Everything you need to know ahead of Ohio State's game against Youngstown State

Ohio State football will return to Ohio Stadium Saturday afternoon. After a 23-3 season-opening road win against Indiana, the Buckeyes will open its home schedule at noon Saturday against Youngstown State. Ohio State is due to spend $2.6 million in combined payouts for upcoming nonconference games against Youngstown State and Western Kentucky, according to copies of the game contracts obtained by The Dispatch through public records requests. It is scheduled to give $800,000 to Youngstown State, which visits Ohio Stadium on Saturday, while it is to pay $1.8 million to the Hilltoppers, who come to Columbus the following weekend. If true that a team’s biggest improvement happens from Week 1 to Week 2, then Penn State will hang half a hundred on Delaware – and Ohio State might score 30 against Youngstown State. Things pretty much went according to schedule in Week 1, except the Buckeyes’ offense got lost somewhere between Columbus and Bloomington. And Purdue Purdidn’t. Ohio…

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