Our College Football Public Betting page shows that 77% of public bettors are now backing Michigan State to cover the spread in Saturday night’s Big Ten Championship Game versus Iowa. With that being said, it will literally come down to the final day of the season to see where fate sends the Buckeyes.
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Ohio State’s loss to Michigan State last week took destiny out of its hands because the sixth-ranked Spartans would win a head-to-head tiebreaker. But as many MSU fans have learned, once they’re the underdogs, the Spartans really begin to shine. Ferentz is 4-3 against Dantonio, though this is Iowa’s first Big Ten title game. The 5-year-old grandson of former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr was honored in a moment of silence before the Michigan-Ohio State game. The Hoosiers laid out step-by-step instructions on how to make Michigan’s once-impenetrable defense look like a group of crowd control officers at a Walmart on Black Friday.
“I regret everything I said”, Elliott said before being asked a question in a postgame news conference.
Buckeyes quarterback J.T. Barrett had 19 carries for a season-high 139 yards, helping his team run for 369 yards. If not, Ohio State will be waiting and if a second upset goes down, Stanford could slide into the playoff with a win over USC in the Pac-12 title game.
Maybe bring a playmaker in the running game.
“We came into the Big House”, Elliott said, “and we dominated”.
NOTES: Running back Ezekiel Elliott is now second all-time on Ohio State’s career rushing list, surpassing Eddie George on Saturday…. “I think Saquon is a bright spot”, Franklin said.
“I think our players understand what they have to do”. I don’t know if he should win. I strive to be the ultimate team player. As it fights as one for respectability in the non-conference, or as its power dynamics shift on a week-to-week basis in October and November, we’ll follow the narrative to give you a better idea of where Northwestern fits into the 14-team puzzle.
He returned from a shoulder injury that kept him out of the fifth-ranked Spartans’ win at Ohio State a week ago to become Michigan State’s career offensive yardage leader with his work in a 55-16 win over Penn State on Saturday.
“We couldn’t make tackles, especially on No. 15”, MI defensive tackle Chris Wormley said. Gerald Holmes picked up the go-ahead touchdown with a 6-yard run.
He ran more than he passed.
Ohio State scored on its first four possessions of the second half on a 25-yard pass from Barrett to Jalin Marshall, a 13-yard run by Barrett, a 10-yard run by Elliott and a 17-yard run by Barrett.
MI trailed the entire game and pulled within four points twice in the first half.
Wolverine quarterback Jake Rudock was knocked out of the game on a hit by Joey Bosa. He went 19 of 26 for 248 yards and three touchdowns. Ohio State’s linebackers played a signicant role in that. Two-way freshman Jabrill Peppers led the Wolverines with 29 yards on seven carries and had the team’s longest rush of eight yards.
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“This is what we’ve been working for since January – we’ve been talking about it, now it’s time to speak it into existence”, MSU sophomore safety Montae Nicholson said of a dream that seemed distant just three weeks earlier after a 39-38 loss at Nebraska.
