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Miami UPSETS Ohio State In Cotton Bowl | INSTANT REACTION | CFP Quarterfinal Results
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Welcome back to the COVID 3 podcast with your hosts, Chip Patterson, Tom Furnelli, Danny Cannell and Bud Elliott. It's your call for the best college football coverage from national signing day to the national championship and everything in between. CBS Sports presents the COVID 3 podcast.
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Chip Patterson
And welcome back to the podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Tom Fenelli, that's Bud Elliott. I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live@YouTube.com cover3 and every actual podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. Smash that, subscribe, smash that like, and come and join us in the chat, aka the COVID 3 tailgate, where they are just potentially as mystified as we are by what we have seen from a Crispy, a crispy 3 hour and 20 minute college football playoff quarterfinal. Oh, oh, hey. Danny Canal joining as well right here for an instant reaction show. I tell you what, where the hell are you? It's easy to be able to get, get everybody out. The Miami Hurricanes had zero College Football playoff appearances and zero College Football playoff wins before this season. Now they have two College Football playoff wins and are advancing to the College Football playoff semifinals at the Fiesta bowl after a 2414 win against Ohio State. An Ohio State Buckeyes team that was the betting favorite to win the national championship. An Ohio State Buckeyes team that was, you know, picked by many of us to go and win the national championship. They are one and done. You out of here. The cameras had the fans heading for the exit before it was done. Wow. We're going to spend a little bit of time breaking down what we saw here, how it happened, what's next for the Buckeyes and more. Danny, thanks for letting me use the office. I really appreciate it.
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Danny Cannell
You need the good microphone. My microphone's okay. You guys hear me all right?
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Tom Furnelli
Yeah.
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Danny Cannell
Oh, perfect. Awesome. I had to, well, and I had to work tonight because my wife, she wanted me to go to some New Year's Eve party and I told her I had to work. So this is why I'm here. I'm working.
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Bud Elliott
I'm working.
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Tom Furnelli
Yeah.
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Danny Cannell
To get out. And it was perfect to be able to watch the. The game with Chip Mackenzie was perfect. Just a nice quiet night, get to get dialed in. I thought the game was a ton of fun. I thought it was a really good game. Ohio State came back, made some great adjustments. Second half, I thought Julian saying really stared the, you know, adversity right in the face. I thought he played great in the second half. I thought the difference in the game and one of the reasons I liked Miami coming in was I was very Curious to see how Ohio State's offensive line, if they struggled with Indiana's defensive front. I thought Miami's was just as good and capable. Capable of being just as disruptive. And sure enough, they were. That was a phenomenal, physical football game that Miami was up for the challenge and. And took down the top dog.
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Chip Patterson
Tom, you called your shot early. It started up front. There was a good response. There were good adjustments from Ohio State as well to try and climb back into this game. Where did you see. What did you see early? And then also, what did you see with the changes?
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Tom Furnelli
Well, I mean, we talked about it during the week. Like, if Miami was going to win this game, they had to win along the lines of scrimmage, and they had to take care of the football, and they were really kicking Ohio State's ass along the lines of scrimmage. But then they had that fumble in the red zone early on when they were driving down the field, which kind of, you know, I mean, if they finish that drive, I don't know if this game is ever close, but they didn't. They fumbled, and then they continued to dominate along the lines of scrimmage. Julian saying throws that pick six, so it's suddenly 14 to nothing. But from that point on, like, until that very last touchdown drive in the fourth quarter, I thought Ohio State's defense pretty much was controlling Miami. Like, there weren't any. Yeah, there weren't any. Well, even through the second quarter, into the second half, they weren't. There weren't big plays. Like, I don't think Miami had a play over 16 yards until that Mark Fletcher run in the final drive. So I thought Ohio State's defense was fine. It's just. What changed was, like, Ohio State could not block Miami to save its life in the first half. They went to 12 personnel in the second half. So they bring in the extra tight end to kind of slow down Bane and Mezador, and it worked. But then Miami kind of adjusted to it late and started getting pressure on saying, again. But still, like, I. I just think overall through the course of the 60 minutes, Miami's offensive line was fantastic. Carson Beck was sacked twice, but he was. And also, Carson Beck was fantastic tonight, too. Like, he missed a couple throws early, and he was not. He wasn't great, but he didn't make any mistakes. He was using his legs in a way that we typically don't see him do. Like when he was able to get that one first down by just taking off and then lowering his shoulder into the tackler. Just taking that hit to get the first down. That was huge. That was a huge play in this game. So I, I just think Miami was better than Ohio State tonight. And I don't know, people might point to the layoff, they might point to whatever they want. I just think that Miami's like defensive line and offensive line beat up on Ohio State's and that was really what led to everything.
