When Urban Meyer took the podium early Saturday evening following his team's woeful 17-14 loss to Michigan State, he fed his fingers through his hair and did something he hadn't all season after a game.
He opened the floor up for questions.
Meyer, the Ohio State head coach who had never lost a Big Ten regular season game prior to the loss to Mark Dantonio's Spartans, usually has a few words to recap what he'd just witnessed on the gridiron. Saturday was different.
"We lost the line of scrimmage. And obviously you start loading up the box in those kind of situations and we were — the passing game was just, it was not there.