A win over MI and a needed reaffirmation of Ohio State football

“The season is not over, but we will have some conversations with a number of guys and come up with a plan that makes sense for them and makes sense for Penn State and we look forward to doing that here in the next couple of weeks”.

Michigan State dominated Ohio State’s offense last week, and then dominated Penn State Saturday in the Big Ten game that mattered most.

Rudock was 19 of 32 for 263 yards and a score.

It was a rough day for the Penn State Nittany Lions, falling 55-16 to the Michigan State Spartans, sealing the Spartans’ place in the Big Ten Championship. Meanwhile, Michigan could force a three-way tie for the Big Ten East Division title and secure a trip to Indianapolis for the title game with a win and a Michigan State loss. But the margin for error is small for a lot of teams in college football.

The eighth-ranked Buckeyes (11-1, 7-1 in the Big Ten) clinched at least a share of the Big Ten East division championship for a fourth consecutive season. “So, there’s added risk to all of this for us”.

“Thursday was the first practice that I did everything”, Cook said.

“When you have something taken away from you, you sit back and re-evaluate yourself, kind of check yourself”, Cook said. I don’t know the other players, but I am fortunate to be around him.

“We closed ground, but we still got more ground to close on”, Harbaugh said.

The teams played annually from 2007-13, with the Hawkeyes winning four of the seven games including two double-overtime decisions. Cook threw a 29-yard scoring pass to Aaron Burbridge to make it 27-10. With 2:36 remaining in the half, Demetrious Cox recovered a Penn State fumble and returned the ball 77 yards for a touchdown to bump the Spartan lead to 20-3.

As a team, Ohio State ran for 369 yards. “I just wanted to get the crowd into it, because I knew Jack was going to score”. “We came into this saying the offensive line and Zeke are going to win it”.

Jourdan Lewis earned his first career sack for a two yard loss in the first quarter on Elliott.

There will be plenty of time between now and Penn State’s bowl game, which could come as early as the December 26 Foster Farms Bowl in Santa Clara, Calif., or as late as the January 2 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.

“We need to do a better job of seeing pullers and getting off blockers”, Reeder said.

It’s just the second time the road team has won the Egg Bowl in 12 years. He talked to us many times with motivational speeches and things like that.

In a game where the Spartans put up the most points they have all season, two defensive players and a lineman made it into the end zone.

Penn State will now await next weekend’s championship results to find out where they will be bowling.

“Obviously he was comfortable in the pocket”, Franklin said. “They got it done”. Rudock made a 5-yard TD pass to Jehu Chesson to cut Ohio State’s lead to 14-10 just before halftime.

Ohio State scored on its first four possessions of the second half on a 25-yard pass from Barrett to Jalin Marshall, a 13-yard run by Barrett, a 10-yard run by Elliott and a 17-yard run by Barrett.

■Roster report: MSU suffered a key loss midway through the second quarter when senior fullback Trevon Pendleton went down with a left leg injury.

Elliott, one week after a 12-carry, 33-yard performance against the Spartans, almost approached the school record for rushing yards against MI, set by Carlos Hyde (226 yards) in 2013. He also became just the second player with 150 catches, trailing only B.J. Cunningham (218).

Penn State struggled without national sack leader Carl Nassib and fellow starting defensive end Garrett Sickels, both of whom were injured.