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/EwwTaxes Texas A&M Aggies • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26

For a coach with a Natty, Ryan Day has some of the worst clock management I’ve ever seen

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u/mizaistorom Georgia Bulldogs Sep 13 '26

That team he had last year was by far the best team he's had all around, sure Sayin was young but they should have gone back to back with that defense.

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u/ItsMeDoodleBob Sep 13 '26

Might have if Hartline didn’t take a job and give up play calling for the playoffs.

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u/Chapstick160 Virginia Tech Hokies • Navy Midshipmen Sep 13 '26

Les Miles would like a word

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u/karmew32 LSU Tigers • Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Sep 13 '26

Retroactive positive karma for the 2011 robbery.

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u/aquemini_me_pls Texas Longhorns Sep 13 '26

He sometimes has the 1000-yard stare before he fucks up his clock management

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u/stiliophage Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26

I’ll say it…there are like 20 coaches who would have nattys if they had Ryan days exact rosters and a half dozen who would have multiple titles. Ryan day is not anything special and idk how the buckeye fans defend him year in and year out

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u/Warm_Shoulder3606 Ohio State • Georgia Southern Sep 13 '26

Ryan day is not anything special and idk how the buckeye fans defend him year in and year out

Honestly, most don't. People have been sick of him for years because for years he's been doing this in the big games

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u/karmew32 LSU Tigers • Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Sep 13 '26

John Cooper would also have a natty if 12 teams got in in his day.

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u/midnightsbane04 Michigan • North Carolina Sep 13 '26

Nah, he'd just find a way to lose to Michigan again.

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u/MadDog1981 Sep 13 '26

People also forget his bowl game record was pretty abysmal too.

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u/rvasko3 Michigan Wolverines • Toledo Rockets Sep 13 '26

I'm not saying he's a bad coach, because it's hard to go that far.

But when you're able to amass the kind of talent OSU can amass and just reload year after year after year, you don't exactly need to be Bear Bryant to have a shot at a natty.

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u/Roofus_Q Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

He should have more than 1 with all that talent

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u/mjs_pj_party Michigan Wolverines • Colorado Buffaloes Sep 13 '26

Are you trying to say someone is standing on third base and thought they hit a triple?

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u/Roofus_Q Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Even worse. Standing on third base and thought they hit a home run

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u/Danimal4NU Nebraska Cornhuskers • KAU Lumberjacks Sep 13 '26

Ya, Larry Coker has a natty too because his team was just that loaded.

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

The new years eve game against Clemson was terrible. Day basically handed it to them because of clock management failures. 

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u/Problem_Solvent Nebraska Cornhuskers • Team Chaos Sep 13 '26

I feel like OSU has that title DESPITE Ryan Day not because of him though.

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u/Thelostsoulinkorea Sep 13 '26

There was a reason many fans were calling for his head before the Natty win.

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u/western-information Sep 13 '26

Even after lmao

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u/Thelostsoulinkorea Sep 13 '26

Honestly, I agree with them lol the man wins because of the talent pool he has, not because of any great coaching. How he doesn’t get Smith more involved each game is crazy.

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u/ThoughtBroad Georgia Bulldogs • Arizona Wildcats Sep 13 '26

I mean Jeremiah had like 200 yards and 16 targets tonight

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u/Thelostsoulinkorea Sep 13 '26

Today they did, however, I feel they throw to him when desperate. My problem is also they need to move him around more to create matchup problems as well as open the game. Also I just hate Day lol

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u/ThoughtBroad Georgia Bulldogs • Arizona Wildcats Sep 13 '26

I also hate Ryan Day and his black kiwi shoe polish dyed patchy ass beard and hair

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u/BasedRocker Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Sep 13 '26

I installed his aquarium and he’s a super chill laid back guy. I just question the freakouts and non-balls-having plays he has his team run in Q4 of close games. It’s starting to get mad annoying lol but good guy tho for sure

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u/webbed_feets Ohio State Buckeyes • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 13 '26

I don’t like this line of reasoning.

So many college coaches recruit great teams and do nothing with them. Jimbo Fisher had amazing classes at A&M and barely made a bowl game. Texas squandered great teams for a decade.

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u/EL_CHAPO_ESCOBAR Sickos Sep 13 '26

Kinda made sense after they won too. They were on the verge of choking that title game, but that prayer throw bailed them out

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u/Far_Dragonfruit9382 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Mainly one

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u/FrivolousMe California Golden Bears • Sickos Sep 13 '26

They're like a bugatti, fast enough to beat nearly anything regardless of the driver but having a competent driver is hard

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u/JarvardLaw North Carolina Tar Heels Sep 13 '26

Gene Chizik has a national title so take that for what it's worth

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u/FoundTheShithead Auburn Tigers Sep 13 '26

It's kinda impressive how quickly we all forgot the worst HC to win a national title.

