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2020 Team Discussion Thread

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MililaniBuckeye said:
I strongly disagree. With us playing three games fewer than the ACC and two games fewer than the SEC, along with how many have criticized our easy schedule, we have virtually no wiggle room. The only game I can see us losing and still having a shot at making the CFP is at Slappy Valley, and that's only because they are currently considered the #2 team in the conference and that it's the second game of the season, giving us six more games to prove our worth while at the same time having plenty of left for teams ahead of us in the rankings to stumble. Aside from the Pedsters, there's not a team on the schedule that we won't be expected to absolutely steamroll, and if we were to lose to one of them--other than due to losing a bunch of starters to the virus--I think there's no chance of us making it should the ACC, Big XII, and SEC champs all go undefeated and the SEC runner-up has only one loss.
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I think the likelihood of the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 having undefeated champions is almost 0%.
 
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College football => anything is possible
2020 => including the previously impossible

If PSU is as good as we think they are, and everyone else is as bad as we think they are, then we can say two things about this season
  1. If they lose in pedophile-enabler valley, they’ll have no quality wins
  2. If they lose anywhere else, they’ll have a bad loss
Nothing’s impossible, especially in 2020; I’m just glad that the Buckeyes appear to be so focused and hungry this year
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
College football => anything is possible
2020 => including the previously impossible

If PSU is as good as we think they are, and everyone else is as bad as we think they are, then we can say two things about this season
  1. If they lose in pedophile-enabler valley, they’ll have no quality wins
  2. If they lose anywhere else, they’ll have a bad loss
Nothing’s impossible, especially in 2020; I’m just glad that the Buckeyes appear to be so focused and hungry this year
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Even then how good is pedo really?

Their defense up front lost a ton and it looks like Micah isnt coming back either. They also lost Hamler and Shorter too at WR. They have a good stable of backs but that's about it.
 
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bukIpower said:
Even then how good is pedo really?

Their defense up front lost a ton and it looks like Micah isnt coming back either. They also lost Hamler and Shorter too at WR. They have a good stable of backs but that's about it.
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Both assumptions that I listed might prove false. I agree that the more likely one to prove false is pedo being good. The Buckeyes might be two games better than anyone in the conference AGAIN.

That wasn't a problem last year because they beat everybody by two scores. They do that again; paint the end-zones.
 
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“This year is gonna be strange. We knew that from the get-go. It wasn’t gonna be a normal season. And I think there’s gonna be a lot of games that are postponed throughout the fall, so who knows how many games each team is gonna play,” Day said. “We can’t really control the events of any of that. What we can control is the response. When we get an opportunity to go play, we’re gonna play as hard as we can, as physical as we can and be as tough as we can.”

Day said the Buckeyes “approach every game the same way week in and week out,” and his quarterback Justin Fields has bought into that approach, as he expressed when he was asked during a Zoom call with reporters on Friday about the possibility that the Big Ten’s shorter schedule could be held against the conference’s contenders by the CFP selection committee.

“I just think if we handle business like we’re supposed to on the field that everything will take care of itself,” Fields said. “Our job is to just go out there and play our best game and go about it one game at a time, and we’re focused on that Oct. 24 date.”
 
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"I would say the week following the 11th [when the Big Ten canceled the season] was probably the hardest," Day said. "And it wasn't when I went home, it was when I looked those guys in the eye. That was the hardest part. And called parents and got on some calls and let them know that we weren't playing and that was that was really, really hard. And, just going home and telling my son we're not playing football this year.

"All of those things were just really hard. But listen, you wake up the next day and you figure out ways to continue to lead. And that's going back to what leadership is, it's during times like this, that when things are hard, when there's just uncertainty, and you just keep pushing forward."

Even though Ryan Day's title is football coach and his season was canceled, his job didn't just simply go away. Neither did his purpose.

Coaching is the easy part. It's the leading that requires the actual investment. But that's also were the most rewarding payout comes.

"And what I talked to the team about over the last couple of weeks is that you're gonna learn a lot of life lessons through this. And the life lesson that I talk to them all the time about is life is about ups and downs," Day said. "When things go well, go enjoy it, and go get all you can get. I mean enjoy it, go get it all. But when things aren't going very well, you just hang on. You just manage through it and you hang on.

"You trust the people that you're around because eventually it's going to turn, and it's going to start going back. And that's all we we're doing; we were just hanging on. And now it's turning and now we are starting — we're not there yet, we're just starting to move back up. But there's life in this thing and this thing is starting to turn, so I hope they can use that as a life lesson moving forward."
 
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Oh8ch said:
Any team on our schedule can do damage to our playoff chances just be being careless with COVID protocols. Six games and a playoff might not stand up to a one loss SEC team even with zero losses.
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I just don't think this is a concern should it happen. Only if OSU were to be 5-1 or 6-1.

The committee has stated their goal is to get the 4 best teams.

We have the #2 pick in the draft. A top 10 OL in draft. A top 15 CB in draft.

They're loaded.

Assuming OSU is undefeated and are 4-0, and win the Big 10 championship, they will be invited. The CFP needs huge draws (eyeballs). OSU meets that criteria. The committee will not hold cancelled games against OSU. This is one of those moments where it's good to be a Buckeye. I could see them holding it against a TCU or Baylor though.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
Jeepers golly gee guys......we don't have to wring our hands over a cancelled season anymore. Let's not fill that void with what'll happen if x, y, and z occur. Just enjoy that we brought football back so we can kick it's ass deep into winter.
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Amen. Let's just beat everyone's asses and let the chips fall where they may. On the schedule though, that mid-December game against ttun is going to be interesting. If you thought the Thanksgiving weekend game was cold...I don't envy the students jumping into Mirror Lake this year (if that even happens).
 
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RB07OSU said:
Amen. Let's just beat everyone's asses and let the chips fall where they may. On the schedule though, that mid-December game against ttun is going to be interesting. If you thought the Thanksgiving weekend game was cold...I don't envy the students jumping into Mirror Lake this year (if that even happens).
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OSU will be most likely be emptying Mirror Lake like they did the last couple years:

https://www.ps.ohio-state.edu/news/2018/11/10/mirror-lake-safety
 
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