Ohio State's offense truly looked confused and bewildered by the Florida defense blitzing scheme and various formations. Troy Smith was running for his life most of the night and he did not handle the pressure well. Holding Ohio State's offense to 82 yards and only 8 first downs is truly amazing, and it helped set up Florida offense with great field position all night.
Losing Ginn after the 1st series did not help any.
I have never seen Tressel not make adjustments during a game, but it looked like he just stayed with what was obviously NOT working.
I'm trying to figure out why they did not change to a 3 step drop and quick passes, instead of the typical 7 step drop, also Tressel going for it on 4th and 1 around his own 30 was very uncharicteristic.
He never ran any screens and draws, those are the plays that will back off an over agressive defense.
Defensivley, the Buckeyes do not play a "zone D", they are normally an attacking D, but they played zone the WHOLE game.
Very easy for Leak to throw the ball 2 yards over the line of scrimmage and hit an open reciever, when OSU never bothered to cover them.
It was a very easy game plan for Urban , if he sees OSU is not going to make any adjustments.
btw,
Who let the Arizona Cardinals in the Buckeye's locker room ? (or was it the Lions)