Well, that wasn’t pretty, in fact it was downright ugly in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl. It was always going to be an uphill battle with Kyle McCord entering the transfer portal, but then when Devin Brown went down with an injury early in the game against Missouri, it made things even more difficult.
What we witnessed was a game in which Ohio State couldn’t get anything going on offense, and a defense that played its tail off but wore down toward the end of the game. The result will go down as one of the most lackluster bowl losses in OSU history, 14-3.
All of Buckeye Nation wanted answers after the game, and we took some time to sleep on it and take stock of what in the world went wrong on Friday night. But hey, contrary to what you might have been led to believe, there isn’t actually asteroid bearing down on Columbus to wipe out the Ohio State program as we know it.
While it would be easy to pile on (there’s been plenty of that), this reflection will probably be a little softer than other ones your reading, or even what’s going through your own collective thoughts.
Here are five somewhat levelheaded things I think I know after watching what unfolded in Dallas against Missouri.