COLUMBUS — Ohio State head coach Ryan Day meets with reporters at 12:00 pm today and we will provide live updates when things get underway. The Buckeyes have an off week, so Day is expected to look back a bit on Saturday’s win over Michigan State. He will also answer plenty of questions about his team at the midway point of the regular season.
Redshirt sophomore cornerback Shaun Wade and fifth-year senior defensive tackle Jashon Cornell were named Ohio State’s Defensive Players of the Week following Saturday night’s 34-10 win over Michigan State. Junior running back JK Dobbins and junior left tackle Thayer Munford earned the honors on the offensive side of the ball for the Buckeyes.
The Ohio State football team faced its latest test this past Saturday, passing with gliding colors. (They were one step below “flying colors,” which means there is no power of flight at that point, but there still is some type of ability to drift slowly to the ground.) The Buckeyes beat the Spartans 34-10 and — in one of the most impressive feats I’ve ever seen in college football — they had 11 more yards in the second quarter (296) than Michigan State did in the entire game (285).
When Ryan Day took over the Ohio State football program from Urban Meyer, he had a vision of the kind of football team he wanted. Saturday night in front of 104,797 in Ohio Stadium, you saw that vision on the field. Against a team known for its toughness in Michigan State, Day’s Buckeyes took the Spartans one step further than they were prepared to go.
There is good and bad in every game. Some games have more good than bad, and some games have more bad than good. And some games go from a fistfight in the first quarter to a TKO by the second. (Yes, this describes most of Ohio State’s games this season.) This feature is about acknowledging both the bad and good, or whichever stood out to us most.
COLUMBUS — Ohio State head coach Ryan Day met with the media following the Buckeyes’ convincing 34-10 win over No. 25 Michigan State. He answered plenty of questions about his team’s performance and what it means heading into a bye week. Sophomore starting quarterback Justin Fields also spoke with reporters to answer questions about his performance…
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