Ohio State falls to Michigan in devastating fashion 30-24 after a roller coaster of a game. Brendan Gulick and Anthony Moeglin talk through some key moments from the game in this Buckeye Breakdown Clip.
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00:00 tell you what, when I walk away from this game, and you look at
00:04 the stats and you say, Hey, Michigan was three for 12. On
00:07 third down. How do you lose? Well, you lose two ways. One,
00:13 they were aggressive. They were three for three on fourth downs,
00:17 several of which came in critical moments where they just
00:21 decided, you know what, we're gonna play to win. And Ryan Day
00:24 was asked, probably three or four different ways in the post
00:26 game press conference about the end of the first half, where he
00:29 decided to try to kick the field goal. He was he was clear
00:34 in his explanation of I know was fourth and two, I know I had a
00:37 timeout. I know I could have thrown it over the middle and
00:40 try to pick up a first down and then call timeout and, you know,
00:43 try to make something happen of it or whatever. He basically
00:46 just said, I wanted to kick a field goal. I wanted to take
00:49 points into the halftime and try to make it a 1413 game. Because
00:53 ultimately, in a game like this, yeah, you got to find a way to
00:56 get in the end zone. But when you're late in the half, or when
01:01 you feel like your offense is stalling, you can't leave points
01:05 on the field in general. And he defended himself saying, if it
01:09 was fourth and two, we throw it in completion, we get no points.
01:12 And ultimately had no points anyways, but it was a 52 yard
01:15 field goal that is unquestionably going to be one of
01:18 the most highly discussed parts of this game.
01:23 Yeah, no question. And that's such a, it's a tough situation.
01:27 It honestly is like I know everyone get what everyone, you
01:29 know, at home and on their couch like, Oh my gosh, run the play
01:31 and do this, do that. Well, the clock's ticking, you need to get
01:34 a play in quick. Okay, so it's not like you can scheme up the
01:37 right play. The clock was ticking at the time, you only
01:39 have one timeout left. And, you know, that's a that's a really
01:41 hard situation that, you know, you practice a lot and you try
01:44 to prepare for every situation in the book. And you get one,
01:47 you know, right at the end of the half there where he's going
01:50 to be kicking himself for no pun intended, but going to be
01:52 kicking himself for it, because you come up empty on an
01:56 opportunity. I think if you could have tempoed into
01:58 something, try to get the first down and move the ball up a
02:00 little bit further to make an easier kick. You know, that's
02:03 one hindsight's always 2020. But that was a tough deal. That's a
02:06 tough situation in that one.
02:07 So Michigan threw it for 182. They ran it for 156. It's 338
02:12 yards total offense. If you had told me that pregame probably
02:16 would have liked my chances if I'm an Ohio State fan. Those are
02:19 not gaudy numbers. They're reasonably productive, but
02:22 they're not crazy. You know, I think about the game changing
02:28 moments. Donovan Edwards throwing a pretty good ball on
02:33 a little trick play. You know, Michigan's decisions to try on
02:38 fourth and short and converting successfully all three times.
02:42 They outpossessed Ohio State in critical moments, they bled the
02:46 clock. It felt like the perfect storm. I am not going to sit
02:50 here and tell you that I think Ohio State, you know, got jobbed
02:54 or anything like that. I walk away from this game going, gosh,
02:59 that's a that's a tough loss for the Bucs. Because I know
03:04 Michigan won the game, they're the better team. You're gonna
03:08 have a hard time convincing me that that roster top to bottom
03:12 is still better than Ohio State's top to bottom. I felt
03:15 like Ohio State controlled the line of scrimmage for a chunk of
03:19 the game. They just ultimately didn't win on the scoreboard.
03:22 And so Michigan wins three in a row. And now they're gonna go
03:24 play Iowa who they'll probably beat by 20 at least.
03:26 And I'll tell you what, too, you know, what was really impressive,
03:30 you know, from the Ohio State team and something that, you
03:32 know, continually kept catching the eye of people watching at
03:35 home is the play of the defensive line. You talked about
03:37 it, you know, this morning, I thought Mike Hall and Ty Leake
03:40 Williams were like big, big time issues inside. And if you
03:43 watch back, Michigan did struggle to run the ball inside
03:46 the tackle, like inside the guards, like they're flat out
03:48 nothing. They couldn't do it.
03:49 Ty Leake Williams was throwing offensive linemen around.
03:52 Yeah, it was insane. And he was causing havoc. And, you know,
03:55 they were and they were they had a sack. Mike Hall had a huge
03:57 sack. Like, you know, these guys were playing really, really
04:00 well. And it's just like, doesn't, it just doesn't make
04:02 sense. And it's like, oh, my gosh, if you play that game 10
04:04 times, you know, that's Ohio State wins five, Michigan wins
04:07 five, like that's it's two feels like very evenly matched teams.
04:11 And really what it came down to was one team made two mistakes
04:15 and the other team didn't make any. That's what it in my
04:17 opinion.
04:18 I was just gonna say it, you know, the reality is the
04:21 Buckeyes for the first time all year. I have defended Kyle
04:26 McCourt all year and I still think he played okay. He didn't
04:29 play he didn't play good enough today. He made he made two
04:34 critical mistakes in really, really bad moments. And
04:38 ultimately, and I'm not saying like, that's the only reason
04:41 Ohio State lost but we're talking about a game postgame
04:45 that had the feeling we thought pregame that it literally was
04:48 two extremely talented, equally matched, talented teams, where
04:53 this game would come down to one or two plays. Ohio State
04:58 threw two interceptions and Michigan never turned it over.
05:01 Michigan scored every time they had the ball in the in the
05:04 second half. It just wasn't quite good enough for the Bucs.