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Texas Longhorns Just SHOCKED #1 Team In Country & Put College Football ON NOTICE! · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: Boys, have you regained your breath just yet? 20 minutes
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  Speaker 1: into this game, and Ohio State fans were already packing
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  Speaker 1: their bags for Indianapolis and for the playoff.
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  Speaker 2: The Buckeyes were up 10. They were up 13.
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  Speaker 1: Then they were up 20. The number one team in
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  Speaker 1: the country was doing exactly what number one teams do
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  Speaker 1: to opponents. This is College Football Addiction. We are presented
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  Speaker 1: by PrizePix. I'm T.J., And let's talk about this game tonight. However,
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  Speaker 1: after that time frame went by, Texas remembered something. Half
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  Speaker 1: an hour is a long way to go. And by
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  Speaker 1: the time the clock hit zero, the Longhorns had scored
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  Speaker 1: 21 unanswered points. Ohio State's defense had forgotten how to
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  Speaker 1: tackle a running back named Hollywood Smothers, and another one
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  Speaker 1: named Relique Brown. And Ryan Day was standing on the
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  Speaker 1: visitor's sideline in Austin watching a 20-point lead evaporate in
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  Speaker 1: real time.
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  Speaker 2: Texas wins 24-23.
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  Speaker 1: Not a moral victory, not a good loss that Saban
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  Speaker 1: was preaching about on game day today. An actual win
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  Speaker 1: on the scoreboard over the number one team in America
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  Speaker 1: in front of millions of people that tuned in who said,
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest, we spent the same three quarters together
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  Speaker 1: wondering if we'd have to sit through another boring fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter because Texas couldn't get anything going. And another one
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  Speaker 1: of these is exactly what this was starting to feel like.
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  Speaker 1: This is the third straight year that Texas and Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State have played each other.
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  Speaker 2: The third straight top five matchup.
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  Speaker 1: And Texas walked into Saturday night 0-2 in the recent series.
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  Speaker 1: A 14-7 loss in Columbus last year that opened up
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  Speaker 1: Manning's career as a starter with a gut punch. And
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  Speaker 1: before that, a Cotton Bowl playoff semifinal that ended the
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  Speaker 1: same way. Sark was 0-5 combined against Ohio State and Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: two of the premier programs in our sport during that stretch.
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  Speaker 1: They were the two programs that continue to stand between
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  Speaker 1: Texas and the thing they actually want. So when this
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  Speaker 1: game started going that same direction as the last two,
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  Speaker 1: you can forgive Longhorns fans and you can forgive the
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  Speaker 1: rest of us that were in the public for feeling
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  Speaker 1: like we'd seen this movie before. I've got three things
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  Speaker 1: that I want to talk about today. Number one, never
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  Speaker 1: say die. Number two, I want to talk about this
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  Speaker 1: running game. And number three, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: Texas' defense. We'll talk a little bit about Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: in here too, but I'll tell you, Buckeyes, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here to pile on your grave. This is a Texas-focused video.
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  Speaker 1: The sky is not falling in Columbus, but it certainly
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  Speaker 1: has been lifted to another level there in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about number one, never say die.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people would save the
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  Speaker 1: best for last, but I am too jacked up and
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  Speaker 1: I love this sport too much to bury the lead.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about how bad this actually got. Texas' first
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  Speaker 1: offensive snap of the game. A fumble that ends up happening,
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  Speaker 1: but let's be honest, an unlucky one where your running
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  Speaker 1: back's leg lands on top of another player's leg, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: let him go down fully. Jay Timmons comes in, forces
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  Speaker 1: a fumble, recovers it. The Longhorns haven't even finished a
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  Speaker 1: single play yet, and they're already handing the ball to
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State cashes in on it.
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  Speaker 1: The game is quickly getting out of hand as Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State scores again to go up 10-0. Texas finally answers
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  Speaker 1: with a field goal. In between all of that, you
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  Speaker 1: had Arch Manning taking a shot down the field to
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  Speaker 1: Cam Coleman. The ball, unluckily again, though you beat the defender,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just an incomplete pass. It lands clean in
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  Speaker 1: the hands of Jalen McClain, and you give up more points.
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  Speaker 2: The opportunity at more points.
