STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Ohio State faced unfamiliar danger in the fourth quarter on Saturday. A hostile crowd. An inspired opponent. A running game that again sputtered. Not since the season opener against Notre Dame had the No. 2 Buckeyes faced a real challenge. On Saturday, Penn State supplied it. Ohio State football:Bottom line: How did the Buckeyes grade out vs. Penn State? OSU Headlines newsletter:Sign up for our daily newsletter on Ohio State sports The No. 13 Nittany Lions looked nothing like the team Michigan overwhelmed two weeks ago in Ann Arbor. When Penn State went ahead 21-16 with 9½ minutes left, the 108,433 at Beaver Stadium sensed, with good reason, that the Buckeyes were on the ropes. Ohio State then delivered a flurry of haymakers on both sides of the ball and escaped with a 44-31 victory. “The way that we played in that fourth quarter was tremendous,…
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