Inside Ohio State’s Unstoppable Strategy That Crushed Notre Dame’s Championship Hopes
Notre Dame sacked Will Howard twice, but those two sacks came in a four-play span in the second quarter, only cost Ohio State 4 yards, and didn’t prevent an OSU touchdown on the same series. One of the sacks was barely even a sack, a 1-yard loss on a run/pass option that might as well have gone in the books as a designed quarterback run.
(Funny enough, both of Ohio State’s sacks of Leonard also preceded Notre Dame touchdowns. I guess sacks are now a bad thing for a defense.) On the night, the Irish managed a 36.0% pressure rate – far below their 42.8% mark heading in.


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