Ohio State's September Win at Oklahoma Helped the Buckeyes In More Ways Than One

The thunder rolled. The lightning flashed. The teams waited.Ohio State and Oklahoma met on Sept. 17 in Norman, but not before some severe weather delayed kickoff by two hours. It was one of the most highly-anticipated non-conference games of the 2016 season; the wait surely didn’t help calm the nerves. When the game finally did begin, it didn’t take long for the Buckeyes to show they were the better team. Noah Brown caught four touchdown passes and Ohio State rolled to a 45-24 victory. The questions about the Buckeyes’ youth and inexperience? Those were answered in resounding fashion. Ohio State clearly looked like one of the best teams in the country that night. The win was massive then. It looks even bigger now. “That game in Norman, Oklahoma, turned out to be kind of the difference in this whole situation,” Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer said recently. The Buckeyes probably wouldn’t…

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