Ohio State defeats Virginia Tech 42-24, proves it's still the team to beat

Ohio State defeats Virginia Tech 42-24, proves it's still the aggregation to beat, Ohio State is bigger than it was a year ago.

As crazy as that seems, the arresting civic champions took the acreage for their division opener adjoin Virginia Tech on Monday and larboard with a assertive 42-24 victory.

For three quarters, Ohio State looked like a aggregation that could accept baffled any aggregation it was up against. It jumped out to a 14-0 advance acknowledgment to the arm backbone of quarterback Cardale Jones and an 80-yard bolt by active aback Ezekiel Elliott.

But again the Buckeyes got comfortable, angry the brawl over alert and accustomed the Hokies to accretion drive and yield a 17-14 advance into halftime.

But that was area the acceptable animosity for Virginia Tech ended.

Braxton Miller, the above Buckeye quarterback angry receiver, was the aberration in the additional half, scoring two touchdowns, including one area he fabricated a circuit move and larboard two defenders out of position.

That account put the Buckeyes up 28-17 and they never looked back. Miller accomplished his night with two catches for 78 yards and a touchdown, and six carries for 62 yards and a score. He became the aboriginal Buckeye to accept a 50-yard touchown run and a 50-yard touchdown bolt in the aforementioned bold back Ted Ginn Jr. in the 2006 Fiesta Bowl.

It was Miller's aboriginal bold activity back the 2013 season.

The Hokies had the affiance of traveling toe-to-toe with the Buckeyes in the additional bisected until starting quarterback Michael Brewer suffered a torn collarbone afterwards getting ashamed by arresting accouterment Adolphus Washington while attempting a bandy just three account into the half.

The Hokies had to punt on that control and the air seemed to go out of the absolute team. Backup Brenden Motley came on to try and ample Brewer’s shoes, but struggled to get any breach traveling until backward in the bold if he threw his aboriginal career touchdown canyon with 1:55 remaining.

While the focus abundant of the offseason was on the quarterbacking controversy, Jones, who led the Buckeyes to a Big Ten appellation and a civic appellation during his three amateur as starter, played the majority of the bold and played well. He completed 50 percent of his passes for 186 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. He aswell rushed 13 times for 99 yards and a score.

J.T. Barrett, who was the amateur the majority of the 2014 division afore adversity a season-ending abate injury, got in backward in the fourth division and did bandy a touchdown pass. Coach Urban Meyer had maintained that the Buckeyes would play two quarterbacks, but even as the bold got bound at the end of the aboriginal half, Meyer never wavered from Jones and it paid off.

Ohio State fabricated a account Monday night.

While Virginia Tech isn’t a ranked team, it’s a acceptable aggregation and traveling to Blacksburg to alpha the division is no simple feat. Ohio State got a little adequate if it got up 14-0, but showed in the additional bisected that it has the aptitude boss a aggregation if it needs to. The alarming allotment is that the Buckeyes are alone traveling to get bigger affective forward.
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