r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 13 '26

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Texas Defeats Ohio State 24-23

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Ohio State 10 10 3 0 23
Texas 0 3 0 21 24
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u/CumAssault Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26

Some absolute braindead coaching on display by OSU. Went up by 20 and just gave up

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u/Theretrulywascake West Virginia • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

Ryan days fetish is going as conservative as he can with a double digit lead

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u/GamingTatertot Clemson Tigers Sep 13 '26

We don't kink shame...except maybe here

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u/Preserved_Killick8 /r/CFB Sep 13 '26

nipple rings and blowing big leads 🥵⛓️

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u/Jay_Par Ohio State Buckeyes • Dilly Bar Sep 13 '26

Blowing what?

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u/Preserved_Killick8 /r/CFB Sep 13 '26

We call him Lead around the truck stop. idk what his actual name is.

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u/Jay_Par Ohio State Buckeyes • Dilly Bar Sep 13 '26

Does he have a pet lizard?

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u/swagypotatosnoopdoge Washington Huskies Sep 13 '26

no, he's the lot lizard

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u/soda_cookie Syracuse Orange • Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

And that lizard is a LOT

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u/AutomaticAccident Kalamazoo Hornets • Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Big. Meaty. Leads. 

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u/FearlessAttempt Alabama • Third Saturday in … Sep 13 '26

Must be some new slang.

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u/X_Circuit_Blossom_X Purdue • Michigan State Sep 13 '26

Well smank my ass and call me daddy /s

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u/PrairiePilot Wyoming Cowboys Sep 13 '26

Wow, I sure didn’t like reading that all, that’s weirdly disturbing.

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u/LostOnTheRiver718 Texas Longhorns • Ohio Bobcats Sep 13 '26

Blowing big something for sure

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u/DRW0813 Vanderbilt Commodores Sep 13 '26

As a falcons fan, blowing 4th quarter leads isn't THAT embarrassing. It happens to a lot of men.

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u/yellowstone10 Duke Blue Devils Sep 13 '26

we don't kink shame, but we do reserve the right to kink ask why

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u/ThatPlayWasAwful TCNJ Lions • Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 13 '26

I was a grad assistant in 2012 at Temple when Ryan Day was OC and every Wednesday when the team was doing conditioning in the weight room Day would make me and some other GAs sit in his office and he would give us mini lectures on art history. He would eat yogurt (usually Dannon but Yoplait wasn’t unusual) during them and called us his “Yogi Yogurt Boys”

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u/SentientShamrock Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

I believe this as absolute truth and absolutely not a fabricated story or copy pasta.

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u/TA404 William & Mary Tribe • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26

Temple

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u/milin85 Illinois • Miami (OH) Sep 13 '26

Fun fact, that was OSU’s first loss up 20+ in the third quarter since 2011 vs Nebraska

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u/Jay_Par Ohio State Buckeyes • Dilly Bar Sep 13 '26

Post the chart

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u/milin85 Illinois • Miami (OH) Sep 13 '26

Reddit won’t let me, but you guys had a 98.3 percent chance to win at one point

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u/Jay_Par Ohio State Buckeyes • Dilly Bar Sep 13 '26

I meant the passing chart. Iykyk

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u/milin85 Illinois • Miami (OH) Sep 13 '26

Maybe this is me being a dumbass but I genuinely have no clue. Sayin’s passing chart for today isn’t out (I would think)

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u/Jay_Par Ohio State Buckeyes • Dilly Bar Sep 13 '26

Google Joe bauserman Nebraska 2011 passing chart

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u/milin85 Illinois • Miami (OH) Sep 13 '26

lol that’s the most incredible shit I’ve ever seen. Thank you sir.

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u/Jay_Par Ohio State Buckeyes • Dilly Bar Sep 13 '26

It hurts more than juice williams

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u/jimboslice53 UCSB Gauchos • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

You have the best receiver of a generation and don’t feed him?

