J.K Dobbins rushed for 72 yards and the only Ohio State touchdown with Sean Nuernberger kicked three field goals for the rest of the Ohio State points.
Ohio State (1-1 1-0 Big 10) hosts Army next Saturday..
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1) Where do I begin in this crying session?
Well,lets start with the quarterback as J,T.Barrett continues to struggle with accuracy with anything farther down field than 10 yards and teams are loading up and daring him to throw beyond that mark.
He hasn't shown any ability to do so and until he is able to,teams are going to continue to play their defenders in the box and shut down the underneath pass.
2) Barrett was victimized again by a dropped certain touchdown pass.
Last week in Indiana,it was Parris Campbell and in this one,it was an open Terry McLaurin that couldn't haul in a pass that was on the money.
Considering that you won't have too many chances for these situations with J.T.Barrett,you need to cash those in and two weeks in a row,Ohio State has not.
3) Ohio State may have a new offensive coordinator in Kevin Wilson,but the Buckeyes have fallen in the same trap as in the past-they don't run the ball enough and take advantage of their strength.
J.K.Dobbins ran for 72 yards and averaged 5.5 yards a carry,but only ran the ball 13 times.
Mike Weber made his debut and ran for 29 yards on just three runs.
Meanwhile J.T.Barrett ran 18 times and threw 35.
4) The one possession that the Buckeyes did commit to the run was the first possession of the second half and the result was the only touchdown that Ohio State would score all game.
Committing to the strength of the team not only is effective with the runners,it just might open up J.T.Barrett a bit and increase his effectiveness.
5) The secondary is a work in progress.
Buckeye fans including myself assumed the secondary would plug and play players there that hadn't played much and they would step right in and be effective.
They haven't been,maybe the time is now to consider time for freshmen like Jeffrey Okudah to begin to work their way towards playing time.
800 passing yards allowed in two games makes it the right time.
With Army and the triple option this week,Greg Schiano has two weeks to consider some changes...
6) The defensive line played well.
Baker Mayfield did make plays,but he had pressure on him most of the game.
Nick Bosa and Sam Hubbard had the only sacks,but I think in the battle between the nations top offensive line and defensive lines,The Buckeyes gave as good as they got....
7) I was talking during the game as I usually do with my Buckeye pal Ian and told him how the Buckeye offense reminded me of the Browns-throwing four yard passes when you need eight yards and relying on the receiver to make up those yards.
The problem is that isn't happening because so many guys are in the box and wrap the man up.
8) Oklahoma's receivers on the other hand were able to take a short pass and turn it into something bigger as the Sooners showed with their first second half score when Dmitri Flowers took a short dump off from Baker Mayfield and turned it into a 36 yards touchdown.
9) I've always liked the Sooners.
I have written before about how much I rooted for the Barry Switzer Sooners and my love for the wishbone,so losing to Oklahoma wasn't expected to bother me.
I thought it was a tossup game that home field would give the edge to Ohio State in,but this is far from an upset,
However,I thought the Baker Mayfield behavior after the game was poor sportsmanship.
Mayfield had been talking all week about how mad he was about Ohio State singing on their field and how he found it disrespectful.
Here's my issue-Ohio State and their players sing Carmen Ohio every game-win or lose,home or road.
It would take about ten seconds of a Google search to figure this out,yet Mayfield continued to talk about the singing and how bothered he was.
Mayfield running to midfield with a flag in the middle of the O and jabbing into the field was something I expected after his words this week,but it didn't make it any better...
10) The word after the game was that so many fans want to see a change at quarterback.
Urban Meyer directly said no after the game,but fans want to see Joe Burrow or Dwayne Haskins get a shot.
I don't think that Barrett is going to be given a seat on the bench,but I do think that the coaching staff has got to get either Burrow or Haskins some playing time in the next two games against Army and UNLV.
This problem cannot be allowed to move further and the Buckeyes need to prepare for a future without J.T.Barrett and maybe even a present...
11) Wrapping up.
Do I think this season is lost?
Nope,I think the Buckeyes mulligan is gone and they have to win out from here on out,but not a lost season.
However,Ohio State is going to have a hard time doing that with things as they currently stand.
I think they'll take care of Penn State,the Buckeyes will be as high for that game as the Sooners were for the Buckeyes and Michigan is always a game that you never take lightly,but some of these other games aren't the slam dunks that I thought they might be a few weeks ago.
Until these offensive deficiencies are solved,I won't be taking any game as a layup.
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