Identity is a key term for teams at this point in the college football season.
With the championship months of November, December and January on the horizon, the contenders need to know what they do well. How to accentuate the strengths of their rosters. How they plan to win big games.
In its last game before its second and final off week of the regular season, Ohio State made its identity clear: Air the ball out and smother teams with a defense posting numbers not seen anywhere since the 1990s. Excluding two kneeldowns at the end of the game and accounting for two Julian Sayin scrambles, the Buckeyes called 44 passes and just 24 runs against the Badgers.