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u/InsertAmazinUsername Ohio State Buckeyes • Yale Bulldogs Sep 13 '26

tbf Jerimiah had afew uncharastic drops in the second half

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u/Theretrulywascake West Virginia • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

He dropped multiple passes against Texas last year

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u/DavoinShowerHandel1 Louisville • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

I'm not sure "uncharacteristic" means what you seem to think it does. He doesn't have stone hands, but he absolutely has some occasional drops.

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u/InsertAmazinUsername Ohio State Buckeyes • Yale Bulldogs Sep 13 '26

everyone remembers his drops bc he has so few

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u/DavoinShowerHandel1 Louisville • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

I respectfully disagree with that statement. Like I said he isn't out there trying to catch passes by slamming two bricks together or anything, but there's a few drops that don't make the stat sheet. They're very forgiving with the drop stat. That's not just a Smith problem, it's a larger problem with football as a whole, but he does drop some passes.

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u/KikkiMonne Sep 13 '26

Texas finally got smart and started double-manning him

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u/doubleyou-tee-hache Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Damn, Arch really can do it all

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u/imbroke828 Texas Longhorns • USC Trojans Sep 13 '26

We also bracketed him and forced Sayin to go to other options. Every team moving forward is going to stop the run and bracket Smith

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u/krisspy451 Oklahoma Sooners • Iowa Hawkeyes Sep 13 '26

I’m on a position to have a mic all night and I’ve called him Ryan “Nipple Rings” Day all evening long

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u/DrModel Michigan Wolverines • Wisconsin Badgers Sep 13 '26

Is Lloyd Carr his idol?

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u/detblue524 Michigan Wolverines • Syracuse Orange Sep 13 '26

Damn is he OSU’s Lloyd Carr? Obviously he has a way better record than Carr but that was Carr’s thing too haha

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u/Hilldawg4president Georgia Bulldogs Sep 13 '26

Reminder that UGA came back to win after being down 14 twice in our playoff game

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u/Theretrulywascake West Virginia • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

And our kicker shanked a game winning field goal too

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u/Oblivionguard19 Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos Sep 13 '26

I love how they’re never close to making it either. I swear your kickers just love to launch it in a completely different direction at times

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u/Theretrulywascake West Virginia • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

For as bad of an in game coach Ryan day is I can't fault him for running such a nice charity for blind college football kickers

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u/Oblivionguard19 Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos Sep 13 '26

How nice of him to pick them up after that neglectful Saban abandoning them in the streets

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u/teeterleeter Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

I thought it was beard dye?

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u/The_Pandalorian Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Sep 13 '26

And nipple rings

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u/POV_Morde_Ult NC State • Western Carolina Sep 13 '26

I didn't know Ryan Day and Dave Doeren were related

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u/Wheels_Foonman Tennessee • Transfer Portal Sep 13 '26

I had no idea Ryan Day and Josh Heupel were the same person.

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u/Confident_Age_6957 Sep 13 '26

Honestly, I know y'all don't want to hear it, but sayin made some bone headed reads and some bad passes in the second half. He's got some blame for this too

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u/Theretrulywascake West Virginia • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

I've never been a Sayin fan. Wanted Keinholz over him last year and I finally feel justified people are seeing Sayin for the shit stat padding QB against bad teams he is

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u/HandHolder77 James Madison Dukes • Indiana Hoosiers Sep 13 '26

Ryan day is Billy Napier confirmed?

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u/TeeDeeTeeEcks Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Reminded me of Tom Herman at Texas

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u/Jaerba Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Ryan Day asked Copilot Auto for help with play calling.

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u/willinaustin Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Having that chinless wonder Art Smith as his OC definitely ain't helping. Dude is the biggest nepo baby fraud in football. Honestly thought using Bijan as a decoy was better than giving him the football.

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u/Ass_of_Badness Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26

The spirit of Tressell Ball lives on.

