The Shocking Statistic That Reveals Ohio State’s Hidden College Football Weakness

The Buckeyes have run 28 plays this season on third or fourth down with 2 yards or fewer to convert their set of downs. These plays say a lot about Ohio State’s belief in this part of its game: 

• Ohio State runs the ball 71.4% of the time in these short-yardage moments. The Power Four average is higher (75.8%), and many of the sport’s blue-blood programs opt for the run much more frequently than that. Ohio State’s two closest peer programs in recruiting, Alabama and Georgia, run 86.4% and 81.5% of the time, respectively. 
• Ohio State’s success rate when it does run the ball on these downs is 65.0%. The power conference average is 73.6%. Here are the programs with a worse rushing success rate in short yardage than Ohio State this year: Purdue, Maryland, Washington, BYU, Louisville, Arizona, Stanford, Washington State, and Cal. Not the company Ohio State prefers to keep! 
• None of this is because opponents are doing anything special. Ohio State has faced a 50.0 bad box percentage (how often the defense has an extra guy in the box). The Power Four average is 55.5%. 

It has all gotten worse lately. Since Week 7, Ohio State has carried seven times on 3rd- or 4th-and-2 or less and failed on four of those attempts, averaging 1.3 yards on them. 

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