Ha! 

If you haven't seen Five Year Engagement yet, you gotta see it.  Hilarious the way they make fun of Zingerman's. And TSUN. 

Uh, Bronny, can you bring the ball up court against a press???

Okay, we'll take you!

I had not heard until now that Jacy Sheldon was almost ready to come back.  She is a killer, an Iverson with her speed and energy. 

Chris Holtmann ought to take the boys over to the women's practice and let them see how it's done. 

He looked good against Alabama and Texas.  He won't be intimidated playing against Big Ten competition....

Yep, and last I knew, still playing for the Detroit Lions. Starter, too.

Well, one benefit of Stroud NOT running much is that he never got too banged up.  Normally, you expect your starting QB to miss some time.  

McCord did a fine job, starting and winning a game when he was just a freshman.  He looks solid, in a Roman Gabriel, Kenny Anderson sort of way. 

Open competition, may the best man win, but I feel very comfortable with the guys coming up.  

I'm looking forward to improvement in our running game, which will benefit whichever quarterback is playing. 

When is the spring game?? 

UM just suspended his co-offensive coordinator for "computer access crimes"...?  Matt Weiss, who came over to TTUN from the Baltimore Ravens, and also used to be on Jimmy's staff at Stanford. 

It doesn't sound like it's directly on Harbaugh, but like the Zack Smith debacle, it will reflect on the program and give Harbaugh headaches. 

More to follow, I'm sure, but whatever it is it involves the UM campus police and Weiss is under suspension. 

I will limit my take to this: a life time Buckeye fan of football AND basketball, I didn't even watch the game tonight.  

Something inside me tells me to Not Watch. 

What does that mean?

I don't care who is coaching --- for the athletes, I hope we turn  it around and make a run.  But right now it feels like they are all wondering where they can transfer to next year if things don't change.  Just because they want to be where they are loved. 

All I'm saying is that first chart (# of big plays given up) should be on the wall in Knowles' office, in the DB room, LB room, all the defensive coaches' offices.  It's a visual reminder that you have a problem to fix. 

Not pointing fingers or saying I know how to do it.  It's just that Ryan Day is not going to pretend it doesn't mean something. 

Get better.  Get back to the CFP.  Beat TTUN. 

My thought exactly - for a CB/return guy, he found a lot of ways to score.  And as someone already said: eyes on the QB!

My comment will sound a little weird, and it will also show my age:  this kid's high school film reminds me of Art Schlichter. 

Schlichter was a running quarterback who also had a "big arm" and also had to learn how to not trust it too much (threw a lot of interceptions, including the one that got Woody fired). 

I think he could be a grrrrrrrrrreat OSU QB. 

all i can say is I am so glad I did not watch this game.  Busy working, but sounds like a soul-killer

We need Jacy Sheldon to get healthy and get back. 

Hope they can pull this out. 

Great read.  Ramzy, although you said "seven days later I loved them again" in 1987, I'm not sure everyone knows that after losing at home to Iowa, they went to Ann Arbor, as underdogs, and beat Michigan in Earle's last game.  The famed "Earle headband" game. 

My first game in Michigan Stadium.  Great experience.  Even better than the Toledo game, which I also attended.  A TTUN fan gave me his tickets because he didn't feel like "watching Michigan beat Toledo by 50 points". 

So fellow fans, appreciate this addiction of ours.  Appreciate that this team has been in the conversation since the 60's. Appreciate that we get disappointed when we have the 4th best recruiting class in the nation (or 3d, or 5th).  

And as for The Rivalry?  The Buckeyes will rise again and vanquish TTUN. Just give 'em love in the meantime. 

Stroud seems to agree... at least, he said it wasn't the last kick that lost the game, not that alone. 

We could find 5 or 6 plays on offense that could have changed the game greatly.  

And although the defense gave up 42, there were a lot of GREAT defensive plays.  

We can't cherry pick the plays that "lost us the game". 

And Knowles gets a pass because it's his first year. 

Here's something we're not talking about:  what happened to their world class nose tackle?  I mean, he played well, but Justin Frye made sure that he was a non-factor in the game. 

Finally - go find the post game podcast with "Locked on Bulldogs". Two guys who have a decent following on youtube.  They were all over how great the Buckeyes were, and could have/should have won that game.  They also said CJ Stroud is the number one quarterback in college football and it's not even close.  They kept saying, much as Kirby Smart did after the game, that they felt really bad for the Buckeye team because they deserved to win as much as Georgia did. 

