There’s no way to sugar coat what we witnessed today; Ohio State’s 35-28 loss to Oregon was an absolute, top-to-bottom failure of the highest order. For all of the 2020 season, and now for the first two games of the 2021 campaign, the Buckeye defense has looked slow, out of position, nowhere near fundamentally sound, and at every turn out-coached.
The difference between 2020 and 2021 so far has been that last season, OSU had the best quarterback in Ohio State history in Justin Fields to cover up many of the defense’s mistakes. This year, they are relying on an inexperienced, redshirt freshman in C.