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u/thecarlosdanger1 Notre Dame • Cornell Sep 13 '26

Sark also fucked up the last play snapping it with 30 seconds left

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u/BLACKMACH1NE Sep 13 '26

yeah that made zero sense to me

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u/thecarlosdanger1 Notre Dame • Cornell Sep 13 '26

Broadcast literally showed him yelling at them to slow down etc and they have helmet mics… given you had a pause for review how do you not get the clock management right there.

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u/BernankesBeard Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

And they had multiple timeouts

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

He got his natty by having significant talent advantage, not by his coaching 

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

Not his coaching chip Kelly's coaching

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u/Early_Confection627 Ohio State Buckeyes • The CW Sep 13 '26

That’s interesting. And how did Michigan get theirs?

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u/CrimsonOOmpa Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26

Stealing signs final answer!!

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u/BirdiemanJr Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Sep 13 '26

Would be the final answer if the scandal didn’t break mid season. Can’t pretend they had y’all’s signs in the playoffs or something lol

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u/CrimsonOOmpa Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26

True. Maybe others learned the system and implemented it!!

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u/karmew32 LSU Tigers • Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Sep 13 '26

But they weren't afforded a mulligan in 2006.

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u/rvasko3 Michigan Wolverines • Toledo Rockets Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

Loads of senior/junior talent, NFL players up and down the roster, an NFL head coach at DC following up a now-Super Bowl winning coach at DC, an NFL coach at head coach (when he wasn't suspended, lol), huge investments in strength and conditioning plus developing the OL and DL as foundations, the Joe Moore-winning OL, finally getting a couple key pieces via the portal, using NIL funds to retain NFL-calibre players, and running through the OSU-Alabama-Washington gauntlet in our final three to win it.

I know you want to just assume that a bunch of cell phone videos taken by a try-hard mega-fan staffer and his cadre of special forces was the key, but it just wasn't. Stallions is a moron who could've just traded intel and watched film like other sign stealers do for their team. OSU also mentioned always shifting up their play signals.

But hey. You gotta cling to something, right?

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u/Early_Confection627 Ohio State Buckeyes • The CW Sep 13 '26

Maximum copium post. 10/10

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u/Far_Dragonfruit9382 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

You are literally coping right now

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u/goblue2354 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

The successful NFL coaches on the staff helped

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Great coaching and defense 

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u/Early_Confection627 Ohio State Buckeyes • The CW Sep 13 '26

With which ones? The ones arrested or completely embroiled in scandal? I forget

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Two are head coaches in the NFL. 

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u/StrangelyOnPoint Michigan • Grand Valley State Sep 13 '26

Mike Macdonald was on Harbaugh’s staff at Michigan just not in 2023

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Minter is a head coach 

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u/StrangelyOnPoint Michigan • Grand Valley State Sep 13 '26

I’m counting Jim too it’s 3

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

We were discussing the 2023 team specifically. It’s funny they claim we won by having an iPhone video of a game played in a stadium with 100,000 people and a tv broadcast but us having a array of coaches who seem to be very good at this football coaching thing means nothing.

If I offered anyone which one they would rather have everyone would take a staff with 3 NFL head coaches.

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u/Early_Confection627 Ohio State Buckeyes • The CW Sep 13 '26

The embroiled in scandal ones. Got it

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

You realize 3 of your last 4 head coaches were fired for scandals right? The only one that wasn’t was the one that couldn’t beat Michigan. 

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u/Early_Confection627 Ohio State Buckeyes • The CW Sep 13 '26

No they weren’t. Urban literally left on his own accord. Fickell left cause he sucked. Day is here. Tressel got the boot for shit 1/1000th of what your clown WMU team losers did. So 1? And Woody who won titles and you didn’t. Cool story

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

I love this fan fiction… 

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u/rvasko3 Michigan Wolverines • Toledo Rockets Sep 13 '26

Left on his own accord! 🤣

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Not sure how this has downvotes on the CFB sub. Michigan cheated for their only real national title since 1948. The fact that their fans are on here attributing it to coaching and defense is insane.

Dirtiest program in college sports and somehow still getting away with it.

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u/InitialMoose9291 Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

But the season they won the scandal already broke so when they made the playoff run they didn't have that advantage. The wind against OSU, PSU, Alabama and Washington were all legitimate

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

“We only cheated half the season as far as anybody knows, and most of our staff also was banned or quit immediately after, and everyone involved destroyed all possible evidence and interfered with the investigation to such a degree that it’s impossible to know the full extent of the cheating” isn’t the flex you think it is.

