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If only we lived in a parallel universe where the playoff committee didn't consider losses. At least we are the highest ranked 3 loss team for now.

I have a suggestion...wait until we lose before you unload on him? Doing it after a great victory detracts from your legitimate criticisms; it makes me wonder, quite a bit, about the timing of your concerns. Very few coaches have done what Lanning has done in his first five years, and after all your berating....who do you replace him with? The coaches on par are either comfortably in their current jobs in college or the NFL, or you take a chance on someone unproven. Of all the candidates out there--Dan is the best of them.

Miami is 129th and BYU 136th. How are they ranked so high?

They're just screwing with us now. Dangling an at large bid...I don't see it without major carnage ahead of us, like 3 Big 12 teams losing multiple games to get knocked out in addition to SEC cannibalization. The worst part is the only alternative is rooting for Riley to beat Cignetti outside of the Coliseum. Something neither want to root for, nor expect in a million years to happen.

You forgot and left out the fact that we paid their DC under the table to have them in wrong formations, and the water boy to put mind-altering drugs in the Gatorade.

I'm pretty critical of Hampton right now as we are sitting at 50th in total defense. Tosh had us #7 last year, #15 in 2025 and #22 in 2023, so 50th is a big regression. But this chart shows Hampton has seen a top 25 offense in 66% of the games so far. That 50th in total defense doesn't tell the whole story. The chart actually says we have been elite going against elite offenses.

He's not getting fired, but it's disappointing in year-5 that he needs to make major course corrections. IMO Dan has the next two years to go deep in the playoffs, and he need to be competitive even in a loss, or he will be in hot water. If he can do that then it's progress, he is getting deep in the playoff and losing tight games. If he keeps getting run off the field, then the question becomes with all the Oregon resources why not give someone else a shot? In two years, that could be a really fair question. But in the here and now... JJ should be showing Dan the value of experience, even from someone who wasn't lauded for his tenure as a OC. JJ has been around long enough to about seen it all at this point, and that is a valuable trait. Imagine the conversation in the film room: Johnson likely telling Lanning, "I love outside zone—We won a Doak Walker with Kenneth Walker III running it—but we can't block it here, and our spread RPO leaves our struggling tackles on an island. We have to play the cards we're dealt, and that means changing it up to suit the players strengths. Coach Meh couldn't solve that riddle and didn't have clue how to run gap. He thought gap was a 13 personal goal line formation, and he was bringing the defense in to stack the box with the formation and trying to run into it. That go-ahead 4th and 2 TD against Northwestern, JJ had them spread out and ran Duo. Lanning said in the post-game JJ want to run it on second down, so Lanning is meddling in the play calls. (BTW- I loved that call, as we haven't run up the middle well all year in short yardage, so spread them out to try it) Hopefully moving forward Lanning will place the deserved value on experience that allows an OC to be a better teacher and evaluate and solve scheme problems. Hopefully he takes that approach across the entire staff. I mean if JJ can turn the offense around, Dan should be wondering what an OC like Mike Locksley or Mike Norvell could do. I'm with you that if things go perfect that Lanning could get us that Natty, but I'm pessimistic and really irked by some of the mistakes he has made. It's hard for me right now to give him lots of pats on the back.

Boy...passing five of those teams is a tough row to hoe. Cross your fingers!

Higher than I thought they'd go but I'll take it! https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50448424/georgia-takes-cfp-top-spot-notre-dame-leaps-no-5

I'd say that is mostly true... But honestly... fire Lanning and realistically get who?

Thank you very much, but I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid; there needs to be some accountability. Lanning is in year five. This shouldn't be a growth year! He isn't meeting the challenge. His team's lost three games after entering the season with the number two ranked roster on the 247Sports composite and arguably maybe the most lauded and highly touted defensive returning line in college football After getting blown the hell off the field in the last two playoffs. Lanning executed coaching malpractice by doing two internal coordinator hires of unproven P4 candidates. His approach was, if we got outcoached, my teams weren't ready to play and got run off the playoff field the last two years, this is the change I'm going to do to fix that: I'm gonna bring in unproven coordinators and keep the same offensive scheme. I mean, come on. Let's not give credit where credit isn't due. Let's face the truth. Lessons learned in years one through four should have had him reaching the promised land this year, not in another year or two. As far as the offense rolling now, that's another area he dropped the ball. He should have seen in the last couple of years that elite teams were shutting down Will Stein's horizontal spread RPO offense and made an adjustment instead of sticking to the same scheme with Meh. I've been yelling at my TV since the 2023 Pac-12 title loss to Washington that we need to go back to being more multiple on offense while featuring a gap scheme run game. I've wondered why Lanning couldn't see last year his offense was built to run the same system Todd Monken ran at Georgia. He had a better QB, better TE's, great RB's and a great OL. I'm going to say it again. That Monken Pro-Style scheme was built for a QB like Donte, and we would have won the Natty last year if we were running it with a good play caller. No one was going to be able to shut down that OL line and TE's running gap, without bringing the safeties up and stacking the box. Then hard play action puts them into pick your poison spot, Sadiq's 4.39 speed going Seam, Benson taking the top off, Dak crossing, and Johnson chipping and releasing. The bottom line is Lanning is getting paid 10 million, he has elite facilities, a $40 million NIL budget that bought him an elite roster. In conclusion looking at the facts, Lanning is not producing an acceptable return on investment.

See the last sentence above....

(Matt Patricia is Ohio State's Defensive Coordinator)

I had not heard of high school NIL before this. Crazy.