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Bud Elliott
I mean, I, I thought Beck was really, really sharp as the game went on. Like the first two passes of the game where, where he kind of dirts the ball to, to a really easy, like just doing running back, leaking out, leaking out to the middle of the formation. I was like, oh God, this is rough guys. He threw for 11 first downs and only 138 yards. Like when they had to have it, I, I felt like Ohio State was not really playing a lot of like, you know, denial defense, if you will. Like they were playing a lot of like, hey, we'll keep it in front, we'll tackle it quickly. And they for the most part did tackle it quickly. Like, it wasn't like Miami had a lot of guys wide open. Like Beck was pretty sharp on the underneath stuff. He didn't complete a baller 15 yards in the air tonight. Like they just when they had to have it, not always scoring drives to Thomas point. I mean they had one offensive touchdown for the majority of this game until that final drive, really. But like he just kept drives alive on some of these short, precise passes. Like I thought Shannon Dawson did a nice job to scheme some guys open underneath, like, you know, at least somewhat open. Beck hit him, he didn't take any like huge drive killing sacks, which was big and like, I mean it got to the point he was running so well. They, they played like on a spy, right, which it worked. They sent Styles, they flushed him and Reese was able to get him down. I thought Beck was, was really sharp. Miami protected exceptionally well and you're not going to go out and score 40 on Ohio State's defense. Like this was a pretty good effort. Like they played, I think within themselves and to their strength. I don't know that I loved Ohio State's defensive gameplay, but it's hard to knock it. Like they allowed less than 300 yards on the whole ball game. Miami did hold the ball for a long time. To have it for 34 minutes and to lose a possession because you scored on defense right is, is pretty impressive. They, they were able to keep Ohio State's offense off the field like for long stretches of the Game and, like, Ohio State was ripping off chunk plays. But then I think, like, the size of the sacks that sand was taking, I mean, he had five sacks for 42 lost yards. Like, a lot of those sacks were just absolute drive killers. And I thought Bane and Mezador played well. It was also kind of like in the first half, man, with. With how Miami was calling the defense, like, to Tom's point, against the 11 personnel, some of the nickel blitzes, some of this. Like, every time they ran a stunt, they were getting home, I was like, okay. Like, every time Ohio State's throwing rock, Miami was like, hey, here's some paper for you, right? It was just like, wow. Okay. Like, they're. Whether it's formation or. Or whatever it is, they seem to have a pretty good beat on what protection call? I don't think they had Miami's calls, but, like, obviously, like, they seem to have some good tendencies. In the second half, Ohio State went a lot more gap run, and they were able to pop, like, a lot of the explosive runs that they ran some play action off it. They had it going. And Miami, like, finally adjusted there on the final drive to get the stop. Because I. In the second half, like, in that fourth quarter, I was like, oh, high State's gonna come down and win this. Like, they had a couple nice drives in a row. They seem to have things figured out. Miami really kind of bucked up and stopped, and, like, that was. That was a really, really impressive game by Miami.
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Tom Furnelli
Yeah. Like, if. Whether you agree with the approach or not, like, Ohio State's approach defensively was clearly, we're going to take away all the big plays, and we're going to force this team to, like, put together long drives on us, which is what Ohio State has done a lot this year. And it's like, once they get to the red zone, we will clamp down and. Or they'll just, you know, screw up. We'll get a sack and it'll end their drive. But, like, Miami averaged only 4.6 yards per play. It's just they were able to keep moving the ball because on third down, they were 7 of 14. On fourth down, they only went for the ones that converted it. But, like, it's not like they were in a bunch of third and shorts. Like, they were in a lot of, like, third and five, third and six, third and seven, and they kept converting. So in a way, Ohio State was getting exactly what they wanted. It's just Miami was able to execute in the situations that Ohio State wanted to put Them in. So you have to give Miami credit for it.
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Bud Elliott
Miami only had one, I have said only forced 13 and out on the day, like, so I feel like every Miami drive just moved the ball a little bit, ate some client. I think they had eight drives that lasted three or more minutes, which, you know how many drives they have total? Probably like 10. All right, so the, the kneel down in the half. The kneel down in the half. So if we strip those two out, those aren't real drives. Right. So they had one, two, three for eight drives total. So they had seven drives of three plus minutes. Like that's, that's pretty serious. Like I, I tell you, hold the ball.