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u/All_In_Time17 Sep 13 '26

I thought OSU kept passing even when up. I was wondering why they weren’t running and playing more conservatively. Execution just went from elite in first half to shit in second half.

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u/PinkPantherYeezys Oklahoma State Cowboys Sep 13 '26

Dude would make an excellent coach in the Premier League

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u/MasterRKitty West Virginia • Marshall Sep 13 '26

Did he work for Don Nehlan back in the day or something? Nehlan would do the same exact thing.

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u/croth4 Sep 13 '26

That's Arthur Smith. A NIGHTMARE hire. Who could have watched him ruin the Falcons and ruin the Steelers and still go 'yeah bring that guy in'?

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u/pengwin69420 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

Ryan Day voting for Ramaswamy confirmed

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u/Milton__Obote LSU Tigers • Northwestern Wildcats Sep 13 '26

He’s a schottenheimer fetishist

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u/Wahsteve Penn State Nittany Lions • UCLA Bruins Sep 13 '26

There's a reason that before he won a natty there were memes about "Ryan Day is the Nick Saban of James Franklins."

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u/openSourceNotes Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Bro his choice not to let them score was mind boggling

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u/bigdaddyice69 Washington & Lee • Texas Sep 13 '26

Ryan day is a fucking loser

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u/QuackNate Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26

Did he use to coach at Texas?

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u/guinness_blaine Princeton Tigers • Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

I love that he has a little Tom Herman in him.

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u/Wanderingmind144 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 13 '26

Nebraska bends over

We're like worm Jerry from Rick 'n Morty, with a tiny bit of confidence

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u/stargrazer10 Sep 13 '26

And then there was the times he should have gone more conservative. So yes hard to watch that kind of coaching when at times he's too conservative, and at other times he should be kicking field goals instead of attempting tough unnecessary fourth downs. Making just one extra field goal (instead of a failed 4th down attempt) would have won them the game

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u/2401PenitentTangentx Sep 13 '26

Ryan Day at a school without Ohio's money prestige and recruiting would be Jimbo Fisher

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u/chillhopmusic13 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Ryan Day is submissive

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u/MattPatriciasFUPA Michigan • Summertime Lover Sep 13 '26

Surely noted savants Matt Patricia and Art Smith wouldn't do a bunch of dumb shit after going up 3 scores.

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u/TickleMyIvory Michigan Tech • Michigan Sep 13 '26

If only Patricia had brought out a notepad instead of the laminated sheet so he could actually use that stupid fucking pencil 🤔

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u/Potato_fortress ESPN Classic • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26

Unfortunately he left the notepad on the quad. 

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u/doyouevenIift Illinois Fighting Illini • Big Ten Sep 13 '26

Missed FG didn’t help

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u/Accurate-Big-7233 LSU Tigers • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26

Was a killer, but some awful coaching clock management decisions at the end there

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u/__-o0O0o-__-o0O0o-__ UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Sep 13 '26

by both sides

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u/TheGeekOffTheStreet Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26

Yeah why didn’t Arch wait down that clock a little more on the last play? He could have taken another 15 seconds off the clock and still saved 10 in case they needed a 4th down to cross the line

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u/__-o0O0o-__-o0O0o-__ UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Sep 13 '26

drove me nuts. i dont care about either team and i was shouting at the TV

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u/thetreat Illinois • Washington Sep 13 '26

A lot of coaches are fantastic play callers but absolutely awful with clock management.

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u/meatmacho Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

For years I've been saying they should hire me to exclusively be the clock management consultant. You guys do the coaching. I'll watch the clock and the time outs and remind you when to mind them.

