Ohio State’s defense gets tricked on Halloween night

The Buckeyes got exposed at USC.

Ohio State came into the game allowing 91.4 yards per game rushing, and USC got 116. The Buckeyes were allowing 171.4 yards per game passing and gave up 222 to the Trojans. OSU was allowing only 264.3 yards per game and gave up 338.

Ohio State came into the game forcing 1.4 turnovers per game and got one from USC. Scoring is where the defense really hit rock bottom. They had been allowing only 13.4 points per game, only allowing one team to get more than 20 on them, and that was 23 to Texas.

Ohio State gave up a season-high 30 points in its loss on the road at USC. It was the first time the Buckeyes had let a team score 30 or more on them since October 12th,…