November 2, 2024

What caused Ohio State's November statement and could it be enough to lift the Buckeyes to the playoff?

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Parris Campbell spent 30 hours in rehab last week trying to get his high ankle sprain ready for Nebraska.  Sam Hubbard came in early to watch even more film than he usually does.  Marshon Lattimore made a concerted effort to really concentrate in practice when he wasn’t getting active reps. These are the types of things we found happened after Ohio State’a 62-3 win over Nebraska on Saturday night. And though it seems as if these types of things should always be the norm — and they are — the entire team took an active approach to answer a question Urban Meyer asked two weeks ago.  “Is everyone on the team doing everything possible to win games?”  Meyer isn’t one for pregame motivational speeches and “rah-rah” rallying cries, but when he asked that question, he had reason. Ohio State had just suffered its only loss of the season at Penn State and he sensed not everyone was doing their part.  So he addressed the team about it.  “We do team meetings and power the unit and have those conversations,” Meyer said. “And if you’ve done everything you possibly can do to help your team win, enhance it, carry on,…

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