With Carnell Tate sidelined for a second-straight game and Jeremiah Smith playing only the first half, Ohio State leaned on it's run game and <checks notes> special teams (?!) to blow out UCLA, 48-10, last night in Ohio Stadium.
The win improved the Buckeyes to 10-0 on the season and marked the 1,000th win in school history (including the 12 victories in 2010 the NCAA tried to Man In Black from our memories).
Tate's absence was somewhat expected after he sat out at Purdue last week but Smith showing up on the pregame injury report as questionable was a new development and quite frankly, after seeing Smith limp noticeably to and from the locker room at halftime, maybe he shouldn't have played at all.