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u/perkinsb1024 Michigan Wolverines • Stanford Cardinal Sep 13 '26

I was shouting the same thing at my TV and my wife looked at me like I was dumb and said “that’s what they would’ve expected, maybe that’s why it worked”. I couldn’t argue with that

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u/Balrogkicksass Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

The only thing he loves more than not understand how clocks work, is conservative play calling

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u/FwampFwamp88 Sep 13 '26

Sark on the last td too. Could’ve shaved off 10-15 more seconds w three timeouts left. I really thought Ohio state was gonna get a fg at the end

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u/Hoffelcopter Michigan • Eastern Michigan Sep 13 '26

They were up 20-3 at half. A missed FG shouldn't have mattered. This was a Ryan day loser mentality master class

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u/Etherion77 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

At least Ryan Day will be clowned all week for this loss. I love it

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u/Far_Eye6555 Michigan Wolverines • Army Black Knights Sep 13 '26

We should really all take a second to thank Ryan Day

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u/jcm0672 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Maybe even an extra second.

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u/thebigdawg7777777 Georgia Bulldogs • College Football Playoff Sep 13 '26

Like Doug Marone led Jaguars in the 2017 AFCCG against the Pats.

"We've got a three score lead, unless they have the greatest coach and QB EVER, we can let off the gas and coast.................................................................................."

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u/WeekendGunnitRefugee Georgia Bulldogs • Summertime Lover Sep 13 '26

Going for it in the first half instead of taking 3 lost the game.

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u/tablesarepeopletoo Oklahoma Sooners Sep 13 '26

Yeah, you don’t stop fighting till the game clock reads 0. Sometimes a second past that

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u/GRWolverineFan Michigan • Muskingum Sep 13 '26

WMU was robbed. You were mogged.

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u/86_TG Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

Neither should of your magical extra second but here we are.

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u/JuicyJay18 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

I do not care about his ring. He is and always will be a fraud that has skated by on his school’s ability to draw in elite talent.

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u/UnboiledBread Ohio State Buckeyes • College Football Playoff Sep 13 '26

Well if you’re not gonna count rings then he might as well coach at MSU, he’ll fit right in.

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u/JuicyJay18 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

A muppet could’ve coached that roster to a natty lmao, the fact that he lost 2 games that year says enough. If he came to MSU he would be a perennial 8 win coach, plus or minus a game. I’m very aware of where my program is relative to Ohio State. That doesn’t make him a good coach.

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u/JuicyJay18 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Hey man I’m a Dantonio-era alum lmao, 8-wins is my expectation. The last couple of coaches have been dogshit but we will return to being a consistent top-25 team. Maybe not under Fitz but eventually!

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u/JuicyJay18 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

I mean it’s a Saturday night and I’ve been drinking lol, is a man not allowed to fuck around a bit

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u/Theretrulywascake West Virginia • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

Ryan day couldn't coach MSU to 8 wins.

Dude got handed the best job in the country because Urban Meyer can't control anyone and has missed out on 2-3 additional titles with his dumbassery.

If he didn't get handed the OSU job he'd never have gotten the job if he had to go the traditional OC -> p4/g5 HC route

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u/OkSpeed5766 Sep 13 '26

This is the most spot on take I’ve read. Day is a loser

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u/UnboiledBread Ohio State Buckeyes • College Football Playoff Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

I would totally hear your opinion out if you didn’t outright deny a ring. It’s like saying you don’t count Cigs ring because of NIL. It’s a new world and Ryan Day adapted with a 12 team playoff. Get a grip.

Edit: Lmao how many losses did the 2007 champion have?? Are you that young or that old that you can’t remember?

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u/JuicyJay18 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

I acknowledge that his ring exists, I just don’t care about it lmao. That roster could’ve won a ring with no coach. The team wins in spite of him more often than not. If he were a better coach you guys would have 2 or 3 rings in the last 5 years, that’s how much talent your teams have had.

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u/UnboiledBread Ohio State Buckeyes • College Football Playoff Sep 13 '26

I can’t believe I’m telling a MSU fan that’s it’s harder to win a ring than you’d think it’d be, no matter the talent.

