As head coach Urban Meyer said after Saturday’s 49-20 loss at Purdue, Ohio State’s shortcomings have been exposed.
“There’s other things we do very well, and then there’s things that we don’t. And it’s glaringly obvious what the issues are,” Meyer said Tuesday on the Big Ten football coaches’ teleconference.
Ohio State still has one of the most talented rosters in the country, still controls its own destiny in the Big Ten and are still in the College Football Playoff hunt, but if the Buckeyes are going to win out and contend for a national championship or even a conference championship, there are four clear problem areas in which they must improve.