No. 3 Ohio State opens its Big Ten conference slate with a trip to East Lansing where it will face the Michigan State Spartans. It’s been an impressive start to the season for the Buckeyes, who cruised through their nonconference schedule and hardly broke a sweat in the process.
Perhaps their first road game of the season against a 3-1 Michigan State team will provide a touch more resistance?
Recent history suggests probably not!
Michigan State won three of the five meetings between these programs from 2011 to 2015, but it’s been all Buckeyes since. Not only has Ohio State won the last eight matchups, but it’s done so by an average of 30.4 points.
What could work in Michigan State’s favor is that it has already faced Big Ten competition, picking up a 27-24 road win over Maryland in Week 2. The Spartans are coming off a 23-19 road loss last week to Boston College.
Ohio State vs Michigan State: Need to know
Ohio State outscored its nonconference opponents 157-20: I mentioned the Buckeyes barely broke a sweat in their nonconference slate, and if they did, it was only from sprinting long distances on their way to scoring touchdowns. Only Marshall managed to score a touchdown against the Buckeyes (and it scored two), but nobody was ever able to keep it close. It’s the first time since 1919 that…
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