the "it" factor isn't there for this group. If that's coaching, leadership, give-a-shit quotient, whatever...they had the shot they wanted and missed, badly. No more talk, no more excuses, no more hype, please. Ramzy hit this one square between the eyes.

Allow me to help: Man, I'd take either JTB IV or CJ over Joe Bauserman.

Well, my Steelers sent him Chase Claypool which should've been an upgrade for both teams. Turns out Claypool is as big a flop in Chicago as he was in Pittsburgh and the Steelers will probably dick up the draft pick on the "best available athlete" instead of a position of need at CB, NT, or the OL. Sigh...

The Avery Henry news and Nic Bouzakis' story of losing his little brother puts the trivialness of a football game into perspective. No matter how awesome Georgia is or how badly the Bucks pissed down their legs against TTUN, it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Go Avery! Beat cancer's ass, Red Devil.

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Go Bucks and all, but they had no business losing that game.

Thanks for posting this, NH. This made me both laugh and be incredibly sad that the world is about to lose the Pirate. In another life, he would've been a great deadpan comedian. This takes me back to when Jimmy V died.

Day's track record in the playoffs is certainly good, the beatdown to Alabama, COVID and Coombs' gameplan notwithstanding. His teams appear to come out swinging. All year long, many on here have pointed to Georgia as the target. Now, the Bucks have their shot. Might as well take it.

Stewart Mandel. What a d-bag take.

FIFY.

Yeah, what he said!

Or she could've mandated that her staff come into the office and work. I hear that's a really unpopular thing nowadays.

Hey, Frimmel!  Bethany College is near you, eh? Small world!  It’s near where I grew up just outside of Wintersville.  I used to go to Bethany for Foreign Language Day in high school. It’s a neat little campus with a lousy road to get there, no doubt!

Go Bucks! 

For some strange reason, this is the calmest I've felt before a TTUN game in a long time. It's not overconfidence or anything like that. It's just a feeling that we're going to see something big tomorrow, in a good way...something we're all not seeing. I don't know if that means a player, a scheme, points, whatever. This team just looks so damned angry, like before Clemson in the Sugar Bowl. I hope I'm right, that's for sure.

I'll add Bo, Gary, Lloyd, and Jim, even though that's my brother's name and he's not a douche. No regrets, though. This is Hate Week.

All day long.

I'm not generally a believer that coaches have many "tricks up their sleeves" for big games, but I really, really want to see Day treat Harbaugh the way he treated Dabo in the Sugar Bowl and Locksley after the Chase Young rumors. Those were two of the most ruthless and creative game plans I've ever witnessed from a head coach.

Here's to hoping that Tommy makes the Butkus voters regret their choices on Saturday. What a scam some of these awards have become.

There was a pretty big lull in the fanbase too, Hove. I think it's safe to say those days are over.

I will vouch for one serious TCU fan in TX that I've run across, and that is the older gentleman who mans the security desk of Building 2 at Lockheed-Martin in Fort Worth. I go down there on business monthly and we always compare notes about OSU and TCU. That fella loves the Frogs and absolutely hates UT, Baylor, and aTm. He tolerates Texas Tech, but that's more because they aren't the other three. I need case you're wondering, he doesn't like TTUN, either. He's a total class act.

^^^THIS x 100. I was so glad to see the run game go north-south in the 2nd half, finally. McElroy was (correctly) all over the stretch runs in the first half when it was obvious the Terps couldn't stop much between the tackles. If it was Trey trying to bounce things outside, that's on him. But if Day was intentionally trying to hammer the edge in the hopes of setting up play action, that didn't work in the first half either. The outside blocking is generally poor, a few exceptions notwithstanding, such as Marv picking up 9 yds on a stretch pass early in the 3rs, IIRC. This whole team could do themselves a favor and watch how the 2014 guys blocked, especially the WRs and TEs.

A performance like they put on against Clemson in the Sugar Bowl would warm my heart. Talk about getting rag-dolled...

Well done, Lady Buckeyes!!! Phenomenal game!