Land-grant Holy Land: For Ohio State Buckeyes Fans

While Ohio State’s 21-7 victory at Northwestern was one of the more aggravating wins by the Buckeyes in recent history, it was still a win. We can’t say we saw the game unfolding as it did, but then again when we recorded last week, we had no idea the game would be played in a hurricane. If we had known, we probably would still have predicted a lopsided win but perhaps with one or two fewer touchdowns. Instead, we witnessed a slog that didn’t seem to need to be one. Dropped passes, curious play calling, bad execution along the offensive line, and some uncharacteristic sponginess on third down and against the run by the defense combined to make Saturday a lot less easy on the nerves than what was forecast. We basically threw our predictions from last week in the garbage and only one of our four picks to click actually clicked and that was the “Bingo free space” that is Tommy Eichenberg, who seemingly always delivers. We discussed the major talking points from the game and talked through the scoring drives and