Sunday, September 11, 2005

Texas did not beat Ohio State........

Ohio State lost the game. That is the only way I can put it. Did Vince Young dominate the Buckeye defense? No. They all but shut down the Texas QB. The first two series of the game, I was worried since he seemed to drive the Texas offense down the field at will. But then, the linebackers of OSU shut his ass down. So why did OSU lose the game? In my opinion, one bad call by the officials and bad offensive play calling. The bad call: the game winning TD. The receiver was clearly bobbling the ball as he was going down and you can see the ball bouncing away from him at the end of the play. Reply just couldn't determine that he dropped it for sure because of the bad camera angles. In my opinion, it was NOT a TD. Now, I am a huge Tressel fan. However, I am tired of his conservative play calling in big games. He's starting to look like Cooper back in tha day. Run, Run, Run, Punt. Ohio State has one great receiver in Santonio Holmes and the fasted guy on the field with Ted Ginn. Line them up, run them both deep, and throw to whichever one has single coverage. They did it once to Holmes for a TD. Also, it drove me nuts how he kept switching QB all game. If you want Zwick to play, let him play. If you want Smith to play, let him play. when Zwick was pulled after two sets of downs, I was angry. He had one, maybe two passes dropped causing that fourth down situations. NOT HIS FAULT! Then bring Smith in. Run, run, run....eventually, Texas is going to figure that out. When you add a missed field goal (caused by a 5 yard loss on the previous play) and a dropped TD pass, you give the game away. You can say that Texas was giving the game away with it's turnovers, but those were caused by spectacular defensive plays (mostly by Hawk). In my opinion, Hawk was the OSU player of the game. He had more game changing plays that the entire offense put together. Come on, when Texas gives the ball away three times on their end of the field and you can only get field goals?!?!? Pittman ran well, and both QBs did OK, but neither one of them were all too great. That game was SO aggrevating to watch. I'm done with it now. Now we just need to look at winning the Big Ten title. The only hopes that Ohio state has now of winning the National Title is by winning out and hoping that Texas stumbles somewhere. Of course, since Michigan and Iowa both lost, that means that the OSU strenght of schedule factor is going to decrease. I'm through with it now.

1 comment:

Woody! said...

Can't blame the kicker, they called on him too many times. OSU kept Texas in the game way too long. It should've been over and out of reach by the third quarter. Man, what about that dropped TD pass from the OSU tight end. Not just once, but twice on the same play! Can't blame the officials because OSU's defense was spent and would have given up the TD eventually. But it should never have gotten that close.

Good news, it doesn't have an effect on the Big 10 standings and you get another shot at them in Austin next year.