Ohio State CRUSHES Marshall: Ohio State vs Marshall Reaction & Analysis

The Ohio State Buckeyes crush Marshall 49-14. In my Ohio State vs Marshall reaction and analysis, I will discuss how Ohio State's defensive line was disappointing, and how their skill position players, specifically Quinshon Judkins, Jeremiah Smith, and Treveyon Henderson, were awe-inspiring. Ohio State Football is the Big Ten's best and probably a lock to reach the College Football Playoff. We talk about all of this and more in this episode of College Football with Sam. Make sure to LIKE the video, SUBSCRIBE to the channel, and CLICK THE NOTIFICATION BELL so you can get notified when we release new content and go live. Comment your thoughts so we can have a fun and productive conversation!
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[@frankcarone3769]

hi sam as a ohio state fan i was pissed that ohio state gave 14 points to marshall, i do not believe in excuses that 1 star player was out , the buckeyes need to step up

[@chrisNkyla1]

Ohio State ran a very basic defense and didn't change it just because a few players were struggling. Knowles made them work through it and kept two safties deep. Ohio State was outnumbered in the box nearly every play. Knowles was basically saying our Joe's are better than your Joe's up front and we are going to prevent anything big. It's an air raid offense, and Marshall ran it fairly well. It's designed to really spread out the defense and is particularly challenging on the linebackers, who haven't played the best over the first few weeks. Sonny Styles didn't have a good performance, but they figured it out and shut it down. Ohio State won't play defense like that against a good opponent. Knowles doesn't want to show much against these teams just picking up a check.

[@frankcarone3769]

@@chrisNkyla1 as a buckeye fan i pray your theory is correct ,we will see this weekend and the iowa game ,plus for me i am not a ryan day fan at all,i am old school ,woody ,tressel ,and urban meyer fan

[@Kellz145]

Marshall’s head coach is very good schematically at spreading a defense before the overreactions come in lol. Great vid Sam 🌰🌰

[@collegefootballwithsam]

Thank you, Kellz! Yes, Charles Huff is great at forming good rushing attacks.

[@ChimichangaGuy]

The absence of Tyleik was very apparent

[@chrislane3228]

Wondering why Kanu started of Mcdonald. It was strange to me. K-Mac has looked good.

[@Nightfighter82]

@@chrislane3228 I think they knew they were going to win by 40 so they got live reps for some of the depth chart in case they actually need it later on. Get the stuff on film so they can review it and improve.

[@Park0909]

They also lost curry mid way through the game

[@steveridgeway3488]

@@Park0909I forgot was that because of targeting ?

[@roris5882]

McDonald is a NT, like Hamilton, and Kanu is a DT, like Tyliek. Although I think they should cross train McDonald to be a DT to plug the interior, eat double teams, and stop the run. An interior D-Line of Tyliek and McDonald might be required against running teams like Michigan because they shouldn't get pushed around.

[@chrislane3228]

I'm not worrying about DL efficiency yet. We haven't seen what the Buckeye DL is going to look like yet. Lots of rotating. Lots of "vanilla rushes". I think that we are going to dominate Sparty this week.

[@chrislane3228]

...while still rotating and giving more vanilla rushes.

[@TiTosTheName23]

Ohio states biggest issue is there linebackers IMO. The defensive line played a bad game for sure but Ohio State linebackers arent reacting fast enough.

[@ralphpeck6927]

Sam, I appreciate your commentary but the OSU d-line will be fine Marshall had a good game plan to take the buckeyes d-line out of the equation. running out of 10 personnel and releasing passes under 3 seconds. They did loose gap discipline early which was the reason for their ability to run, however Marshalls QB paid the price. For the second time out of 3 games the Starting QB has not finished the game.

[@matthewpeek6890]

This all this

[@roris5882]

As long as OSU's defense can continue taking their opponent's starting QB out of the game then they will be fine.

[@Nightfighter82]

Carnel Tate had a hell of game blocking for the run game. Dude is 10x better than he was last year at blocking.

[@collegefootballwithsam]

Good to know. I did notice a lot of good downfield blocking in general, which is an improvement compared to previous OSU teams, but I was not specifically focused on Tate. Thanks!

