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

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Good thing OSU has 6 weeks to recover, analyze the Big Ten Championship game, break down Clemson tape, get everyone healthy, game plan, and knock out some much needed bowl practices! This team can really use that extra time!

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Seriously though, statistics are a thing. Clemson isn’t a level above OSU despite...history. These teams know each other. They have the same talent, or at least 95% of it, and that goes either way based on position group.

The problem is this OSU is possibly better at WR than last year and maybe slightly better than last year at LB?

I don’t know enough about Clemson yet, but they probably at least as good at the QB position and offense in general. They haven’t been able to get production at RB despite the talent level. The difference is that Clemson seems to play within its scheme on offense and defense. Maybe Trevor Lawrence will spend a lot of time over the next 2 weeks eating Christmas cookies, shopping for matching fall coats with his teammates, and meeting with financial planners.

I hope Ohio State comes out and plays their best game. I’d even take a good old fashioned Clemsoning.
 
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Poe McKnoe said:
Good thing OSU has 6 weeks to recover, analyze the Big Ten Championship game, break down Clemson tape, get everyone healthy, game plan, and knock out some much needed bowl practices! This team can really use that extra time!

Wait, what’s that?

tenor.gif

tenor.gif


Seriously though, statistics are a thing. Clemson isn’t a level above OSU despite...history. These teams know each other. They have the same talent, or at least 95% of it, and that goes either way based on position group.

The problem is this OSU is possibly better at WR than last year and maybe slightly better than last year at LB?

I don’t know enough about Clemson yet, but they probably at least as good at the QB position and offense in general. They haven’t been able to get production at RB despite the talent level. The difference is that Clemson seems to play within its scheme on offense and defense. Maybe Trevor Lawrence will spend a lot of time over the next 2 weeks eating Christmas cookies, shopping for matching fall coats with his teammates, and meeting with financial planners.

I hope Ohio State comes out and plays their best game. I’d even take a good old fashioned Clemsoning.
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Only playing six games cheated our team out of reaching their full potential. We can thank Kevin Warren and a few other jackasses for that.

If OSU actually wins the title this year it would be a remarkable achievement. Day and his crew have a lot of work to do in a short amount of time.
 
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Poe McKnoe said:
Good thing OSU has 6 weeks to recover, analyze the Big Ten Championship game, break down Clemson tape, get everyone healthy, game plan, and knock out some much needed bowl practices! This team can really use that extra time!

Wait, what’s that?

tenor.gif

tenor.gif


Seriously though, statistics are a thing. Clemson isn’t a level above OSU despite...history. These teams know each other. They have the same talent, or at least 95% of it, and that goes either way based on position group.

The problem is this OSU is possibly better at WR than last year and maybe slightly better than last year at LB?

I don’t know enough about Clemson yet, but they probably at least as good at the QB position and offense in general. They haven’t been able to get production at RB despite the talent level. The difference is that Clemson seems to play within its scheme on offense and defense. Maybe Trevor Lawrence will spend a lot of time over the next 2 weeks eating Christmas cookies, shopping for matching fall coats with his teammates, and meeting with financial planners.

I hope Ohio State comes out and plays their best game. I’d even take a good old fashioned Clemsoning.
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DL is worse and the secondary is significantly worse. WR is more talented but largely unproven outside of Olave and Wilson.

I think overall, the 2019 team was better. It's going to be a tough game.
 
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Poe McKnoe said:
Good thing OSU has 6 weeks to recover, analyze the Big Ten Championship game, break down Clemson tape, get everyone healthy, game plan, and knock out some much needed bowl practices! This team can really use that extra time!

Wait, what’s that?

tenor.gif

tenor.gif


Seriously though, statistics are a thing. Clemson isn’t a level above OSU despite...history. These teams know each other. They have the same talent, or at least 95% of it, and that goes either way based on position group.

The problem is this OSU is possibly better at WR than last year and maybe slightly better than last year at LB?

I don’t know enough about Clemson yet, but they probably at least as good at the QB position and offense in general. They haven’t been able to get production at RB despite the talent level. The difference is that Clemson seems to play within its scheme on offense and defense. Maybe Trevor Lawrence will spend a lot of time over the next 2 weeks eating Christmas cookies, shopping for matching fall coats with his teammates, and meeting with financial planners.

I hope Ohio State comes out and plays their best game. I’d even take a good old fashioned Clemsoning.
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From what I have seen they are worse at wide receiver and DB this year... We are much worse at db and dline this year. And until yesterday we missed the hell out JK
 
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scarletmike said:
Nope. Unless Olave's positive came last Sunday (13th), he won't be back for this game. Same for anyone that was ok for Hate Week but was out for NW due to COVID. Like I said in Warren's thread, anything more than 10 days is a complete fuckup on his and the leadership's part to not match the other conferences. They have about one week to correct course before it's too little too late (affects how you practice and who is getting reps), IMO.

EDIT: I can't remember the specifics, but a quick calendar check says the latest the clock can start on being held out for COVID to be back for the semi on the 1st is Dec. 14th. Anyone starting the clock on the 15th or later is out for the Sugar Bowl.
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Ryan Day (apparently) just said Olave will be back.
 
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My first thought is that that IU and NU showed the blueprint to Venables and he has a lot more talent to work with.

Rush 3-4, drop 7-8 into zone and it really seems to bother Fields and the WR's. We also seem to stay in those deep routes no matter what, Fields takes too long to get the ball out and Clemson has top shelf DL talent. Something that IU and NU do not.

I have no idea about Clemson's secondary talent or, more importantly, their ability to disguise coverages but that's the first half of the game imo, Fields and the WR's are going to have to make better reads, quicker decisions and get the ball out. He won't have the time he had against IU/NU.
 
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