Stream-of-Consciousness Notes
2011 Sugar Bowl - 4th 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 - 1st Quarter
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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
Ohio State 31 ... Arkansas 21
Arkansas on its own 49
- Hogs, don't panic. You're in it now
and you have an entire quarter to go. Just take your
time, relax, and try to keep running. Knile Davis is
averaging six yards per crack.
- Mallett throws a dart for a first down to D.J.
Williams. Ohio State is finding players out of the
stands now. The defense is banged u, and Mallett is
taking advantage.
- He's so good when he has time to throw, and he's
so good when he can sling it. It's just when he gets
pressured that there's a problem.
- Like there. Cameron Heyward and Dexter Larimore
didn't give Mallett time to do anything to get rid
of the ball. If OSU pulls this out, the Buckeye
defensive tackles have to be the MVPs.
- With so many banged up defensive backs, Ohio State
has to keep taking chances on the pass rush.
- Arkansas punter Dylan Breeding is having himself a
seriously great night. He put it perfectly down
inside the five.
Ohio State on its own 3
- I said this earlier in the game.
OSU, you have a mobile quarterback. Take one shot
down the field to DeVier Posey and see if you can
catch the Hogs selling out to stop the ...
- How in the wide, wide, world of sports is that a
safety?! Dan Herron's forward progress was at the
two, he got pushed into the end zone, and it's a
safety?!
- HOW?! Is it because he disengaged in the end zone?
I've never seen that before where the runner got
zero benefit of the doubt.
- That was a phenomenal stop by Arkansas LB Anthony
Leon.
- Jim Tressel is trying to have an argument. I'd
like to see Bo Pelini if he got hosed by a call like
that.
Ohio State 31 ... Arkansas 23
- GGgggghhhhhhh ACCCKKKKKK! Woo-dee, I'm
going to steal your Sugar Bowl!
Arkansas on its own 47
- Again, Arkansas, there's 11 minutes
to play. There's no need to get weird.
- Everything, EVERYTHING is going the Hogs' way.
Mallett's pass get tipped, Jarius Wright gets it,
Brian Rolle whiffs on the tackle, and the Hogs are
down to the 34.
- Oooooh. Time out Arkansas. This is too tight a
game to give away time outs now.
- Hogs, for me. Please. Knile Davis.
- Thank you.
- He's going to get over 150 yards for the fourth
straight game.
- All things considered, the backup Buckeye
defensive backs are holding up well. Corner Devon
Torrence came up with a next-level open-field tackle
on Davis to make it third and 12.
- Todd Blackledge is having a strong game. He's
doing a nice job of pointing out the subtleties,
like where Heyward is lining up.
- Chip, chip, chip, chip, chip.
- Field goal. The Hogs go from being within a
touchdown and a two, to a touchdown for the win.
- GGggggghhhhhhh. Accccckkkkkkk.
- I'm not sure how Jim Tressel was able to pat that
defender on the butt with both hands around his
neck.
Ohio State 31 ... Arkansas 26
Ohio State on its own 14
- The nightmare continues. The
Buckeyes couldn't be playing any worse right now.
Arkansas is seriously flying around right now.
- Listen to the Hog crowd. Seriously, how much did
the Orange Bowl suck?
- OSU, act as if. Act is if you're one of the top
teams in America. Act as if you're full of
next-level talent. Act as if you're Ohio freakin'
State.
- The Buckeyes aren't even thinking of going down
the field with the passing game. Arkansas doesn't
seem to care a lick about the deep ball ...
- And it proves costly. Pryor is dead-to-rights in
the backfield, but he takes off for a first down
that might turn out to be the biggest play of the
game getting nine yards on third and five with under
seven minutes to play.
- Ohio State can not, not play an interesting bowl
game ... unless it involves Florida.
- And then the ultra-conservative calls kick in.
Pryor is having a great game, but he can't continue
to be put in situations where he has to push the
ball deep through the air.
- Pryor almost does it again. He takes off, but he
just misses and comes up just short. Fourth and one
from their own 40, no ... you don't. No, Jim, you
don't. NO, Jim, you don't. You kick it deep and make
Mallett go the distance ....
- Ohio State is going for it. I get it, but if this
doesn't work ....
