Ohio State won the pro wrestling match held last night. Unfortunately, the Longhorns thought they were supposed to be playing Football.
Watch what people do, not what they say. Ryan Day clearly believed he had an inferior football team and turned the game into a wrestling match. The zebras helped him do it.
The guards masquerading as OTs were severely overmatched in pass protection. Even just allowing blatant holding favors the weak blockers. That assumes it was called evenly, which it most certainly was not. There wasn’t just holding I saw full body locks on pass rushers that were completely past the OL.
Day didn’t believe his secondary could cover even a badly depleted Texas WR corps. His DBs clearly had instructions to grab, hold and tackle in coverage rather than play defense. You can see it from the opening drive, when the corner just grabs Golden’s arm and holds it down. Golden makes the one handed grab anyway but the Horns could not replicate that often enough. Watching that travesty, it’s clear why the only 2 Texas TDs came on plays where the RB wheel route was so wide open that no OSU defender could get close enough to grab or tackle before the ball arrived.
Even the Suckeye DL got in on the action. Several times, they openly grabbed a combo blocker to keep him from moving up to the second level.
So congratulations to Ohio State on making it to the WWE Wrestling Championship match. I’ll be cheering for the earthquake.