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  Speaker 1: And then the half is all summed up where Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State stops you on a fourth down that I thought
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  Speaker 1: was a terrible play call to run a reverse when
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  Speaker 1: you've got running backs that love contact and love falling forward.
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  Speaker 1: Sark certainly wasn't perfect in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Neither was Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And you have an opportunity to go get points snatched
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  Speaker 1: from you. And Ohio State goes down and scores to
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  Speaker 1: go up 20 to three at the half. The second
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  Speaker 1: half of this game at halftime, I'll tell you, felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was going to be a formality outside of
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  Speaker 1: the break. Ohio State tacks on another field goal, 23-3.
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  Speaker 1: You're down 20 points against the best team in the country.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't just the scoreboard. Texas had negative field
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  Speaker 1: possession for most of the first half, thanks to the
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  Speaker 1: fumble and the pick. Ohio State was controlling the clock.
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  Speaker 1: Julian Sand looked a lot more comfortable in the pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith was catching everything. Every phase of the game
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  Speaker 1: belonged to the Buckeyes. This is the part where a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people may have changed their TV channel. This
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  Speaker 1: is the part where journalists start writing a what's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with Arch Manning article because he certainly didn't look great
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  Speaker 1: for large stretches of this game. This is the part
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  Speaker 1: where every doubt about Steve Sarkeesian was this close to
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  Speaker 1: coming to fruition. I'm sure my buddy over at Freezing
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  Speaker 1: Cold Takes had some ready to go. However, something happened
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  Speaker 1: in that Texas locker room and those kids didn't change
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  Speaker 1: the channel. Here's the thing about a 20-point deficit against
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  Speaker 1: a team that's good.
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  Speaker 2: It's not really about talent at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody on the field is a former five-star, a former
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  Speaker 1: blue chip, a future Sunday guy.
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  Speaker 2: The deficit is not a talent deficit.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mental one. And that's the gap that either
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  Speaker 1: swallows a team whole or turns into the best story
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  Speaker 1: of the young season. Texas chose the second option. It
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  Speaker 1: started with a defensive stand that finally slowed Ohio State down.
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  Speaker 1: And then Arch Manning goes to work 15 plays, 91 yards,
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  Speaker 1: capped off with a laser to Ryan Wingo in the
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  Speaker 1: corner of the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: You start the fourth quarter, it's now 23-10. You're down
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  Speaker 2: two possessions.
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  Speaker 1: Still needing a small miracle, or at least needing Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's offense to completely disappear for the rest of the night, which,
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  Speaker 1: spoiler alert, that's exactly what happened. But then Arch Manning
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  Speaker 1: converts his second and fourth down of the night, this
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  Speaker 1: time of the fourth and sixth variety. You find your
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  Speaker 1: way down the field, and a one-yard touchdown run by
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Smothers makes it 23-17. One-score game. And then Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: the number one team in the country. They move the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field. They get into field goal range,
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  Speaker 1: and they miss a field goal that would have sealed
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  Speaker 1: the game. Julian Sayen was not sharp. The defensive line
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  Speaker 1: for Texas started to take over. Connor Hawkins misses a
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  Speaker 1: field goal, and Texas gets the ball back with four
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  Speaker 1: minutes to go Then there was that last drive by
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  Speaker 1: Texas where they leaned on Ohio State, where they ran
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  Speaker 1: the ball at will, where Brown and Smothers did really
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  Speaker 1: whatever they wanted. Smothers punches the ball in for a
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  Speaker 1: one-yard touchdown. Texas takes its first lead with the extra
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  Speaker 1: point with 25 seconds left on the clock. Never say
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  Speaker 1: die is not a slogan that you print on a
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  Speaker 1: T-shirt after this one.
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  Speaker 2: It's what literally happened.
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  Speaker 1: Down 20 points to start the fourth quarter with a
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  Speaker 1: broken offense and a defense that wasn't quite good enough
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  Speaker 1: through three quarters. And Texas found a way to make
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State feel every single one of those last 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: but I took Jamal Rule to score a touchdown. I
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  Speaker 1: took Bishop at Tennessee to score a touchdown. I took
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  Speaker 1: Sam Levitt to score two touchdowns. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize those were rushing touchdowns. And I got really,
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  Speaker 1: really fortunate that they were. He scored three of them tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, football gods, for showing me some grace. And
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  Speaker 1: then Ryan Wingo's touchdown was his fourth reception. Hit all
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  Speaker 1: can tell me. Takeaway to this running game, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I have the words for it. For all
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  Speaker 1: the attention that Arch Manning's name gets him, and for
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  Speaker 1: all the attention that Ryan Wingo and Cam Coleman and
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  Speaker 1: these wide receivers and talented guys on the outside get,
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  Speaker 1: this running game, again, I'm speechless.
