Things have been fairly calm on the Ohio State front this week before The Game, at least after the brushfire over Ezekiel Elliott’s critical comments were “squashed,” as coach Urban Meyer termed it, in a Sunday team meeting after the loss to Michigan State.
But sometimes things are going on behind the scenes that are difficult for the media to ferret out in the ultra-secretive world a major-college football program tries to cultivate these days.
One example was how Michigan State worked to keep the status of quarterback Connor Cook secret through pregame warm-ups before deciding the shoulder injury he had suffered the week before would keep him out of the OSU game.