COLUMBUS, Ohio — There was belief that Nebraska football might be past those games where you just start to look at the clock and beg for it to get to zeroes. It is not past that, as a serious Buckeye black eye was supplied Saturday night, with Ohio State embarrassing Nebraska 62-3 before a delighted crowd of 108,750 at The Horseshoe. The 59-point losing margin is the second-worst in Husker history, behind only a 70-10 loss to Texas Tech in 2004. “That was real bad and we’re all responsible for it, and Ohio State played real well,” said Husker head coach Mike Riley. Riley said the whole thing “came out of the blue to me.” Ohio State did not punt, gained 34 first downs to Nebraska’s nine, and 590 yards to Nebraska’s 204. It was 7-0 just 94 seconds into the game and 31-3 at halftime and 55-3 after three quarters. “I don’t know what it wasn’t, but what it looked to me was very strange,” Riley said. “I didn’t think we played very loose. I thought we were tight early. But the fact of the matter is, we really couldn’t do a lot offensively and we couldn’t get them…
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