Maturity Takes a Knee

Last night's Fiesta Bowl was a great game. By far the best bowl game this year. Ohio State came out and played better than anybody thought they would. Texas played well too, but truly got out played by the Buckeyes. You could not have asked for more excitement in Arizona. Even though my team didn't win, I would take an action packed match like that anyday.

As a Buckeye fan I only had 2 issues with the way the game went. The first was Tressel's decision to run the ball up the gut on 3rd and 13 at Texas' 40-something yardline. I don't feel like that had any hope for converting a first down, and the momentum had been in our favor going into that play.

The other issue I had was actually connected to the Buckeyes putting points on the board. I think we scored too fast, and didn't have a good perspective on the way we wanted the game to play out. We were in easy field goal range with 2:00 left on the clock. We could have ran the clock down to around the 1:00 minute mark or less before either scoring a touchdown or a field goal. By scoring quick they put the ball back into the hands of arguable the nations best offense. Even if we only kicked a field goal, the Longhorns would have had to put together a drive and kick a field goal to win (something they hadn't done much of this year). Maybe this was the Buckeyes' game plan, and Boom Herron just broke free, but I think if they had done it, the outcome would have been different.

Either way, it was still a great game. Congrats to Colt McCoy on a great end to a great season. Ohio State Seniors went out with their heads up too. They played a great game, and just ran out of time. What a game.