Taking away both positives and negatives from a season-opening victory is difficult for any team. Aside from the widely-held fear in sports that resting on laurels leads to complacency, it’s just not easy, nor wise, to make sweeping conclusions about anything based on small sets of data. There are at least eleven games left on Ohio State’s schedule, and the season hasn’t even advanced beyond the out-of-conference stage yet.
However, some elements of Ohio State’s performance against Florida Atlantic this past weekend require addressing, because while this victory was by no means a fluke, it certainly shouldn’t give a confidence boost to any player not named Justin Fields.