Donte Whitner 26 yard interception return for a TD
Ohio State outgained Miami 365 to 169 yards in the first three quarters. First stringers didn't play the last quarter.
For the game Miami had 48 rushing yards.
Pittman gained 100 yards rushing in 14 carries.
Nine of 10 remaining opponets won their first game.
Big Ten 10-0 and MAC was 0-12 opening weekend.
Tressel signaling in play during
game against Texas
Texas had more first downs 19-13, rushing yardage 112-111 and passing yardage 270-144 and more turnovers 3-1
Big Ten went 7-3 in non conference games as all 3 Big Ten top 10 ranked teams lost and remaining 7 teams won!!
Neither QB could move OSU and final play for both in game was a bonehead play! Zwick - (fumble) and Smith (safety)
Three linebackers (Hawk 12, Carpenter 11 and Schlegel 8) had 31 tackles and rest of team had 32 tackles.
OSU wins game if Huston doesn't miss 50 yard FG by a foot after going 5-5 or if Hanby hadn't dropped a perfect 9 yard pass in the endzone from Zwick.
Smith loses helmet during run Schlegel recovers SD State fumble on San Diego 1 yard line
Next San Diego State first down is mid way through 3rd quarter
San Diego State has 3 first downs in game, a team record for fewest first downs
San Diego State has 99 yards total after the 80 yd TD.
San Diego State rushes for 13 yards in 19 carries.
Ginn as 102 total yards in 9 touches
Smith was 14-26 for 149 yds, 1 TD, and 1 interception
Smith runs for 87 yards in 14 carries
OSU had TD drives of 20, 32 and 1 yards
OSU scores 27 points, 7 after defense recovers fumble on 1 yd line. SD State gave up 85 points in first 2 games
Pittman runs for 171 yds in Tate rushed by Hawk & Schlegel
33-6 Iowa win
Iowa gains 13 yards in 20 plays in first half and only 2 first downs
OSU (9th best in nation before game) holds Iowa to -9 yards rushing
Smith is 13 for 19 for 191 yards and 2 TD's
Smith rushes for 127 yards on 18 carries and 2 TD's
Pittman rushes for 171 yards in 28 carries
First time QB and running back rushed for over 100 yards in the same game since 1976 when Jeff Logan gained 112 yards and Rob Gerald gained 104 vs Mich St
Ohio State overcomes 6 fumbles with 2 lost both within 5 yards of paydirt
Hawk leads in tackles (11) for 4th straight game. While watching game it appeared he had closer to 20 tackles!
OSU one of five teams that are 1-0 in Big Ten and OSU is the only one with non conference loss, but are highest ranked of five. Going into game Big Ten had eight teams in top 34 in nation
Troy Smith fumbles on last
OSU possessionTurnovers: Penn State 0, OSU 2 (Smith interception and Smith fumble)
Smith passed for 92 yards in first 58 minutes of game and 47 move on final drive
OSU defense allowed 78 yards passing and 117 yards rushing.
OSU was #1 in nation allowing 41 yards rushing per game coming into game
Penn State TD drive was 74 yards, all on runs. 43 yards rushing rest of game
Penn State is only undefeated team in Big Ten but 7 teams have 1 loss
Smith had best defensive hit of game when he leveled Penn State player after interception on 2 yard line
Youboty scoops up blocked field
goal and runs for72 yards TD to end first half with Michigan's State leading 17-14.
OSU had a team record 12 sacks. QB Stanton was only sacked 4 times total in first 5 games. OSU linebacker Bobby Carpenter tied team record with 4 sacks.
Spartan QB Drew Stanton, 1st in NCAA in passing efficiency, was 26-36 for 340 yards. At one time he was 20-24 after completing 11 passes in a row
Michigan State had ball for 41 minutes, OSU for 19
Michigan State ran 94 plays to 47 for OSU
Michgan State had 27 first down to OSU 13
Ohio State had 4 turnovers all fumbles, Michigan State had 0.
Troy Smith was 10 for 15 for 249 yards and three TD's, all over 45 yards..
Antonio Pittman ran for 101 yards on 18 carries.
OSU ran first play in Michigan State territory with 4:56 left in game
Three OSU linebackers had 40 tackles led by AJ Hawk's 19.
Pittman runs for 133 yards Ginn on fumbled kickoff
Defense holds Indiana to 15-33 for 95 yards passing
Ginn has 110 yards on 5 punt returns and 110 yards on 3 kickoffs.
Ginn has 1st punt return for TD (62 yards) and lost 98 yard kickoff return TD on personal foul penalty 23 yards behind play. Ginn also lost punt return for a TD last week on a penalty.
