By holding Western Kentucky to only 10 points on Saturday – its fewest in any game since the start of the 2021 season – Ohio State has successfully held all of its first three opponents of the year to 10 points or fewer.
As a result, Ohio State has allowed fewer points in its first three games of the season than it has in any of the last 47 years. The 20 total points the Buckeyes gave up to Indiana (who scored only three points), Youngstown State (who scored seven) and Western Kentucky are the fewest surrendered by OSU in a trio of games to start the season since the scarlet and gray held Michigan State, Penn State and North Carolina to 16 combined points in its first three games of the 1975 season.