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3 Takeaways From Another Ohio State Loss To Michigan · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, November twenty sixth, them your host
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  tom Or the game against Michigan. Embrace Yourselves is in three hundred and seventy
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  days, Yes, over three hundred and sixty five days this time because of
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  the weird schedule for next year. That's gonna be a lot of time to
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  sit around and think about what happened on Saturday and in ourbur Michigan, where
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  Michigan beat Ohio State thirty to twenty four. The Buckeyes had a chance to
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  win in the final minute, driving down the field, got into Michigan territory,
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  Ohio native safety Rod Moore with an interception to end the game. This
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  is a game, I think, Kevin Noon that I guess, first of
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  all, lived up to the billing of you know, two of the best
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  teams in the country, and you know, it was going to be a
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  close, really dramatic game, and that is what we ought. Yeah,
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  I think we thought at one point it was going to be a real knucklebuster,
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  and neither team really got off to a great start. Ohio State held
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  Michigan too, about no yardage in the first couple drives. Ohio State puts
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  itself behind the eight ball with a bad interception that leads to a short touchdown,
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  and as the game goes on, I mean, we end up getting
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  to the over in terms of the points for those of you who keep track
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  of that. But it never really got to a point of where it was
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  like, well, one team was just completely hosed and it just wasn't gonna
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  happen. Into Ohio State's credit, it stayed close, but to Michigan's credit,
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  it was able to counter punch every time that Ohio State punched, and
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  that was ultimately the thing that ended up crossing Ohio State. Do you have
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  to wonder if a little bit of a better start changes the geometry, but
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  we'll never know. Yeah, it was. Ohio State fell behind early,
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  was behind at halftime, third quarter, comes back maybe the most impressive drive
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  we've seen from them all season, just running the ball directly at Michigan.
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  Not a big play. I think the long run all day for Ohio State
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  was twelve yards, but just boom boom, boom, punching the mouth punching
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  and mouth punching mouth down the field, Boom boom boom. Score a touchdown
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  with Travon Henderson to tie it at seventeen. It was like, all right,
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  now you have a new ball game. It was, you know,
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  five minutes left in the third, you know, and you know, okay,
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  so what's going to happen from here? And what happened from there was
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  Michigan got the ball back and went right down the field and really gruesome injury
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  for Michigan offensive Liman zach Zenter and one play later, Blake Korum runs it
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  in for a touchdown. Michigan had the answer. All day. Ohio State
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  never had the ball with the score tied or the lead. They were always
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  behind. After Michigan scored that first time, Ohio State always was behind every
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  time they had the football. Yeah, Ohio State was not able to get
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  that much needed service break. It was the issue. And you know,
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  I think that when it was seventeen, all those that follow the Ohio State
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  side of things like, okay, well they're going to get this turned around.
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  They're going to eventually get their break and be able to pull ahead and
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  dispatch, you know, dispatch the Wolverines, and that just really never happened,
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  as Ohio State was not able to get that big play. And I
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  think one of the more interesting stats was I know, at least at one
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  point, I think Michigan was like one of nine on third down. The
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  problem was was that Michigan was really successful on fourth down. And you know,
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  we talked so much about getting your opponent off of the field, and
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  Ohio State multiple times looked like it had gotten close. And to Michigan's credit,
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  they're like, well, we're not here to play safe, We're not
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  here to play school. We're going for it. Yeah, and Michigan three
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  for three and fourth downs. Ryan Day. We're going to get to Ryan
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  Day and how he handled some fourth downs in a minute. But Michigan's end
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  of drive results punts on the first two. After the first two, they
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  had the seven four play, seven yard drive. One of the fourth down
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  plays was on that drive, a fourth down score, Korum scoring on that
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  one. So they went punt, punt, touchdown there, touchdown, punt,
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  field goal, touchdown, field goalle field goal. Half. Just Ohio
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  State could not get them off the field. You know, you didn't.
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  You didn't see three and outs after the first two drives for three and outs
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  and that was it for the game. You had two three and outs to
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  start the game and that was it, and so you couldn't get Michigan off
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  the field. And when Ohio State had the ball, they just they were
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  not They were not consistent. They couldn't put together. You saw these flashes,
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  but you couldn't be they weren't consistent throughout the game. And Sharon Moore
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  talked in his post game about the fact that, you know, he had
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  told the guys, we're going to be aggressive, we are going to go
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  forward and fourth downs, and they did. They were three for three on
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  fourth downs. Ryan Day had a couple opportunities to go forard on fourth down.
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  There was a fourth and one in the first half where it was fourth
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  and one at like their own forty six. They elected to punt end of
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  the first half. He elected to play a little conservatively and kick a field
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  goal, a fifty two yard field goal, which they missed. It was
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  just, you know, they there was always a lot of talk about how
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  aggressive they're going to be, and you know, there was talk on the
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  Ohio State sideline and action on the Michigan sideline. We were all prepared to
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  see the Ryan Day that called the game against Uga and the Peach Bowl,
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  swinging and swinging and swinging and swinging, and we never saw that. We
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  never saw that come out. And for Ohio State, you can have your
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  Michigan period, every practice that you've got, you can have the clock in
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  the woody and everything else. But did we see them do anything, did
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  they break any tendencies with all of that preparation from what it is they do.
