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Ohio State football | Inside the Beat: Michigan Week a little weaker, but the game is still The Game

Dispatch beat writers Bill Rabinowitz and Tim May engage in a give-and-take on Ohio State football.

Well, that didn't go well, did it? Ohio State had its first major test of the season, and the Buckeyes failed it. Saturday's 17-14 loss to Michigan State was devastating to their chances of repeating as Big Ten and national champions. But it went beyond that. Ohio State's offense, which had sputtered at times this season, idled from the start and never got going. The stats were gory -- five first downs, 132 total yards. If there was an offensive game plan, it was hard to deduce it.