[@jd3428]

We'll know a lot more about Ohio State and the defense when they go on the road against Oregon.

[@Watermark61]

Fair assessment. Appreciate your channel as an OSU fan

[@chrislane3228]

I think that the Buckeyes may be the nation's quickest and fastest. Too hard to say. They definitely have elite speed, though. Egbuka is fast. I think that Tate and Smith are faster, though. I'm speaking of the WR group, of course... and Ballard may be the fastest of them all. They have enough speed. What I like about the WR room is that they have been excellent at blocking this year.

[@armandhammer3782]

Yep. We'll have answers soon enough. Waiting for Iowa.

[@quintonworden6318]

It was definitely a weird game, if you had told me before the season that by game 3 almost all of my offensive line questions would be taken care of and it would be d line that was looking sus I definitely would have laughed you off but here we are. Im not sure if its just the game starting to pass Larry Johnson by or he really is having an ego match with Jim Knowels but theres clearly a disconnect between the line play and the rest of the defense in that game. Johnson has always been a bit of a control freak with his room but at this point it is more just extreme stubnorness. He refuses to use anything other than 4 down linemen, his rotations are nonexistent to questionable and it has forced several players into positions they just are not built for. CJ Hicks being the prime example, by all player and coach accounts he is the best pass rusher on the team and a prototypical Baron Browning/Micah Parsons stand up edge but when he gets in the game he is asked to be an off ball LB and looks lost, slow and a wasted body out there. They wasted Browning's talent at OSU and it drives me mad they are making the same mistake again when that change could be a huge boost. As far as the offense goes I cannot say enough good things about the way Chip Kelly has rejuvenated the rushing attack, Henderson looks like a completely different back, is finally hitting holes with power instead of always dancing around trying to bust a home run and Judkins is the real deal. Most importantly though the line is moving people, and even the WRs have been blocking their asses off again. A lot can be said about the level of competition but I have watched every buckeye game for the last 20 years and even against the lesser opponents I don't remember a RB having well over 10 YPC in a game the last couple seasons let alone 2.

[@gypsymartinez]

How much did the defensive line get pushed around if marshal only scored twice? Especially since they had the ball so much more than Ohio State did. Basically, Marshal got 2 good drives. Am I wrong?

[@jimmy5634]

You are not wrong. Ohio State substituted backups on the D line freely and played a straight up four man rush with no exotic looks or blitzing. If this dude thinks what he’s seeing is our real defense , he’s even dumber than dumb. Jim Knowles is a master of disguising defensive looks. We’ve seen none of it in the first three games…for a reason.

[@chrislane3228]

I tried to listen to this while I was working. Unfortunately, my guys are morons, so I'm back. Let's hear it, Sam.

[@rogerhayes4055]

I do agree with you on osu's defense they have got to step it up

[@calebleeson5662]

Defense was slow at the start. It’s forgivable now but when we face the next few teams we’ll need them to be ready. If we can copy and paste the offensive energy we had Saturday for the rest of the season we could be looking at a national title. I mean look at anybody outside of the line and they can make plays. Even our 2nd stringers I’d be confident playing the 3rd quarter against GA

[@Nightfighter82]

Tylike Williams being out on the interior of the defense was an issue. The reasons my defensive ends get Sacks so much in 2025 is because i use Tylike on the interior to make sure that he takes the double teams from the offensive line, makes holes for the linebackers and allows the DE's to have one on ones to get around the edge.

[@nickma71]

The thing with the DL isn't Jim Knowles. Larry Johnson lost his fastball. That doesn't mean he sucks. Or even mediocre. His development is off a little bit. Zach Harrison before JTT. JTT is still good against the run. But nearly everyone that comes in for him is much more productive against the pass. So why don't they play more?

[@jimmy5634]

Give it a moment. They are testing some players to see where the depth will come from.

[@roris5882]

LJ should have moved Harrison and JTT inside because they are too slow to be pass rushing DEs. Or he could have kept them as DEs in Knowles' odd man front, with the Jack (CJ Hicks).

