It started off better than I think most expected. With the score sitting at 21-13 more than halfway through the second quarter, my eyebrow started to raise. However, A Series Of Events occurred, and the final score looked a lot more like what I expected it to be.
Chronologically, Michigan State hung tough in the beginning. After Ohio State’s opening touchdown, in which the Spartans displayed a variety of defensive looks of equal ineffectiveness, MSU’s Charles Brantley (No. 0) ran an intercepted pass back for a touchdown.
I was hopeful that a closer watch would display some sort of schematic trickery that fooled Ohio State quarterback C.