Social Reactions: Not a Dominant Win, But Ohio State Will Take It

By Johnny Ginter on September 10, 2023 at 7:35 am
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With about five minutes left in the third quarter on Saturday, Youngstown State received the ball, ran three inconsequential plays that got them seven yards, and then punted the ball. This sequence took two minutes and 21 seconds of game time.

Here's the thing; I don't know how much the new clock rules are really impacting overall scores or even possessions per game. I do know that overmatched teams are doing their best to exploit them. The Michigan Wolverines (for example) absolutely dominated UNLV yesterday in just about every facet of the game, from the opening kickoff to the final whistle. No one who watched it could claim that Michigan did anything but whup ass the entire game. Final score? 35-7.

My point is this: don't rely on a final score as a primary metric of anything until offenses start to adjust to the new clock rules. Individual performances, growth among positional groups, and evolutions in playcalling might be harder to quantify than "the Buckeyes scored X amount of points", but right now those things are a hell of a lot more useful as a measure of how mad to be after a game.

Anyway, here's some tweets!

THE TEAM

THE ALUMNI

WHO DOESN'T LOVE A GOOD QUAD SCRIPT OHIO?

THE REST

And that'll do it! The Hilltoppers are in town next week, so we'll see you then!

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