The Ohio State Buckeyes hosted Michigan State last November on a day when Michigan State was playing without its starting quarterback, Connor Cook. The game wasn’t going to be a cakewalk, but it certainly was a game Ohio State should have won. The Buckeyes had the better talent. They had fewer key injuries. They were at home. Their offense just had to be average – ordinary – in order to win. Instead, their offense played one of its worst games of the Urban Meyer era. The Buckeyes needed Michigan State mistakes to score 14 points, but they couldn’t generate any offense on their own. They lost, and as a result, they didn’t defend their national title in the College Football playoff. They didn’t defend their Big Ten title. They didn’t defend a division title. They didn’t even make the Rose Bowl. Ohio State thumped Michigan and Notre Dame to close its season, but there was an unavoidable feeling of “what might have been.” Now the Buckeyes try to regroup and win the Big Ten this season. Biggest Team Weakness The Ohio State Buckeyes’ big weakness is at running back. Ezekiel Elliott, the highly-touted running back who was taken with the…
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