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  I mean, and I understand when you do something well, you're going
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  to go to that, but it just never seemed like there was a plan
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  B and that certainly cost them. Yeah, it was. It was just
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  a game where you knew coming in this is a game where someone makes the
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  big mistake, and maybe it's a defensive back that falls down, maybe it's
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  a coach that makes the wrong call, maybe it's an interception. In this
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  case, it was an interception at the end that was the deciding factor in
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  the game. But you know, Kyle McCord was it was a very Kyle
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  McCord game. Eighteen for thirty two hundred and seventy one yards, two touchdowns,
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  two picks, sixty percent completion and there were times when he made throws
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  that you went, man, oh man. And then there are times that
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  he made throws and he went man oh Man, and it he's just you
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  know, this is his first year as a starter, so we'll see what
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  it looks like next year. But it was just it was just not quite
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  good enough. And JJ McCarthy sixteen of twenty one hundred and forty eight yards
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  a touchdown, eighty percent completions, had a really crucial fifteen yard pickup for
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  to extend to extend a drive. Had another one where he rolled out right
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  and threw backwards across his body late over the middle to I think it was
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  Cornelius Johnson, maybe it was Roman Wilson, but it was one of the
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  most ill advised throws you've ever seen. And he just kind of makes it
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  work. It just kind of it. It just always sort of works out
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  for him. Yeah, we were watching the Oregon game on Friday night and
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  bo Nix had a couple of those throws, and you know, bo Nicks
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  is probably your Heisman winner in my opinion. And you know, you see
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  JJ have one of those throws, and in most universes, those types of
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  throws are never rewarded, but in this universe it was. And yeah,
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  it was just you know, those interceptions certainly, you know, I mean
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  you give Michigan a taste of success at the beginning of the game, and
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  you never really get to that point of where you have you know, those
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  three and ounce and then obviously the they could they could, they could have
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  survived that one, but they couldn't survive the one at the end. They
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  had to use their timeouts because they couldn't they couldn't get Michigan off the field
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  quickly enough, but still had the opportunity, kind of got a little bit
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  of a fortuitous call on a completion that it was pretty close. I mean,
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  but you know, they they had their opportunity. They were in plus
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  territory, and you know, for everything that we see with with Kyle,
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  I mean, he just you know, he wasn't able to sit there and
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  just burn that pass. I mean, he was in the pocket. He
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  would have had to put it at somebody's feet, and he, you know,
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  he threw it over the middle, and bad things happen when you just
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  throw it over the middle like that. So now the what's next is the
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  big question, and we will not know what's next until sometime next Saturday night.
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  Probably will have any good sense for what might be next for Ohio State,
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  because you know much like this time last year. Yes, they've lost
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  to Michigan, but the body of work leading up to this, they were
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  at number two in the country. You had a road game against number three
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  that went down to the final thirty second and forty seconds whatever it was.
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  And I think I don't know how far the committee drops them. It would
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  not shock me if the Committee did not drop them out of the top four.
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  And then you know it's a matter of do people jump them right Well,
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  we're gonna have plenty of time to talk about that this week. But
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  I think there are people who are saying, well, that's it, it's
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  the end of the Ohio State football season. I know, I don't think
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  that's necessarily true. I don't you know, they need some help certainly at
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  this point. And as we're talking, there's a bunch of close late scores
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  involving teams dear towards the top of the ranking. So you'll probably know more
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  by the time you're listening to this than we do right now. But safe
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  to say this is an Ohio State football season that is not something you're talking
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  about in the past tense just yet. Absolutely, and I'm looking forward to
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  getting into the warmth and listening to some football on the radio as we drive
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  back to Ohio. And yes we will, we will know more, and
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  you'll know more when you're watching this because this will get posted probably pretty late
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  by the time we get back to Columbus and everything's set up. But yeah,
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  stay tuned. Yeah things aren't done yet. But you know, we
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  don't know. I mean, New year six is the low water mark on
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  the table. But you know, maybe stranger things have happened. Yeah,
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  stranger things happened last year. So we'll keep an eye on all this thing
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  that are happening, and you can keep an eye on all the things that
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  are happening at buckey Huddle dot com. That's where we cover the Buckeyes,
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  cover recruiting, early signing Day coming up in just a few weeks, and
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  then plenty of x's and know stuff. Very interesting to talk to Ross Fulton
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  on one of the shows later in the week to kind of figure out,
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  Okay, what does he think happened here and you know, what went wrong
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  and what went right for Ohio State and what lessons are there to be learned
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  moving forward. So we'll have all that for you coming up later this week.
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  But for now, thank you guys all for joining us, have a
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  great day. We will talk to you tomorrow.