Observations on Saturday’s Ohio State-Arkansas State game by Joey Kaufman: The game at hand • Short-attention span synopsis: No hangover from Week 1. It was a Rose Bowl redux between C.J. Stroud and Marvin Harrison Jr. An explosive passing game reemerged even without its top target. But a tuneup game involves tuning. Yellow flags sprinkled Ohio Stadium’s new artificial turf, and Arkansas State found holes in a secondary. • Pregame buzz: Consider the atmosphere in the morning hours around the Horseshoe a 180-degree turn from the previous week. Though the stadium approached capacity by kickoff, traffic was light and the surrounding parking lots that swelled with tailgaters in the leadup to the season opener against Notre Dame were far less crowded. It’s no surprise the get-in price for tickets on resell websites started around $20 after being put up for hundreds of dollars for the first game. • Spread the wealth? The folks who…
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