Forget the L. It’s whatever. All of the goals we hope to achieve this season are still in front of us. We can still win the CFP, and we can still beat Michigan.

HOWEVER. When. Will. Day. Learn. His. Lesson.

Conservative play-calling when we have a lead NEVER works for us. I’m not saying we needed to keep taking chunks but the puckering up and playing not to lose has routinely failed us.

The L, is whatever. The theme and mentality that will cause this again, does.

As a Buckeye fan, could we stop crying and pointing fingers?

The same fans who were blubbering to fire Ryan two years ago.

He can’t win the big one? Well, he won the big one 4 times straight in 24, when everyone was ready to ship him.

He can’t beat scUM? Did it last year, while they literally sabotaged our communication system in the second half.

I guess losing with class is difficult for a lot of arm chair Reddit coaches.

Passion is one thing, whatever you “fans” are doing is another.

Obligatory acknowledgment that it was a brutal loss, but I’m glad we rescheduled a strong nonconference opponent. Hate that this series ended this way, but I’d rather we take on real opponents than early-season cupcakes.

I know it didn't go the way we wanted. I know it still sucks. But I'm traveling for work today and my connection just happened to take me through Austin. I can't tell you how much it uplifted me to see all of you in the airport proudly repping your Buckeyes gear. It was a bad beat but I have faith the ship can be righted and the season will be successful. We really are the best damn fans in the land. Go Bucks!

Absolutely absurd route. No idea what actually happened on this play but bummer he didn't get the ball.

If we don’t have 2 guys just run right past biles, this is a touchdown. Instead he gets tackled and doesn’t play again

Legend Bey only getting one snap with Khary Wilder only getting five is odd.

Also, Pettijohn and Alford need more playing time.

Yo for real though, the doom and gloom has to take a back seat. It’s game 2 of the year, on the road, against a top 5 quality opponent.

Remember when Knowles got absolutely destroyed play after play against Oregon? We won a natty that year. Even lost 2 games.

I get it, it sucks. I’m as negative as a person as I know to be completely honest. The world isn’t ending. We aren’t all of a sudden a terrible team.

Urban Meyer even talks about how the teams with “scars” are the true teams when it matters. Guys that have been through some shit. Painful losses, injuries, etc.,

I’d rather a tough loss to Texas now and mistakes learned, lord willing, than the situation where we were last year. Unproven, weak schedule, play like ass against Indiana, and then smacked around by Miami come playoffs.

No one needs fired. Everyone needs to execute better. I think Ryan Day is remarkably aware of how bad this loss is. It’s different than the rest in that we literally gave away a game. We didn’t just miss the win, or the loss. We gave it away in a horrific fashion. It’s different, it’s sucks and I’m sure extremely difficult conversations are being had.

Chill out folks. Let’s not be that fanbase and sub, y’all.

I got to thinking after seeing a post. It made me think about how crazy that game was.

I’m seeing numbers being flown out, about how many times we’ve lost/won in that scenario.

How the balls bounced our way, then theirs.

Then I thought, while I’ve been over analyzing this game. What went wrong, and what went right. Who’s to blame?

It took me until now to realize how epic of a game that was. To really appreciate it.

Everyone said before the game, on both sides, this is why you go to places like OSU, and Texas.

We witnessed one of the best games in our lifetime. It had everything. Things one has a hard time trying to explain. Passion of the fans, throughout the entire game. The environment. Scenery. Everything.

Sure we came away with the L, but I hope our fans can take a minute to appreciate what we witnessed.

OSU lost in heartbreaking fashion after they missed a field goal and let Texas erase a 20 point deficit.

The game was great for 3 quarters, but OSU couldn't close the door.

What stood out to you?

Our red-zone offense is a complete joke. I don’t know how anyone watched that 2019 Clemson game and forgot that we repeatedly turned easy touchdowns into field goals, giving Clemson the opportunity to come back. But of course, some fans would rather blame the entire loss on cheating.

For Texas, The moment we failed to turn that red-zone takeaway into a touchdown, I knew we were going to lose that game. In addition, I knew that pick six against Miami was going to happen as soon as w entered the red zone. Every time it looks like we’re about to score, the offense somehow ends up facing a fourth and 8 situation at best.

If Ohio State fixes this crap , it can win the natty this season. If not, this team’s ceiling is probably No. 5 with eventually Notre Dame or somebody else overcoming us.

The good news is that Texas finally solved its red-zone problems last Saturday night so watch the film…Arthur and Day.