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u/JuicyJay18 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Most talented roster in the NCAA most years but he’s not winning the B1G, losing to Michigan more often than not, but I’m supposed to excuse all of that because he won a natty one year with an unfuckupable roster lmao. Sure man. He’s a great coach.

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u/Buckeye_CFB Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

I wanna say the losers are the people who think it's worth cheating to win. And the winners are the people who win championships without cheating. But what do I know?

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u/____CZ____ Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

The winners are those who win games. You lost today, so you are not a winner today

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u/Buckeye_CFB Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

I mean if you think it is ok to cheat, then I can't really help you

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u/fdar_giltch Michigan Wolverines • Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Imagine saying that after having Tressell as a coach

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u/Buckeye_CFB Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

I totally forgot that Terrelle Pryor got +15 agility from selling his own possessions to pay for tattoos

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u/jakedasnake1 Indiana Hoosiers • Rose Bowl Sep 13 '26

They win if that FG hits. Was an ugly one too

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u/shadowseeker3658 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

The most typical Ohio State loss under Day

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u/Opening-Calendar3421 UCF Knights • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26

The fact they were playing for a FG is part of the problem, they allowed 21 unanswered in the 4th

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u/Sorge74 Ohio State • Bowling Green Sep 13 '26

Anytime Ohio State needs the field goal to win you can just assume that they've lost the game.

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u/TripleThreatTua Arkansas Razorbacks Sep 13 '26

They did the same thing against Indiana last year

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u/goblue2354 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

And against us in ‘24

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u/needaburn Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

And against Georgia in the semi finals

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u/jakedasnake1 Indiana Hoosiers • Rose Bowl Sep 13 '26

True but its a 60 minute game and they dominated the first 30, it was almost enough.

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u/Lanky-Yesterday-5716 Sep 13 '26

Almost doesn’t count on stats

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u/chbay Ohio State • Bowling Green Sep 13 '26

The shanked field goal, the turnover on downs instead of taking a chip shot for 3 points to go up by 13 points. What an atrocious way to lose.

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u/Janus67 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

Yeah going for it on 4th at 3+ yards is so unnecessary there.

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u/ArcaneNine Ohio State Buckeyes • Belk Bowl Sep 13 '26

If Ryan Day had a dollar for every time he could say that...

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u/LosAngeles1s USC Trojans Sep 13 '26

Day being too conservative put them into that position, don’t really blame the kicker for that one

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u/ALackOfForesight North Carolina Tar Heels Sep 13 '26

You don’t blame the kicker for missing a kick that would have won them the game?

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u/SCProletariat Sep 13 '26

Every reception or rush that didn’t lead to touchdown also cost them the game

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u/Mikeman003 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26

Yeah there were multiple passes that were slightly off or dropped that would have gotten them a first down instead of a 3 and out multiple times. The kicker is more noticeable but multiple people were playing bad in the second half

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u/UrbanGoose77 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26
  • didn't kick FG on an earlier 4th and 2
  • offense literally didn't do shit the whole 2nd half

Not the Kicker's fault for losing the game

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u/GreatestWhiteShark Northwestern • Ohio State Sep 13 '26

Too bad they couldn't have gotten an extra one of those in the first half

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u/philphan25 Notre Dame • Penn State Sep 13 '26

They also had an easy FG earlier in the 1st half. Didn't take the points.

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u/decoy777 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game Sep 13 '26

And not taking the FG earlier and turning over on downs...

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u/Boomhauer_007 UCLA Bruins • Oregon State Beavers Sep 13 '26

Perhaps the offense that is supposed to have two Heisman finalists on it should try scoring touchdowns instead of needing four field goals

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u/decoy777 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game Sep 13 '26

I knew as soon as we missed it were losing by 1.

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u/Austinlegend Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Don’t forget going for it instead of taking the 3pts in the first half.

