It was hard listening to Gilmore be an OSU schill the whole game only to come around in the last 10 minutes and give us a little credit. I expect it when it's #2 versus us as an unranked tram, but he was just an over the top OSU hype machine for three and half quarters.
It's a hard scramble when you have what seems like an obvious s c r i p t in your head (BCS chatter during a blowout), and the game simply doesn't match it.
The Cyclones played really well, and yet were trailing by 17. (I only watched the ESPN replay of the game, so may have missed his most egregious errors) When they tried the field goal, he had switched to, "hey, they made the game exciting mode, but here comes the dagger."
The miss just forced him, finally, to adjust to the unexpected. Aside from him thinking that passing wasn't part of the game plan
at all, I didn't think he did any worse than anyone else who has no need to pay attention to a team that wasn't even bowl eligible.