If MI State (10-1) wins at home against Penn State next weekend, it will play Iowa (11-0) in the Big Ten title game in two weeks.
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“This is my last game in the Shoe”, said Elliott, who spent a couple of day in the hospital this week being treated for staph infection. He likely won’t be drafted as high as Todd Gurley who went No. 10 to the St. Louis Rams, but he should be a first round pick and there’s a chance he could go as high as the No. 15 spot that Melvin Gordon was taken previous year. “I looked at this game a few times trying to decide what to make this opening number”, Avello said.
Saturday wasn’t a total loss for the state of OH, despite MI State’s last-second 17-14 victory over No. 2 Ohio State.
That Elliott intends to turn pro after this season is no surprise. The College Football Playoff race is still muddled, but a one-loss Big Ten champion with a convincing win over OR will be hard to leave out of the final four.
The fallout of Ohio State’s first loss in 30 regular season league games quickly overshadowed MI State’s victory.
“We lost the line of scrimmage”, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said.
“It really depends on how they play on game day”, Dantonio said. It didn’t work out. The Ohio State Buckeyes ground game is averaging 230.3 yards per contest, and Ezekiel Elliott leads the way with 1,458 yards and 17 touchdowns.
It all came down to Spartan kicker Michael Geiger, who drilled the game-winning 41-yard field goal on the final play, giving them the victory.
Criticizing play-calling is too easy, often misplaced and not something we try to do too often around here. So finger will be pointed right here. And I have to do better.
That’s why they were double-digit underdogs to The Ohio State Buckeyes. The supposedly signature non-conference win over OR wasn’t exactly convincing and proved to be not so signature after the Ducks failed to crack the top 25 for much of the season.
Florida State travels to Gainesville to face Florida on Saturday, giving the Seminoles an opportunity to close the regular season with a major boost to their resume. Ohio State was a hefty 14.5-point home favorite, but had a dismal offensive showing and lost outright to the Spartans, 17-14. They were completely non-existent against MI State.
This Saturday afternoon at Noon ET, we’ll be treated to another edition of maybe the most storied rivalry in the history of college football, Ohio State vs. MI. O’Connor then slipped a pass to Pendleton, and as Buckeyes linebacker Joshua Perry was ushering him out of bounds, he instinctively extended his arms out straight and hit the end-zone pylon with the ball.
O’Connor did get slightly recruited by the Buckeyes, but not to play quarterback.
No. 16 FLORIDA ST. 52, CHATTANOOGA 13 (at Tallahassee, Fla.) – Sparta’s Sean Maguire threw two touchdown passes and Dalvin Cook had his seventh 100-yard rushing game and added two more scores for the Seminoles (9-2, No. 14 CFP). He said the coaches failed to put the Ohio State players in the bet position to win. The Spartan offense will sputter and cough, and there will be several shaky moments, but it’ll be a typical game for the team this year.
The Spartans marched 75 yards on 13 plays, no completed passes but a helpful offside penalty on Ohio State, and Gerald Holmes reached the ball over the goal line for a 2-yard touchdown to tie 14-14 with 12:03 left.
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Ohio State’s self-named “Zone 6” receiving corps matches up against MI State’s beaten-down – but never-say-die – self-named “No Fly Zone” secondary.
