After battling to a 49-26 win over Indiana on Saturday that was more closely contested than the final score indicated, Dwayne Haskins was just one of several Ohio State players who admitted what people might have already suspected: the Buckeyes didn’t have their best week of practice leading up to Saturday’s game.
“I'm not going to lie, we were probably still tired from last week,” Haskins said. “Definitely was a little low in energy in practice during the week.”
Ohio State was coming off of an exhausting win at Penn State, which not only required the Buckeyes to score two touchdowns in the final seven minutes to come away with a 27-26 win, but also required a late-night trip back from State College, Pennsylvania, which meant an early-morning arrival – head coach Urban Meyer said they got back at 3:30 a.