Smith 14-23 for 226 yards and 1 TD and ran for 55 yards and 2 TD's on 15 c carries
Pittmans runs for 133 yards on 26 carries to give him 697 yards for season
Back up Wells as 50 yards on 5 carries
Hawk was leading Buckeye tackler for 7th game in a row with 7 tackles
Holmes caught 5 balls for 104 yards - now has 7 straight 4-5 catch games.
Brandon Mitchell 57 yd interception return TD was Defense 1st TD of season
Brief Zwick and D'Andre sightings
Ginn Returns Kickoff 100 yards
Pittman runs for 67 yard TD. Gains 186.
Hawk & Kudla tackle Maroney
Youboty tackles MaroneyOSU outgains the leading rushing team in the country by 34 yards but Minnesota outpasses OSU by 163 yards.
Troy Smith with best game yet going 14-20 for 233 yards and 3 TD's and n no turnovers. First game of season OSU has no turnovers.
Santonio Holmes has 4 catches for 94 yards and 2 TD's. He has caught 4 or 5 passes in all 8 games.
Antonio Pittmanhas career game with 186 yards rushing and first 2 TD's of season
Laurence Maroney gains 82 yards rushing in the 1st quarter against the Nations best rushing defense, more yards than OSU allowed any back for a game all season. Finishes with 127 yards on 25 carries, only 13 yards in 2nd half. Russell added 50 yards on 15 carries.
Minnesota QB Bryan Cupito was 26-35 -396 yards with one TD and no turnovers. Cupito has 198 yards passing each half.
AJ Hawk was 2nd in tackles to Whitner with 9 - first time all season Hawk wasn't OSU leading tackler in game.
Ted Ginn, Jr. has 100 yard kickoff return in 13 untouched seconds. First OSU kickoff TD since Michael Wiley had a 100 yard return in 1997.
None of Josh Houston's kickoffs were returned making 32 of 48 that haven't been returned this season
Tressel makes bonehead call of season by letting clock run out last 35 seconds of first half in a 17-17 game and Minnesota with a 4th and 9 on their own 45 and the Buckeyes have the best punt returner for TD's in the history of college football. Calls timeout with 2 seconds left and Minnesota tries an unsuccessful Hail Mary pass. If OSU calls timeout, Minnesota will probably kick ball out of bounds which OSU will get on own 30 with 30 seconds and one timeout left. That wasn't conservative Tress, that was bonehead!!
AMAZING COMEBACKS:
UCLA is down 24-3 to Stanford with 144 yards of offense mid way through the 4th quarter. They score 27 points in last half of 4th quarter and first play of Overtime to win 30-27. They picked up 228 yards in their rally with drives of 65, 72, 66 and 25 yards. Each drive took less than 1:45!! UCLA has trailed 4 of the last 5 opponents by 10 or more points in the 4th quarter and won them all.
Texas came back from a 19 points back in the 2nd half to win by 19 as Vince Young rushed for 267 yards and 2 TD's and passed for 2 more TD's on 15-30-1 for 239 yards. Total yards for Young were 506! Give me the Heisman pose Vince! Texas has been behind Oklahoma State at half in there last 3 games including 35-7 last year, but has outscored Oklahoma State by 118-0 in the 2nd half. Amazing!
Gonzales, Ginn and Holmes celebrate Ginn's 73 yard TD
catch
AJ Hawk flattens QB Tim BrasicAnother great game by Troy Smith. 13 for 21 for 298 yards 3 TD's and 0 turnovers. He started 3 for 13 for 53 yards and looked bad than looked fantastic finishing 10 for 10 for 245 yards! He started day as 12th rated passer out 117 division 1 teams.
OSU lost turnover battle again, 1-0. Ginn funmbled a punt return - maybe the ugliest fumble of the year.
Ginn had one kickoff return for 65 yards and caught 4 passes for 138 yards and 1 TD on 73 yard reception..
Hawk led team in tackles for 7th time in 8 games with 10
Holmes failed to catch either 4 or 5 passes in first game all year. He caught 3 passes but 2 for TD's. Holmes has 7 TD catches in last 4 games.
Pitman runs for 96 yards and 2 TD's. He has 4 TD's last two weeks.
OSU loses shutout on errant extra point snap that Illinois returned 75 yards for a score. Illinois offense never got inside Buckeye 30 yard line.
OSU scores 40 or more points for 3rd straight game. First time since 1995.
Josh Huston has now kicked 16 straight kickoffs for touchbacks (none returned)
Did I read these scores correctly!!
