Slow and steady might have won the race against a hare like Maryland, but Penn State and Michigan will be less like rabbits and more like racecars.
Thus, Ryan Day and company are trying to find the spark required to start the way the Buckeyes finished their contest against Maryland.
Then came Maryland, where the Buckeyes fell behind 10-0 and didn’t score an offensive touchdown until their opening drive of the second half. They botched a snap on a punt that gave the Terrapins prime field position to close their opening drive of the game, which was a three-and-out – or a four-and-out, technically.
“We just executed better,” Kyle McCord said Saturday after the game. “I feel like there were definitely opportunities for us in the first half to go score. It wasn’t anything that we didn’t expect , for the most part. It wasn’t anything that the coaches could have done better. I feel like as an offense, as the quarterback of the offense, I feel like we need to take initiative, and regardless of what they call, make it work.
The Buckeyes did allow a touchdown after the botched snap gave Maryland the ball on Ohio State’s 30-yard line, but after that, it held one of the Big Ten’s best quarterbacks, Taulia Tagovailoa, to under 200 yards passing. OSU intercepted two passes off Tagovailoa and stopped the Terrapins twice on fourth down.“I don’t think the defense was slow,” Day said. “The first throw and catch was unbelievable. Davison was right there.
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