OSU’s Fiesta Bowl win looks familiar

That run includes a national championship, an undefeated season, and two Big Ten division titles. A lifetime, really, on the banks of the Olentangy. He has declared for the NFL Draft.

“While I do believe we are the best team in the country, it was our own fault we weren’t in there”, senior offensive tackle Taylor Decker said.

Elliott also threw the key block on a 7-yard third-down conversion run by J.T. Barrett during a second-quarter touchdown drive and sprung Jalin Marshall for 15 yards on an end around on the next series en route to Elliott’s third score.

Both the teams in the Fiesta were banged-up (and both lost their best defenders during the game, OSU to an ejection and ND to another injury), but it’s nearly pointless to start listing the players who missed time for the Irish this year, since it’s at least one major contributor in nearly every position group. “I think things are going to be alright”. He was not speaking for the heartland zealots who made up the bulk of the 71,113 fans here Friday. “It really compares well to last year’s team. We had to play catch-up from there”. It just hurts. It hurts a lot because of how we lost. Sometimes it’s just a matter of letting it go. “We don’t want to be playing directional teams with no profile to them”.

Michael Thomas led the receivers with seven catches for 72 yards and a touchdown, his ninth of the season and 18th of his career. The so-called failure of 2015 includes a 12-1 record, almost-certain final top-5 ranking and back-to-back victories over MI and Notre Dame.

Notre Dame’s “next man in” approach couldn’t quite deliver a win when strained to its limit against an elite opponent.

“I thought we handled ourselves well relative to the physicality of the game, but we didn’t execute as well as we needed to win”, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said.

Bosa was forced to watch the final three quarters of his final collegiate game on a television right in front of his locker inside the Buckeyes’ locker room.

He lowered his head and hit quarterback DeShone Kizer in the upper chest, well after the pass came out. But Bosa was cited for targeting and was ejected.

“Oh my goodness, that was a kidney shot”, Meyer said.

Bosa apologized on Twitter and was tearful as he left the field. Treadwell joined Ike Hilliard as the only other player to catch three touchdown passes in a Sugar Bowl game.

Elliott and his teammates got over it. That was clear during an impressive 44-28 win over No. 8 Notre Dame in the BattleFrog Fiesta Bowl.

De’Veon Smith ran for 109 yards in the win as well.

The Irish might look back and wonder how much more special the season could have been if half the starting lineup hadn’t been on the disabled list.

Ohio State would go right back down the field and score. Luckily, the Irish got a break and Joe Schmidt was able to pick off a pass to stop a promising a drive by Ohio State. Granted, it happened in Columbus at the hands of replacement quarterbacks, but the score was only 17-14. They won their conference.

Elliott showed off his speed to open the second half, blurring through a hole for his 47-yard touchdown to match the Fiesta Bowl record set by Arizona State’s Woody Green against Missouri in 1972. That is the Russian roulette appeal of this system.

Ohio State loses Ezekiel Elliott, who ran for four scores Friday just as he did against OR 12 months ago, and loses Braxton Miller, who was once a Heisman threat at quarterback but went to wide receiver without complaint.