Sugar Bowl: #3 Ohio State 49, #2 Clemson 28, Jan 1 in New Orleans

[Hetuck]

This game, compressed into 60 minutes, is being shown as a BTN Ohio State Classic at noon ET today, and also at 3:30 ET today on BTN.

Drinking while watching is fine, as long as you’re not also driving.

60 minute edits of football games suck. If we all agree to stop watching them, they’ll go back to the 120 minute edits. In the 60 minute edit of the 2006 OSU-Michigan game they don’t even show Crable’s late hit out of bounds on Troy Smith. Kind of a crucial moment in the game.

Don’t settle for suckitude.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

 

[LordJeffBuck]

From 5:45 to 6:15 looks like a Jackson Carman lowlight reel....

Play #1: Tyreke Smith beats Carman with an outside speed rush, gets the strip sack
Play #2: Haskell Garrett beats Carman with a bull rush, bats down the pass
Play #3: Baron Browning beats Carman with an outside speed rush, causes Barbie to scramble and eventually throw an incompletion on 4th down

Then fast forward to 6:45....

Play #4: Tyreke Smith fakes an outside speed rush, then beats Carman inside forcing Barbie to throw an interception

 

[BB73]

60 minute edits of football games suck. If we all agree to stop watching them, they’ll go back to the 120 minute edits. In the 60 minute edit of the 2006 OSU-Michigan game they don’t even show Crable’s late hit out of bounds on Troy Smith. Kind of a crucial moment in the game.

Don’t settle for suckitude.

I just watched a 60-minute version of The Game from 2006 and they had that play and showed at least one replay of the hit. It’s the version that also has Troy and Bike Hart commenting after plays.

You have a point, however. My 60-minute version on the CFP game against Oregon, after the Ducks get within a point, comes back with the Buckeyes up 28-20. It skipped an entire drive. I plan on watching that again this week and being ticked off once again about those missing plays.

 

[kujirakira]

Rewatched this morning... cuz fuck Clemson

- The way Ruckert immediately ran over to congratulate Farrell on that 2nd TD
- TEs TEs TEs
- TEs deserved this game for the blocking they did against Northwestern
- Wade is a great DB, but not a shutdown CB
- Banks starting to look like a shutdown CB... with a few more games, how good would he be?
- Garrett and Togiai have been dominant all year, but felt like Cooper and Smith really stepping it up too
- LBs were stellar. Borland looking a step faster, Werner out of his mind, Hilliard always involved.
- Silver bullets were just flying around with the team tackling. Made them feel every yard and every play.
- Clemson players dropping out like flies with cramps... but the Clem fan in College forum telling us we couldn't handle an August game
- Sermon did work keeping that end of half drive rolling when Fields was still feeling the worst of it, and again to start the 3rd Q.
Everyone knew he was getting it, and just refused to go down.
- OLine and TEs love to just pave that road. Even Miyan getting in on the action.
- Fields powered through it, came right back in for that TD pass, more deep throws, continued taking shots in the pocket... not sure that happens as smooth as it looked if Sermon doesn't afford playcalling the time to put that hit in the past
- Lawrence really doesnt cope with pressure well... it's gonna be interesting how he adapts to NFL where every team has DL capable of landing hits. Very relaxed with the ball handling. ACC spoiled him a little bit?

 

[BB73]

