No. 9 MI State beat No. 3 Ohio State after Michael Geiger hit a 41-yard field goal before the time expires, giving Spartans a 17-14 win.
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The 2014 NCAA Football champion will not have a chance to defend their title anymore MI State’s better game plan and physical style of play helped them to outlast the defending victor.
“No, I was not content”, Meyer said. He accepted “I love yous” from every possible teammate.
“The one thing that made a difference… this game we got to be the chaser, ” Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said.
The Spartans certainly do.
Don Speck | The Lima News Ohio State’s Darron Lee, left, and Gareon Conley wrap up MI State’s L.J. Scott during Saturday’s game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. “There’s no chance I’m coming back”.
Urban Meyer said that he and his family grew as close to the Elliotts as any player family since the Tebows.
Ohio State plays at MI next week. The Rose Bowl might be the best that the Buckeyes can do now.
Ohio State’s offense played so poorly it conceivably could have gotten shut out, a stunning departure from a team that led the Big Ten in scoring and entered this season with such a surplus of talent that coaches were anxious about how to spread the ball around.
– Cardale Jones (@CJ12_) November 22, 2015 During the postgame interviews with media, Ohio State lost another offensive star when Ezekiel Elliott angrily declared he was not returning next season. At least not like this.
That seemed to cost the Spartans a shot at the national title, but they were thrust into a more familiar situation with doubters everywhere.
“We weren’t put in the right position to win this game”.
How many windmills did Geiger just do? They need Penn State to upset MI State next week, and to beat MI to make the Big Ten Championship Game.
They rotated and did just enough to allow the Spartans to survive Cook’s absence. Not only would the team’s winningest quarterback in Connor Cook not be playing, but they were in the lion’s den of the Horseshoe on a crummy weather afternoon in Columbus as major underdogs.
Terry took a hard sack by Sam Hubbard and fumbled late in the first quarter.
Easy pickings: West Virginia had three 100-yard rushers – QB Skyler Howard, Wendell Smallwood and Rushel Shell – in squishing hapless, hopeless Kansas 49-0. That drive featured 12 runs and only one pass, which fell incomplete.
No human being of any analytic skill could picture O’Connor so poised and effective, completing 7 of 12 passes for 89 yards and a touchdown, managing an offense that put together seven drives of six plays or more and converted 7 of 15 third downs.
Macgarrett Kings muffed a punt and Terry McLaurin recovered at the Spartans 6. If only Ohio State had a quarterback on its roster with a decent arm, or maybe the best arm in all of football.
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“When we came out in the second half”, noted Spartans center Jack Allen, the Hinsdale Central product, “our whole team was jumping around in the rain”.