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Tom Furnelli
The only one they did it was their very first three and out to start the game.
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Bud Elliott
Right, Exactly.
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Danny Cannell
I should have started with Carson Beck because he was awesome. Poise in the pocket to be 50 on third down was fantastic. You know, the one thing about his legs, and I think it was at Georgia where you saw this a little bit. Remember the Georgia Tech game where the, the nine overtime game. He was using his legs a lot in that game. He's had the.
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Chip Patterson
It's.
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Danny Cannell
It's in him. And I thought he. This was the type of game, especially the one where he put his shoulder down and had to get the long third. You know, I think it was third and 10 where he rolled and just put his shoulder down and got it. I think this is one of those games where you're at this point in the season, you're like, I'll do whatever it takes. But his pocket awareness was really good. You guys pointed out the, you know, lack of yardage, giving up on the sacks. I thought he was really, really good, which sets up a really fun game, potentially in a rematch against his old squad. Could be fun if Georgia takes care of their business.
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Chip Patterson
Obviously, Keonte Scott had a good game, right? Yeah, very clearly Motore had a good game. I thought David Blay had a good game. I kind of think that this was a roster construction win, you know, not that Ohio State had a poor roster, but they did. They. They found the right guys that could help them in the biggest moments. And we continue to see, like with this Miami team, there's just it, there's some credence to it. Like did. Did they have a couple of bad losses this season? 100%. But now they've got huge wins against Texas A and M and against Ohio State and in both of those games, some of those additions that they had. And again, let's throw in Corey Heatherman Right. You know, you change over the defensive coordinator as well. It's just college football can, can be a year to year proposition. And sometimes you need to be able to make the right decisions with your staff hires, with your portal additions, like getting Malachi, Tony figuring out how to put this thing together. Remarkable, remarkable win for Miami to now be one of the four last teams standing for the national championship. Congratulations to the Hurricanes as well.
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Bud Elliott
I also think Mark Fletcher was like, if you look at 20, 23, he was really coming on down the stretch as a freshman. Like, it was like, oh, this is a stud back. Like he's starting to hit his stride. I mean, like, he goes, what, 115 on the road against a ranked NC State team. He had a great game against a pretty damn good Louisville team that year. And then he gets the list. Frank injury in the Pinstripe bowl, remember? And it was like, oh, damn, man. There was like. And he just didn't look the same. Like he was effective last year, but he didn't, he didn't look like, like the guy we saw in 23 tonight. He looked more like the guy that was like, oh, yeah, like if you took 23, you told me, like, hey, there's no Liz Frank as a junior in the playoffs, like, yeah, that's kind of what I think that the kid looked like that in 23 could look. And tonight I thought, like, man, he ran. How many times did he go down first contact like that? That guy was a beast. Yeah, fireworks.
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Danny Cannell
Yeah, fireworks all over the place. I. It was the one thing that was getting a little bit concerning was I did. And this was when Ohio State started to make their charge. You saw less pass rush. I think Miami too, they snuck in, remember before the half, they took out Reuben Bain and Mezador, just get him a little bit of extra rest. The one thing that I was getting a little bit concerned about for Miami was depth. You know, that they, you know, when they shuttle in, guys, they weren't getting as much, but when they had to get it at the end, they had their fresh legs left. But I was one thing, I was a little bit worried about them in the second half, but they came up and delivered, stepped up in the fourth quarter huge.
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Tom Furnelli
Also credit to Mario because I was worried that they were going to get ultra conservative.
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Chip Patterson
I was looking for the 22 minute drive. The 22 minute drill. Yeah, yeah, we're just, we're going to try to salt away the last quarter and a half of this thing.
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Tom Furnelli
They had the fourth down and it wasn't just we're going to man ball and we're going to try to run through the A gap and get these two yards that, you know, he had Carson drop back and throw on fourth down. He trusted the best. You know, he trusted his playmaker at receiver to get it, and he got it for him. Just overall, like, they didn't turtle up. And we have seen Miami so many times in those situations where they just kind of like go into ball control, salt the game away mode, and they weren't getting the points. They weren't able to drive down the field and get extra touchdowns to build the lead. But it wasn't for lack of effort. It was just because Ohio State was stopping them.