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u/UrbanGoose77 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

and not kicking the field goal on 4th and 2 earlier

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u/petataa Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets Sep 13 '26

Even if he makes that I'm 100% sure they convert the 2 pt conversions to tie it and win in OT. Nothing went their way in the first half and nothing went our way in the second

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u/soda_cookie Syracuse Orange • Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Going for the throat in the first half and missing didn't help either

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u/TeeDeeTeeEcks Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Was the right result though. That Cam Coleman freak interception in the first half was a gift for them and made the score unnecessarily lopsided early on. They just didn't have the horses to go toe to toe for four quarters

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u/TimboCavo Sep 13 '26

Well they only went up by 20 because Texas kept shooting themselves in the foot. 3 turnovers in the first half and a dropped touchdown pass.

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Those first two recoveries by OSU were so fucking infuriating. The Coleman bounce especially

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u/royalbluehen Pittsburgh • Michigan Sep 13 '26

That is one of the craziest plays you will ever see.

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u/steampunker14 Texas Longhorns • Army Black Knights Sep 13 '26

Yeah that's just complete fuckery.

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Cartoon level bad luck

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u/Unrelenting_Salsa LSU Tigers • Georgia Bulldogs Sep 13 '26

The offense the entire game was also basically "have Jeremiah Smith go insane" which worked but isn't really sustainable. The missed FG drive was the only successful drive they had that didn't heavily feature Smith.

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u/the_jobernaut Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Saw a stat that Smith didn’t touch the ball the final 23 minutes. Not sure if true but wild if true given how dominating he had been

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u/WobbleWits Sep 13 '26

He had 2 drops in the 2nd half

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u/steampunker14 Texas Longhorns • Army Black Knights Sep 13 '26

Oh he touched it, he just didn't hang on to it.

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u/iwearatophat Ohio State • Grand Valley State Sep 13 '26

We were gifting them ~12 yard hooks on the hashes all 4th quarter.

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u/cheersfurbeers Ohio State • Mount St. Joseph Sep 13 '26

No more Downs, Styles and Reese. That was their wheelhouse.

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u/SuperAwesomeBrian Paper Bag Sep 13 '26

Why do coaches keep abandoning what is working with a lead? It’s a top 5 matchup, KEEP SCORING POINTS you imbecile. 

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u/dudewithchronicpain Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Ryan day special

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u/ALowlyRadish Ohio State Buckeyes • Temple Owls Sep 13 '26

I still think about how we almost blew the natty up even more than we did today.

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u/Hanestein Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

The one time Fielding actually saved us

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u/yousawthetimeknife Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Dead Pool Sep 13 '26

Y'all can downvote me to hell. Ryan Day needs to be fired.

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u/WoozyMaple West Florida Argonauts • Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

I'll help even out those downvotes for you

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u/Overtons_Window Auburn Tigers • Ole Miss Rebels Sep 13 '26

What losing to Steve Sarkisian does to a man

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u/yousawthetimeknife Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Dead Pool Sep 13 '26

Yes, but not just that. What being the first coach in school history to blow a 17+ halftime lead does. What being the first coach in school history to blow a 20+ point 4th quarter lead does. He's in year 8 and he hasn't learned how to win these games, except a 4 game run in which his players bullied him into being aggressive enough to go win. And he even tried to blow two of those leads.

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u/Diligent-Most-9165 Purdue Boilermakers • Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Ryan Day is the Nick Saban of Kyle Shanahans

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u/Janus67 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

Goddamn, as a buckeye and niners fan I felt that to my core

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u/burly_protector Notre Dame • Fresno State Sep 13 '26

Say what you will, but Saban would've never let that happen. Dude never once let off the gas.

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u/Hootinger Ohio State Buckeyes • Big Ten Sep 13 '26

Great, you are all caught up with the last 25 years of Buckeye football.

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u/prstylez Michigan • Ferris State Sep 13 '26

Ryan Day isn't a great in game coach. Dude always has a stacked team.