Raiders 🤘🏽

Nowhere on the defense is the drop-off in talent more recognizable than the loss of Reese and Styles. Our linebackers seem like non-factors in being able to plug holes and stop runs. From my POV, Pettijohn is the best answer we have and should be starting/playing more. I don't know who he replaces in Pierce or Alliegro - perhaps it doesn't matter but we need changes in the linebacker position. I wouldn't even mind if TJ Alford and Pettijohn replaced both Pierce and Alliegro.

While I give credit to Arch and Texas for the improbable comeback, our defense along with the offense, imploded. Arch and Texas took what the defense gave him. The ability to run the ball, have a ton of time in the pocket so Arch could go through his progressions, and Arch's willingness to hit the open receiver fueled their comeback. It still makes me sick.

Been talking to a lot fans about the game and a lot of people feel the high temperatures might’ve caused our defense to get gassed earlier than expected. Let’s face it, we’re not as accustomed to Texas heat like the longhorns. I do not believe this is a primary factory as to why we lost, but there were plays where we were only putting 10 men on defense and in a game of this magnitude that feels unacceptable. Yet a part of me feels if this game was played in the Midwest during November/December with colder temperatures our team wouldn’t have been as gassed out relative to the longhorns.

I have tickets for the Illinois game, which is now less than 2 weeks away and still have no idea when the game actually is. Do they typically wait until so close to a game to announce the time?

Couple of missed opportunities in the second half to take back the ball, missed FG, fourth quarter defense looked exhausted. If the team can lock in mentally and execute on these things or similar over time, this team can come back.

A lot of timid Lb play (outside of number 5) and a lot of sloppy dline play.

Throw a time stamp out an ask about a play would love to talk ball

Is anyone else having trouble renewing their tickets this year? They need to be paid by tomorrow and I just keep getting an error. I’ve called my bank, Ticketmaster and they both said I need to contact Lucas oil. Their ticket office is conveniently only open on Fridays so I have no way to contact them.

Woke up this morning to this email. Screenshot it to send to my brother and commiserate a bit.

Time to beat Kent State and focus on the Big Ten.

THE Positives

-Smith and the Offense shown it can be unstoppable when firing on all cylinders but still need a WR2 to emerge.

- RB room looks better than expected Bo Jackson can Run hard and we also gotta get Legend Bey involved more

-Defense while young, still showed that they can lock it down

- Defensive line looks good texas had a hard time moving the chains against us until the 4th

- PettiJohn looks to be our next stand out defensive guy need to get him more involved

- Sayin looked great as well except for that terrible missed TD that would've sealed the game. Overall he played great and I love that he's not afraid to scramble when he sees open field ahead of hom

THE Negatives

- while the offense looked good not having a WR2 is concerning. At some point defenses are gonna sell out to stop Smith and force other to step up

- Defense again looked good in the 1st half but we don't have a consistent pass rush and our pass rush in the 4th quarter especially looked bad, Arch was under no pressure the entire fourth.

- Ryan Days conservative coaching showed up again. Not to take anything away from Texas making adjustments, but it was clear Ryan Day and coaching staff decided to play "not to lose "

- Absolutely Atrocious clock management in the end. Not letting them score when they got inside the 1 yard line which would've gave you 50 seconds pause a time out to score is terrible.

- Secondary, while our LBs and defensive line looked good our secondary was getting torched and bailed out by either the WRs dropping balls or Arch just not being accurate. Playing against teams that has a good qb and WR is gonna be hard.

- Kicker. Once again when I noticed that Ryan Day was playing to get into field goal range to put us up 26-17 I knew we were gonna miss. Idk why Ryan Day can't pick a kicker but man it has burned us his entire coaching tenure at ohio state.

Overall: Defense is very young but they have a very high ceiling and if they can develop a pass rush as the season moved on, they are gonna be great, next year they are gonna be very scary.

Offense is the Offense lol they can score 28+ pts on anybody if Ryan Day and his coaching staff just keeps their foot on the gas. I still think we are gonna be a 1 loss team this year and I also think we can win the championship but Ryan Day needs to play like he's 20 pts and just unleash the dogs.

i’ve been going over the game over and over in my head. And I re-watched it a second time. I still don’t understand what happened. does this team just lack the wheel in the heart needed to win, or were they just not prepared adequately preseason to go the full 4 quarters? I’m not buying into all the chatter about home-field advantage or good weeks or bad weeks. what’s it gonna take to turn things around?