Playing without injured star quarterback Connor Cook on a rainy and windy day at Ohio Stadium, the Spartans (10-1, 6-1 Big Ten) took control of the Big Ten East, barged into the thick of the College Football Playoff hunt and very likely ended Ohio State’s chances to repeat as national champs. A few National Football League team personnel might be turned off by this. It’s a bad look for Ohio State. “I deserve more than (12) carries”.
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“I am concerned about how [the offensive line] affects each other, not in a positive way but in a negative way”, the Gators coach said on ESPN.com. I really do. I can’t speak for the play-caller.
While the Spartans’ win takes a little from the matchup, this year’s version of “The Game” should command huge television audience numbers. Ohio State got a guy behind the defense, so it’ll come back to it later.
Even Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer was not talking playoffs after his first regular-season loss to a Big Ten team in his four years at Ohio State. Geiger kicked the winni… And while they looked good against the MI Wolverines and Oregon Ducks, there were too many times where they played down to the competition.
Cook said the three have unusually strong chemistry: “The laughter that goes on in our meetings, how often we hang out outside of football … we think we have the best (meeting) room out of all the positions on our team”.
BLACKSBURG, Va. – Marquise Williams hit Quinshad Davis with a 5-yard pass in overtime and No. 12 North Carolina spoiled retiring coach Frank Beamer’s final home game at Virginia Tech.
“I don’t think my confidence ever wavered”, he said. “I don’t know what was going on”.
All of this sets up a unusual backdrop for this Saturday’s game against MI.
“How we lost, I just feel like we weren’t put in the right opportunity to win this game, we weren’t put in the right situations to win this game”.
Meyer also says, “We have the rivalry game coming up”.
75,290 – Ohio State had 75,290 more fans at Ohio Stadium than Maryland had at its Byrd Stadium.
“It’s pretty surreal right now”.
The second turnover came on a muffed punt by Macgarrett Kings Jr. that the Buckeyes recovered at MSU’s 6-yard line. “Michael Geiger’s from OH, so I’m so happy for him”. MI State was a 13-point underdog.
He wasn’t the only Ohio State player who alluded to his future Saturday.
Do you get the feeling things on the Ohio State campus are a bit rocky following a 17-14 loss to their rival MI State on Saturday? LSU’s Leonard Fournette and Ohio State’s Ezekiel Elliott are out. He was sacked by defensive end Sam Hubbard and defensive tackle Adolphus Washington recovered the fumble at the MI State 32. “I think about the 29 years being so blessed”. And it’ll be interesting where Iowa get placed, going 11-0 after a win over Purdue, clinching the Big Ten West, and leaving them with just a hard visit to Nebraska, a 5-6 team that’s better than that, losing their six games this season by combined 23 points. “But we tried inside and outside and they beat us at the line of scrimmage and we were unable to execute in the throw game”, said Meyer.
Pendleton evoked a line uttered by former MSU quarterback Kirk Cousins in 2011 after he led the Spartans to a fourth-straight victory over MI.
“When we got the ball with 4 ½ minutes to go, we knew we were going to have it the rest of the game”, O’Connor said.
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“Being from OH, coming home you can kinda walk the streets (with pride) forever”. “We kind of have the motto of “walk the streets” around here”.
