Ohio State’s Week 1 victory over Indiana wasn’t the start-to-finish slaughter that some (including this guy) predicted, but we still saw plenty of the firepower that earned the Buckeyes a No. 2 preseason ranking:
- The Hoosiers ran for just 17 yards and zero touchdowns on their 27 carries. Five sacks (which count as negative rushing yards for the quarterback in college) are the cause of horrendous average of 0.63 yards per attempt, but the Indiana non-quarterbacks’ 37 yards on 17 carries wasn’t much better.
- Entering this season, Denzel Ward had not allowed a touchdown in his 44 total targets in coverage, per CFBFilmRoom.