Ohio Stadium opened in 1922, and this entire centennial season, which includes a rare eight home games, will celebrate the building that helped Ohio State football grow into what it is. Saturday night served as the first party.
NEW!COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For the 100-year-old who has seen everything, the Ohio State Buckeyes put on a show Saturday night. They invited past champions and current millionaires, and they brought out parachutists and fireworks. LeBron James was there again, not just as a fan but as the father of a basketball recruit. Jim Knowles was there for the first time, not just as a $2 million a year defensive coordinator, but as a coach there to fix what was wrong with the Buckeyes a year ago.
The show was familiar. This is what a big night game in The Shoe looks and feels like. There were 20 Ohio State players currently in the NFL in attendance, and 60 recruits who may one day play for the Buckeyes. But the game? The football? That took longer to come around than expected. The present can either reinforce or repudiate the past, and when the past includes a loss to Michigan last November, that repudiation is coveted. The assumption after two regular-season losses in 2021 was that the defense was the issue and Knowles was the answer. But the second part of that discussion included questions about the OSU run game in tough spots.
They avoided that this time. This was a needed win against a top-five foe that should not be taken for granted. But that wasn’t a repudiation. At its best, that was a tantalizing sign of things to come. The defense got after it, attacking on the defensive line, and in the secondary limiting All-American caliber tight end Michael Mayer to 32 receiving yards.
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