The Ohio State Buckeyes and Kent State are playing live on the college football schedule on Saturday and the OSU game is from Ohio Stadium at 12 pm ET on ESPN2 and the WatchESPN website with other coverage on ABC as Urban Meyer and JT Barrett try and bounce back from a tough upset loss and they are ranked 22 in the nation coming into this game out of the Big Ten conference.
The Buckeyes are dealing with a whole host of new players and they also have had to go to Barrett after losing Braxton Miller and they now are in a bit of a free fall after being at number five to start the season. The team should easily win over Kent State, but after what happened last week they will be on alert and that puts pressure on Barrett to get the job done and he comes in with over 400 yards passing and three touchdowns. Barrett has also added 120 yards on the ground and his performance could be the key on Sunday.
The Hokies did not dominate the Buckeyes, but they stood tall when it counted and the Buckeyes were down by two touchdowns at halftime and they could not quite get it back, even after tying up the game in the fourth quarter. Virginia Tech now has the chance to go on a run and while by no means is the season done with for Ohio State, they have to turn things around this week and they have an easy opponent to do it. The Buckeyes opened with a win on the road against Navy before losing to Virginia Tech and they will have Cincinnati and Maryland next after the match up with Kent State.
The team has the conference home matchup with Rutgers after that and that comes between two road games with Maryland and Penn State. After matching up with the Nittany Lions the team plays against Illinois and then a major matchup on the road against Michigan State before finishing with Minnesota and Indiana before the final game with Michigan. Ohio State has a tough conference schedule and losing Miller could change everything and now Meyer will have to one of his best coaching jobs to get OSU back into the top of things.
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