[@corneliusholland8554]

Fast Team

[@jakesullivan9179]

Vanilla defense plus I think Knowles was trying to test our linebackers. Marshall did appear to be running some rpo based Veer & Shoot concepts along with stuff that Oregon and Tennessee run.

[@swoesteban5570]

Marshall was quicker and faster than OSU expected.

[@steveridgeway3488]

Quick throw spread offense ofc we’re not gonna get sacks

[@rogerhayes4055]

I did not like our defense on Saturday aginst Marshall how ever their were some key players that did not play on defense on Saturday . However I'm a buckeye fan but there defense has to get better

[@flashbashergaming]

I disagree, Ohio State is playing it safe and trying to get the men all running on the same pace. As soon as conference play starts look for Ohio State to run on all cylinder's. They will step it up and do believe in a big way. These men are hungry and focused and I know damn well Michigan is on notice!!!!!

[@endingmemories]

I know they were keeping themselves limited tonot show anything fancy on tape, but they gotta get better and getting to ball after the snap, especially when the QB runs cuz he had quite a few explosive runs and that's more than I'm comfortable with. Oh and the kicker JEEZUS

[@roris5882]

Marshall's starting QB looked good, until he stubbed his toe and refused to return to the game. He was making throws in tight windows and moving the chains with his legs. He looked better then half of the QBs in the B1G before he got scared to return to the game.

[@Choclate_Chip_Hoochie]

It was the lbs that wasn’t up to par Saturday, they spread them out running the qb that’s on the lbs not on the DL & Marshall done what no one has done in spreading you out, MU does not spread you out. Jim Knowles isn’t gonna show anything vs Marshall either & he let the the guys buckle down & play it out

[@vernonhuffman2311]

Needs to be more accountability in that LB room. WTF are you allowing to remain and fester and accept at that position? Unacceptable.

[@elijahmahone9358]

Nah sam akron and marshall did it completely different ways which is why i am calling it flukey. Ohio state came out rested on its laurels and didnt take marshall seriously. Akron didnt push around that osu defensive line at all. They kept throwing into the flats and our dbs were playing off and Knowles refused to adjust. As for marshall we ran our defense as base and vanilla as ive ever seen even against bad teams.

[@nickma71]

Yeah, Akron is rated 133rd according to M2S this afternoon.

[@pauliewalnuts2527]

your mom is ranked 133rd by me

[@nickma71]

@@pauliewalnuts2527 You should have put that in a chat where people care.

[@jd3428]

Using M2S as a source of rankings is laughable. Do better.

[@pauliewalnuts2527]

@@nickma71 i did. your mom loved it. made me nuggys

[@chrislane3228]

​@@pauliewalnuts2527Yeah. Low class. I'm sorry.

[@brentpayne4215]

Let's go buckeye s

[@erick.nippyfan1005]

Ok sam u getting a little ahead of yourself, ohio st has not even blist as much and been playing vanilla defense there not gonna let u see everything, and Michigan please osu is gonna stack the box so full because u like usc are coaches are not stupid Michigan can't pass for shit I mean it's gonna be a peace of cake preparing for that offense, so don't get to excited

[@jimmy5634]

Ohio State played a completely vanilla defense against Marshall., the entire game. Did you notice that? That was on purpose. If you knew anything, you’d know Jim Knowles is a master of disguising defensive schemes. Do you really think you saw the real Ohio State defensive package? C’mon man, I thought you were better than that. Tyliek Williams missing was huge in the run game. They also subbed second string linemen from the get go and the rest of the whole game, purposely. If you saw any of the post game shows they revealed that. They are trying to get a handle on which players will rise to the occasion when needed. I’d say that was pretty smart football. A couple of our backup D linemen would be starters on your team son. You need to dig a little deeper before you reach false conclusions about our D line. If you want to separate yourself from the rest of the “wannabe” analysts, you need to look harder at the whole picture. BTW…if, if, if. is not relevant. If Southern Cal could tackle you would have lost. If, if, if.😂

[@roris5882]

The 2nd string DT didn't look like he's ready.

[@larrychannell7056]

Stop Ohio State is just fine.

[@roris5882]

Panic