Rewatched this morning... cuz fuck Clemson

- The way Ruckert immediately ran over to congratulate Farrell on that 2nd TD
- TEs TEs TEs
- TEs deserved this game for the blocking they did against Northwestern
- Wade is a great DB, but not a shutdown CB
- Banks starting to look like a shutdown CB... with a few more games, how good would he be?
- Garrett and Togiai have been dominant all year, but felt like Cooper and Smith really stepping it up too
- LBs were stellar. Borland looking a step faster, Werner out of his mind, Hilliard always involved.
- Silver bullets were just flying around with the team tackling. Made them feel every yard and every play.
- Clemson players dropping out like flies with cramps... but the Clem fan in College forum telling us we couldn't handle an August game
- Sermon did work keeping that end of half drive rolling when Fields was still feeling the worst of it, and again to start the 3rd Q.
Everyone knew he was getting it, and just refused to go down.
- OLine and TEs love to just pave that road. Even Miyan getting in on the action.
- Fields powered through it, came right back in for that TD pass, more deep throws, continued taking shots in the pocket... not sure that happens as smooth as it looked if Sermon doesn't afford playcalling the time to put that hit in the past
- Lawrence really doesnt cope with pressure well... it's gonna be interesting how he adapts to NFL where every team has DL capable of landing hits. Very relaxed with the ball handling. ACC spoiled him a little bit?

Your last comment on Lawrence - on a key play in the first half, when it was still 7-0, their TE was behind Proctor up the middle, and Werner was bringing pressure inside - Barbie backed off as he threw that ball to avoid contact and missed what could have been a TD - if he’d stepped into that throw and taken a hit it could have been a different game.

The other thing I thought mattered in the first half (outside of 5 straight 75+ TD drives), was Dabo’s decision to punt on 4th and 3 from his own 43 with about 3 and a half minutes left. That was unwise because of the time left. The Buckeyes used all but 11 seconds and went up 21. If Clemson had converted, and then used almost all of the final 3 minutes to score from around midfield, that could have been a 7-point game at the half without their defense having to get an actual stop.

Thanks for being a fool and punting, Dabo. It made the second half a lot more stress-free for me.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

 

[GuiFMRS]

I gotta be honest last years loss stung like a bi**h, mostly because it was more than evident that we were the better team on that night, we just happened to not take care of business in the red zone, and obviously, getting absolutely mugged on that terrible fumble review call, so it wasn't very surprising that Dabo started talking smack to us, I really believe he was scared to death to face us again given what happened last time around. I was a bit nervous at the start of the game but boy did we end up just toying with them, make no mistake, the scoreboard did not reflect at all what happened during the game, we annihilated them. It was so much fun and above all, it provided so much catharsis for the previous losses to them, hopefully we'll take the mentality displayed in this game and apply it against Bama, but at least the Clemson's monkey is off our backs.

By the way this game also made me think that it would have been so much fun to play TTUN this year, I can only imagine the beat-down of epic proportions it would have been. Oh well, let the countdown begin for that game next year !

O-H

 

[AKAK]

What the hell is that?

 

[1926Buckeyes]

From 5:45 to 6:15 looks like a Jackson Carman lowlight reel....

Play #1: Tyreke Smith beats Carman with an outside speed rush, gets the strip sack
Play #2: Haskell Garrett beats Carman with a bull rush, bats down the pass
Play #3: Baron Browning beats Carman with an outside speed rush, causes Barbie to scramble and eventually throw an incompletion on 4th down

Then fast forward to 6:45....

Play #4: Tyreke Smith fakes an outside speed rush, then beats Carman inside forcing Barbie to throw an interception

Hey, say what you want but he does a hell of a job at recovering fumbles after he gets his QB killed.

Beyond pathetic. Guy who runs that Barstool account is either a closet Bama fan that switched to Clemson in the mid 2010s, or a sleeper cell South Carolina fan.

 

[Don Muenz]

I gotta be honest last years loss stung like a bi**h, mostly because it was more than evident that we were the better team on that night, we just happened to not take care of business in the red zone, and obviously, getting absolutely mugged on that terrible fumble review call, so it wasn't very surprising that Dabo started talking smack to us, I really believe he was scared to death to face us again given what happened last time around. I was a bit nervous at the start of the game but boy did we end up just toying with them, make no mistake, the scoreboard did not reflect at all what happened during the game, we annihilated them. It was so much fun and above all, it provided so much catharsis for the previous losses to them, hopefully we'll take the mentality displayed in this game and apply it against Bama, but at least the Clemson's monkey is off our backs.

By the way this game also made me think that it would have been so much fun to play TTUN this year, I can only imagine the beat-down of epic proportions it would have been. Oh well, let the countdown begin for that game next year !

