Maryland football suffers defensively and falls victim to potent No. 7 Ohio State offense
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Cornerback Tarheeb Nevertheless was physically and athletically outmatched by Chris Olave. With his back turned to the ball and Olave ready to catch his 2d touchdown, Still opted to extend the drive and commit laissez passer interference.
Even with the clear punishment, Yet failed to interfere enough and Olave came downwards with the 30-yard reception while falling backward and illegally draped. The Buckeyes jumped to a 49-10 lead with the score.
The depletion of the Maryland football defence was resonant with each Ohio State offensive series, every bit the Buckeyes scored on every drive of the game except for two.
Ohio State's prolific offense put on a prove for its homecoming crowd, and as its star quarterback and NFL-spring receivers found a grove, Maryland'south secondary was quickly reduced to fodder equally CJ Stroud and the Buckeyes criminal offense exploded for 432 yards in the air and an easy, 66-17, win over the Terps.
"I thought we could have executed better," Locksley said, "When you lot look at this, we played number 5 and number seven. We're plain not there yet. We take a lot of work to do as a program."
The misfortune of the afternoon came early. Jakorian Bennett and Kenny Bennett were ruled out due to injury for Sabbatum's contest and Maryland was forced to settle with Tarheeb Nonetheless, Corey Coley Jr. and Lavonte Gater to defend the likes of Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson, one of the near potent receiving duos in the nation.
"Going against one of the best receiving corps in the nation, yous gotta have some good cornerbacks," Sam Okuayinonu said, "and I experience similar nosotros had a lot of injuries in that room — merely it's no excuse."
While the Maryland criminal offense was doing everything information technology could muster, scoring just twice in the first half, the Ohio State law-breaking was doing everything it wanted. After the Terps opened the contest with a field goal, the Buckeyes scored 21 points unanswered.
CJ Stroud and company punished the Maryland secondary. In just a quarter and two drives, Stroud and his receivers deemed for 157 yards — the same amount Taulia Tagovailoa threw for in the first 30 minutes. At halftime, Stroud threw for 293 yards and iii passing touchdowns. The offense still had nonetheless to rush for over 50 yards.
Olave and Wilson took turns terrorizing the diminished secondary. On their first touchdown drive, Wilson swiped past a significantly smaller Still and leaped out of the sophomore'southward reach to snag the first score for the Buckeyes with ease.
To go up 21-three, Stroud continued with Olave on a deep post. Olave was matched upwardly with a much slower Coley and safety Nick Cross was unable to provide any support, every bit he anticipated a shorter route. Olave constitute the endzone untouched with Cross and Coley trailing thanks to a mismatch and an untimely mistake.
The Buckeyes finished the half 35-x, and continued to relentlessly obliterate the Maryland secondary and scored 21 more unanswered to open the second one-half and eclipsed fifty earlier the end of the tertiary quarter.
Olave and Wilson alternated for two more than touchdowns to open up the third frame and left the game with a combined 204 yards, ii touchdowns and 12 catches.
Coley and Gater also exited the game due to injury at the start of the 4th quarter.
"Nosotros definitely still experience good most our team," Okuayinonu said, "we came a long way as a unit of measurement … there's still effort at that place. I only feel like injuries hurt us."
On offense, Maryland lost receiver Jeshaun Jones on merely the second play from scrimmage. He was carted off after suffering a not-contact knee injury and never returned.
Fifty-fifty with another emotional offensive leader gone, Tagovailoa and his offense however managed to spread the brawl around and utilize the tight ends to put some points on the lath. The criminal offence ended with 190 total yards and 10 points at half. Tagovailoa and 10 different receivers accounted for 157 yards — none of whom included Rakim Jarrett, who ended his afternoon with just ane catch for one touchdown.
Tagovailoa and the offense closed with 335 yards and two passing touchdowns and, in spite of the underwhelming defensive performance, played somewhat cleaner than last calendar week, throwing two woeful interceptions in the 4th quarter.
"I yet have the ultimate conviction in this group of players," Locksley said "… The goodbye week couldn't have come at a better time for us. This is a gamble to regroup, re-evaluate the things nosotros're doing in all three phases, re-evaluate the people in our program as nosotros always do when nosotros quality control here at the halfway point. And then thirdly, get some guys healthy."
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