Five things we learned in Ohio State’s bizarre win over Rutgers

Ohio State hosted Rutgers and it was a tale of two halves. The Buckeyes won a bizarre game and we’ve got five observations for you.

Ohio State better clean things up

This was a sloppy, sloppy game for Ohio State. There were too many penalties, too many missed tackles, and too many bizarre moments that the Buckeyes allowed to happen with poor discipline.

You can get away with these things against a Rutgers, a Maryland, or just about any other team in the Big Ten, but there’s more at stake later in the year. OSU made just enough mistakes in the Fiesta Bowl last season to let Clemson off the hook, and this was even worse than that.

As the season wears on, you are either getting better or getting worse. This team needs to figure things out and grow from this. Something tells me it will.

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