Can't let Oregon beat you twice. Huskers are the task at hand, they are a team you should be able to dog walk over the course of four quarters. But they're absolutely good enough to steal one from you.

I'm as optimistic as anyone here and this has me worried because this can absolutely derail you. But Chip is super creative and I'm sure he knows how to give guys help.

One thing I'm thinking of as a silver lining, we came into this year knowing Simmons was at LT and Fryar was probably at RT, right? Someone correct me if there was a competition at RT. My thought here is that maybe Zen can play, we just didn't expect to have him play so much so soon? I don't know. Day's talk of contingencies throws cold water on that though.

Help with the tight ends, get creative in the run game with misdirection. If Zen or whoever plays LT is a liability, there are things you can do so long as you don't leave them on an island.

Your entire argument is ‘I’m right you know I am’ and ‘you know it was pick’. I’ll look again but I’m 99.9 percent sure Will Howard had zero interceptions in that game.

*update* - I have confirmed that Will Howard threw 35 passes and none were intercepted. But this is only the case if you look at things like facts and stats. If you get in your feelings then maybe it was a pick. 
 

If you stand up on a chair and declare loudly that it was an interception, maybe someone will believe you. For the record, as I’ve stated a few times, I know it wasn’t a pick. So you can keep telling me ‘I know in my heart’ it is, or you can dare me to grow a pair, but it doesn’t make reality any  less real. 

The pick that was called a catch, wasn’t challenged, reviewed, or over turned was actually a pick?

And I’m losing? Just because you say it doesn’t mean it’s true. This works on a few levels.

If so many eyeballs saw it why wasn't it challenged....

You think you've landed a gotchya moment here.

Difference with the Clemson call, and while it sucked for OSU, is that it was called, challenged, reviewed and overturned. Like it or not, the results of that play, OBJECTIVELY, is that it wasn't a fumble.

When you put your argument eggs into one hypothetical basket, it all falls apart when I don't go the way you assume I would. 

What controversial calls would you like my opinion on? We can go down the list if you'd like but I am taking issue with this notion that people are so sure it was a pick, and going as far to say that I know it was a pick. When if you look at things like facts and stats, it would in fact not be a pick.

I'm not sure what you want me to say here. Do you want me to agree with you that it was a pick despite it not being called a pick, challenged as a pick, overturned as a pick, or registered as a pick.

You are arguing with me about a subjective thing - did the Oregon player intercept the ball or did he not. And you are mad that my subjective opinion is backed by objectivity.

You see you can be a fan and also not a blind homer. You are an obnoxious blind homer that makes outsiders laugh at our fanbase. Be better.

Obnoxious blind homer because I disagree with you. Maturity is chasing you but you are faster.

Just start with one. Go get em Guardians!

K. I grew a pair. Since you dared me!

It wasn't an INT. Wasn't challenged, wasn't reviewed, call on the field was going to stand.

Did I do it right? Also, I can objectively say it wasn't an INT because Howard had 0 INT's on his stat line. OBJECTIVELY it wasn't an INT. Subjectively is the word you are searching for.

I GO ON THE INTERNET AND SWEAR AND CALL STRANGERS NAMES!!!!!

This comment shouldn't be grayed out. 

Urban's tenure can be broken down into two distinct categories. Hunter and Hunted.

When he's the hunter, he's the best college football coach of all time. That period was from 2012-2014. Like his time in Florida, when he becomes the hunted, his teams aren't the same. I think a lot of people look back on the Meyer years and confuse the first era as his entire tenure. He's rightfully adored because of his accomplishments, but for all the talk of Ryan Day taking over some elite program, Meyer won exactly one title with that program. Yes its more than Day. But there isn't an OSU fan in the world that thinks that's all he should have won. Meyer made a LOT of bad personnel and in game decisions that stopped that train at one title.

No one is confusing Ryan Day (yet) for one of the three greatest coaches that has ever done it, but even one of the three best made COUNTLESS mistakes that cost him wins and titles he had the teams to achieve.

the flaw in your argument is that the interception was ACTUALLY an interception and the OPI was ACTUALLY an OPI

This comment is oozing with irony. I hope I'm not the one one who caught it.

As for this one...

The crazy part is.. you KNOW it was an interception. But you love defending this no-call interception. LOVE to.

I don't know it was an interception. If I look at the stat line, Will Howard didn't have an INT in that game so I'm confused. Also, you are diverting and deflecting. Lanning outcoached Day but was a ticky tack OPI call away from Lanninging another game away with his decision to go for it on fourth and goal when Gabriel hit Simon on the backside with a pass. I've yet to hear what decision Day made that cost him the game, other than 'being outcoached'. 

Now, we could argue that abandoning the run seemed like an odd choice but then I'd be making your argument for you. You LOVE being hung up on this completed pass to the OSU Tight End.

Neither is throwing the challenge flag apparently except one thing happened and one didn’t….

Well if your stance is that Lanning outcoached Day, I’d argue a play central to your theme was a case of Day out coaching him and getting the offense up to the line.

Agreed. He has to pound the refs on stuff like that and steal a make up call from time to time. 

They would have blamed Lanning for not challenging the catch. OSU did the smart thing of rushing up to the line after a long play and getting a call off. It cuts both ways.

Why didn’t Lanning call for a challenge then? 

He was here for two years being handed the ‘elite program’. So he’s been at OSU in positions of power for 8 years. He absolutely had a hand in building  The elite program he was ‘handed’. Of all the nonsense said about this program, this is by far the most tiresome

Refs don't know how to officiate guys that look and play a certain way and JJ is absolutely one of those guys. 

There is a tweet of it NOT being called.....You haven't seen it called that way because it usually isn't.

Again, OSU didn't lose because of it but its really hard to win when you do your part and get the results taken away from you.

Yep. I worry he won't get called because he won't look as altered on his routes and I don't think this is the last OPI we see him flagged for.

When two teams are so evenly matched and are within a score of each other the entire game, a call like that is magnified as it should be because OSU made several winning plays late, going back to Oregon's previous possession.

Gabriel made a losing play by missing a wide open Tez. OSU then employed the strategy some of us disagreed with by forcing the kick. Oregon did us some favors with how they managed the clock, but ultimately took the lead in a back and forth slugfest.

OSU then proceeded to make winning plays after winning plays. Key conversions, Howard overcoming losing his feet, the absolute dime to Emeka to kick off the entire weird chain of events, and finally culminating in an 18 year old bullying a senior on the field, setting his team up for a near chip shot on a play that frankly isn't called often. JJ has the same right to that space and his crime was that he was less subtle and too strong. This one will continue to sting. OSU lost for a lot of reasons. One of them is because Jeremiah Smith hit the weights too hard.

Another thing not talked about as much was the flag that didn't come. On the shot play up the sideline, JJ was bumped but it didn't look as blatant, again because of his physicality. I hate being refs guy but that entire sequence stunk to high heaven.

Do we press enough? Are we pressing too much? We blitzed too much. We don't blitz enough. Should we switch to a 3-4? Is it time to move on from Mariotti? Chip? Day? Larry? Knowles? Are we too big? Are we too small? Do we run enough? Do we pass enough? Why aren't we throwing deep? We throw deep too much!

Did I cover it all?

Penn State almost lost to BGSU......

Can we stop with this nonsense.

a 15.5 point swing would mean OSU's entire roster was locked up. If people don't know what they are talking about, they should just say that.