If a player was on the field for Ohio State in its fifth game of the season against Penn State on Saturday, it was because the Buckeyes believed that player could help them win the game.
Unlike many of the Buckeyes’ previous games this season, there was no time to put backups on the field just to give them experience in Happy Valley on Saturday. Instead, the Buckeyes found them in a dogfight that lasted all the way into the final two minutes of the game, as they scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns before Chase Young made the game-sealing 4th-and-5 stop to come away with a 27-26 victory in a thrilling comeback.