A stunned silence enveloped Ohio Stadium as the ball ripped through a swirling wind and the uprights.
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It took Ohio State 10 plays to reach the end zone on a 1-yard burst up the middle by Elliott. “You just had a 23-game winning streak”. “We didn’t see those plays called the rest of the game”.
“Huge win for our program”, Dantonio said.
MI State was in a position to win the game due to the impressive play in the trenches on both sides of the ball.
“It takes a lot of courage to show up Sunday ready to go beat a good team up north”, Meyer said.
Ohio State’s upset loss to MI State impacts the Big Ten championship as well as the College Football Playoff.
The 2015 Big Ten Football Championship Game will be played on Saturday, December 5, at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium and will be broadcast nationally on FOX with kickoff set for 8:17 p.m. ET.
MI State quarterback Connor Cook is not starting for the No. 9 Spartans against No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday.
Will J.T. Barrett find time in the pocket?
MI State now has wins at Ohio State and MI and wins against OR and Air Force in non-conference play.
CLEMSON, S.C. – Deshaun Watson passed for 343 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a fourth score as No. 1 Clemson capped a ideal Atlantic Coast Conference season.
“I was 100 percent today”, he said. He rushed 15 times for 44 yards.
Elliott told reporters after the contest that this had been his last home game in Columbus, Ohio.
Charlotte is terrible. The 49ers are in their first year at the FBS level, haven’t won since September, and were ranked No. 193, worst of all FBS teams, in Jeff Sagarin’s ratings of Division I schools entering Saturday. He announced after the game that he will not return to OSU for the 2016 season. Iowa is now fifth in the poll, but will certainly move up after Ohio State lost. Was it the play-calling? In hindsight, the loss of offensive coordinator Tom Herman, who left to become Houston’s head coach, seems to be the biggest blow.
Dantonio said he didn’t watch any pregame television coverage of the game on Saturday, but simply assumed that his team was painted as the underdog.
“I told them, ‘We’re bigger than this loss”.
“We understand how to win. They weren’t. We weren’t put in the right situation to win this game”. I have to make the most of my time left. “I’m disappointed in the situations that we were put in, and I wish it all played out differently”. I don’t know what’s ahead of us, but I do know we’re not going to let anyone stand in our way next week (in the regular season finale at Michigan). Cheers quickly followed when MI State fumbled the ensuing punt and the Buckeyes recovered on the Spartan 6-yard line. Just as they could have lost at MI. Awesome. Take a bow, Dantonio. MI State responded after each one with a 75-yard touchdown drive.
Gerald Holmes led the way for MI State on the ground with 65 yards on 14 carries and a touchdown. Still, the Spartan quarterbacks did their part, too. His Razorback counterpart Brandon Allen was every bit as good, completing 30 of 43 for 406 yards and seven touchdowns. Terry was 1-of-4 for two yards. Each had 25 yards rushing. Had Barrett been able to connect with Miller, it looked like it would have been an easy touchdown. That’s how you judge when things are going well.
Elliott also confirmed what we pretty much expected: he’s going pro.
The rise of MI State’s football team under Mark Dantonio has resulted in a paradox.
Ohio State now must hope for a few craziness to get back in the playoff chase.
“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. You know he would love to pile onto Ohio State’s misery. On a Senior Game of brutal weather, high stakes and raw emotion, Ohio State team unity fractured, new MI State heroes emerged, a record win streak ended and national playoff standings were rocked harder than Ronda Rousey’s jaw. “If it ever comes down to it at the very end, we’ll see then”.
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Fast-before the season slips away even farther.
