Ohio State faced its toughest competition of the season to date in its sixth game of the season to date against Michigan State and as a result, the Buckeyes tightened up their rotations from their first five games of the year.
While the Buckeyes still ultimately earned a convincing 34-10 win over the Spartans, they never pulled away to the point that they took all of their starters out of the game, which gave us our truest look of the season yet of which players Ohio State truly trusts to play with a game on the line.