and most recently with a covid depleted roster.

the masses only focused on the less than stellar moments, and somehow got it in their heads that OSU was no longer talented and that fields was overrated. cfb fans/media are wildly reactionary to begin with. when dealing with a small sample size of games this was ratcheted up ten-fold. everyone felt personally aggrieved by osu getting into the playoffs, which was only further amplified from dabo and mullen pot-stirring...and in order to justify osu's exclusion from the playoffs, they had to convince themselves that they were a talentless, shitty team.


if you watched every game you would've been able to see a very talented team that struggled at times with getting a rhythm and just needed the opportunity to get at full strength and put it all together. but the potential and talent was always there.