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Rutgers football head coach Greg Schiano knows that Saturday was not a good day for his football program.
It was coming down-to-earth stuff for the Scarlet Knights, a 52-13 loss to an Ohio State team that came into the week ranked eleventh nationally but is grossly underrated. For Schiano, who spent three years at Ohio State as defensive coordinator beginning in 2016, it was an afternoon that showed just how much further his program needs to go to be ready to compete with the very best of not just the Big Ten but the college football world.
“We had a bad day. And we had it against a team that’s kind of finding their stride. So the result was not something you like to see,” Schiano told reporters after the game.
“But we will go back to work. And this is a good group of young men, good coaches. And we’ll figure it out. I think Ohio State played very well. I think it’s always easy to say we didn’t do this and we didn’t do that. They did some really good things. And we played about as poorly as we’ve played since I can remember so — two things (Schiano then made a noise like an explosion).
“That’s what you get.”
Rutgers got dominated at the line of scrimmage and then coupled that with poor execution, poor tackling in addition to some questionable decisions in the passing game as things just began to spiral out of control.
For Ohio State, it was a second-straight big performance as the memories of that home loss to Oregon in the second week of the season now looks like a distant memory. As Schiano said, the Buckeyes are back, with Ohio State head coach Ryan Day after the game saying that this past week he sensed his team coming together in the lead-up to the Rutgers game.