Ohio State Buries Kent State 59-3 Behind a 35-0 Half
Fourteen points in eight seconds. That is the part of this one worth pausing on. Ohio State already led 42-0 when Luke Fahey hit Chris Henry Jr. for a 75-yard touchdown with 14:27 left in the fourth, and Jamir Perez took a fumble back 11 yards for another score at 14:19. After that it was 56-0 and nobody was pretending otherwise.
Ohio State (2-1) ran it to 35-0 by halftime and Kent State (1-2) never scored until the final two minutes. The Buckeyes finished with 527 yards to Kent State's 134. Kent State passed for 63 yards, ran 34 times for 71, lost two fumbles, threw an interception and avoided the shutout only because Sean Leonard kicked a 30-yard field goal with 1:56 left.
Julian Sayin did the early work: 18 of 22 for 241 yards and two touchdowns, a 6-yarder to Nate Roberts and a 49-yarder to Brandon Inniss as the first half ran out. Then Fahey went 4 of 5 for 141 yards, one touchdown and one interception, which is a fine way to spend a fourth quarter. Ohio State threw for 382 yards as a team and still managed to throw two picks (it did not matter).
On the ground it was a committee. Ja'Kobi Jackson scored twice, Bo Jackson ran 11 times for 73 yards and a score, and Isaiah West added a 4-yard touchdown. Jeremiah Smith caught five for 85 and did not score, which tells you how deep this got.
For fantasy, the points were spread so thin that the top scorer, Sayin, finished with 21. Inniss and Ja'Kobi Jackson each had a season-high game. A 56-point margin will do that to a box score.