If you were a backup on Ohio State’s football team last year, you probably didn’t see much playing time after September.
After the Buckeyes played their backups in the second half of three of their first four games in 2018 – a 77-31 win over Oregon State, a 52-3 win over Rutgers and a 49-6 win over Tulane – they didn’t win any of their final 10 games of the year by more than 23 points. As a result, none of those games got to the point where the Buckeyes ever fully pulled their starters off the field.