Ohio State did everything they needed to in order beat Clemson on Saturday night, but along the way they also did everything they could to make sure the Tigers came out on top. Untimely mistakes trumped timely plays. And then miscues were followed by dazzling Buckeye plays. This game had everything, it just didn’t have an ending that Ohio State is going to be able to live with.
On Saturday, Ohio State went into Ann Arbor and did to Michigan what they have done to every other team this season, which is pretty much whatever they wanted. The Buckeyes put up over 500 yards of total offense and scored 14 points in each quarter. The winning percentage of those two stats together is probably somewhere around .9997.
It is Michigan Week, so we don’t want to spend too much time talking about less important things like the Penn State game, but if we put what we learned this week into context regarding the Wolverines, maybe we can justify the expense. The Buckeyes went to work on another easy win, but a funny thing happened on the way to a blowout. After a 21-0 start…
What can you possibly learn from the tenth game of the season, especially when that game was treated like a scrimmage where players were permitted to go out there and not go out there. Several starters were held out entirely, while the rest played for little more than the first half. It wasn’t quite the Ohio State Spring Game, but it was pretty close.
What can we possibly learn from what seems like the seventh 73-14 win for the Buckeyes this season? I have no idea, but even a day late because of basketball, I’m going to give it a shot. If I were to let Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt do this piece, the first item on the list would be that somebody in the Maryland football program blew the whistle on Chase Young. But that’s not…
Wisconsin came into Saturday’s game wounded, but angry. Ohio State knew to expect the Badgers’ best. That expectation led to a Buckeye blowout, to the tune of a 38-7 victory over the 13th-ranked Wisconsin squad. This was finally going to be a test for Ohio State, and maybe it was. Maybe this Ohio State squad is the kind that studies every night.
What more can you learn when every test looks the same? Ohio State went into Northwestern favored by four touchdowns and covered the spread in the first half. The most efficient offense in the Big Ten once again took one of the conference’s best defenses and made them look like the worst. Even when they were trying to run out the clock in the fourth…
Ohio State went into Lincoln, Nebraska Saturday night to set some facts straight. Their 48-7 win over the Huskers was supposed to be some kind of “I told you so,” but it was really only preaching to the choir. This is a Buckeye football team right now playing as if scripted by an irrational superfan. “I want to see dominating running, accurate quarterbacking, no missed…
Before the game on Saturday, I said on our pregame Facebook Live that this was going to be a bit like golfing for Ohio State. They wouldn’t necessarily be competing against Miami (OH), but rather they’d be competing against the course. They would be competing against a standard. Early on, they were falling short of that standard. About midway through…
What can be learned from Ohio State’s 51-10 win at Indiana on Saturday? How about that we shouldn’t take these Buckeyes too lightly moving forward. This was an impressive win once again and they are answering every single question with emphasis and confidence. The Buckeye offensive line has become a dominant force and is now challenging the Ohio State…
