Well then. That was … damn. What the hell was that?
That was the worst effort I think I’ve ever seen from a sports team (at least for the last 59 minutes and 44 seconds of the game). The defense looked baffled by a glitzy but relatively straight-forward Florida attack, while the offense was thoroughly incompetent despite having NFL talent at every skill position. (82 total yards? Are you kidding me? And almost all of that was on one drive …) The offensive line was Swiss cheese and there was never any significant pass rush on Chris Leak. Who thought Jim Tressel would get so thoroughly outcoached? I’m just … speechless.
If the result had been closer, I’d be using this space to argue for Boise State being chosen as the national champion, but that’s hard to say after this beatdown.
As said on the comment board of a sports blog I peruse: “Eventually growing up a sports fan in Cleveland will be admissable as a defense in capital murder cases.”