Choose your cliché, because they all apply: Classic Big Ten football. Defensive battle. This one wasn’t pretty.
But Ohio State wasn’t looking for style points. Those are hard to come by in November conference games. The Buckeyes came into East Lansing needing one thing and one thing only: a W, to keep them in position to overtake Michigan for the Big Ten East title when the two teams meet on the final Saturday of the regular season. And they got it. So this—whatever it was—shall suffice.
Ohio State kept its playoff hopes alive by beating Michigan State, 26–6, in a game only a player’s mother could love.