The Game was ours for the taking…

[LovingBuckeye]

52 minutes ago, Lnghrn said:

man talk about delusion.  Ohio had 11 1st down and 2 were because of penalties on the UT defense.  Ohio st only scores 7 points if Simmons doesn’t get the face mask.  Funny you say UT didn’t have open receivers.  Most of Arch’s bad passes were to wide open receivers.  We were inside the 10 yard line twice and came away with 0 points.  Arch missed wingo on a crossing route on the 5 yard line.  If he hits him in stride that’s a td.  On the pass to Livingston ( where the Ohio st db held him on 4th down) in the corner of the end zone he had a receiver wide open in the middle of the field.  
Be happy you won.  When the other team out gains you by 130 yds and holds the you to a 11 first downs and 200 yards of offense you should be very thankful for a win.  When the opposing qb misses open receivers throughout the game you should feel very thankful for the win.  When the opposing defense gives you 2 first downs (one on a 3rd down stop) on your only scoring drive of the first half, you should feel very thankful.   When your offense only crosses the 50 yrs line twice in the game  and you win you should be very thankful for the win.  
 

I’m thankful for every win, but Texas is just as lucky they didn’t lose 21-0. I believe Arch had 38 yards entering the 4th quarter. It was complete domination.

[Austalgia]

5 minutes ago, LovingBuckeye said:

I am fascinated to see how Arch bounces back against SJSU Saturday 

I don’t think we will know anything with success until Florida.  He will probably play great and rah, rah, but will we really know how he will handle the swamp against a competent Florida defense?  No. (Sorry to the teams we play next, no disrespect).  I guess if he plays bad against inferior competition that will be a red flag though.  I hope not,  Arch is great.  Hope he succeeds for sure. 

[Austalgia]

28 minutes ago, LovingBuckeye said:

I am fascinated to see how Arch bounces back against SJSU Saturday 

And let me just say, when I say Arch was too scripted, it was in the context of a Matt Patricia defense that thoroughly confused him in the first half.  In a script you want to see what you are told you will see, IMO he was confused and petrified a little (maybe a lot) when he didn’t see what he expected.  All credit to Patricia.  This is just a hunch of course, but seems plausible. His mechanics and football play haven’t ever been this bad.  There is no pattern or trend for what happened in that first half. 

[Ace_Rothstein]

3 hours ago, LovingBuckeye said:

That was a very good catch. That might have been the only time. Ohio State was up two scores at that point and were just trying to keep everything in front them. Hence all of the empty yards that Texas fans think shows they were actually better.

The real issue is that why is Julian Sayin already better than Arch Manning? That on top of Sark turning Quinn Ewers from 5* #1 overall into a 7th round pick would have me really questioning your program.

This is a bit revisionist and somewhat delusional.

Ohio state was essentially losing the yardage battle etc all game.

You guys crossed the 50 yard line like twice and penalties significantly aided your first td drive. 

This game was decided on like 3 or 4 plays that went Ohio State’s way. Mainly coming down to Texas going 0/2 in the redzone and Ohio State going 1 for 1. Acting like Texas was putting up empty calorie garbage time yardage is disingenuous. Acting like this was anything but an ugly hard fought game between 2 relatively even matched teams is delusional.

And your other comment about Saying being better than Arch already is way too premature lol. If you know ball, you know one off results and head to head matchups don’t provide full context especially when one QB is on start 3 and another is on start 1 (it was Arch’s first road start in a hostile environment). Using your logic, that would be like me saying Michigan’s QB last year was already better than Will Howard haha. 

Arch didn’t have a good game. No sugarcoating it. He isn’t automatically a bust now because of it. He will have down games his 1st year starting. 

 

[Ace_Rothstein]

1 hour ago, LovingBuckeye said:

I’m thankful for every win, but Texas is just as lucky they didn’t lose 21-0. I believe Arch had 38 yards entering the 4th quarter. It was complete domination.

You guys still had significantly less yardage going into the 4th and couldn’t move the ball on Texas. 

Both offenses struggled. 

Where are you getting the Texas is lucky it didn’t lose 21-0 narrative from? 

Credit to Ohio State but it squeezed out every point it possibly could. It had 2 drives cross the 50 and punched it in on 4th and goal from the one after getting stuffed the 3 previous plays. Ohio State only had 2 opportunities to score points and it did so twice (once because of 2 penalties extending drives). Texas had like 4 opportunities to actually get points and only scored once (one was a drop in the endzone).

This isn’t me trying to discredit Ohio State, but your use of “domination” goes both ways as in the defenses dominated the offenses. It was a 14-7 game buddy with Texas at mid field with about 1 min to go. 

Not sure why it is hard for you to just admit that it was a close game ha. 

 

[AusMOJO]

On 8/31/2025 at 6:04 PM, Thorn007 said:

steve needs to put in a bootleg near the goal  line. or a brotherly shove

 

 

I saw several games this weekend t hat did similar. They need to figure something out there. Between the 20's, Sark is great, once the field gets condensed he loses his mojo and over thinks it.

[AusMOJO]

1 hour ago, LovingBuckeye said:

I’m thankful for every win, but Texas is just as lucky they didn’t lose 21-0. I believe Arch had 38 yards entering the 4th quarter. It was complete domination.

But can't we say the same? If things click our way, you guys are looking at 21-0 the other way. I wouldn't say it was a domination. Outside of some lucky plays by our O, we shut it down and our O sh*t the bed when we needed them to score.

Either way, I'm not going to argue with you. Congrats on the win. 

[Bunk Moreland]

7 hours ago, LovingBuckeye said:

The real issue is that why is Julian Sayin already better than Arch Manning? That on top of Sark turning Quinn Ewers from 5* #1 overall into a 7th round pick would have me really questioning your program.