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Danny Cannell
I. I was wondering if Mario might have learned something the last month of the season by having to be aggressive because they could not be conservative, you know, and. And realizing, like, when they had to run up the score, he was like, oh, we're capable of doing this. We can win big. And also, I'm sure he learned some from letting some teams back into it, letting those games get closer when they didn't have to be. And I think they definitely have gotten maybe something in there. Maybe they've got something in them where they're like, hey, this is. This is a new Mario Cristobal who's going to let some of these players play and make plays. And Shannon Dawson made some great play calls, some of those swing passes out in the back, and Carson Beck executed him and they caught those balls. But it was a great game plan, too, from the. From the offense, because that defensive line still is filthy and that is a great defense. But for them to come up with some of those clutch plays in critical situations with great play calls, they were. It was phenomenal.
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Chip Patterson
Thank you for saying that. Because we did say in the quarter, I mean, in the first round reaction, it was a little cute, you know, and like, we offered some criticism. So then we need to come back on the other side. I agree with you. It was a. Shannon Dawson called a really good game. It was good work by that offensive staff being able to get ready to go up against again. We will say one more time, a historically and statistically elite Ohio State defense that had not allowed more than 16 points all season long. And here Miami is 24 on the board as they advance. Before you hit a break and get to the Buckeye side of this, what went wrong? And the autopsy there for Ryan Day. Squad snap call here. Can Miami win the national championship?
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Bud Elliott
Yeah.
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Chip Patterson
Yes.
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Danny Cannell
Yes.
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Tom Furnelli
Yeah, sure.
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Chip Patterson
You just beat Ohio State.
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Danny Cannell
Yeah. The favorite.
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Chip Patterson
You forgot the monster. This thing is wide open. Everybody left has a chance now.
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Tom Furnelli
I'm going to get, I'm going to get hate for this but like I said during the week, I think Miami beat Ohio State. Do I think they could beat Ohio State and then beat Georgia and then beat whoever they have to play after that? I'm still not convinced. Not again. They had 291 yards of offense and averaged 4.6 yards per play today. Can they go 7 of 14 on third and down next week? We'll see. It's.
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Bud Elliott
It's a fair question for sure but I. It's what it's more wide open out of the Buckeyes are out.
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Tom Furnelli
Yes.
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Danny Cannell
I like their matchup against Georgia if Oregon wins, if Indiana like one of those teams that are a little bit.
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Tom Furnelli
I don't know.
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Danny Cannell
I mean they just beat the best team in the country.
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Chip Patterson
Yeah.
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Danny Cannell
Why can't they be.
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Chip Patterson
Everybody knows what happens by the time you it's January 19th.
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Bud Elliott
Right.
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Chip Patterson
You know, and you're playing and you'd be. Nevermind, we're not even going to play with that fan fiction about the game being in Miami and all that. But like yeah, let's save that for another time. You got to go and win the Fiesta bowl before we can have that conversation. But I, I do. I think Miami just took out Ohio State. Miami can beat anybody that's left in this field. So exciting time for, for the Hurricanes here as they wrap up 2025 and look ahead to 2026 and beyond. But coming up on the other side, the Ohio State Buckeyes are on to 2026. How'd they get there? Why did it happen? And what, what do they take from this season? All that and more next.
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Back.
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Chip Patterson
Here on the COVID 3 podcast. But it was this a game that just was it the worst time for a bad game? Were there things that were exposed that we could even pair with the Indiana loss? Because for 12 games it was almost undeniable and agreed upon the entire sort of college football world that this was one of the Teams that we could see winning it all. One of the, like one of the best, if not the best team in the country. And yet they finished their season a star studded season with a 13 to 10 loss to Indiana in the Big Ten championship game, followed by a 24 to 14 loss to Miami here in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal. How do we marry those two things in your opinion?