- Ggggggghhhhhhh. Accccckkkkkk.
- Herron has it with a ...
- No, he doesn't. He put the ball on the ground!
It's behind the line, and there's no way that's a
first down now ...
- Gggggggggghhhhhh. Acccccckkkkk.
- There's no way that's a first down ...
- And it's not.
- Arkansas, you've gotten this high up the mountain
...
Arkansas on the Ohio State 39
- Tonight, Cameron Heyward has gone
from a first rounder to a must-have first rounder.
- Mallett is having an awful, AWFUL night when he's
trying to avoid the rush. He's better laterally than
he is when he has to move up and fire.
- This almost feels like a basketball game when the
team makes the big comeback but it's missing the
extra reserve tank to finish the job.
- ANOTHER dropped pass. Lance Ray had it right in
his hands in a great position to allow the offense
to go for it on third and manageable, but now you
have to kick it.
- Yes another outstanding punt for Dylan Breeding.
He's killing the OSU field position.
Ohio State on its own 4
- Time to take a different approach,
OSU. You're up five with five minutes to play.
You're a Big Ten team with a great line and a
fantastic running game. Time to act like it.
- And there it goes. Herron hangs on to the ball for
a huge gain. That might turn out to be the play of
the game running the team out of trouble.
- You can't clock-bleed. You've GOT to keep pressing
and you've GOT to run the offense. The conservative
play hasn't worked.
- Huge stop by the Hogs to force third and inches
...
- Pryor sneaks over and gets it.
- Two minutes to play. OSU is certainly making the
Big Ten earn it's one shining moment.
- Herron is a half step away from busting out a
game-sealing run. Arkansas is bringing the house to
try and come up with a stop. Any stop.
- OSU is one more first down from ending this. The
Hogs have had to bleed the clock.
- Pryor is limping badly. BADLY, and Joe Bauserman
is warming up. Pryor is getting a lightning-fast
tape job.
- GGGghhhhhhh. ACCKKKKK.
- Uh, no. No. 2, unless your leg has fallen off, you
get back in that game.
- YEEEEEEEESH. Bauserman is in the game on second
and seven.
- Arkansas, send all 11 players, Dan Hampton and
Billy Ray Smith at Dan Herron.
- If Tressel really has some stones, he does a
little play action pass. Bauserman, you're on
scholarship. You can be a legend with one throw.
- Handoff, time out. Third and five, but the Hugs
are out of time outs.
- Mallett will get the ball back with about a minute
to play.
- GGGGghhhhh. ACCKKKKKK.
- Ohio State is hoping to win this game. It didn't
want to win it. Not on this drive.
- 1:15 to play.
- Three words: Cobi Hamilton LSU
- Too bad Greg Childs isn't healthy.
- Ben Buchanon, it's time to come up with the punt
of your ....
- BLOCKED! BLOCKED! BLOCKED!
- Why didn't the Hogs take the punt into the end
zone?! What .. wha? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! JULIAN
HORTON COULD'VE WALKED IT IN FOR THE SUGAR BOWL WIN!
- This will be one of
the greatest gags in college football history if Mallett can come up with one more big play.
Arkansas on the Ohio State 14
- D.J. Williams dropped a pass?! The
Hogs are going to be kicking themselves if they give
away the comeback with all the dropped passes.
- OSU, enough is enough. If you're going to go down,
go down with all guns blazing. You're injured,
you're playing a slew of reserves, and the D is
getting slugged in the mouth ... you bring the
house. You send everyone. You pressure Mallett and
you dare him to be ...
- Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Ryan Mallett in
the face of a pass rush, and this is why he'll be
the No. 5 quarterback taken, at best, if he comes
out this year. Ohio State brings it, Mallett throws a pick, and Ohio State can finally
take the 4,000-pound SEC gorilla off its back.
- Of course it was Solomon Thomas who made the final
pick. He was the No. 5 guy in the scandal. You can't
make this stuff up.
- YEEEEEEESH. I mean, YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSH.
FINAL SCORE: Ohio State 31 ... Arkansas 26
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - Pregame
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 1st Quarter
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 2nd Quarter
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2011
Sugar Bowl SOC Notes - 3rd Quarter