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The week after the Oregon loss, I ran a similar poll similar to this one and, despite a seemingly much stronger presence online, the percentage of fans calling for Matt Rhule’s head was only 13%.
What a difference two weeks and a loss to Washington made. You can see below that Corn Nation readers showed a large uptick in that number.
Will seeing Dana Holgorsen’s corpse swinging from a branch hold the wolves at
bay?
Unfortunately, we probably won’t find out here since I like to try and keep some variety going. Polling weekly on how many people want Rhule gone would crash that effort right into the Andes and down that road, man pork lies.
Regardless of results, I personally believe he will remain with us at least through 2027, but let’s check out this week’s results and see how y’all felt about things:
- The majority still have Matt Rhule’s back, though 56% freely admit the last three – now four – weeks have NOT been fun.
- 10% believe we THIS close, although that meager number may have dropped after another game where they led in almost every stat category – except the score. Again.
- The 13% jumped to 30% after the latest 4th quarter collapse against Washington. He’s not on the firing line by any means, but Rob Aurich’s defensive unit gave up Washington’s 81-yard go ahead drive, and then against Illinois, it was four straight scoring drives of over 70 yards (discounting the final seconds of the 1st half) and 24 points.
- It may be argued that Holgorsen hasn’t been the only one to blame, but odd calls which worked in concert with failure to close drives were getting tough to ignore.
- Apologies to Oregon and Notre Dame whose actual games with Ohio State and Notre Dame were very exciting.
- On the upside, the poll voters apparently weren’t paying much attention either as 43% led this poll by selecting the non-existent ‘Canes vs. Bucknuts match-up.
- LSU voters win the Misplaced Overconfidence trophy after the Tigers found a way to get blown out despite outgaining the Tide 457-285.
- Ducks fans, on the other hand, chose the underconfidence rout with only 52% thinking they’d beat Ohio State. Two garbage-time TD’s by the Buckeyes made the 41-28 score sound a lot closer than it was.
- Many Ohio State fans failed to witness these scores as they began fleeing the debacle with 11 or 12 minutes remaining.
- I’m sorry, but that’s absolutely failing to dot the “I” in Ohio.