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Bud Elliott
So I, I think Miami did a really good job of speeding saying up and we, we talked in, in the Miami segment that like Miami got off the field because like the size of the sacks were, I mean five for 42. Like if you take a nine yard sack, I guarantee the stats on, on your drive being dead are astronomical. And I think they overcame one of those maybe, but I think the other four were drive killers. I, I don't think saying when he was not off play action was very good tonight. I think his eyes kind of came down against the rush some. He was kind of drifting in the pocket a little bit. I think he stepped up a whole lot. Like, like he was not really very comfortable in a dirty pocket. If you, I mean granted his yard, his numbers were much better than Carson Beck's tonight, right? But like, then again, 3 of 10 on third down, Miami was 7 and 14. And, and when you only get like eight real drives, right? And five of those drives have a sack for huge yardage. I mean like those are just drive killers. And so this is a, it's a high variance game when you only have that few possessions. And Miami did a good job of getting them off the field. Miami did a good job of continuing to possess the ball to limit the number of possessions and play an extremely slow game. You know, I, I don't, I don't think he was great tonight, honestly. I don't think Carnell Tate was great tonight either. I mean eight targets for 37 yards. My Miami will give you three and a half yards of target all day if you, if you want it like that. That's, that's a wasted play every time I threw it to take tonight. Unfortunately for them, you know, I think that was like the biggest thing. They, they ran the ball okay I thought, but it was, it was more like chunk runs than it was, you know, like consistent. Keep them ahead of the chains type runs and like their drop back stuff when they were not off play action I, I don't think was great.
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Tom Furnelli
Yeah, like saying he does not step up, nor does he step to the left or the right. He always goes backwards, which is never what you want to do. And the guys who do do it and get away with it are like the guys who can run and scramble. And Saying's not going to do that. Like, if he's going to get out of the pocket, he needs to go forward and try to find a lane to do that. But he just goes backwards, gets himself in more trouble than he's already in. And like you said, that's why he loses those chunk yardage when he gets sacked. It's. It's never a three yard loss. When Julian saying gets sacked, it's an eight yard loss. So instead of being in like second and 13, you're in second and 18, and that's much more difficult to come out of. So, yeah, I, I don't think he was. I don't think Sam was very good at all. He made some nice throws. He made the one back shoulder throw to Smith along the sidelines.
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Bud Elliott
Yeah, that was beauty.
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Tom Furnelli
There was the deep ball to Smith was nice, but like, you look at his final stats and we'll ignore the two interceptions that came at the end, which completely kill his line either way. But like the 287 yards was very misleading to me, me. So, I mean, like 59 of it came on the one throw overall, just, it was a lot of Jeremiah Smith. I felt like doing a whole hell of a lot of work. And I also think that was part of Miami's plan, which was kind of dangerous, but it worked. And it's like, you know what? Jeremiah Smith's gonna get his. We'll take away every single other option you have. We'll take away all the underneath stuff. And if Jeremiah burns us, he burns us and we just have to live with it. But you mentioned Carnell Tate. He didn't look 100 to me. Like, that's. They said he was healthy. The guy I saw out there tonight did not look like the guy I saw during the regular season.
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Danny Cannell
This is why, I mean, you obviously didn't have to go through the gauntlet of the ACC like Miami dad to get battle tested, you know, obviously. But no, this is where, when everybody, when, when you started to say for Ohio State, like, they're so good, but we don't know how good they are because they haven't been tested. Like Julian saying he's only had two games all year and they were back to back that he had to learn how to step up. Like he's never had to be under that type of duress and that type of pocket that's going to collapse really quickly. And look at the veteran Experience of Carson Beck, how many times did he step up right by the edge rusher? And it was just like you let that first wave pass you by because he's been in that pocket for 40 starts. You know, Julian saying, still a young quarterback and he had such a clean pocket most of the year, he didn't learn, he didn't get to do that. And so that, that I do and I do think that Ohio State like not really getting tested and even Indiana, I remember talking about that with Indiana and Texas A and M when they both had their games against Penn State, when Indiana had to come back, when Texas A and M at South Carolina, you're like, well, I kind of feel better about them because we saw them come back from behind, deal with some mid game adversity, figure it out and figure out a way to win. Ohio State never had to do that almost the whole season. And then all of a sudden you're for the first time you're like facing this huge test and you don't know how you're going to react. And now we're talking about issues that crop up. That's where I do think Ohio State would have been better served if maybe the Texas game was later or they had a close game or two and played some of the tougher teams in the Big Ten that they didn't have to face. I think they would have been better served. Kind of like last year, when you lose a game or two, it's not the worst case because you kind of figure out your weaknesses. Like we all thought their offensive line was great, you know, like they only gave up six sacks all year. Yeah, but sudden you go against a couple good defenses, like, oh, we got some work to do. And if they had, if they had realized they might have shuffled guys around, who knows, like they might have made some adjustments that would have made him more battle tested and equipped to knock off Indiana or Miami.
