With the lethargic Hawai’i game out of the way, there was no way Ohio State was going to come out and play sluggishly on offense and turn the ball over a lot, right? I mean, we were told the team had two great days of practice this week and everything.
Northern Illinois had allowed 30 points to UNLV and 26 to Murray State, so it seemed like the perfect opponent against which to get well on offense. The questions we heard all week were whether the defense could repeat what they did against the Rainbow Warriors against a prolific dual-threat quarterback like Drew Hare.