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With 50 Carries Over The Last Two Weeks, Ohio State Running Backs Coach Tony Alford Says Ezekiel Elliott Is Getting A Fair Amount of Touches

Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer makes his offensive philosophy sound quite simple to the average person: “If you have a good player, you get him the ball,” he says.

But over the Buckeyes’ previous two games — a 38-0 victory over Hawai’i and a narrow 20-13 escape against Northern Illinois — it doesn’t seem like that has been happening. And when that point was brought up to Meyer in his weekly press conference Monday afternoon, the fourth-year Ohio State coach agreed.

“No,” Meyer said when asked if he felt like he was getting the ball to his best players enough.