INDIANAPOLIS – The Ohio state sermon arrived just when it needed it most.
With his passing game out of sync in the Northwest’s No. 14 Big Ten Championship game, running back Trey Sermon came to the rescue to lead the fourth-ranked Buckeyes to a 22-10 victory. at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Sermon, a graduate transferred from Oklahoma, ran for an Ohio State record of 331 yards in 29 hauls to cause the Ohio State offensive. He broke Eddie George’s 314 record set in 1995 in his Heisman Trophy season.
The victory gave the Buckeyes a fourth consecutive convention title.
Now the question is whether that will be enough for the Buckeyes to earn a place in the school football playoffs when it’s announced on Sunday.
Ohio State (6-0) finished fourth on the committee last week, but critics questioned its abbreviated schedule. Saturday’s taste problems would have cemented the Buckeyes’ place.
It is likely that the state of Ohio, however, has only shaken and twisted in bed depending on the final results of other convention championship games.
As opposed to the state of Michigan, the state of Ohio at a numerical disadvantage due to COVID-19, the Buckeyes did not have open receiver Chris Olave, supporter Baron Browning and clearing kicker Drue Chrisman, all of whom were members of the All-Team Big Ten. Ohio State also eliminated Marcus Hooker and Ronnie Hickman, who shared time two weeks ago.
Without Olave, the Buckeyes’ tough aerial game has suffered greatly. Justin Fields finished just 12 of 27 passes for 114 yards with two interceptions.
Ohio State followed a 71-yard landing in the third quarter in which Sermon carried 55 yards, adding the last eight, to a 13-10 lead.
The defense closed the door from there, ruled the Wildcats in the part of the moment and intercepted through supporter Justin Hilliard and goalkeeper Josh Proctor.
Northwest Ohio state just 133 yards in the last six Wildcats possessions in the middle of the moment.
Sermon won with an eight-yard landing with four minutes to play. He won 61 of the Buckeyes’ 80 yards in practice.
Sermon has crossed large open holes across the Ohio State offensive line. Tackles Thayer Munford and Nicholas Petit-Frere and middle Josh Myers recovered from the lack of Michigan State play. Sermon also reduced more yards.
For the time being year in a row, the state of Ohio was a prohibitive favorite who had to do so from a slow first half. Last year, the Buckeyes overs went over a 21-7 half-time deficit to beat Wisconsin.
This year, Ohio State controlled only two cash purposes in the first 30 minutes as opposed to a Northwest defense that had the least amount of gambling-related problems in the country (14. 6). In Ohio State’s first possession, Justin Fields ran 7 yards to the finish line, but left guard Harry Miller called to hold on. The Buckeyes then settled for a 41-yard box purpose through Blake Haubeil.
Haubeil added a distance of 46 yards at the end of half-time, but that all Buckeyes can produce. They ran the ball effectively, but the aerial game was not synchronized without Olave. Fields finished only nine out of 20 passes in the first half. last step the maximum expensive.
Ohio State had a chance to take the lead when it headed northwest at nine o’clock at the last minute. Fields threw a vanished pass to Garrett Wilson at the finish line, but Brandon Joseph of Northwestern had a one-handed interception, his sixth lead in the nation.
The northwest attack left the state of Ohio unbalanced for the maximum of the first period. Peyton Ramsey completed 12 of 14 assists and the Wildcats moved the ball strangely successfully across the area as opposed to what has been an Ohio State forged defense.
Northwestern scored 75 yards to land in his momentary possession, then added a 47-yard basket in his career through Charlie Kuhbander to increase his lead to 10-3 in the middle of the quarter of the moment.
The errors of the groups beyond the 3rd quarter correspond to those of the other.
Northwestern had two long third-quarter conversions to move to Ohio State 11 in his first possession. In the third and 11th, Hilliard intercepted Peyton Ramsey’s pass at the finish line.
But the state of Ohio can simply capitalize. Fields had poor communication with Jameson Williams, who found himself in the area when Fields launched from the sideline and Cameron Mitchell intercepted the pass.
After the Buckeyes forced a 3 and a strikeout, Trey Sermon ran for 65 yards on the next play, but again, the drive staned and Blake Haubeil missed a 42-yard basket to stop him 10-6.
Helped overcome two fouls at Ohio State, Northwestern reached 25 Buckeyes before losing a 46-yard basket.
Then came ohio State touchdowns driven through Sermon. The Buckeyes’ defense did the rest.