Bill Landis

And I think there was enough wonkiness with Ohio State's offensive staff at the time of the Indiana loss that they used that to rationalize a lot of what happened rather than really looking under the hood before they played Miami.

There were times throughout the regular season where it felt like we were on the verge of some offensive line shuffling that never really happened.

I think part of that was because of injury.

I think had the Indiana game happened in the same fashion it did, but in October, Ohio State would have reworked its offensive line a little bit.

So I think it was true of Ryan Day in 2024.

Yeah, I think it's true of a lot of defense when they lost to Oregon.

You shouldn't have to lose and do it.

But that's what Indiana, like almost losing to Iowa and almost losing to Penn State and playing like an absolute dogfight with Oregon in the regular season.

I don't cover Indiana.

I'd imagine they would say that made them better for the postseason because they learned some stuff about themselves.

It wasn't just that Ohio State won every game and played in the regular season last year.

It's like they didn't have to break a sweat in winning every game they won.

Yeah.

Miami, for all of the reasons Matt started to kind of lay out there.

I just think the ACC is bad.

I went through Miami's schedule and tried to say, oh, who might they lose to?

And

It's like at Notre Dame, and then I don't really know what else.

At Clemson, I still don't see at Clemson being a test right now.

Virginia Tech at the end of the year, if James Franklin has some stuff figured out, maybe that's an interesting game.