Ohio State will look to avenge its 2018 loss while Purdue will be gunning it for its third top-five upset of the season when the Buckeyes host the Boilermakers on Saturday.
Although he’s been set back by injuries, Julian Fleming believes he’s improved significantly at Ohio State and “the sky’s the limit” for what he can still accomplish.
Ohio State is listed as a favorite over Cincinnati and Oklahoma and an underdog against Alabama and Georgia in some early College Football Playoff betting lines.
Ohio State is one of two programs nationwide with two Walter Camp Player of the Year semifinalists as C.J. Stroud and TreVeyon Henderson each make the cut.
Mike Carmin, who covers Purdue for The Journal & Courier, says the Boilermakers have a formula for upset wins but the Buckeyes’ talent might be too much to overcome this week.
The Buckeyes have failed to rush for 200 yards in each of the past four games, and Kevin Wilson says the run game must come alive in order to “be the team we need to be.”
Dawand Jones takes getting offered a walk-on at Purdue personally, Zach Harrison says J.T. Tuimoloau and Jack Sawyer are “better than I was as a freshman.”
We discuss what’s gone wrong for Ohio State’s offense in the last two games and where the criticism has gone too far, and look ahead to this week’s game against Purdue.
The Buckeyes survived clunkers against Penn State and Nebraska - just in time for the opponent who is without peer at pulling Ohio State off its perch.
While Ryan Day and Kevin Wilson aren’t telling C.J. Stroud not to run, they aren’t calling many run plays for Stroud as they look to keep their starting quarterback healthy.
Ohio State would make the College Football Playoff if the season ended today, but the Buckeyes now have to beat three straight top-20 teams to end the regular season.