Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott was so disgusted with his role in No. 3 Ohio State's 17-14 loss to No. 9 MI State on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, that he said afterward that it was his last game in Ohio Stadium.
As long as MI State can hold off Penn State at home next week, they'll travel to the Big 10 championship game, which means Ohio State won't have that extra chance to impress playoff committee voters.
Monday, head coach Urban Meyer addressed the comments, saying that he and Elliott put the moment behind them and that he really couldn't with Elliott's assessment.
It's not that the announcements weren't expected, but they felt like salt in the wound so soon after MI State put a kink in the Buckeyes' national championship plans. The Ohio State Buckeyes dug their own grave on Saturday in front of a record-setting crowd and the attention of the entire country. He said the junior running back, who announced following the game this is his past year at Ohio State, will not be punished or benched against the Wolverines. While Elliott was overzealous in publicly criticizing his coaches, there's no reason to make this into something bigger than it is: a 20-year-old college football player letting his emotions get the best of him after perhaps the most frustrating game of his career. He had a streak of 15 straight 100-yard rushing games snapped.
He followed that up with a post about his "". Ohio State led, 14-7, having converted a fumble recovery into a 6-yard Jalin Marshall touchdown on the previous drive.
Smith said that although he wishes Elliott kept his comments private, "we've got to recognize today that people have rights and he's a man growing". MI State has been injury-plagued all season.
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The Buckeyes never had an answer against MI State. If the senior quarterback had been in the game, the Spartans would have surely scored more than seven second-half points and wouldn't have been one-dimensional, offensively.
Besides a few miscues on turnovers, the Spartans dominated the Buckeyes in nearly every facet of the game. There's a game next week - against MI.
The Spartans relish the role of the underdog like no powerhouse program and it seemed to fuel them in the Horseshoe. "I could have told you a month ago that that was going to be my last game in the Shoe as you can see I was very emotional before the game". MI State gave no hints as to whether he would play, but when he warmed up cautiously it was obvious something was up. State won with backup quarterbacks Tyler O' Connor and Damion Terry making several clutch plays. He’s great. He apologized and he said they didn’t have the whole interview in there.
Teams are hesitant to run outside on the Buckeyes because Joey Bosa, Joshua Perry, and Darron Lee are on the outside while Vonn Bell closes the gap from his safety spot. They played their best game.
"We come in with something to prove", Dantonio said. Then you come out in pregame warm-ups, ‘Oh no.’ You still have to be able to function in the elements a little bit.”.
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