Ace_Rothstein

Yeah totally agree. The A&M game actually proves your point more than it proves Gerry’s in this case.

As a guy that was high on Zachariah Branch coming out of HS, he got passed over at USC for a reason. If anything Riley should have just benched him sooner. Makai Lemon is an absolute dawg and just a way better, and more complete WR. Same goes for Jakobi Lane. Riley’s offense is relatively simple and Branch was having trouble running the correct routes, catching the ball in key moments etc. Are we sure we really wanted to throw a boat load of cash at a guy that doesn’t profile as a polished, refined WR? i get this thread is talking about Zion, but i think it’s all related and relevant since they were a package deal.

Also a lot of Buckeye fans keep parroting “we were in prevent defense” the entire 4th quarter but that’s not what the tape says on the 4-5 dots Arch threw in the 4th. Each one was either a 1 on 1 win by the receiver or Arch fitting it into to a window or throwing it into a spot. The Livingstone td catch, Endries hole shot (shown in the video above), the Wingo seam route and the dropped td pass to Livingstone on 4th and goal (would have been a tough catch) were all dots.

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.

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.

A bit premature on all this doom and gloom. Let’s revisit after Oklahoma. That gives us 3 cupcakes, 1 road test and 1 neutral site rivalry game to see where Arch is at. The two best teams in the country may have just played each other yesterday and I think Arch will get better.

Texas has one of the fastest teams in the country. We have at least 6-7 skill players on offense that will run sub 4.5 when they eventually hit the combine over the next 2-3 draft cycles

I mean, OSU was pretty ineffective offensively. It’s not like they were dialed in and creating explosive plays. Texas actually moved the ball more consistently. Ohio State capitalized on 2 drives (1 off a turnover and 1 extended by penalty).

agreed. Coaches watch the guys every day in practice but you have to think Kobe Black is a better option on the outside.

I am seeing a ton of overreactions which is understandable to an extent. That said, some of these comments are acting like we got dominated and we didn’t. This game came down to like 3 plays that went Ohio State’s way. It would not surprise me if Texas and Ohio State are simply the two best teams in the country given the defensive performances. I think defense is going to make it very hard for teams to actually beat us. Only concerns were the redzone goal line turnover on downs and the lack of creativity from Sark on offense. Manning will get better and the offense as a whole will get better. I don’t share the concerns about the offensive line. It was solid today.

How can he not? He remembers 70-3. He knows what good Texas looks like first hand.

Will Howard’s arm is very average. If he had any juice he would have been taken higher than the 5th or 6th round with his size and mobility after the season he just put together. I would bet that Sayin has a stronger arm overall.

All the guys that were Tom Herman holdovers that bought in under Sark and didn’t jump ship after the initial 5-7 and 8-5 seasons. So guys like Sweat, Barron, Whittington, Christian Jones etc…

Yep. And further back he spent several years as an assistant/coordinator at USC under Pete Carroll. Those teams were frequently living in the #1 slot and rarely lost big games. Coincidentally enough, the Texas game for the natty was the only big game I can remember those teams dropping. If they lost it was usually to some unassuming unranked Pac 12 opponent on the road haha. They were generally free money in OOC, ranked matchups, and major bowl games. Saban + Carroll mentorship is about as good as it gets at the college level.

Part of that is how the college game records rushing yardage. Sacks go against rushing totals. Whereas in the NFL, sacks are separated from rushing yardage. You see way more college QBs finishing with even net negative rushing yard totals.