With Greg Paulus as overseer, Ohio State’s defense has quietly been among the nation’s best through the first 10 games of the season.
Whether it deserves to be there could be known as soon as Saturday, when the Buckeyes will be given their biggest test of perhaps the entire season against No. 2 UCLA at the CBS Sports Classic in Las Vegas.
Entering a game Wednesday against UC Santa Barbara, the Bruins boast the second-best scoring offense in the country at 97.5 points per game and are the best shooting team at 56.2 percent. So although Ohio State has allowed only one team to top 70 points, it hasn’t seen anything like what is up next on the schedule.