2021-23 should be vacated. The program cheated.

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u/blankName_2 Sep 13 '26

Honestly, one of my biggest issues with Michigan under Harbaugh was how comfortable he seemed to cheat at the game. And I am certain other coaches were and are cheating all the time, but Michigan that year genuinely looked like it may have been the best team by a good margin. So him cheating was unnecessary and probably the result of a concerning habit.

All I'm saying is I hope Whittingham plays clean like he seems to want, moves the athletics department in a new direction, and blows all of Harbaughs records away. I don't mind Michigan being good, I just don't like Harbaugh (for other reasons than cheating too).

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u/Roofus_Q Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Just breathe

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

I realize humility is apparently impossible for Michigan fans, but just once it would be nice to see a single one be anything less than despicable online

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u/Roofus_Q Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Slow it down lil bro. It’s going to be okay

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

It’s actually incredibly refreshing that you all keep proving everybody right about who you are as a group of people

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u/Roofus_Q Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

I mean. Are you okay?

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Never better

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u/regarding_zacks Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Pipe down lil bro

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Still talking big despite a decade of beatdowns and cheating to get back to where you think you belong but never have, typical scum

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u/regarding_zacks Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Michigan and Michigan State have played 118 times. MSU has only won 38 of those. Ouch! That's really bad.

Pipe down, lil bro.

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Congrats, you beat up on schools in the first half of the 1900s which is not coincidentally the last time your school actually won a national title. I’m glad it’s still all you have in an argument

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u/regarding_zacks Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Actually, we won a national title in 2023/4! Looking at the official NCAA website right now.

Have a good night lil bro!

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 Michigan State Spartans Sep 13 '26

Yes, and the Astros won a 2017 World Series! Surely we all know how much they earned it, cheers!

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u/pssthush North Carolina Tar Heels Sep 13 '26

Yup. Can we all just agree that Michigan is the most corrupt and immoral program while Ohio State is the whiniest and underperforming? I understand the irony with my flair with the shitshow that is going on with my team.

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u/bumpkinblumpkin Ivy League • Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26

Andy Reid has multiple super bowls and he was the worst in the NFL with the Eagles

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u/unfunnysexface New Mexico Lobos Sep 13 '26

Andy reids clock management issues cleared up pretty quick once he got a once in a generation qb.

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u/OnLevel100 Washington Huskies • Rose Bowl Sep 13 '26

A two-loss Natty. That's actually pretty rare. 

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u/Roofus_Q Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

For a coach with a top 3 recruiting class every year. Only having 1 natty is a disgrace

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u/Warm_Shoulder3606 Ohio State • Georgia Southern Sep 13 '26

2019 and 22 were egregious that he didn't get them into the title game. 19 I doubt they're beating LSU lol, but they should've been able to get there. And 22 just pisses me off

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u/Roofus_Q Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Nothing but excuses. 1 natty and lots of reasons why not. Sounds like a great coach

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u/TickleMyIvory Michigan Tech • Michigan Sep 13 '26

He looks like me playing ncaa but somehow even worse

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u/al_earner Michigan • Washington State Sep 13 '26

To be fair it was a two-loss Natty, not a real Natty.

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u/Beef19582828 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 13 '26

🧑‍🔧😂📚🤕😄🌼🍄😆😄💪📚😘😁👩‍❤️‍👨

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u/MattPatriciasFUPA Michigan • Summertime Lover Sep 13 '26

Couldn't have said it better myself

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u/MavsTurnedBucksGuy Bowling Green Falcons Sep 13 '26

So given you team chaos flair surely you’re happy with this result right? 

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u/yesacabbagez UCF Knights Sep 13 '26

Almost all coaches have horrific clock management. It's shocking to me how bad they are. It is an area I legitimately believe fans are better than coaches.

I'd tell these coaches to take like a month in the offseason and play madden or some shit. Get in a lot of 1 possession games in the 4th and actually focus the fucking clock. These guys act like they have no idea what to do when every single fan could instantly know when to call a timeout.

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u/UnappliedMath Texas Longhorns • UCLA Bruins Sep 13 '26

This is actually a bad take. He needed to use those timeouts at the end or they had no chance after Texas scored

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u/itscheapinsurance Texas A&M Aggies • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Sep 13 '26

I know it’s counter intuitive but I feel like in games like this when the momentum is not on your side it’s better to just let the opponent score and save the clock and timeouts. Then one or two passes to number 4 and you kick a FG to win it. That defense wasn’t going to stop anything in the fourth.