Ohio State football: Revisionist history won’t work
By Del Barris
About the time the Ohio State Football team took a 21-0 lead over Michigan State, I began to think to myself there is a media member out there who is already starting to put together an article on how the Spartans were never really that good. While going through social media I saw a sportswriter from my area wondering how they won nine games. Revisionist history was at work before the end of the first quarter.
When a college football game does not go the way many expect, the sports media tends to try to change the narrative they’ve been pushing about a certain team. We were told all season about Michigan State’s juggernaut offense. Good quarterback, great receivers, and college football’s best running back.
The Spartan pass defense gave up a lot of yards, but that front seven got after teams and more than made up for any deficiencies on the back end. That’s what we were told. Let’s also keep in mind there has been near outrage at the College Football Playoff committee’s inexplicable decision to place the Spartans behind a Michigan team they defeated a few short weeks ago.
It took the Buckeyes less than a quarter to destroy all that had been believed about the Spartans. Because they made it look so easy, because the Buckeyes so completely destroyed a team considered a true threat to beat them, the reason has to be the Spartans were never really all that good.
Well, folks, the fact is Michigan State has won nine games. The fact is the College Football Playoff committee had them ranked in their top four not long ago. The fact is the committee still has them in their top ten. No matter how much they try to spin a different narrative now, there are some facts which can’t be revised no matter how much it is tried.
49-0 at halftime. 655 yards of offense. C.J. Stroud threw twice as many touchdown passes (6) as incompletions (3). The Spartan offense managed just 224 yards. Heisman candidate Kenneth Walker III was held to only six carries and was never a factor.
The Buckeyes deserve any superlative you can come up with to describe their performance on Saturday. They controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. The secondary had their best game of the season.
Ryan Day controlled and manipulated the Spartan defense like Obi-Wan talking to the Stormtroopers in Star Wars. He used motion and shifts to position defenders where he wanted, and then attacked where he pleased. Ohio State’s destruction of Michigan State was complete and total.
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No amount of revisionist history can change what we were told about the Spartans all season. No amount of revisionist history can explain away what the Ohio State Football team did to the country’s number seven team. The facts simply are what they are.