With playoff spots at stake, Ohio State beats MI in 2OT

He also was rumored to be in contention for the LSU job. The Wolverines and Buckeyes have always had a healthy – or not-so-healthy – dislike for one another.

The sixth annual Big Ten Football Championship Game is scheduled to kick off at 8:17 p.m.

Harbaugh was convinced the Wolverines had forced the stop that would have ended the game, and that’s one of many calls he blasted in his postgame news conference.

He likes close games: OSU linebacker Chris Worley said he prefers playing close games against MI, that it heightens the excitement in the rivalry. “I’m bitterly disappointed with the officiating today”.

We’re all about to do some hollering.

2 ranking, and wins over three top 10 programs, OSU could become the first team to not win a conference title to advance to the College Football Playoff.

Penn State will face Big Ten West victor Wisconsin, and whichever of the 10-2 teams wins the Big Ten title will have a strong playoff résumé. “Mindset. When they’re that close, you just want to hold them to as few points as possible”.

Fortunately for Ohio State, that assistance could come from multiple teams. It will be Penn State and Wisconsin and, you better believe, the playoff committee is secretly rooting for Wisconsin in that one. There’s even a chance that, during this argument that precedes any outcome, Wisconsin will feel slighted.

Clemson seems a lock if it wins the ACC championship, but the Tigers’ “signature” victory this season came against a Louisville team that lost to Kentucky on Saturday. The offensive line was outmatched against a defense that has made good attacks – let only dysfunctional ones – look awful.

If Ohio State’s 30-27 double-overtime win over arch-rival MI on Saturday is any indication, Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh will be lucky to make it halfway through a decade of these games with their hearts and minds intact. On third-and-9, Samuel caught a pass from Barrett behind the line of scrimmage then proceeded to run all the way back to the left side of the field while running backwards, and, while running about 30 or 40 yards total, gained eight yards on the play to make it fourth-and-one for the Buckeyes. He banged into a tight end’s rear end. “I can tell my kids I played in that game, and it made the rivalry back to what it used to be”.

MI coach Jim Harbaugh didn’t want to talk about much more than the officiating Saturday following the Wolverines’ loss to Ohio State here at Ohio Stadium. The officials signaled a first down.

“I’ve got to go back and look at that one”. And for all of the individual brilliance Samuel put on display as he covered seemingly every blade of turf between the sidelines on his dizzying run, he needed plenty of help from his friends along the way before winding up just short of the first-down marker.

Those conducting the official review could not be certain, because they were in the fetal position in the corners of the room.

They’re in this spot due to their own implosions earlier in the game.

Instead, they lost to the Buckeyes for the 12th time in their past 13 meetings.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Trace McSorley completed 17 of 23 passes for 376 yards and four touchdowns and Penn State beat Michigan State to win the Big Ten East on Saturday.

When asked what happened immediately after the game, it was like Meyer was stuck in a loop where he could only remember the play that saved his season. “And I thought, oh, my goodness”.

“It’s been special”, Penn State coach James Franklin said.

Michigan-Ohio State is The Big Thing in college football. It had injured linebackers strewn all over campus. The Buckeyes had just hit a last-second field goal to extend the game right as Penn State was charging out of the tunnel to meet the Spartans.

Penn State Nittany Lions wide receiver Andre Robinson (6) runs the ball into the end zone for a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the Michigan State Spartans at Beaver Stadium.

Michigan QB Wilton Speight, on fumbling a snap: “I think there was a little miscommunication with the crowd noise”.

That information states that the Rose Bowl will choose a team from the Big Ten, if a team from the conference is in the playoff. Most coaches often qualify their statements, saying it didn’t cost their team the game or noting that the opponent deserves credit for winning.