Texas 62 Baylor 0
A rizona 52 UCLA 14
Youboty gets first Interception of
Season after tieing for most Interceptions in Big Ten last season with
4.
AJ Hawk picks up blocked punt by Pitcock
and runs 6 yards for his first score of the season.Northwestern held to 98 yards and 29 carries against #1 rushing defense in nation
OSU held to 105 yards passing. Why pass when they can't stop the run!
NW QB Brett Basanez was 4 for 5 for 50 yards and a TD on opening drive. He was 11-26 for 71 yards after 1st drive.
NW was held to 251 total yards of offense, the first time they gained less than 400 yards all season. Basnaez passed for 121 yards after 10 straight games with at least 200 yards.
Buckeyes win turnover battle for 2nd time all season. Blocked punt by Pitcock and 6 yard return by Hawk for TD was biggest play of game.
OSU scores at least 40 points in 4th straight game for first time since 1995.
BEST STAT OF DAY
UCLA QB Drew Olsen was 22-27 for 510 yards and 5 TD's in 45-35 win over Arizona State.
Gonzales catches 26 yard pass with
37 seconds remaining at 3 yard line to set up Pittman 3 yard TD run with
27 seconds left.
AJ Hawk tackles Mike HartSmith completes 7 of 8 passes in 88 yard drive that results in a 3 yard TD by Pittman with 27 seconds left in game.
Buckeyes score two TD's in final 7 minutes to wipe out 9 point Michigan lead.
Michigan held to 32 rushing yards in 24 attempts, OSU finishes 1st in Big Ten in total defense (yards per game allowed) and rushing defense and 2nd in passing defense.
Hawk led team in tackles in 9 of 11 games. Named top Big Ten defensive player of year.
OSU lost two more fumbles making it 14 fumbles lost in season to finish 108th out 117 division 1 teams.
OSU now 6th in BCS poll. OSU two losses to #2 Texas (undefeated) and #3 Penn State (only loss was to Michigan on final play of game). Coach Joe Paterno leads Penn State from a 4-7 recond last year to #3 in nation this year.
OSU players making Coaches Big Ten 1st Team were: Santonio Holmes, Rob Sims and Josh Huston on Offense and Mike Kudla, AJ Hawk, Nate Salley, Donte Whitner and Ashton Youboty on defense.
Ted Ginn scores on 68 yard run
AJ Hawk making on of 2 sacks on Quinn
Mike Kudla makes one of 3 sacks on Brady Quinn. OSU sacked Quinn
5 times.4th ranked OSU outrushed 6th ranked Notre Dame 275 yards to 62 yards and outpassed 3 point underdog Notre Dame 342 to 286 yards.
OSU won 4th straight bowl game, gained 391 yards in first half and averaged 9.6 yards per play for the game. Notre Dame lost 8th straight bowl game and averaged 4.8 yards per play.
All four OSU scores were on plays 56 yard or longer.
Troy Smith riddled Notre Dame for 342 yards on 19 of 28 passes for 2 TD's and no interceptions. He also ran for 66 yards on 13 carries. His 408 total yards was 2nd all time to Art Schlichter 412 yards against Florida State in 1981.
Ted Ginn caught 8 passes for 167 yards and a 56 yard TD catch in first quarter. Ginn ran twice for 73 yards including an 68 yard scamper for a TD. Ginn gained 10 yards on 10 rushes during the regular season.
Santonio Holmes caught 5 passes for 124 yards including a 85 yard TD catch, a Fiesta bowl record.
Pittman ran for 136 yards on 21 carries including clinching 60 yard TD in 4th quarter.
Notre Dame QB Brady Quinn passed for 286 yards on 29 for 45.
OSU converted on 8 of 12 third down plays
Outside linebacker Bobby Carpenter sat out with an injury. Freshman James Laurinaitis started and had 0 tackles while other line backers AJ Hawk had 12 tackles and Anhony Schlegel had 7 tackles.
Vince Young passes for 267 yards on 30 for 40 with no picks. He also runs for 200 yards in 19 attempts.
Texas broke USC 34 game winning streak and has now won 20 straight. Next game, OSU at home to open 2006 season
Heisman winner Reggie Bush rushed for 82 yards on 13 carries and caught 6 passes for 95 yards. White gained 124 yards in 20 carries.
Matt Leinart (last year Heisman winner) passed for 365 yards and two TD's on 29 completions in 45 attempts. Leinart was 16 for 19 in the second half
Leinart Passes for 365 yards and 2 TD's
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