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood smothers.
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  Speaker 1: A guy that scores the game-winning touchdown and also scores
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  Speaker 1: the cut-it-to-one-possession touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: It's what was working in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: It was running the ball directly at a defense that
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  Speaker 1: had spent three quarters shutting it down. Think about it
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. Ohio State's defensive front is not bad.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a lot of new guys over there, but
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't tell for large portions of this game. They
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  Speaker 1: were getting off blocks. They were stuffing the run. They
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  Speaker 1: were forcing Texas into third and long.
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  Speaker 2: Over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: And then that depth just kind of takes over. Texas's
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  Speaker 1: line up front, something changed there. And it went from
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  Speaker 1: this isn't good enough on the ground to we're going
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  Speaker 1: to lean on them a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Texas is grinding out 13-page 70-yard drives.
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  Speaker 1: Chewing clock down, watering down a defense they've been on
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  Speaker 1: the field for a lot of the night.
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  Speaker 2: It's not luck.
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  Speaker 1: It's an offensive line in a run game figuring out
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  Speaker 1: the way through a great defense is the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: It's not necessarily a home run throw.
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  Speaker 1: Four more yards, eight more yards, six more yards, four
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  Speaker 1: more yards, five more yards until the defense simply doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have anything left. Smothers finishing it all off with two
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  Speaker 1: short down runs is not flashy. They may or may
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  Speaker 1: not be the top plays on sports center one yard runs,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the kind of Offensive play that wins championships.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's always available on.
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  Speaker 1: Command in the fourth quarter of a one-score game. That's
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  Speaker 1: not something you can say about most rushing attacks in America.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't just some others. Relique Brown was mixed
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  Speaker 1: in all night. Gave Ohio State a very different look
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  Speaker 1: between the tackles and on the edge. And that combination
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  Speaker 1: is exactly why the fourth quarter drives felt so different
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  Speaker 1: from the first half ones. Early in the game, I
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  Speaker 1: thought Texas was too one-dimensional. I thought they were predictable.
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  Speaker 1: And Ohio State's front teed off on it. By the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Sarkeesian had two backs Ohio State had to respect.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that changed the math of the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: Manning scrambling at times when needed was big. The defense
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  Speaker 1: obviously has to account for him on every single play.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where Texas fans should feel genuinely good
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  Speaker 1: heading into October. Not just because you won tonight, because
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  Speaker 1: I know you feel good enough about that already.
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  Speaker 2: But because if.
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  Speaker 1: Manning can throw the ball and be a little more
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  Speaker 1: accurate than he was tonight against, let's be honest, defenses
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  Speaker 1: that are not going to be as good as this one,
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  Speaker 1: maybe for the rest of the year. If Smothers and
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  Speaker 1: Brown can close out games, then Sarkeesian has the two
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  Speaker 1: things every great offense needs. A strike when you need
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  Speaker 1: one and a hammer when you need one more. Against
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State's defensive front, a group that had not allowed
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  Speaker 1: much this year, that combination is what got it done. Now,
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  Speaker 1: takeaway three, let's be honest about the first half. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Texas' defense was awful. I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: offense put them in very good spots, but they weren't
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  Speaker 1: lights out. Ohio State moved the ball when they needed to.
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  Speaker 1: They put up 20 points. They looked like the better
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  Speaker 1: team on that side of the ball for 30, 40 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: But football is not graded on parts of games. It's
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  Speaker 1: graded on the entire game. And in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State ran four possessions. They had three punts late
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  Speaker 1: in the game and a missed field goal. Julian San,
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  Speaker 1: who lit up Ball State a week earlier, completed two
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  Speaker 1: of his last eight throws. The Buckeyes drove into Texas
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  Speaker 1: territory on their final real chance to put the game away,
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  Speaker 1: and they missed a field goal from 45 yards out.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a lucky bounce.