I don’t think that’s a very fair characterization. Playing at home in your first start against a top-5 opponent is very different from doing so on the road. Quinn Ewers outplayed Bryce Young and looked like a future #1 pick in his second game ever. That was at home and he almost never looked that good again. Raiola, Nico, Kevin Rourke—they all had very similar stat lines at the Shoe. Allar did too and that was at Penn State! I have a hard time believing the qb play on both teams would have looked exactly like that if the game had been played in Austin. I think we need to slow down and see how Arch and Sayin evolve over the season before making strong comparisons.

Edited 11 hours ago by Bunk Moreland

[Ironmanz35]

6 hours ago, Ace_Rothstein said:

You guys still had significantly less yardage going into the 4th and couldn’t move the ball on Texas. 

Both offenses struggled. 

Where are you getting the Texas is lucky it didn’t lose 21-0 narrative from? 

Credit to Ohio State but it squeezed out every point it possibly could. It had 2 drives cross the 50 and punched it in on 4th and goal from the one after getting stuffed the 3 previous plays. Ohio State only had 2 opportunities to score points and it did so twice (once because of 2 penalties extending drives). Texas had like 4 opportunities to actually get points and only scored once (one was a drop in the endzone).

This isn’t me trying to discredit Ohio State, but your use of “domination” goes both ways as in the defenses dominated the offenses. It was a 14-7 game buddy with Texas at mid field with about 1 min to go. 

Not sure why it is hard for you to just admit that it was a close game ha. 

 

As a Buckeye fan I will admit it was a close game.  I also felt Ohio State was in control the majority of the game.  Texas first score in the game was with 3:28 remaining in the 4th qtr and OSU was up 14-0 at that point.  Patricia and the defense were not blitzing nearly as much and keeping everything in front of them and trying to limit any big plays.  The yardage does not tell the story of the game.  Neither does any "If's"  Hell Sayin missed seeing a wide open Smith for n EZ TD- I dont count that as a what if, it is a rookie mistake  Come the 4th qtr once up by 14 we were keeping the ball on the ground to chew clock.  Now I did get concerned when Texas was at Mid field with a minute or so left.  To early to say if either team is a top 3 team, but I believe both teams will look much different come play off time.  Like Texas, OSU has a couple cup cakes to get our offense to gel and build some confidence for our young QB.  Good luck the rest of the way to the Long Horns.  Maybe we see each other again Dec/Jan.

My concerns for each team. 

OSU Running game. 

Texas WR room.

[LovingBuckeye]

1 hour ago, Ironmanz35 said:

As a Buckeye fan I will admit it was a close game.  I also felt Ohio State was in control the majority of the game.  Texas first score in the game was with 3:28 remaining in the 4th qtr and OSU was up 14-0 at that point.  Patricia and the defense were not blitzing nearly as much and keeping everything in front of them and trying to limit any big plays.  The yardage does not tell the story of the game.  Neither does any "If's"  Hell Sayin missed seeing a wide open Smith for n EZ TD- I dont count that as a what if, it is a rookie mistake  Come the 4th qtr once up by 14 we were keeping the ball on the ground to chew clock.  Now I did get concerned when Texas was at Mid field with a minute or so left.  To early to say if either team is a top 3 team, but I believe both teams will look much different come play off time.  Like Texas, OSU has a couple cup cakes to get our offense to gel and build some confidence for our young QB.  Good luck the rest of the way to the Long Horns.  Maybe we see each other again Dec/Jan.

My concerns for each team. 

OSU Running game. 

Texas WR room.

100%. I was shocked when I saw the yardage difference because watching the game live it felt like Ohio State was clearly the better team.

[Ironmanz35]

26 minutes ago, LovingBuckeye said:

100%. I was shocked when I saw the yardage difference because watching the game live it felt like Ohio State was clearly the better team.

Correct.  100 of Arch's passing yards came in the 4th qtr when they were down 14-0. 

With that said still not sure either team is championship caliber yet, but they both have top 5 defenses in the country.

Lets see what Texas does vs Florida & Georgia and what we do vs Illinois, Penn State & Michigan

[Thorn007]

sayin looked like the bus driver to me. 13 -20 126 yards. people acting like he was great yo. my a$$. and 40 yards was a fluke double bobble to tate with  our defender with an arm across tates stomach...

Edited 5 hours ago by Thorn007

[LovingBuckeye]

22 minutes ago, Thorn007 said:

sayin looked like the bus driver to me. 13 -20 126 yards. people acting like he was great yo. my a$$. and 40 yards was a fluke double bobble to tate with  our defender with an arm across tates stomach...

Sayin had 12 career passing attempts prior to being the first player in history to beat the #1 ranked team in their first career start. I think that was a hell of a first game.

[Thorn007]

yes he was calm and cool .  and scored 14. the ohio has a great defense

Edited 4 hours ago by Thorn007

[Ironmanz35]

33 minutes ago, Thorn007 said:

sayin looked like the bus driver to me. 13 -20 126 yards. people acting like he was great yo. my a$$. and 40 yards was a fluke double bobble to tate with  our defender with an arm across tates stomach...

Agree Sayin did not light the world on fire.  13-20 for 126 is not an impressive stat line.  He did have 3 obvious drops and threw a couple away on purpose.  The 40 yard TD to Tate was maybe his worst throw of the day, with that said I wont call it a fluke, I will call it an underthrown ball and a helluva play by Tate who is an outstanding athlete and that catch took athleticism, effort and concentration.  Maybe only makes that catch 30-40% of the time.  Sayin did get all of his passengers on the bus home safely.  Look forward to his development and he will get to let it rip the next 2-3 weeks and gain some confidence.