COLUMBUS, Ohio — For the fourth time in five games, Ohio State football’s entire offensive line graded out as champions from the 48-7 victory at Nebraska. One of the main beneficiaries has been quarterback Justin Fields, who has been able to settle in as a sophomore transfer and first-year starter behind a stable offensive front. However, one statistic that deviates from the rest of the offensive performance is sacks. Fields took three more against Nebraska. Ohio State quarterbacks have been sacked 10 times in five games, with Fields taken down on all but one of them. That 2.0-per-game average puts the Buckeyes in the lower half of the Big Ten Conference. (For context, the Buckeyes rank fourth in passing attempts, but have only six more attempts than Iowa, which ranks 10th.) “Some were reasonable, but some I should have thrown the ball away,” Fields said. “I have to get a…
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