MI State ends Ohio State win streak at 23

As a result, Cook was ruled out, snapping his streak of 36 consecutive starts for the Spartans. Two talented but inexperienced QB’s that barely had any in-game snaps.

“What held me out was just a little bit of pain”, said Cook. Ohio State was a double-digit favorite.

It took Ohio State 10 plays to reach the end zone on a 1-yard burst up the middle by Elliott.

No. 12 North Carolina 30, Virginia Tech 27: BLACKSBURG, Va. – Marquise Williams hit Quinshad Davis with a 5-yard TD pass in overtime and North Carolina (10-1) spoiled retiring coach Frank Beamer’s final home game at Virginia Tech.

No. 19 NAVY 44, TULSA 21 (at Tulsa, Okla.) – Quarterback Keenan Reynolds ran for 81 yards and a touchdown while directing a Midshipmen offense that rolled up 512 yards on the ground.

It snapped Ohio State’s 23-game winning streak. So it makes sense to get into the pros as soon as possible coming out of college, and Elliott is in position to be a first-round pick and perhaps the first running back drafted next year. That’s what he did in the win over Ohio State.

Four teams dropped out of the rankings after losing, including LSU and Utah, which were both ranked in the top five earlier this season.

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?

More numbers that help the cause: MI State victims OR, Air Force and MI are a combined 25-8, OR 25-5 if you remove the losses to the Spartans. Christian Hackenberg passed for 137 yards for Penn State (7-4, 4-3).

“This will be my last game in the ‘Shoe”, Elliott said.

Holmes had another solid game.

“They definitely gave me that chance and I took advantage of it. It was very important (to beat Ohio State) but we just got to stay focused, stay humble and prepare for next week”.

Ohio State has two offensive coordinators – Ed Warinner and Tim Beck – and an offensive-minded head coach in Urban Meyer and still couldn’t come up with a plan that worked against MI State. “So that (rotating) is what we’ll do, and we’ll continue to do that until one guy sorts it all out, and I think that’s what we tried to do in 2013”.

No. 3 Ohio State lost 17-14 to No. 9 MI State on a 41-yard field goal as time expired by Michael Geiger.

“That was the most important kick I’ve ever made in my entire life”, Geiger said, admitting he was close to letting the emotion win as he talked to a throng of reporters. Win and go on to the playoff.

It was a familiar posture for this most freaky Ohio State season, one in which the Buckeyes were somehow simultaneously undefeated yet untested, percolating with promise yet unsteady with delivery.

No. 16 Florida State 52, Chattanooga 13: In Tallahassee, Florida, Sean Maguire threw two touchdown passes and Dalvin Cook had his seventh 100-yard rushing game and added two more scores for Florida State. We haven’t been where we’re at right now so it’s going to mean even a lot more….

With its two backup quarterbacks, MI State was still able to derail OSU’s unbeaten season with a 17-14 upset in a soaked and windy Ohio Stadium in front a record crowd of 108,975. This was just a year after OSU gashed MSU’s defense for 568 total yards at Spartan Stadium. “We understood their offense better and our defense better”.

Houston quarterback Kyle Postma, playing in place of Heisman hopeful Greg Ward Jr.

“Our offensive line dominated the whole game”, said Tyler O’Connor.

Darboh leads MI with 52 catches for 635 yards; his five receiving touchdowns are second to the seven from Jehu Chesson, who has 37 catches for 535 yards. If they get there, they have a playoff spot right in their grasp.

Dantonio knew that the play at the line of scrimmage, on both sides of the ball, would determine the outcome of the game.

Ben Axelrod is Bleacher Report’s Big Ten lead writer. UCLA can earn a berth in the conference title game for the first time since 2012 with a win over USC next week.