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Georgia beating a Marshall team where nearly everyone transferred out and Oregon beating Montana State really isn't an accomplishment to be above Texas with a single touchdown loss to OSU. A touchdown that was an extremely lucky bounce. Texas lead in passing, rushing, and receiving yards. Endries had one receiving yard more than Carnell Tate. That's a better loss than a Phil Knight purchased team overrunning a school I didn't know existed. Anyway, Ohio State lost to Oregon last year in the regular season on Will Howard's error then beat them later in the Rose Bowl to face Texas and won the national championship as the 8th seed.

Gotta at least split the Miami and LSU games, then pull an upset over Texas or Aggy and run the table from there to have a shot. Won't happen because they won't beat Georgia and Mississippi is probably a loss too so 8-4 at best. That's only if Lagway stays healthy.

LSU harassed Cade all night, Miami don't have world beaters but they're good enough, Lagway may not even make it to Texas.

Arch was playing in his first big road start matching wits with an NFL DC that he had no good way to gameplan for. OSU has some of the best defensive personnel in the country. Arch flat out missed throws. JJ flat out dropped passes. There's not really a qualitative difference.

Arch’s worst plays were very bad (Uncle Rico esque). Smith’s worst plays were just bad. Smith is a true sophomore and Littleton is (maybe) the best freshman DB in the country. Not that crazy. Littleton very clearly made a great play. The pass was also put in a spot that made it difficult to catch.

That’s a big if about them coming into our game undefeated. They have the hardest schedule in the country until then. It’s not certain that they will come out of next weekend undefeated, much less be undefeated in October. And if they are undefeated when we play them, they will probably have used up a lot of energy and possibly depth in hard fought games and be due for a loss.

I think Florida would have been better off this year if they didn’t get all those upsets towards the end of the year. That just gave those teams more reason to want to beat them 😂

To be clear, Arch is an amateur working his way to the pros. Did Arch miss wide open TDs? What about JJ's inability to create separation and consistently provide a good target? I mean, he couldn't beat a true freshman playing his first game. Convincing the demos doesn't count for much. This is empirical evidence.

I think you’re gonna have a pretty hard time convincing anyone that Smith’s drops were as ugly or detrimental as Arch’s off passes in the early part of the game. If Smith would have dropped a long bomb for sure TD, a la Johntay Cook vs MState, that would have made waves. The drops he did have I’m sure annoyed Ohio State fans and I’m sure they think they would have blown us out if he would have just caught those, but they were fairly ho hum. Arch looked like a real amateur out there on his worst plays. There’s a difference

Speaking of Florida. yikes

This would be a pretty good time for them to try to make a run at Dabo, with Klubnik done after this season. But Bama probably doesn’t want a guy that has had defensive struggles in the very recent past.

Bad throws are bad throws, but the drops were unforced errors too. For JJ, that was three out of ten. For Arch is was seven out of thirty.

It’s not worse than Arch’s Uncle Rico throws, skipping balls off the turf. We did a good job defending Smith. Many of Arch’s misses were pretty unforced.

We had two drives with red zone snaps. One drive saw one RB run on 6 red zone plays (gain of 2 yards with 3 yards to gain). The other drive saw one RB run on 5 red zone plays (gain of 3 yards with 6 yards to gain). Those are successful runs. Also, every time we ran a RB on 3rd and short (non goal line), we gained a first down. There’s been a lot of talk about Ohio State keeping things in front of them, but there is no way Ohio State wasn’t trying to stop the run on 3rd and short or was content to allow successful runs inside of the redzone. If that was part of the gameplan, that’s problematic. We had a lot of failed conversions on 3rd and short due to inaccurate passes, and a lot of drives stall from getting into 3rd and long because of inaccurate passes (thus not having the opportunity to run on 3rd and short). The lack of attempts for our RBs in the RZ and opting to pass on 3rd and short rather than run it until they prove they can stop it on 3rd and short is what I would call abandonment. But other than one failed, poorly conceived, half assed 4th down conversion attempt on the first drive, we pretty much ran the ball at will with our RBs.

One thing we're not hearing is that JJ's three drops were just as bad or worse than Arch's seven bad throws. That's two bad games in a row against Texas. Doesn't seem like the best player in CFB stuff. Certainly not the same level of scrutiny.

I’m more concerned with Arch’s footwork and literally completing easy passes than I am the final score.

I’m not sure I have the heart for this after last week lol.

I think he was pretty basic at Ohio State, and that will continue next three games. When SEC starts, totally different

Dont have concrete info on that yet I do know that the family understands there will be a needed development curve for Kavian. He’s close to a sandlot HS QB right now at the level he’s playing at. Too easy for him to just run around and make plays. Hes not having to actually play true QB right now in the context of what he will have to at next level

Haven’t heard on that. I’ll check

SeatGeek is another possibility and is the ticket partner for UT. For the Bearkats game there should not be too much gouging compared to other games and you might even get a good deal.

Shots 1 and 3 are before the snap so yeah I’d say you’re right.

I think they intended to go fast a few times to try and wear their DL down but after half they realized it wasn’t smart and we needed to let Arch get time too at the LOS

Yeah I completely agree that Sark to Bama feels very unlikely, especially after all the sustained success he’s had at Texas. Doesn’t seem like he’d be bored yet since he hasn’t won anything meaningful. And Texas should be able to counter any major financial push that Bama makes. But I have a suspicion they will make another run at him regardless. They will want to get this next hire right if DeBoer doesn’t work out.

This is true, but it doesn't make them true title contenders. In fact, closer to a paper tiger. If strength of schedule really is an important component of playoff selection and seeding, it's hard to see how the alter boys land a top eight seed even if they win out.