For a team that was as ridiculously accomplished offensively as Ohio State was in 2018 (7th in points per game, 2nd in yards per game), the Buckeyes were weirdly kind of garbage when it came to converting in the red zone. They scored points 75.8% of the time, which put them snugly at 121st in the country. It should be pointed out that there 130 total teams in the FBS. Some of those woes can probably be blamed on a season-long struggle with managing the running game. Ohio State ran for over 200 yards only four times the entire season, and their yards per carry hovered somewhere around “why do we even bother” and “Oh God make it stop.” Simply put, the easiest way to convert short yardage situations is in the running game, and the most effective place to convert short yardage situations is in the red zone. If you can’t do…
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