I trust the coaching staff to get a long snapper in the portal. Meaning, the new guy must be a lot better than Mason.  But thanks to Mason for doing a great job when injury pushed him into the starting role. 

Now.... if we're going in the portal, can we go get some RUNNING BACKS?? And Defensive Backs???

How about agreeing that a big part of the reason we lost was Stetson Bennett had his CAREER HIGH passing game against us. 

I didn't have a problem with the running play, it just didn't crack open like they hoped. The next play, IMHO, was just as questionable: CJ almost got sacked but managed to roll out and throw it away.  Should have run it again, centered the  ball for the kicker. 

But, watching this game later, we'll probably see a lot of places where offense AND defense could have been better. 

It was two good teams slugging it out.  Shitty to lose, but we did not get embarassed. 
I WILL say, though, that this would be really tough to take if Michigan had trounced TCU.  To see Michigan lose to TCU as a 9 point favorite? With Desmond Howard having to be on camera afterwards?  Sweet. 
 

I can't wait to go to Ann Arbor in 11 months and beat the snot out of TTUN. 

I thought Day redeemed himself in my eyes --- I had him pegged as an average big game coach. But tonight he did a good job - about a B+. 

CJ, I think, balled out big time, and I'm sure he's gonna go in the top 10 of the NFL draft. 

Stover, Harrison getting hurt - those were big. 

Close doesn't get you anything, but they were realllllly close tonight. Shit. 

We are going to need guys like Hartman and Etzler after Sensabaugh, Gayle, and Thornton go to the NBA after the season!

I mean, I hope they don't.  Think about how good this TEAM could be if our freshmen stay for three years. 

In the meantime, they are not just winning some games, but they are FUN TO WATCH. I have watched roddy Gayle's dunk with 1:40 left about 10 times and I laugh each time.  Sweet! 

Nice assists, a few blocks, guys are getting fed when they are open.  

Work on our defense (and our in bound defense at the end of games!!!) and this team can be really really great. 

Nice job (so far), Coach Holtmann. 

That Wisconsin video was unwatchable.  Like, 4 frames a second (no, I actually did not count them). 

But your point is still well taken. 

I think the ULTIMATE key to how OSU executes will be knowing what happened in the TTUN-TSU game.  In other words, if they know that Michigan got in (or is leading 45-12 in the fourth quarter), I think that makes it all the more real for the Buckeye players.  Like, there it is, TTUN is in, do we want in? Do we want to play them for the championship?  Will we let Georgia get in the way?

From the defense, I want to see the return of The Shrug. 

From the offense, I want to see a running QB.  One that runs like a football player, not like a QB trying to avoid contact at any cost. 

From the coaches - trust in your guys.  Call some real shit.  Make it crazy.  

Nice take, Jefferson. I agree with everything you said, and I would add one thing to CJ's call to duty:  he has to run the ball. Like a football player, not like a streaker who somehow got onto the field past security.  

On top of your defense comment, I would add that the DBs need to play the ball like it's THEIR ball.  Go get the ball like a receiver would. 

Coach the game like the underdogs we are. 

It's mighty cold outside but a week from today it will be 50 degrees in CBus. 

First quarter score, 0-0.

After that, it's a cautious game on both sides.  Final score, OSU 30, GA 20. 

Hayden, Trayanum and Miyan combine for 283 yards. 

OSU turns Georgia over 3-1 for a +2 advantage in turnovers. 

It's a cough in the engine, Day needs to adjust and get smarter really quick.

Hey, Urban came in and did the unthinkable: won his first 24 games! Then, he lost his next two. Ouch! Michigan State and Clemson. 

Then things got better, way better, but not before losing to Virginia Tech at home??!!

The one truly great thing he did was go 7-0 vs TTUN.  True that, and I loved it, since I was working in Ann Arbor the whole time. 

But I also had to live with the Purdue and Iowa butt whippings. Those were low points.  Ryan Day's low points are when he "only beats Maryland by one point", or trails against Notre Dame at half time. 

Hey, it's Christmas.  Anything can happen.  Let's beat Georgia and then TTUN/TCU and be freaking national champs again!