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Bud Elliott
I do think how long Miami held the ball increased the pressure on Ohio State's offense. And look guys, the number of teams that went for 5.6 yards of play on Miami this year, 2. The Buckeyes and then the Hokies, who had a bunch of garbage time drives late. Nobody else went above five and a half yards of play all year on this Miami defense. So it wasn't like Ohio State wasn't moving it. Like really nobody else moved it like them like this on them all year before any kind of garbage time type stuff. It's just they only had eight possessions.
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Chip Patterson
And pick six and a missed field Goal, Right, Exactly. You know, like two. Two scoring opportunities that ended in like, you could say negative 10 points if you want to say, you know. Yeah, yeah.
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Bud Elliott
Nine drives, not eight. Excuse me. But still, like the number of plays is so low you get what, 50 something plays. 56, 59 plays. Yeah, like that. That's, that's not many.
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Tom Furnelli
I also think I, and I mentioned this in HQ before the game started and we saw a little bit of it early. I thought Ohio State was going to go tempo here like after they hadn't done it all year and we saw him doing it early and I think Miami completely overwhelming their offensive line caused data kind of throw that plan out the window. So that's another like kind of little hidden thing in this game where Miami success early really probably dictated what Ohio State was going to hope to do on offense.
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Bud Elliott
Yeah, I agree.
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Chip Patterson
Any final words for the Buckeyes?
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Bud Elliott
Still a really good team and a really good season. I mean, like this sport, if you want more evidence of sport is more compressed than it's ever been at the top. It's a pretty good example.
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Chip Patterson
Well, but this, I mean the E. But the argument for the compression, a lot of it, and I'm not saying you. But a lot of it points back to the power ratings and that Ohio State was power rated so much higher than everybody else. Like even, even the compression is lot. Even the numbers won't. Can't even dictate how compressed it is because anyone's model had Ohio State markedly better than everyone else. But this, this stage that we've got here in this current format, you know, it's. You show up, you get caught in this kind of game, you make a few mistakes, you take those sacks, you miss those opportunities in scoring position, your season's over.
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Bud Elliott
Just like that, two years in a row. The betting favorite got the buy and lost their first game.
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Chip Patterson
They played.05 for the buy teams. I will wait till tomorrow night before I draw any big.
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Bud Elliott
Yeah, because remember like the last year.
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Chip Patterson
Arizona State, Boise State like it.
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Bud Elliott
Right?
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Chip Patterson
Yeah. Yeah. Let's. Let's wait until we see what. Let's wait. What Texas Tech looks like, what Georgia looks like, what Indiana looks like. Though Kurt Signetti seems to be sowing the seeds of travel issues and teams not practicing well. So hooray. We'll see what that looks like in Pasadena. A sloppy Pasadena.
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Tom Furnelli
Also, Ohio State was favored over Oregon too last year.
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Danny Cannell
Yeah.
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Tom Furnelli
And. And the rest didn't seem to do Oklahoma a whole lot of good last week because Alabama came straight off and fell behind 17 nothing. Even though they were the fresher team.
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Chip Patterson
Yep. Speaking of tomorrow's games, we will be live at the conclusion of the Sugar bowl between Georgia and Ole Miss early in the day. Yeah. For those of you who are watching on YouTube.com cover3 yeah. I do appreciate the opportunity to to from, from this historic, this historic podcasting studio here here of in the in Chateau de Canal. Danny. Danny and I are going to be at the Orange bowl watch CBS Sports HQ. We're going to be live starting about 10:30am Eastern Time with a lot of coverage before the game as well as after the game.
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Tom Furnelli
I'll be on with you for the first hour.
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Chip Patterson
Let's go. Love that. So check it out CBS Sports HQ as we count down to kickoff to the Orange Bowl. And then of course we'll lead into the Rose Bowl Sugar Cover 3 podcast YouTube.com Cover 3 where we will be able to not only discuss the games but preview the semifinals as we will know the matchup. One final congratulations to the Miami Hurricanes. You are off to the Fiesta bowl semifinal. We'll find out who they play tomorrow night and you can follow him on Twitter at Tom Franelli. You can follow him at Bud Elliot.
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Danny Cannell
3.
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Chip Patterson
You can follow him at Danny Canelo. You can follow me at Chip Underscore Patterson. Gentlemen, thank you very much.
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Tom Furnelli
Happy 16th birthday, Mad Dog.
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Danny Cannell
Happy New Year.
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Tom Furnelli
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