The following story was written by a student on the staff of The Jaguar Times as part of Hilliard Bradley High School’s Journalism Production course.
by Trevor Schuler, Staff Writer
Did you miss the OSU game? If you did, here's an inside look and the 45-31 victory over Minnesota. Overall they didn’t look very good in the first half they had some missed assignments to cause some big plays for Minnesota to hang on. In the second half they had picked it up and made adjustments at half to be able to pull out the victory.
The Ohio State Buckeyes started off slow in the first quarter but picked up speed with a 71 yard touchdown from Miyan Williams with 7:22 left in the first quarter to make it 7-0.
With the first quarter over and the second starting, the Buckeyes kicker Noah Ruggles makes a 35 yard field goal to make it 10-0 with 12:50 left in the second quarter. The Minnesota Gophers had picked it up and scored for the first time of the night on a 13 yard pass from Tanner Morgan to Dylan Wright to make it 10-7 with 9:11 left in the second quarter. Later the Gophers had another touchdown with a 1 yard run from Mohamed Ibrahim to make the game close 10-14 with 3:32 left in the half.
In the beginning of the third quarter Ohio State came out with the ball and had a 38 yard touchdown pass from C.J. Stroud to Garrett Wilson to make the game 17-14 with 12:43 left. About two minutes later the Minnesota Gophers Mohamed Ibrahim had a 19 yard touchdown run to make it 17-21 with 10:03 left. 5 minutes later the Buckeyes had another touchdown pass from C.J. Stroud to Garrett Wilson that was 56 yards to take the lead. Minutes later Ohio State's defense had a fumble recovery for a touchdown for Haskell Garrett to now be up by 11, 31-21.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter the Gophers Matthew Trickett had made a 46 yard field goal to make it 31-24 with 10:39 seconds. About a minute later The Buckeyes C.J. Stroud threw a 70 yard touchdown pass to TreVeyon Henderson to bring the score to 38-24 with 9:43 left in the game. 4 minutes later the Gophers ran in a 2 yard touchdown with Bryce Williams to make a 7 point game 38-31. To finish off the Gophers C.J. threw the last touchdown of the night to Chris Olave to make the final 45-31.
What is next for the Buckeyes (next game ...how they might do etc) Next Saturday the Buckeyes have a big game against the Oregon Ducks. The Ducks are currently ranked 11th in the nation so the Buckeyes will have to step up their game if they want to win.