Ohio State closed out its football season with a 24-7 win over Pac-12 champions Southern California. The Buckeyes did so with the help of a defense that forced critical mistakes by the Trojans and an offense that didn’t make those same kind of critical mistakes. USC turned the ball over four times, leading to 21 Ohio State points.
Noted OSU author and historian Jack Park has written another book on Ohio State football. Park’s latest effort, Buckeye Reflections, focuses on anecdotes about OSU football history that have until now gone untold. Park’s research for the book is meticulous. As usual, he presents his material in a well-written and easily readable book.
Ohio State overcame a rash of turnovers to do something no one else had done this season — defeat the Wisconsin Badgers — to claim the Big Ten football championship. The Buckeyes (11-2) rode an outstanding defensive effort and made enough big plays on offense to hand the Badgers (12-1) their first defeat on the season…
The Michigan Wolverines were a team on a mission. Mission outcome: Failure, but not before putting a scare into the Buckeyes. The Wolverines came out with guns blazing and totally dominated the first period of play to take a shocking 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Michigan was clearly focused on snapping a five-game losing streak…
