Ohio State football handles Western Michigan

Derrius Vick threw for 194 yards and two touchdowns for Ohio, which fell to 3-1 with the loss.

Miller had four carries on Saturday, amassing just 11 yards. Ohio State – Cardale Jones completed 19-of-33 passes for 288 yards and two scores with a pick.

Jalin Marshall expects big things from Ohio State’s offense every week.

Amongst the league’s 3-1 teams, the outlook gets a little grimmer: now-No.

On the season, the Ohio State Buckeyes average 176.7 yards in passing and 234.3 yards in rushing.

On the very next play, another mistake – or rather, probably a #PIESMAN entry – as Zach Terrell tried to hit Franklin on a dump screen.

Coach P.J. Fleck was a graduate assistant at OSU in 2006.

That’s when all the wind was knocked out of the WMU sails, when Tyvus Powell blocked the field goal attempt. But given the margin of defeat Saturday night, it’s somewhat surprising Oregon is still ranked at all.

People can talk all they want about last year’s teams or what might happen when Michigan State has to face a conceivably improved Ohio State team on the road November. 21. Lucas Duda hit a first inning grand slam, the first of his career, to put the Mets up early in the win. Drew Willoughby did well on kickoffs all day and also nailed a 30 yard field goal in the second quarter. The Broncos gained 235 total yards in all by the end of the half.

“It’s just guys being disciplined, really, and not trying to do more than their job”, said junior linebacker Riley Bullough, one of the standouts so far on that defense. The Cardinal scored six points against Northwestern. Ohio State actually gave up some ground against Western Michigan, allowing 338 total yards and a whopping 37 minutes of possession, but that didn’t stop Washington from eating. I’m sort of following what I understand of the committee logic (and, refresher, remember from last year’s ranking series that I’m more or less on board with the committee) and as a tiebreaker using a completely subjective “who would win on a neutral field” test. He rejected the notion that Ohio State is going to rotate the two in games. It’s part of a bigger problem of not having any deep threats since the departure of Devin Smith.

How many coaches would use the phrase “overwhelming mess” to describe the psychic burden inherent to playing high-profile college football?

The game was taken out of reach at the beginning of the second half when he took over the run game.

Junior running back Ezekiel Elliott, who OSU coach Urban Meyer called after the game the “most consistent offensive player” on the team, stayed steady as ever on Saturday. He made a handsome one handed catch and fought for a couple first downs on swing passes that otherwise would of been three and outs. The Spartans lost some luster with the Oregon loss, but they have two more easy games ahead.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the featured back next year if Elliott decides to jump to the NFL.

UCLA – Whoa. This was one of those surprising beatings – not that I thought they wouldn’t win, but I didn’t see this coming: a 56-30 final over Arizona that wasn’t as close as it looked.

Connor Cook was held to only 143 yards passing, not one of his best games, but good enough to beat Central. I don’t think that’ll be helpful.

Cameron Johnston did what he does best, dropping two punts inside the 10, including one at the 1.

Meyer is not concerned about the defense, especially after it’s been responsible for scoring two of the past five touchdowns -Vonn Bell off a fumble recovery vs. Hawaii and Darron Lee’s interception return last week.