Stream-of-Consciousness Notes
22011 Sugar Bowl - 1st Quarter
By
Pete Fiutak
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2010
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - Florida vs. Cincinnati
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2009
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - Alabama vs. Utah
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2008
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - Georgia vs. Hawaii
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2007
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - LSU vs. Notre Dame
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2011
Rose Bowl SOC Notes - TCU vs. Wisconsin
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - Pregame
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 2nd Quarter
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 3rd Quarter
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 4th Quarter
- How do you know you've made it as an official
big-time head coach? You don't need to wear a pass
around your neck. Petrino has one, Tressel doesn't.
Arkansas on its own 20
- Hogs, start bombing away from the start. OSU is
coming into this game fired up about its pass
defense. Take away its will right away.
- Buckeyes, get to Ryan Mallett. Now. Breathe on him
and he'll misfire. Give him time and he'll go
ballistic ...
- OOHHHHHH. Mallett gets time and he hits Joe Adams
right in the hands. Adams would've been gone.
- Great sign, though, for the Hogs. Thank you, Mr.
Cowboy, I'll take it under advisement, hit it again.
- Todd Blackledge isn't quite right in saying that
OSU hasn't faced a quarterback as good as Mallett.
Talent-wise, yeah, but Wisconsin's Scott Tolzien did
with the Johnny U.
- Mallett gets time again, he hits another receiver
right in the hands, and Julian Horton drops it.
- No, Julian, you can't complain about a late hit
when you drop the ball.
- Welcome to the new group, Mallett and the New
Year's Receiving Corps. This group drops more balls
than Times Square ... BING, POW.
- And there it is. Ohio State lightly passed by
Mallett and he bounce passed a throw.
- Fortunately for Ryan, they play flag football in
the NFL.
- "Uncomfortable throws," as Blackledge just termed
them, are what the NFL is all about.
Ohio State on its own 26
- OSU tries to hammer is with Dan
Herron from the start. Terrelle Pryor sold the fake
well ... BING, POW.
- Arkansas, force Pryor to roll to his left. He'll
throw back across his body and will hang it up nice
and easy for you.
- Is Arkansas DE Jake Bequette lining up offsides?
The officials don't seem to care.
- Pryor's NFL throwing mechanics make Tim Tebow look
like Tom Brady.
- Arkansas has to tackle better. The defenders can't
seem to get their hands on Herron.
- See, Wisconsin, you CAN run the ball over and over
again if it's working.
- Arkansas, get OSU in third and longs and you'll
have a good day.
- Michigan, if you're really going to deny the
reports that RichRod is fired, how can you can him
now?
- Third and nine and Pryor glides like he's ...
- FUMBLE?
- Dane Sanzenbacher falls on it in the end zone for
a Buckeye TD. Ohio State, Big Ten, this might be
your day.
- Does Arkansas LB Tenarius Wright get credit for a
forced fumble on his own guy?
- Sanzenbacher's whacked out helmet hair is exactly
what I look like from roughly September 1 to three
days from now.
Ohio State 7 ... Arkansas 0
- So, the chicks are ticked that the alien
chicks dare want to schmeplicate with their males,
they're ticked that the males leave to save the
planet, and then they're ready to party once they
leave just because they get some beer? Could happen.
- Fortunately, ABC is allowing America the privilege
of watching Detroit 1-8-7 instead of one of the
biggest college football games of the season.
- Did Drew Basil do that on purpose? Did he miss? It
looked like OSU tried to pop it up for a pseudo
onside kick. That's sheer hubris run amok on Tressel
- You pull a stunt like that and your defense had
better hold.
Arkansas on its own 49
- Welcome to the Knile Davis party.
Arkansas is trying to get physical, and Davis can
pound as well as any back the Buckeyes have seen.
- WOW ... no, that has to come back, but what a
phenomenally athletic play from D.J. Williams to
roll over the OSU defender and run into the end
zone. But his elbow HAD to have hit.
- Yeah, it's under review. It looked like his wrist
hit.
- No man has ever picked up a hot chick in Taco
Bell. Believe me, I know. But a La Bamba ...
- Check that. No hot chick has ever, or will ever,
be hot for a man eating a Taco Bell burrito. I know
that from experience, too.
- Yeah, it was ruled his wrist hit. It's only
putting off the inevitable the way the Hog offense
is moving.
- WHAT A THROW. Mallett gets time and he lofts up a
perfect toss in the bucket, and Adams scorches
Travis Howard for a score. That will be on Mallett's
NFL highlight reel.
- The word you're looking for, OSU fans, is
yeeeeeesh.
- It takes a special kind of dork to make a sign and
hold it up to a game while wearing a plastic pig on
your head. Spelling his name Mallet takes it to
another level.
Arkansas 7 ... Ohio State 7
Ohio State on its own 31
- With time to throw, watch Mallett and then
watch Pryor. I know he can run, but Pryor has 19
miles to go before he's ready to think about the
NFL.
- Third and ten. Cue the clown music ...
- Dork on me. Pryor makes a terrific play to
scramble to find Jake Stoneburner for a first down.
- OSU is doing a nice job of mixing it up, but
there's no reason to not stick with Herron and the
ground game.
- The Hogs have the entire secondary sitting on
DeVier Posey's head.
- Pryor is on. He gets time, Sanzenbacher gets open,
and No. 2 throws a dart.
- OSU is playing relatively up-tempo. This isn't
Tressel Ball.
- What a freaking block by Justin Boren. The OSU
left guard just obliterated the Hog DT so Herron
could walk into the end zone.
- In the be careful what you wish for department,
Arkansas wanted to play OSU with Pryor, Herron,
Posey, and Mike Adams.
Ohio State 14 ... Arkansas 7
Arkansas on its own 9
- The Hogs get pushed back on a penalty.
All that means is more yards for Mallett to crank
out.
- Keep pounding with Davis. Mallett might be the
meal ticket, but OSU wasn't stopping Davis.
- OSU hasn't been close to stopping Adams. He's wide
open on every play.
- The Buckeye defensive front had better get a hand
on Mallett soon.
- I really, really like Davis. His cutback move to
break Ross Homan's ankles will be adored by the NFL
types.
- OSU DT Dexter Larimore is getting destroyed ...
- Just as I write that, No. 72 uses Mallett as a hat
- Now the Buckeye D line is humming. If it knows the
pass is coming, it pins its ears back and Mallett is
dead.
- Mallett is awful, AWFUL when there's even the
slightest hint of a pass rush.
- Tremendous punt to put OSU down at the one. br />
- The girl in the Don't Be Silly, Adrian
Peterson ad just makes me feel like Christmas
Ohio State on its own 1
- OSU, you have a mobile quarterback
who can avoid the sack. Take a shot deep with Posey.
- The Hog defensive line was able to attack and get
penetration with OSU not even pretending to throw,
and it forced a three-and-out.
- Terrific punt coverage to get out of a jam.
Arkansas on its own 46
- Mallett has such a fantastic arm,
but he dared to test Chimdi Chekwa. Ryan, you're
going to lose that battle.
- Ooooooh. Chekwa is hurt. Get ready for Travis
Howard to get thrown at over and over again. SWEEP
THE LEG.
- Chekwa looks like he broke his arm.
- The Hogs are killing themselves with penalties and
ill-timed allowed sacks.
- It's taking everything in the bag for the Arkansas
O line to keep Cameron Heyward in check.
- Wow. An SEC-Big Ten game that isn't over after 15
minutes.
FIRST QUARTER SCORE: Ohio State 14 ...
Arkansas 7
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - Pregame
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 2nd Quarter
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 3rd Quarter
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 4th Quarter