Focus is on The Game, Buckeyes say

Carrying the ball 12 times during a wet and windy last-second loss was not how he planned to go out.

It is also important to note that the victor of the Ohio State and MI clash would win the East Division and advance to the Big Ten champion should MI State loses.

“This is my last game in the Shoe”, said Elliott, who spent a couple of day in the hospital this week being treated for staph infection. Zeke’s got, like I said, a three-year bank.

That Elliott intends to turn pro after this season is no surprise. The Ohio State loss puts two spots in play down the stretch.

“No I’m not content…[not with] a lot of plays anyway”.

“It’s easy to lead when everything is going well and you’ve won a bunch of games in a row”, he said. It didn’t work out.

MI State might not crack the top four this week, but the Spartans (10-1) have to like where they stand. They already have wins against OR – maybe the best team in the Pac-12 over the last month of the season – MI and now Ohio State.

Then, Meyer promptly threw his offensive coordinator under the bus, saying that he agreed with Elliott about the play calling against MSU. So finger will be pointed right here. “I have to do better“.

That being the case, it’s puzzling why Ohio State abandoned the pass. The rain was a factor in the first half, but was not as much in the second half.

Their 30-game winning streak in regular-season conference games? His team had just blown its chance to make the College Football Playoff, and his Heisman hopes got flushed away. Buckeye fans were happy, the coaching staff was happy, and the players were happy.

The last place Michael Geiger, all 5-foot-8 and 185 pounds of him, wanted to end up was at the bottom of a pile of MI State football players. In Ohio State’s previous 17 games, he’d rushed for 100 yards or more in all but one of them. He only played in the first defensive series of the Nittany Lions’ 28-16 loss to MI.

Decker’s advice to Elliott, in the emotionally-charged moments after the 17-14 loss to MI State, would have been to Just Say No. Decker said he was still too frustrated to speak with the media after the usual cooling off period.

“We’ve just been hit right in the gut, and Zeke actually said a few words down there, and I love these guys and we’ll come back and do the best we can next week”. So it was OK for MI State to pass in the rain, with a backup quarterback, no less, but not for the Buckeyes?

The Spartans turned into an option/quarterback run team.

Houston (10-1) lost for the first time this season, on the road at CT, but the Cougars and Navy (9-1) will still play next week for the AAC West title and a spot in the league title game.

Ohio State never had an answer.

Now, unless a bunch of upsets happen, the Buckeyes will not be able to defend their national title.

“Obviously, they’re playing very well right now”. At least not like this.

But once Justin Boren transferred from MI to Ohio State after Rich Rodriguez was hired, the Boren family’s allegiance swung from maize and blue to scarlet and gray. Will they at MI? On Sunday, Elliott responded to the criticism on Twitter.