UNLV’s spread offense will test Ohio State’s defense

Coming off of a physical battle against Army’s triple-option offense, the Ohio State defense can get back to their base defense this week versus UNLV.

UNLV deploys a run-first spread offense -- with the ability to stretch the defense vertically — which allowed the Buckeyes to finally breakdown the Oklahoma film. The coaching staff wanted the defense to focus on stopping the triple-option last week, rather than breaking down their defensive performance against Oklahoma’s spread.

“[The defense] spent all day yesterday on Oklahoma,” Urban Meyer said. “Graded the effort and rewarded the effort in here with me and the team, and they went to work. And they’ll continue to work on, because now we’ll…