The Game we’ve been waiting for is finally here

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Scott single-handedly carried his team back into the game with nine minutes remaining, carrying the ball for all eight plays of a Michigan State drive.

The Buckeyes (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten) escaped with a 17-16 win at Michigan State on Saturday. And it should ensure that Ohio State remains among the top four teams in next week’s College Football Playoff poll.

With the Spartans out of timeouts, Ohio State was able to exhaust the remaining time without an issue.

That’s what the Buckeyes are doing to do the playoff committee. College Football Playoff hopes aren’t entirely destroyed for the Huskies (9-1, 6-1 Pac-12), but they need to win out and get some help from other top ranked teams to keep the dream season alive. No matter what his numbers are on a weekly basis, Worley is no weak link in this Ohio State defense.

The Buckeyes returned the favor later in the quarter by burning the Spartans on a play-action pass. A win this weekend would set up quite a showdown against rival MI to close the regular season. Plus, Michigan’s offense is not clicking. Even if Ohio State beats MI, it could lose a head-to-head tiebreaker with Penn State for the division title.

“We ran two pass plays and we had two open guys, two”, Dantonio said. MI could also wrap up a 2 seed with a win over Ohio St and what will most likely be Wisconsin in the B1G Title game because they’d own the tiebreaker over Penn St with a 49-10 win.

Scott took a screen pass 64 yards for a score on just the second play from scrimmage to give the Spartans an early lead. The Spartans (3-8, 1-7) were down 17-10 when LJ Scott scored on a 1-yard run with 4:41 to play.

The Michigan State Spartans may have been 3-7 entering Saturday, but they gave the Ohio State Buckeyes a game yet again, just like they seemed to have done in the last four meetings since Urban Meyer became the head coach in Columbus. “On the road against a high-major team like Michigan State, they make you play”. “I think we had over 200 yards rushing total and did a good job with that”.

Barrett managed to chew up two and a half more minutes before Ohio State was forced to punt.

“The whole defense is special”, said Conley. Maybe the wind was the overriding factor, but up to that point, J.T. Barrett’s legs were the biggest part of the attack. Barrett finished just 10 for 22 for 86 yards.

NO. 4 MI 20, INDIANA 10: De’Veon Smith ran for two touchdowns in a 3:33 span late in the third quarter, finishing with a career-high 158 yards rushing, to help MI shake off Indiana. Ohio State has one loss, and it’ll be treated differently than everybody else.

(9) Penn State 39, Rutgers 0: In Piscataway, N.J., Tyler Davis kicked a career-high four field goals and Penn State (9-2, 7-1) stayed in the hunt for a berth in the Big Ten Conference title game. At the time of this writing, Ohio State is ranked No. 2 in the College Football Playoff rankings and MI is ranked No. 3. The Wolverines would be bound for the conference title game and then headed to the playoff with a win there. Still, even without a league title, the Buckeyes would have an impressive resume that would stack up with most teams in the nation. And a third spot figures to go to Clemson, which is on course to win the ACC. Amara Darboh and Jake Butt have combined for 1,218 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns while Jehu Chesson has 29 receptions.

“We are a balanced football team and when we’re not a balanced it’s tough”, Meyer said.

I went into this game thinking that we were going to get housed. Johnson came out of his seat and spread his arms wide and had an ear-to-ear smile when the left-handed Bridges followed up a miss free throw by driving through the lane and leaping to make a backboard-shaking, right-handed dunk.

“A win is a win, I don’t care how it comes”.

More Chaos in the B1G 10 – Alabama wins out and wins the SEC, Clemson wins out and wins the ACC, Ohio State beats Michigan, Penn State beats Michigan State and win B1G 10, Washington wins the Pac-12, Oklahoma wins the Big 12.

Michigan State pushed OSU to the edge. Ohio State battled back, and the game was tied at 10 apiece going into halftime. “Take nothing away from them”.

Oklahoma State’s climb up the College Football Playoff rankings needed a boost, if not a shove, and the Cowboys did their best self-propelling act in the rout of TCU. “People look at records like we’re supposed to blow them out, but that’s not the case because they get up for us”.