Five keys to Ohio State beating Michigan State on Saturday

We give you five keys to Ohio State walking away victorious against Michigan State on Saturday. #GoBucks

Can we pump up this Ohio State game against Michigan State enough? I mean yeah, OSU has been in plenty of huge games over the last few years, but having one of this magnitude late in the year in the ‘Shoe doesn’t come around very often. It’s a top ten matchup with ESPN’s College GameDay in the house for all the fun, and one of the two teams is coming out the other end with huge things still to play for.

As with any game, we can discuss and analyze it from all sorts of angles, but it’ll come down to a few key things in the game for the Buckeyes to walk out of Ohio Stadium with all of its lofty goals still on the table.

This one could take more twists and turns than a murder mystery, or OSU could execute and do the things it needs to do in order to make this one a less stressful event and tamp down anxiety in the great state of Ohio.

Here are five keys were picking out that need to go Ohio State’s way in order to make victory much more attainable on Saturday afternoon on the banks of the Olentangy.