Film study: Greg Schiano’s no good, very bad day

Last week’s 26-6 win over Michigan State felt, to some, like a return to form for a Buckeye defense that spent most of the year floundering. That was a fair takeaway, at least on the surface. Holding a bad Michigan State offense to six points is what you’d expect from a good Buckeye defense, so to see this defense — which has been definitively not good this year — do it was encouraging.

I think, however, that there was a tendency to think that one game proved that Ohio State, and specifically, Ohio State’s defensive staff, had fixed the issues that have ailed the unit all season long.

That felt like a stretch at the time, and on Saturday against Maryland, it was pretty much confirmed that…