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Could anyone transcribe Mel Kiper’s recently released mock here on a post? Don’t want to pay for an ESPN sub

I agree. I would put my money on him being a downgrade from Howard initially just due to inexperience. Just gotta hope his experience vs us is more of a “welcome to CFB” moment and less of a coming out party. Hopefully we have solid answers for replacing Barron, Makuba and our DTs. If so, I like our chances.

Update: If Texas vs tOSU is #1 vs #2 next year, I’m pretty sure it will be the first week one 1v2 matchup in CFB history. https://www.boydsbets.com/college-football-no-1-vs-no-2/

They’ll have a former 5* QB force feeding him, but still. He better be elusive with our pass rush coming after him They picked up a good RB and a good TE in the portal. But it seems to me it will be impossible for them to make as big of splash pickups as Judkins and Downs, both of whom they picked up in last year’s winter portal window

ChatGPT gave incorrect info on the wk1 1 vs 2 question

ESPN only lists 3 “Key Returning Starters” for Ohio State: Jeremiah Smith, Carnell Tate and Caleb Downs. Every other team has 6+ key returning starters. There’s no chance in hell they are the #1 team in the country next year. The only reason they were the #1 team this year was because of extraordinary retention of their 2023 roster. However, I don’t see any way our matchup with them next season isn’t #1 vs #2 (could go either way). How many #1 vs #2 matchups have there ever been in week one, I wonder?

Out of eligibility or not?

He actually never lost to a team as a starter outside the Top12 (at the time of the game). 2022 OkSt is the one team we lost to with him that finished unranked at the end of the season.

Love to see it! I think he’s gonna exceed expectations in the NFL and hopefully actually go to a good team where he can learn in a reserve role, rather than being pressed into immediate action for a crappy franchise.

Penn State has a virtual cake walk to the CFP next year. Their floor looks like 10-2 to me (Oregon and tOSU only feasible losses). Even then, they have Oregon at home and SHOULD be their year to beat tOSU with Allar and both RBs returning.

A large portion of that $20 million was to retain guys from their 2023 roster. They had only 4 guys go in the draft last year because essentially anybody who could come back came back for them. They won’t be able to do that for $80 million this year. They were also able to pick up Quinshon Judkins and Caleb Downs around this time last year in the winter portal window. I don’t think there will be opportunity for them to make moves of that magnitude during the winter portal window this year. The only one mega move I could see for them is if they pick up Quinn.

The only way Anthony Hill is here as a senior is if he misses the bulk of next season with injury or plays significantly worse in his junior season. We should of course be rooting against either of those situations. If the DT situation works out well for us next year, I could easily see our front 7 being better (LBs and DEs should be better next year, especially if we retain Moore). Seems like the biggest concern on defense will be making up defensive playmaking of Barron and Makuba. We have recruited very well at DB, so hope that won’t be too big of an issue.

I think the 3 most likely teams are Texas, Penn State or Clemson. Drew Allar and Cade Klubnik stand a good chance of being Heisman candidates next season. Both of PSU’s good RBs announced their return today. Most of these lines reflect people’s inability to see past the present.

Pete Carroll is almost unanimously considered to be one of the best head coaches in football history. Does that make his Super Bowl decision to pass the ball on the goal line vs the patriots rather than run it with Marshawn Lynch any less stupid? No, it does not. Just like the overall opinion of Sark as a play caller (which I agree with) doesn’t change the fact that this play call was idiotic. Orlovsky’s opinion doesn’t change it. The staff’s premeditation doesn’t change it. Your opinion doesn’t change it. Even if it would have WORKED it doesn’t change the fact that it was not a smart play call. Sometimes players make good plays on bad play call. If you have the ball on the one yard line, throwing the ball backwards to the 10 yard line on the side of the field where defenders outnumber blockers (!) with zero accompanying tricks or misdirection is just a BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD play call. One of the worst of all time. That doesn’t make Sark one of the worst play callers ever, he is still a great play caller in my eyes and I’m sure most people’s eyes. I just think he is a great play caller that called one of the worst plays of all time. Not mutually exclusive.

Nowhere near “almost exact same fashion”. The only reason we had a remote shot at winning vs Washington was terrible clock mismanagement and meltdown by the Washington coaching staff. We got outplayed from start to finish on both sides of the ball that games. We had a shot in this game because we straight up outplayed/ went toe to toe with tOSU for the vast majority of the game. tOSU this year is a much better team than Washington was last year. They will likely be the national champion. Washington got run out of the stadium by Michigan. If Ohio State beats Notre Dame, they will set the record for most top 5 wins in a single season.