COLUMBUS, Ohio — That, Ohio State football left guard Donovan Jackson said, was more like it. He and the rest of the Buckeyes’ offensive line had been striving for a game in which they moved an opponent around and blew open running gaps consistently. The 163-yard rushing performance in Saturday’s 41-7 victory put that progress on display. “We just saw looks that we liked,” Jackson said. “We put in a lot of work through the week to try to correct the mistakes we had earlier on in the year, and we just tried to put it on the field. It’s good if you do it in practice — even better if you do it on the field.” Ohio State’s running game did not merely need to show some improvement for a jolt of confidence. It had to start creating displacement and moving bodies, and it had to start…
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