October 25, 2024

Ohio State Coasts in Imperfect 56-21 Win Over Rutgers


It wasn’t pretty and it wasn’t as lopsided as the oddsmakers expected, but Ohio State’s 56-21 victory over Rutgers was convincing and easily dominant enough to maintain its spot at No. 2 in the College Football Playoff rankings. What else is there of value to take from this ridiculously-mandatory trip to Piscataway to play a program ill-equipped to compete in the Big Ten East? Well, aside from all those cable boxes across the Hudson in New York City — which so greatly fascinated Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany and exactly no one else — it has to be that Ohio State emerged from this one injury-free. One a day where Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa suffered a season-ending hip injury, that can’t be undersold with No. 9 Penn State and No. 15 Michigan yet to play. “I thought we came out and took care of business the right way,” said OSU coach…

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