While a lack of elite quarterback play grabbed the headlines as Ohio State's 2023 season crashed and burned with back-to-back losses to Michigan and Missouri in the Cotton Bowl, a below average rushing attack triggered by a below average offensive line was a larger foundational problem.
Behind and offensive line with no top tier performances and no depth, a quarterback ill-suited to do anything useful with his feet and no legit backup tailback behind TreVeyon Henderson, Ohio State ranked 88th in country averaging just 138.9 rushing yards per game on a nation's 79th-best 4.12 yards per carry.
You have to go back to 2004 to find an Ohio State offense with a worse yards per carry result (3.