Sean's kicking/coverage special teams were bad. Give up a pooch kick for a TD? Almost give up another one, saved only by the returner not quite walking the tightrope? Miss a chip shot field goal for the 3-possession lead? 13 points gifted the other team by Sean's unit, which cancelled out the 10 points the return teams gained us.
Until Klein's and Lunt's injuries, the team was really clicking along, and it looked like it was going to be a pullaway job for the third week in a row. Defense had had a pretty good game until then. Gundy's staff did a better job of adjusting on the fly to the injury situations, which showed by their outscoring us after the injuries. Chelf came in and hit passes and OSU seized momentum. Both our offense and defense went hot and heavy into "don't lose the game" mode, which wound up working, but made our defense look more like last year's "bend heavy but don't break all the way" mode, instead of the more aggressive style we've seen this year.