Barrett leads Ohio State to rout of Penn State

Columbus There can’t be any doubt now, can there?

For Ohio State and Michigan State, success this season is merely a continuation of a year ago. The next play, freshman phenom running back Saquon Barkley gashed Ohio State’s defense for a 56-yard touchdown, but it was called back due to a holding penalty.

With all due to respect to Jones, Barrett has earned a shot at being the full-time guy. Their other conference win came over Rutgers.

“(Hubbard) did a great job”, Meyer endorsed.

Numbers alone should give Barrett the opportunity. Sure. But the defense isn’t the reason Penn State lost, despite the final score. Then I thought maybe the Lions defense could account for a win, after all, with the exception of San Diego State, who scored three touchdowns, the Lions D has only allowed two or fewer scores per game. So far this season, the 6 foot-4 junior has completed just 53 percent of his passes for just over 1000 yards with seven touchdowns and two interceptions.

Rushes of 9 yards or more for Ohio State in the first half. The two teams met eight times before the Nittany Lions joined the Big Ten in 1993.

Of course, as was the case all night, the Buckeyes responded and this time tacked on a 39-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter.

Repeat performance in the red zone?

“My first reaction was no way, no chance”, Meyer said. The extra point was good, and the Buckeyes took a four-point lead over the Lions.

It was the turning point, even if it came before Ohio State’s second-quarter scoring barrage that gave the hosts a 21-3 halftime lead even began.

“(The rotation) hasn’t worked out”, he said. Find the OSU game TV details and how to watch OSU vs Penn State streaming free live just below.

Bringing in backup J.T. Barrett for the rest of the game wasn’t the answer, and Jones has remained the starter. Thanks to Barrett’s heroics, fans won’t be trashing their black T-shirts and Penn State fans won’t be gobbling them up as souvenirs. Two drives later, tight end Mike Gesicki dropped a wide open pass at the Buckeyes 20 before Barkley’s potential score was wiped out. His longest completion was a 17-yarder that Miller had to make a diving attempt to keep from going incomplete. The younger Beathard has misfired a bit the last three weeks, but with the backing of 294 rushing yards behind him Saturday, he wasn’t needed to carry the offense.

Jones’ skill set is not supposed to be the dual-threat Barrett is, but to stretch the field vertically with his power arm. Barrett ran 11 times for 102 yards and two touchdowns.

“Cardale was 9-for-15. Not bad”.

“The clarity, when the dust clears on Saturday night, I don’t know about that”, he said. We’re going to play, no different than [Ohio State].

Ohio State looks to continue their run to defend their national title while Penn State looks to make a statement and continue their winning streak.

While Penn State started the season with a not-so-great loss to Temple, they are undefeated since then. Elliott is second in the Big Ten and No. 8 nationally with 139.2 rushing yards per game. They weren’t necessarily in the quarterback run. “You have to have those equalizers in offensive football”. Considering how last year’s game ended in overtime with a game-ending sack by Ohio State defensive end Joey Bosa, it is widely accepted that this weekend could hold one of college football’s most exciting games of the 2015 season. But 10 losses in 13 games against Michigan defined him for many of them.

The bottom line is productivity. It’s unfathomable to think he could go back to Cardale Jones now after J.T. Barrett ran for two TDs and passed for two more in relief.