Botched plays on special teams have become a concerning trend for Ohio State.
Jesse Mirco’s unsuccessful fake punt run against Rutgers last weekend, which happened even though Ryan Day did not call for a fake on the play, was just the latest miscue for the Buckeyes in the third phase of the game. It was the second time this year that Ohio State has run an accidental fake punt, having also turned the ball over on downs inside their own territory when John Ferlmann erroneously snapped the ball to Cody Simon against Maryland.
The opposite happened in last year’s loss to Michigan, when Mason Arnold was supposed to snap the ball to Mitch Rossi on what would have been a successful fake punt, but snapped the ball back to Mirco instead.