My son had a flag football game this morning (9AM PST) so I missed watching the first half of the game live. I checked the score multiple times during my son's game and saw that we were ahead comfortably at halftime. By the time we got home, it was 31-9 early in the third quarter as I settled in to watch the game on DVR. Since I already knew the score early in the third quarter, watching the first half wasn't nearly as stressful or tense as it usually is for me. What I noticed is that when I watched the game knowing that we would be ahead by a bunch early in third, the Buckeyes looked much better than when I watch them with clouded judgement in the "heat of battle." Sure, we have some slop to clean up (penalties, Denzel Burke's inconsistency, etc.), but what I saw was super impressive, especially from the defense in the first half. They seem to fly to the ball, play disciplined, and with "controlled" emotion. Offensively, I still get confused with our playcalling and can only think that maybe Day is using these games as glorified scrimmages because the playcalling is herky jerky. But all in all, I was very impressed by OSU today, and I think because I watched it knowing the future score I saw it more clearly. 

Then I come to the Forums on this site and you would think that we lost, gave up 40 points, had 5 turnovers, and got locked in our locker room at halftime. On a day when two top 10 teams went down at home and several other favorites lost, being ahead by 30+ points at the end of the third quarter is a blessing (checks his phone to see that Kent is giving Oklahoma all it can handle right now). Give it a rest. Some of you just need to get off of your high horses and watch the damn game, root for the Bucks, and not be so critical, especially when no one is perfect and there are very few "easy" wins in FBS in the transfer portal era. Just get over yourselves. Curb your expectations and just watch the games. The reason 2002 and 2014 were so magical is that expectations weren't as sky high as they are every year nowadays. 

Take it one game at a time. Win and move on. 

Go Bucks!