COLUMBUS: In its final three games last season, Ohio State set a standard by which the Buckeyes are now being unfairly measured.
It sounded almost incongruous to suggest Saturday that an 18-point halftime lead on Western Michigan was just as “discombobulated” — OSU coach Urban Meyer’s word — as an ugly seven-point victory over Northern Illinois the week before.
Something seemed wrong when at one point I found myself questioning the players’ leadership when they came out flat for the second consecutive game against a Mid-American Conference foe.
In some college football climates, the fact that a defense scored a touchdown for the third consecutive game would be a cause for celebration, not an indictment of the offense.