Like last week, we have to preface all of this by saying that it was Rutgers.
If you added up all of Rutgers’ over their last five meetings with the Buckeyes, they still would have lost to Ohio State in any game by over three touchdowns. The total score in those games is 271-27. The average score is 54-5. So we have to view these results in that context.
But, at the same time, Chris Ash’s Rutgers teams have been getting steadily better, and his defenses have been at least solid. So the fact that Ohio State quarterbacks missed on only three of 33 passes and the offense rolled like you’d expect it to over a straight-up bad defense does mean something.