COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football’s championship-caliber offense checked in early and never left the field Friday night. To be sure, tougher tests await than Toledo — buried quickly en route to a 77-21 Buckeye victory. One arrives at the end of this week. Wisconsin should be the most physical, best-coached and closest to talent-equated defense Ohio State will have faced thus far. As the final prelude to that Big Ten-opening challenge, C.J. Stroud and his weapons locked in for an extended stretch of what coach Ryan Day demanded during his Skull Session speech — dominance. The avalanche continued after OSU turned things over to walk-ons and those barely old enough to vote. Saturday’s 762 yards were the second-most in program history, behind only the 776 used to bury another MAC opponent, Bowling Green, in 2016. A week earlier against similarly overmatched Arkansas State, the Stroud-led offense still settled for…
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