No. 10 Ohio State was able to keep its Big Ten and College Football Playoff hopes alive with a 26-6 win over No. 18 Michigan State on Saturday, but the final score is misleading. Ohio State may have won by 20, but the truth is the Buckeyes offense didn’t do most of the work scoring those points, and the outcome of the game swung on an unorthodox decision by Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio. One that backfired on the coach and his team. Trailing 7-6 in the third quarter, the Spartans were buried in their end zone. A punt had pinned them at the 1-yard line, and after going nowhere on three plays, the punt team came out. And that’s when Dantonio told them to do something strange. Michigan State intentionally snapped the ball over the punter’s head and out of bounds for a safety. It gave Ohio State a…
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