The collapse of the juggernaut that was Ohio State Football

“I couldn’t disagree with him and his comments”, Meyer said Monday.

“A very isolated incident, ” Meyer said.

Elliott, who went into the MI State game averaging 22 carries and 142 yards a game, rushed for 33 yards on 12 carries against the Spartans and had only two carries in the second half.

“We lost the line of scrimmage”, said a dejected Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer afterward.

In his tweet, Elliott said: “I do not regret anything I said”.

“I deserve more than [12] carries”, Elliott added.

“We’ve got to move on and it’s important for me as a leader to bring guys with me”, he said. “Seemed like we were backed up a lot”.

Meyer said that Elliott apologized, and that he has three years of proof that Elliott is a selfless and loyal player. Elliott expressed frustration that the Buckeye coaching staff didn’t call more running plays during the loss. “We squashed it as a team”. Instead he unloaded on his coaches, saying they “didn’t put us in position to win… I’m disappointed in the play calling, I’m disappointed in the situations we were put in, and I wish it all played out differently”.

It’s been a long time since we saw De’Veon Smith tearing through defenses, but there couldn’t be a better time to have that back than against Ohio State on Saturday.

Or OSU’s Terry Glenn saying, “Michigan is nothing”, in 1995. And while they looked good against the MI Wolverines and Oregon Ducks, there were too many times where they played down to the competition.

“It’s ‘The Game.’ That’s what you come to Ohio State for is to play in this game”, he said.

Tied at 14-14, MI State kicker Michael Geiger won it with a 41-yard field goal as time expired. Grand slam home run hire against grand slam home run hire.

Smith said the comments don’t suggest to him there were chemistry problems within Ohio State’s team this season. And Ohio State never did much to challenge the Spartans. Michigan’s nine wins this season are more than every year but one since Lloyd Carr retired in 2007.

The loss ends Ohio State’s FBS-leading 23-game winning streak and Big Ten record 30-game conference winning streak.1 There’s little time to pout, however, with a visit to That School Up North looming.

“Im not surprised at all, ” Meyer said. I can’t speak for the play caller. They are well coached.

“Zeke has always been an extremely loyal person, a great competitor….”

Other former players told the Sporting News that ex-Gators Percy Harvin, Brandon Spikes and Aaron Hernandez all failed a drug test for marijuana and were forced to sit out for a game, but Meyer reported that they were out for injuries.

MI State football fans thought the season was effectively finished following a 1-point loss to Nebraska a couple weeks ago. If this happens, the Buckeyes will have a spot in the Big Ten Championship game against top four ranked Iowa.

In a game that, statistically speaking, should have ended 49-0 (with the Spartans killing the Bucks), it ended up only being a 17-14 loss to a game-winning field goal. It also had 12 more first downs, 25 more offensive plays, and 11:20 more possession time than the Gophers.