The Ohio State football team was supposed to have an improved defense for this game. They were supposed to have made changes and fix whatever issues they had against Oregon. That ended up not being the case, and the Buckeyes struggled in their 41-20 victory over Tulsa.
That score was not indicative of how close this game was for most of the contest. It was a one-score game until late in the fourth quarter when C.J. Stroud found Garrett Wilson for a touchdown. A pick-six by Cameron Martinez on the next series is what made the gap so large in the final score.