How To Bounce Back Against Colorado

Fickell wasn't happy.

Well, we lost, and are out of the Top 25 for the first time in 7 years. On Saturday night, as I watched my Twitter feed, I thought the sky was falling and the world was coming to an end. Right now, I am not sure any of us know what the right answer would be for us to bounce back. We know we looked flat, unprepared and didn't adjust at the half.

Here are my 5 keys for a more positive outcome in Ohio Stadium this coming Saturday against the Colorado Buffalo's.

5. More intensity...I've never seen Luke Fickell so collected as he has been in both the games I have watched this season. Maybe he is trying too hard to be the Senator, but he was great at getting the defense fired up on the sidelines as a coordinator...what happened to that guy?

4. Better preparation....The team looked confused as to who they were playing. I don't know if the Maryland game film and the absence/return of the suspended players for Miami caused that much confusion or if we just didn't spend our time wisely in the film rooms this week. Classes start this week so it should be interesting to see what happens.

3. Keep improving the special teams play...One of the perks of the Miami game...no one ran anything back and nothing got blocked! We still need to work on this area, to be where the fans (and I hope coaches) expect it to be, but it was better.

2. Better in-game adjustments...There was no adjusting during the Miami game...we had a game plan, we ran the plan and it failed...miserably. At the half I figured we would have some adjustments, some wrinkles...but it seemed as if nothing was done. To keep up with the Mark Dantonio's and Bo Pelini's in conference play, we need to put more effort into this area of our in game management.

1. Start Braxton Miller...Bauserman should not see the field again. I appreciate and respect his willingness to be the back up and to stay the course...but Joe...you just aren't good enough.