O-H

 

[Abenaki]

I just watched a 60-minute version of The Game from 2006 and they had that play and showed at least one replay of the hit. It’s the version that also has Troy and Bike Hart commenting after plays.

You have a point, however. My 60-minute version on the CFP game against Oregon, after the Ducks get within a point, comes back with the Buckeyes up 28-20. It skipped an entire drive. I plan on watching that again this week and being ticked off once again about those missing plays.

I don't know if there was anything that bad when I watched the replay Saturday morning, but I comment to my wife that they were skipping plays/drives "due to time constraints", but they managed to keep in entire stretches of pointless replay review, like Banks interception.

 

[bukIpower]

I gotta be honest last years loss stung like a bi**h, mostly because it was more than evident that we were the better team on that night, we just happened to not take care of business in the red zone, and obviously, getting absolutely mugged on that terrible fumble review call, so it wasn't very surprising that Dabo started talking smack to us, I really believe he was scared to death to face us again given what happened last time around. I was a bit nervous at the start of the game but boy did we end up just toying with them, make no mistake, the scoreboard did not reflect at all what happened during the game, we annihilated them. It was so much fun and above all, it provided so much catharsis for the previous losses to them, hopefully we'll take the mentality displayed in this game and apply it against Bama, but at least the Clemson's monkey is off our backs.

By the way this game also made me think that it would have been so much fun to play TTUN this year, I can only imagine the beat-down of epic proportions it would have been. Oh well, let the countdown begin for that game next year !

O-H

Last years team dominated even more than this years team IMO but theres really just 2 key differences. We kept swinging this year when Clemson scored and we scored touchdowns.

Sometimes I wonder if playing all blowouts last year hurt us in the Clemson game? We seemed to reel when we went through true adversity and it cost us the game.

Also maybe Clemson really did a number on us from a stealing signs stand point?

All I know is Ryan Day has absolutely worked Brett Venables two years in a row and I believe Brett is the best in the business for defense.

 

[bukIpower]

Rewatched this morning... cuz fuck Clemson

- The way Ruckert immediately ran over to congratulate Farrell on that 2nd TD
- TEs TEs TEs
- TEs deserved this game for the blocking they did against Northwestern
- Wade is a great DB, but not a shutdown CB
- Banks starting to look like a shutdown CB... with a few more games, how good would he be?
- Garrett and Togiai have been dominant all year, but felt like Cooper and Smith really stepping it up too
- LBs were stellar. Borland looking a step faster, Werner out of his mind, Hilliard always involved.
- Silver bullets were just flying around with the team tackling. Made them feel every yard and every play.
- Clemson players dropping out like flies with cramps... but the Clem fan in College forum telling us we couldn't handle an August game
- Sermon did work keeping that end of half drive rolling when Fields was still feeling the worst of it, and again to start the 3rd Q.
Everyone knew he was getting it, and just refused to go down.
- OLine and TEs love to just pave that road. Even Miyan getting in on the action.
- Fields powered through it, came right back in for that TD pass, more deep throws, continued taking shots in the pocket... not sure that happens as smooth as it looked if Sermon doesn't afford playcalling the time to put that hit in the past
- Lawrence really doesnt cope with pressure well... it's gonna be interesting how he adapts to NFL where every team has DL capable of landing hits. Very relaxed with the ball handling. ACC spoiled him a little bit?

I agree Wade is I would say a good DB but something just holds him back some. I would also agree that Banks is our best corner and he's also a bigger corner too.

 

[RB07OSU]

Question: While watching the replay, can I drink again, or am I limited to my memories?
I'll stay tuned.

It's encouraged actually. Get you some bourbon and enjoy. I know I did when I watched the recording. Glad my dad recorded the whole thing, we had a great time rewatching it with all the game jitters out of the way. Biggest thing that stuck out to me was the seemingly flawless form tackling from the entire defense, particularly the LBs... not only did we form tackle, we drove through and made them feel every hit. That was some good old fashioned Silver Bullet play from the D.