Indeed they did. Show the same intensity Saturday and they’ll beat Penn State to claim the Big Ten East.
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Geiger said his confidence has never wavered, which is the number one trait a coach wants to hear from his field goal kicker, and he said he has known all season he would get the chance to prove ice runs through his veins.
“I agree that it was the wrong time and place to say that I was going to leave after this year”, Elliott wrote.
“Zeke has always been an extremely loyal person, a great competitor”, Meyer said. I think I do deserve more than (12) carries.
It appeared Ohio State with their spread offense was simply not prepared to play this type of game. But he also said the junior running back, who used the same postgame platform to announce his intention to enter the 2016 NFL Draft as an underclassman, shouldn’t have aired his grievances to the media.
The Spartans (10-1, 6-1 Big Ten) started the winning drive at the Ohio State 48-yard line with 4:07 left after a punt. He said he was caught up in emotions and pointed out he is not leaving for the National Football League after this season because of that game. And so would Elliott. Meyer acknowledged that Elliott is in his ear on the sideline all the time – and likely heard from him Saturday. “He has a way of making yards”.
“He is allowed to have an opinion and he voiced it”, said senior offensive lineman and Vandalia-Butler grad Taylor Decker. They had more quarterbacks then they knew what to do with and potential All-Americans everywhere. I don’t know what was going on. People say you’re being sore losers. Or you could lose to the Wolverines, lose the Citrus Bowl or Outback Bowl and complete a scenario that Bosa said would “be a failure”.
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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer watches from the sidelines against during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game against Ohio State, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, in Columbus, Ohio.
There are still scenarios in which Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State could all make it to the Big Ten Championship to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes. This is clearly not the same Ohio State team that we saw tear through the postseason a year ago, and that was made pretty crystal clear on Saturday. Running back Gerald Holmes finished the drive with a 2-yard touchdown run.
“The one thing that made a difference… this game we got to be the chaser, ” Spartans coach Mike Dantonio said.
“He said what was in his heart”.
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That brings me to Ezekiel Elliott, who in a rare moment of athlete realism, threw his coaching staff under the bus.