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  Speaker 1: It's a defense that figured something out at halftime and
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  Speaker 1: executed it for really two full quarters. You held Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State to three points in the second half. Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: had scored on four of its five first-half possessions. In
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  Speaker 1: the second half, they scored on one of them, and
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  Speaker 1: it was only a field goal, not a touchdown. You
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  Speaker 1: want to know why Texas won this game? It's not
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  Speaker 1: just the offense scoring 21 points unanswered. It's a defense
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  Speaker 1: that helped one of the best offenses in the country
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  Speaker 1: to three points across two quarters. A single stop the
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  Speaker 1: other way, and this ends very differently. Lights out does
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  Speaker 1: not mean perfect. It means showing up when the alternative
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  Speaker 1: is losing. I've got to give the coaching staff credit here, too.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever adjustment got made at halftime, it worked pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State's first drive out of the locker room didn't score,
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  Speaker 1: but their second one did.
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  Speaker 2: A field goal instead of a touchdown. Their next drive died.
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  Speaker 2: Their next drive died. Their next drive died. Missed kick.
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  Speaker 1: It's not one adjustment holding up for a series. That's
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  Speaker 1: a defense that's finally executing a game plan for a
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  Speaker 1: I think the better part of two quarters against the
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  Speaker 1: Heisman caliber quarterback and the best wide receiver in the game. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and tell you guys
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio state, the sky should be falling there.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't.
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  Speaker 1: So it's still a team that can compete with anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the country. It's still a team with Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: running around, catching everything near him. Still the number one
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  Speaker 1: team in the country by a lot of people's count
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  Speaker 1: walking into this game. and a team that led by
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  Speaker 1: 20 points on the road against a top-five opponent. But
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  Speaker 1: you do have to be honest about what happened in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. It just wasn't good enough. Julian San
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  Speaker 1: was ice-cold, throwing behind Smith. Their defense had dominated for
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  Speaker 1: much of the first half and then couldn't get a
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  Speaker 1: stop when Texas needed all of 13 plays to survive
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  Speaker 1: long drives.
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  Speaker 2: I think Ohio State will be fine. They're too talented.
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  Speaker 2: They're well-coached. They're deep. But this loss is going to
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  Speaker 2: remind them of... What is there if they don't keep
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  Speaker 2: their foot on the gas?
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  Speaker 1: Blowing a 20-point lead in the biggest game of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season is exactly the kind of result that can
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  Speaker 1: show up again in December if people are not fixing
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  Speaker 1: the issues that are being caused. Ryan Day has been
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  Speaker 1: here before. Big early season statement games that don't go
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State's way tend to get replayed on TV for months.
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  Speaker 1: The margin for error for the Buckeyes just got a
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  Speaker 1: lot smaller. And the schedule doesn't get a whole lot easier. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you won't play Texas again, but you do have Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: You do have Michigan. You do have a Nebraska team
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  Speaker 1: that's 3-0. You do have Oregon, although I know those
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  Speaker 1: last two probably don't compare to the first couple. But
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  Speaker 1: the best team in the country conversation just found a
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  Speaker 1: real answer, and it's going to take some winning to
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  Speaker 1: get back there.
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  Speaker 2: For Texas, though, none of that matters right now.
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  Speaker 1: What matters is a team that was dead in the
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  Speaker 1: water for 30 or 40 minutes, and they refused to
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  Speaker 1: accept it. What matters is a running game that closed
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  Speaker 1: out the best team in the country. And what matters
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  Speaker 1: is a defense that turned it on exactly when the
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  Speaker 1: alternative was unthinkable. 20 points down against the number one
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  Speaker 1: team in the country, and they did not blink.
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  Speaker 2: That's the story of tonight. I'd love to hear your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts down in the comments.
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  Speaker 1: Where does this rank on the best comebacks you've seen
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  Speaker 1: in college football in the last couple of years?
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  Speaker 2: It's way up there for me. And I know that's hyperbolic.
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  Speaker 1: I know that that's being a prisoner of the moment,
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  Speaker 1: but down 20 points in the fourth quarter and then
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  Speaker 1: beating the number one team in the country by scoring
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  Speaker 1: 21 straight, you really can't script things a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: better than that. I know you Texas fans are over
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  Speaker 1: the moon while you're over the moon right now, hit
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  Speaker 1: the subscribe button on your way out.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you on the next one here on college
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  Speaker 2: football addiction.