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u/Lanky-Yesterday-5716 Sep 13 '26

He’s a great leader and mentor to the young athletes he coaches, but he’s really not that great of an actual FOOTBALL coach on the FIELD. He is truly a great person but this isn’t high school or a coach carter esque movie. These are adults getting paid, they don’t need a lesson in class and values that will shape them into some upstanding citizens. they need a coach with an actual football mind. Classyness isn’t going to call the plays and manage the games.

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u/the_jobernaut Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

Give Texas some credit. They looked like they were quitting at the end of the first half but came out and kept punching all the way to the finish.

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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Sep 13 '26

I still can’t believe this guy won a natty just two years ago…

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u/PFunk224 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

Wouldn't have won that without Chip Kelly running the offense.

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u/KikkiMonne Sep 13 '26

It does seem like a fluke given Day's record in other big games

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u/j00sh7 Michigan Wolverines • Toledo Rockets Sep 13 '26

That’s what they always do. Once their wings start to melt, they just stop.

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u/Turbulent_End_6887 Sep 13 '26

SHould have been 23.

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u/Rolli_boi Texas Longhorns • Vanderbilt Commodores Sep 13 '26

Arthur Smith special my guy lol

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u/SomeCar Ohio State • Youngstown State Sep 13 '26

Seriously, wtf is he scared of with this roster.

Damn good game from Texas,well deserved.

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u/Patrick2701 Notre Dame • North Central (IL) Sep 13 '26

High end talent saves his ass every week, they play against a real team

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u/HeliocentricOrbit Sep 13 '26

It's giving me flashbacks to the UK in the World Cup. It's like they completely turned off.

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u/AngleParticular2914 Penn State Nittany Lions • Sickos Sep 13 '26

He’s looking ahead to Michigan 

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u/TinderStuff Michigan Wolverines • Iowa Hawkeyes Sep 13 '26

“Ill come to bed as long as it doesn’t get close”

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u/Captain_Nipples Oklahoma Sooners • Summertime Lover Sep 13 '26

Im sure Ohio State fans will be understanding

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u/secondphase Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Coaches turned the game off... not sure they realized they lost yet.

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u/rezelscheft Sep 13 '26

i am sure that Ohio State fans’ reaction to this will be super measured and reasonable

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u/Zapkin Tennessee Volunteers • Memphis Tigers Sep 13 '26

The Josh Heupel strategy

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u/xLykos Sep 13 '26

Yep day loves to take an early lead and coast and try to win in the fourth quarter. He has said it before and he never learns. Should’ve won this game in the third quarter but no. Absolutely fucking brain dead

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u/giundy2 Purdue Boilermakers Sep 13 '26

They do this every game, they let up. Not to placate IU, but they would have hung 100 on them

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u/BigComfortable6667 Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

IU would never schedule a team with a pulse

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u/BetterThanOCharleys Ohio State Buckeyes • Findlay Oilers Sep 13 '26

He has a tendency to play not to lose in these types of games. The entire second half it felt like a TD just puts it away and the offense never acted like it.

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u/njrcollects Michigan Wolverines • Miami Hurricanes Sep 13 '26

What?? Braindead coaching from Ryan Day? I'm shocked! Shocked!

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u/pixelflop Penn State • Syracuse Sep 13 '26

Big Game Day

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u/hng_rval Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

The England of college football

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u/gmr548 Texas Longhorns • Washington Huskies Sep 13 '26

One might say he Sark’ed it

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u/Carnasty_ Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26

Yeah, OSU could've absolutely put the throttle down & won by 30+ points.

Now, they have a L to an underwhelming Texas.

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u/Swazi Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

As a Steelers fan, I saw plenty of this Arthur Smith masterclass before.

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u/Faust909 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

Ryan Day likes to pretend he’s a “trenches”‘guy.

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u/Competitive_Duty1511 Sep 13 '26

Absolutely,  embarrassing