Yes. Day has a team that is very well resourced and very talented. He recruits very well. He wins when he has a big talent edge on the opponent (which is often). Day generally does not win the big games against an opponent who has as much or nearly as much talent as he has. Personally, I think Day is a great recruiter, runs a scandal-free program, but is not a good game coach. Are standards high for an OSU football coach? Yes. But he knew that when he took the job. It probably can be hard on one's mental health. I think Urban Meyer discovered that.
Ohio State vs Oregon
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Fair...we'll see but I think we disagree on the ACC/ND. I don't believe the ACC gets two unless a 12-1 Miami is the 2nd
Klatt going for the biased douchebag commentator of the weekend award, but I think Cowherd beat him out.
I agree with you. My first thought was that the DB was play acting to get the call. But at that point in the game, that would be a heck of a risk. He had to fall down because of the push and it was fairly far down field. They were also letting the DBs and WRs play physical so I'd not have been shocked if they let it go. But by the rule, it was OPI.
I also find this speculation interesting. The play before the final play, Oregon had too many men on the field. They stopped the clock to announce and then assess the penalty but the clock starts rolling again. Apparently, on certain penalties the clock starts right up again as opposed to others the clock doesn't start until the ball is snapped. tOSU doesn't see the clock running and once they see it, they can't call timeout because they only have the one left. So they ended up wasing about ten seconds at a critical time when they just needed a FG to win it.
Dan Patrick speculates that this was done on purpose to drain the clock. Rick Nuheisel (sp?) relays a story that this was done to him on the goal line right before halftime when he coached at UCLA>
Dan Patrick speculates that this was done on purpose to drain the clock. Rick Nuheisel (sp?) relays a story that this was done to him on the goal line right before halftime when he coached at UCLA>
Who engages first isn't the right question
The issue is the extension. That's going to be called OPI the majority of the time
Because the clock starts once the officials say the ball is ready for play there. That's just a QB and coach not knowing the rules.
I believe it's the difference in a live ball vs dead ball foul. If it were a dead ball foul, there would have been a 10 second run off unless a time out was called if I'm not mistaken.
You're correct--but like me you watch too much football lol
The clock did not start after the penalty. The "issue" is that since it was a live ball penalty, the clock was running during the play and that time doesn't get re-added since the play happened (unlike a dead ball penalty occurring before the snap). Ohio State gained 5 years but lost 3 or 4 seconds on the play.
Yes and no. A dead ball penalty only causes a runoff if the clock would have otherwise been running. In this case both the play before the penalty and the play where the penalty occurred were incomplete passes and stopped the clock so there would have been no runoff question.
That said, even if it were a running clock and there would be enforced a 10 second runoff, the non-penalized team can decline the runoff if they want to keep the time on the clock. The penalized team can prevent the runoff by using a timeout.
Just rewatched the clip of the last drive. The clock restarted after the OPI. There was 22 seconds left when the flag was assesses. Then on the 2nd and 25, the clock ran down to 15-16 second mark before OSU snapped it.
This is the clock running I was talking about, not the time lost (4 seconds) from the too many men on the field penalty down (which if Oregon planned that, then wow, kudos to them for coming up with that on the fly).
