The timing couldn’t have been better.
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His 13-yard run late in the third quarter gave the Buckeyes an 18-point cushion and his 17-yard run midway through the fourth made mercifully ended the scoring for MI.
The game would be played at a packed Big House.
Meanwhile, Ohio State was looking the weakest it has all season. But if there were any, there weren’t many of them.
Tyler O’Connor started at quarterback and alternated with Damion Terry in last Saturday’s 17-14 win at Ohio State.
No. 5 OKLAHOMA 58, No. 9 OKLAHOMA ST. 23 (at Stillwater, Okla.) – Baker Mayfield threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score as Oklahoma won the Big 12 title and likely earned a spot in the playoffs.
To say The Ohio State Buckeyes bounced back would be an understatement.
It was a message the Buckeyes probably needed to hear as much or more as anyone on the outside did.
Meyer called last week’s loss “a kick in the stomach”, and Elliott’s digs at the coaches clearly added to the pain.
Clemson takes a 15-game winning streak into the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.
The 1-2 punch of running back Ezekiel Elliott and quarterback J.T. Barrett combined for 353 yards rushing and five touchdowns in a 42-13 win at Michigan Stadium Saturday.
A week after getting only 132 yards total offense and five first downs, Ohio State’s offense rolled up 482 yards – 369 of it on the ground. Next up is No. 11 North Carolina in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game on December 5 and a win would send the Tigers, who are first in the CFP ranking, to the national semifinals.
MI (9-3, 6-2 Big Ten) kept it close early and was down only 14-10 at halftime.
So as Michigan State’s Demetrious Cox returned a Kyle Carter fumble 77-yards for a score and give the Spartans a 20-3 lead it appeared to be one error too large to overcome.
THREE BIG TEN TEAMS ARE IN THE NEW YEARS SIX: Regardless of what happens in Indianapolis, Iowa, Michigan State and Ohio State will participate in one of the six biggest bowl games in the sport.
TWO BIG TEN TEAMS COULD QUALIFY FOR THE PLAYOFF: The top four ranked teams make the playoff.
“We did not dictate the game to them”. The staff that came with him from Vanderbilt, especially offensive coordinator John Donovan, offensive line coach Herb Hand and special teams coach Charles Huff, are under public scrutiny.
A more dominant performance by Alabama, which beat Auburn 29-13, might have given the committee reason to flip the Tide and Tigers. We had to win it – if we were going to win it, it wasn’t going to be given to us.
“Our coaches put us in good positions to be successful”, Godwin said. This is what we sort of shot for, to win the East, and that was our first goal that we had to accomplish. “Just taking practice as seriously as ever, you know, coming out, executing and making sure that the bowl game is a great experience for all of us, and that we’re prepared as we can to come out and execute and do what we need to do to get the job done there”.
“We were able to move the ball but we made critical errors”, Franklin said.
“If you would have had a chance to be in the locker room last Saturday, you would have felt how fragile the team was”, senior linebacker and captain Joshua Perry said after the win in Ann Arbor.
Elliott apologized again for his critical comments about OSU’s play calling against Michigan State.
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Some folks are taking some umbrage that I am spending more time on scenarios that involve an Iowa loss in the Big Ten Title game. “I play every down for them”. “People questioning my love for the university, for my brothers on this team and if I was going to play hard”.
