What most Ohio State fans have noticed above and beyond the offensive struggles the team has experienced the last two weeks, is that the Buckeye defense is playing some pretty good football.
In fact, the Buckeyes have already done something this season that they haven’t done since way back in 2007—eight seasons ago.
Ohio State’s defense has held two consecutive opponents under 100 yards passing. In the home opener, the Buckeyes limited Hawai’i to just 85 yards through the air. They backed up that performance by limiting Northern Illinois to a scant 80 aerial yards. The last time Ohio State pulled that off was in the first two games of the 2007 season, when the Buckeyes gave Youngstown State and Akron just 91 and 66 passing yards, respectively.