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Ohio State in the fiesta- no they were not elite
and I know the Buckeyes well and I feel very good about LSU winning against Clemson

Buckeyes played “2” quality teams this year, one in Penn St was undersized with a struggling Offense, the other Wisconsin- the perennial 9-3 team that can’t beat speed or dynamic play

Back to the Buckeyes- on offense, they started with one leg in a cement block because Fields could not run..take that away from him and he is mediocre
Dobbins gets hurt, and that killed the Buckeyes
They do not have a high powered Offense like LSU
Fields is inaccurate, his receivers are a step or two below LSU, without Fields legs and Dobbins hurt they were doomed..

So who has Clemson really played on Offense???

On Defense, Buckeyes held Clemson in check except the last 3 minutes of the 1st half
A screen to Etienne, that the Buckeyes blew coverage big time... Harrison missed a wide open tackle, Fuller got sucked in as usual, and Clemson did the rest blocking.
Next Lawrence run- where the Buckeyes went wide with the rush - Z.Harrison, Young on the corners, and Landers and Cornell inside going wide
M.Harrison at LB breaks wide, Browning in the middle had contain and broke wide
Single safety was Proctor , and Fuller was on the back

So everyone breaks wide leaves the middle wide open and deja vu last year with players out of gaps and there is a hole wide enough for me to run
Browning blows contain, M Harrison guesses wrong
Proctor gets his ankles broken by Lawrence juke, and Fuller over committed to Etienne and was out of the play

Jump ball play ...again M Harrison and Browning left their gaps broke assignments, Fuller ran right past the back and Proctor was way out of position on the other side.

3 plays where the Buckeye reverted back to last season 100th ranked defense, failed and lost the game

Buckeyes could not put consistent pressure on the defense, and OSU D played like crap with 5 minutes left in the 2nd quarter - undisciplined out of position ball...

LSU will
Not play that way on D, they will play their gaps
The Offense will motor
Clemson D cannot go tempo against LSU O because they play the same 11, so no subs
Clemson will commit to the “flop” when they can’t stop tempo

Bottomline, OSU doesn’t have LSU speed, athleticism, Smarts, and cohesion
So Clemson will be shocked by both the Offense and defense of LSU

LSU 48
Clemson 27

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Joe says in article he will be calling Corey Dennis the newly hired QB coach at OSU- Joe will pick his brain
closest to KJ Hill, Austin Mack, BJ Saunders, and Branden Bowen of remaining Buckeyes

Dennis is Urban Meyer’s son in law but don’t hold that against him- he was a quality control asst and was headed to Colorado St when the job opened up so Day hired him- has a bright future

He was a grad asst when Burrow was there, he is well liked by the players and has always been in the QB room

OSU got sucked in, missed tackles, and left a wide open gap for qb run

Going to come down to the trenches
Dominate there LSU wins 48-24

Dabo is wacked smack him with a sledgehammer

is butthurt his guy Chase Young went silent the last few weeks of the season after he used Fox airtime to run his Heisman Campaign
Now he again shows his foolosophy
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Their entire team has the flu
LSU 48
OU 21

Joe is on record , which is true, that he only had one D1 offer after his junior year of high school- Ohio University- where his dad was in the staff.

He wanted an offer from Nebraska where he was a legacy, and their coach Bo Pelini did not recruit Joe (Bo is an OSU grad)
Tim Beck was also on the Nebraska staff as OC and QB coach and ignored Joe on a visit

Herman worked his arse off to convince Meyer to take Joe- Fickell was also working Urban he knew Joes talent

Joe finally got the offer

Irony- Herman was gone and his replacement at OSU to be position coach?
Tim Beck

That’s some shite for Joe to go thru- the coach in his corner is gone, and is replaced by someone who basically blew you off on a recruiting trip.

I scouted Joe for a couple seasons when he was in HS - finally played them in the regionals and he kicked our arse
Best QB talent ever in Ohio

Praise the Lord for Coach O, Coach Busch, O’s son (O told the story his son watched Burrow play his last spring game as a Buckeye where he outplayed Haskins handily- told his dad),
the entire program...

No one should down play Joes story because this is not made up, everything from his recruiting to the town where he grew up..

He is the All American kid inside out who could do it all - kept his nose clean and worked his arse off

It would only be fitting for LSU to be playing the Buckeyes in New Orleans for the natty

damn whoever writes that script has academy award written all over it!

DJ Mangas- offensive analyst I think teammate of Brady’s in college

Let’s take a ranked “elite” defense
Georgia

and a top 10 common opp- Florida

Average yards per play for Florida
Against Georgia 5.4
Against LSU 5.3

Margin of victory
LSU 14
Georgia 7

It’s amazing when you have actual reliable data comparisons against common top level opponent
Tigers defense is very comparable to an “elite” D

It would be a good game - the type of game Joe Burrow would thrive in

OSU hasn’t played anyone- I have watched all their games and they are bigger stronger faster and much more athletic than any team they faced
As a conference, the big ten is much slower and not as physical as the SEC

The Buckeyes though, are like an SEC team, but they haven’t played anyone close to the talent of Bama,Florida, Auburn, and the Tigers- in fact, when Tigers played Texas in week 2, I believe Texas was better than every Big Ten team except OSU

How do I compare the competition between teams- Georgia Southern whooped 55-3 in Death Valley; loses by three at undefeated Minnesota; Penn St was rated 4 by CFP and loses by 5 at Minnesota

I make this comparison because Penn St has been thrown in as elite because they beat Michigan by a TD and Iowa by less than a TD - Iowa’s big win is Iowa St, Michigan’s is Notre Dame
The other Big Ten darling is Wisconsin, their big win is Michigan. All that tells me is mediocrity between all those teams and a Georgia Southern team that can compete with their best

OSU QB Fields has been very good this year, has good receivers, but IMO his lack of experience shows in his accuracy. He can hurt you with his legs, but hasn’t faced a team with one shutdown DB let alone multiple top defenders. He also hasn’t faced real speed and pressure.

The Buckeyes do have a stout OL and a great RB in Dobbins, who is very similar to CEH. Their OL is the strength of their O, and when stalled, they go to Dobbins.

Defensively they are starting 4 DB’s who will be drafted in the first 2 rounds this year. They have as good a DL as Auburn, and are very deep (Young is the best, but it helps having Hamilton,Landers,Togai, Smith, and Cornell). LB’s are solid, Harrison is a stud.

The advantage the Tigers have is playing against top defenses- they are more than battle tested and can hold their own with any defense. The Buckeyes will not see an offense even close to LSU’s all year.
They may think that going up against their offense in practice will prepare them, but their O is 2 or 3 notches below the Tigers.

If it happens it will be a very good game, I would give the edge to LSU the same reason 2006 and 2007 BCS championship games haunts the Buckeyes- not facing that type of competition will show.

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